Season 5 of Doctor Who ran between 2 September 1967 and 1 June 1968. It starred Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield. The season opened with The Tomb of the Cybermen and concluded with The Wheel in Space.
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Overview
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.
It is also the only season, as of 2020, where a missing episode (The Web of Fear episode 3) is known to exist but has not yet been returned to the BBC. The episode in question went missing from its known location just prior to recovery of the other episodes.[1]
Individual episodes have survived for a few of the other stories, and audio recordings exist for all. This was the first season not to have any episodes featuring Daleks. This is the first season where each story had a unique director. This is also the first season to feature no historical stories.
The season is also notable for having Patrick Troughton play a double-role as both the Doctor and Salamander in The Enemy of the World.
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 Edward Travers, 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 | First story to be directed by Barry Letts. |
| 5 | The Web of Fear | Mervyn Haisman Henry Lincoln |
6 | First appearance of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, and only televised appearance of Anne Travers. |
| 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
- Eric Klieg - George Pastell
- Kaftan - Shirley Cooklin
- Toberman - Roy Stewart
- Parry - Aubrey Richards
- Captain Hopper - George Roubicek
- Khrisong - Norman Jones
- Thonmi - David Spenser
- Songsten - Charles Morgan
- Padmasambhava - Wolfe Morris
- Clent - Peter Barkworth
- Miss Garrett - Wendy Gifford
- Penley - Peter Sallis
- Storr - Angus Lennie
- Varga - Bernard Bresslaw
- Arden - George Waring
- Salamander - Patrick Troughton
- Giles Kent - Bill Kerr
- Astrid Ferrier - Mary Peach
- Donald Bruce - Colin Douglas
- Benik - Milton Johns
- Fariah - Carmen Munroe
- Swann - Christopher Burgess
- Anne Travers - Tina Packer
- Captain Knight - Ralph Watson
- Harold Chorley - Jon Rollason
- Staff Sgt. Arnold - Jack Woolgar
- Driver Evans - Derek Pollitt
- Robson - Victor Maddern
- Harris - Roy Spencer
- Maggie Harris - June Murphy
- Van Lutyens - John Abineri
- Mr. Oak - John Gill
- Mr. Quill - Bill Burridge
- Megan Jones - Margaret John
- Jarvis Bennett - Michael Turner
- Dr. Gemma Crowyn - Anne Ridler
- Leo Ryan - Eric Flynn
- Enrico Casali - Donald Sumpter
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 |
| The Web of Fear (with animated reconstruction of episode 3) | 6 x 25 min. | 16 August 2021 | 22 September 2021 | TBA |
| Fury from the Deep (with animated reconstructions of all 6 episodes) | 6 x 25 min. | 14 September 2020 | 11 November 2020 | 16 March 2021 |
| Lost in Time: Patrick Troughton
The Abominable Snowmen (episode 2 of 6) (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 UK, US and Canada. iTunes stores carry Doctor Who serials in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and US.
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