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**For the latest DVD and Blu-ray release of the serial in animated form, the surviving episode has been remastered using these original inserts, making it not only one of few stories produced in the black and white era to have original surviving film elements, but one of few to use said elements to create a perfectly high picture quality for its home media release. | **For the latest DVD and Blu-ray release of the serial in animated form, the surviving episode has been remastered using these original inserts, making it not only one of few stories produced in the black and white era to have original surviving film elements, but one of few to use said elements to create a perfectly high picture quality for its home media release. | ||
*Very similar to ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'', The only known copy of ''The Abominable Snowmen'' to not have been confirmed as destroyed is the prints sent to Nigeria. Given ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'' and ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'' (except for Episode 3, which is disappeared before its shipment to the BBC) are both recovered from the country and ''The Abominable Snowmen'' wasn't, its fate is mysterious. It was possibly sent to another country off-record or the episodes were obtained by private collectors. | *Very similar to ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'', The only known copy of ''The Abominable Snowmen'' to not have been confirmed as destroyed is the prints sent to Nigeria. Given ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'' and ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'' (except for Episode 3, which is disappeared before its shipment to the BBC) are both recovered from the country and ''The Abominable Snowmen'' wasn't, its fate is mysterious. It was possibly sent to another country off-record or the episodes were obtained by private collectors. | ||
* | *[[Henry Lincoln]] knew [[Patrick Troughton]] as they previously acted together in several plays. After Troughton had started on ''Doctor Who,'' Lincoln encountered him on the streets of Kew and learned that the actor was frustrated by the lack of stories set on Earth. Having read the completed scripts for this serial while on holiday in [[France]], Troughton sent Lincoln a postcard which read "Sooper Script Specially No 6. Very Happy. Thank you. Do some more please. Pat T". | ||
*Before chosing the Yeti as a monster, [[Henry Lincoln]] considered writing a script about [[Loch Ness Monster]]. | |||
*[[Mervyn Haisman]] and [[Henry Lincoln]] were keen to capture Tibetan culture accurately and so used authentic names and details - Padmasambhava was an eighth-century Buddhist master who was invited to Tibet by its king, Trisong Detsen; “Khrisong” was an alternative transliteration of “Trisong”; Songsten and Ralpachan were named for other Tibetan monarchs; Yeshe Rinchen was a Tibetan imperial preceptor; Sapan was another name for the Buddhist scholar Sakya Pandita, both hailed from the thirteenth century; and Thonmi Sambhota was a seventh-century figure, traditionally held to be the creator of the Tibetan script. | |||
*Songsten originally had the more authentic name “Songtsen”. | |||
*The production spent six days filming in Snowdonia. This was the longest location filming the series had experienced at the time. | |||
=== Changes in the animated version === | === Changes in the animated version === | ||