Yeti (The War Games)
During the Second Doctor's trial, the image of a Mark II Yeti was projected through a Thought Channel onto a screen as an example to the Court of the "evils" which he fought.
The second of five examples of evil cited, the Yeti were characterised by the Doctor as "more robot killers, instruments of an alien intelligence trying to take over the planet Earth", (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) with the Doctor defeating their attack on London in the late 20th century following an earlier confrontation in the Himalayas. (TV: The War Games in Colour [+]Loading...["The War Games in Colour (TV story)"], The Web of Fear [+]Loading...["The Web of Fear (TV story)"], The Abominable Snowmen [+]Loading...["The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)"]) As the Doctor listed these evils, images of the species were seen on the screen; in one account these were generic images of the monsters in motion, (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) but in another, the images included snapshots of the Doctor and his companions' encounters with them. (TV: The War Games in Colour [+]Loading...["The War Games in Colour (TV story)"])
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- John Levene and his fellow monster actors were uncredited on-screen for their appearance in The War Games, though they were credited in Radio Times. During filming, the assembled monsters posed for a picture with Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton.
