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 early-1990s when archivists recovered a complete version of The Tomb of the Cybermen. A second complete story was not recovered until 2013. Individual episodes have survived for a few of the other stories, and audio recordings exist for all. It was the first season not to have any episodes featuring Daleks.
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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 and the Great Intelligence. |
| 3 | The Ice Warriors | Brian Hayles | 6 | First appearance of the Ice Warriors. |
| 4 | The Enemy of the World | David Whitaker | 6 | Patrick Troughton appears in dual roles as the Doctor and Ramon Salamander. |
| 5 | The Web of Fear | Mervyn Haisman Henry Lincoln |
6 | First appearance of Lethbridge-Stewart, then a Colonel, who would later be promoted to 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. |
Cast
Recurring
- The Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton
- Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines
- Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling
- Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury
- Edward Travers - Jack Watling
- Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
Guest
Stories set during this season
- PROSE: The Age of Ambition (Affer The Tomb of the Cybermen)
- 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 episode 2 and The Enemy of the World episode 3)
- Cybermen: The Early Years (1992) (The Wheel in Space episodes 3 and 6)
- The Ice Warriors Collection (1998) (The Ice Warriors 1, 4, 5 and 6 with short reconstructions of episodes 2 and 3)
- The Reign of Terror (2003) (The Web of Fear episode 1)
Loose Cannon VHS releases
- The Abominable Snowman (2006) (Episodes 1, 3-6 only)
- The Ice Warriors (2004) (Episodes 2 and 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) |
5 × 25 min. |
1 November 2004 | 2 December 2004 (Original release) 1 July 2010 (Re-release) |
2 November 2004 |
| The Enemy of the World | 6 × 25 min. | 25 November 2013 | TBA | TBA |
| The Web of Fear (with telesnap reconstruction of episode 3) | 6 × 25 min. | 24 February 2014 | TBA | TBA |
iTunes
- The Enemy of the World
- The Web of Fear (with telesnap reconstruction of episode 3)
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