Season 5 (Doctor Who 1963)

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 the early-1990s when archivists recovered a complete version of The Tomb of the Cybermen. A second complete story, The Enemy of the World was recovered in 2013, along with a nearly complete recovery of the story that followed it, The Web of Fear. 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. This is the first season where each story had a unique director.

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. Earliest completely preserved Troughton story.
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. First story to be directed by Barry Letts, which begins his long association with the series.
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. Second and last appearance of the Great Intelligence until The Snowmen.
6	Fury from the Deep	Victor Pemberton	6	Final appearance of Victoria Waterfield and the first appearance of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver.
7	The Wheel in Space	David Whitaker	6	First appearance of Zoe Heriot.

Cast

Recurring

Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury
Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
Professor Edward Travers - Jack Watling
Tanya Lernov - Clare Jenkins
Cyberman Controller - Michael Kilgarriff
Cybermen Voices - Peter Hawkins, Roy Skelton

Guest

Stories set during this season

The Great Space Elevator is set between The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Abominable Snowmen
The Age of Ambition is set between The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Abominable Snowmen
Second Doctor sequences of Heart of TARDIS are set between The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Abominable Snowmen
Dreams of Empire is set between The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World
Combat Rock is set between The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World
The Black Hole is set between The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World
Twilight of the Gods is set between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep
The Dark Path is set between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep
The Emperor of Eternity is set between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep
The Elysian Blade is set between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS releases

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 & Blu-ray releases

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	28 March 2002	6 August 2002
The Tomb of the Cybermen – Special Edition Only available as part of the Revisitations 3 box set in Regions 2 and 4. Only available individually in Region 1.	4 × 25 min.	13 February 2012	1 March 2012	13 March 2012
The Ice Warriors (episodes 1 & 4-6 of 6, animated reconstructions of episodes 2 & 3)	6 x 25 min.	26 August 2013	28 August 2013	17 September 2013
The Enemy of the World	6 x 25 min.	25 November 2013	27 November 2013	10 December 2013 (Original release) 20 May 2014 (Re-release)
The Enemy of the World - Special Edition	6 x 25 min.	26 March 2018	8 August 2018	N/A
The Web of Fear (with telesnap reconstruction of episode 3)	6 x 25 min.	24 February 2014	26 February 2014	22 April 2014
Fury from the Deep (with animated reconstructions of all 6 episodes)	6 x 25 min.	14 September 2020	2020	2020
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) (also includes surviving clips from The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear, Fury from the Deep and The Wheel in Space)	5 × 25 min.	1 November 2004	2 December 2004 (Original release) 1 July 2010 (Re-release)	2 November 2004

Download/streaming availability

Serial name	Amazon Video	BritBox (US)	Britbox (Canada)	Google Play	iTunes
The Tomb of the Cybermen (4 episodes)	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓
The Abominable Snowmen
The Ice Warriors (6 episodes with animated reconstructions of episodes 2 & 3)	UK				✓
The Enemy of the World (6 episodes)	UK	✓		✓	✓
The Web of Fear (6 episodes with a telesnap reconstruction of episode 3)	UK	✓	✓	✓	✓
Fury from the Deep
The Wheel in Space (6 episodes with telesnap reconstructions of episodes 1, 2, 4 & 5)		✓	✓

BritBox is available only in the US and Canada. iTunes stores carry Doctor Who serials in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and US.

Novelisations

Audiobooks

to be added

External links

BBC Website Guide to Season 5