Season 5 (Doctor Who 1963)

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The fifth season of Doctor Who ran between 2 September 1967 and 1 June 1968. It consisted of seven serials and forty episodes, many of which are lost. No complete stories from the season were known to have survived, until in the mid-1990s when archivists recovered a complete version of The Tomb of the Cybermen. Individual episodes have survived for a few of the other stories, and audio recordings exist for all.

Television stories

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	The Tomb of the Cybermen	Kit Pedler Gerry Davis	4	Introduction of Telos, the Cyber-Controller and the Cybermats
2	The Abominable Snowmen	Mervyn Haisman Henry Lincoln	6	First appearance of the Yeti
3	The Ice Warriors	Brian Hayles	6	First appearance of the Ice Warriors
4	The Enemy of the World	David Whitaker	6	Patrick Troughton in dual roles
5	The Web of Fear	Mervyn Haisman Henry Lincoln	6	First appearance of the Brigadier
6	Fury from the Deep	Victor Pemberton	6	Final appearance of Victoria Waterfield, first appearance of the sonic screwdriver
7	The Wheel in Space	David Whitaker	6	First appearance of Zoe Heriot

Main cast

• The Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton
• Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines
• Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling (Departed in Fury from the Deep)
• Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury (Introduced in The Wheel in Space)

Guest

• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney

Stories set during this season

• Second Doctor sequences of PROSE: Heart of TARDIS (between The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Abominable Snowmen)
• PROSE: Dreams of Empire (between The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World)
• PROSE: Combat Rock (between The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World)
• PROSE: Twilight of the Gods (between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep)
• PROSE: The Dark Path (between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep)
• AUDIO: The Great Space Elevator (between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep)
• AUDIO: The Emperor of Eternity (between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep)

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

• The Tomb of the Cybermen (1992)
• The Troughton Years (1991) (The Abominable Snowmen 2 and Enemy of the World 3)
• Cybermen: The Early Years (1992) (Wheel in Space 3+6)
• The Ice Warriors Collection (1998) (Ice Warriors 1, 4, 5+6 with short reconstructions of episodes 2+3)
• The Reign of Terror (2003) (Web of Fear 1)

Loose Cannon VHSes

• The Abominable Snowman (2006) (Episodes 1, 3-6 only)
• The Ice Warriors (2004) (Episodes 2+3 only)
• The Enemy of the World (2001) (Episodes 1-2, 4-6 only)
• Fury from the Deep (2005)

DVD

Serial name	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
The Tomb of the Cybermen	4 × 25 min.	14 January 2002	4 April 2002	6 August 2002
The Tomb of the Cybermen – Special Edition Part of the Revisitations 3 box set	4 × 25 min.	13 February 2012	1 March 2012	13 March 2012
Lost in Time: Patrick Troughton The Abominable Snowmen (episode 2 of 6) The Enemy of the World (episode 3 of 6) The Web of Fear (episode 1 of 6) The Wheel in Space (episodes 3 & 6 of 6) Fury from the Deep (reconstruction)	5 × 25 min.	1 November 2004	2 December 2004 (Original release) 1 July 2010 (Re-release)	2 November 2004

Novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen
• Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen
• Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors
• Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World
• Doctor Who and the Web of Fear
• Fury from the Deep
• The Wheel in Space

Audiobooks

to be added

External links

BBC Website Guide to Season 5