Doctor Who season 5

This article is about the 1967/68 season. For the 2010 series, see Doctor Who (series 5).

Doctor Who (season 5)
Starring	Patrick Troughton Frazer Hines Deborah Watling Wendy Padbury
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	40 (18 missing) 7 stories
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	2 September 1967 (1967-09-02) – 1 June 1968 (1968-06-01)

The fifth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 2 September 1967 with the first story of season 5 The Tomb of the Cybermen and ended on 1 June 1968 with The Wheel in Space.

Casting

See also: List of Doctor Who cast members

Main cast

• Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor
• Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon
• Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield
• Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot

Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling appear as The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield respectively. Deborah Watling departs in the penultimate story Fury from the Deep. Wendy Padbury makes her debut as Zoe Heriot in the season finale, The Wheel in Space.

Guest stars

Jack Watling makes his first and last appearances in the series as Professor Edward Travers in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of fear. Watling would go on to reprise his role of Travers thirty years on in the spin-off TV film Downtime.

Michael Kilgarriff makes his first appearance as the Cyber-Controller in Tomb of the Cybermen. Kilgarriff would reprise the role eighteen years later in Attack of the Cybermen (1985).

The Web of Fear introduced Nicholas Courtney as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart. He appeared next in the next season's The Invasion, and became a regular supporting character in season 7 - season 13. He made subsequent appearances in season 20 and season 26.

Serials

Victor Pemberton was script editor for The Tomb of the Cybermen, with Peter Bryant as producer. After this Bryant resumed his role as script editor with Innes Lloyd as producer until The Web of Fear where Bryant took over as producer. Derrick Sherwin replaced Bryant as script editor, The Enemy of the World was the last serial seen under Head of Drama and creator Sydney Newman, who left the BBC after his contract had expired in 1967.

Two serials, The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Enemy of the World, are complete in the BBC's archives; these are also the only complete serials from the first two seasons of Patrick Troughton's tenure as the Doctor. The two missing episodes from The Ice Warriors have been recreated in animated form for the DVD release of that story, in a similar fashion to Season 6's The Invasion, while The Web of Fear was released on DVD in 2014 with a Telesnap reconstruction of its single missing episode. Of the remainder, Fury from the Deep is the most recent serial that is completely missing, with no episodes in the archives, while the other two have three existing episodes between them.

The Enemy of the World saw Patrick Troughton playing both the Doctor and the villainous Salamander; this was the first time that the lead actor had played both his regular part and the part of the villain since Season 3's The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve.

Story	Serial	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI
37	1	The Tomb of the Cybermen	Morris Barry	Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis	2 September 1967 9 September 1967 16 September 1967 23 September 1967	MM	6.0 6.4 7.2 7.4	53 52 49 50
On taking Victoria on her first trip away, the TARDIS crew arrives on Telos where they find an expedition excavating the tomb of the Cybermen. Inside the tomb, they find small metal creatures, traps and dozens frozen Cybermen who are soon to awake.
38	2	The Abominable Snowmen (Episodes 1, 3, 4, 5 & 6 missing)	Gerald Blake	Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln	30 September 1967 7 October 1967 14 October 1967 21 October 1967 28 October 1967 4 November 1967	NN	6.3 6.0 7.1 7.1 7.2 7.4	50 52 51 50 51 52
The TARDIS crew arrive on a cold and windy hillside within the Himalayas. After exploring, the Doctor—wearing an extremely furry coat—is mistaken for what they think could be a Yeti. It turns out that the Yeti already roaming the mountains are robots created in hope for The Great Intelligence to reach material form.
39	3	The Ice Warriors (Episodes 2 & 3 missing)	Derek Martinus	Brian Hayles	11 November 1967 18 November 1967 25 November 1967 2 December 1967 9 December 1967 16 December 1967	OO	6.7 7.1 7.4 7.3 8.0 7.5	52 52 51 51 50 51
In the distant future, the crew at Brittanicus Base struggle to control an ioniser, which they are using to slow the progress of glaciers rolling over Britain. A creature found in the Ice is taken back to the base, once thawed it kidnaps Victoria and takes her to awaken his men from the glacier, they identify themselves as Ice Warriors from the planet Mars.
40	4	The Enemy of the World	Barry Letts	David Whitaker	23 December 1967 30 December 1967 6 January 1968 13 January 1968 20 January 1968 27 January 1968	PP	6.8 7.6 7.1 7.8 6.9 8.3	50 49 48 49 49 52
Arriving in Australia in 2018, The Doctor finds out he has an evil doppelgänger named Salamander, a Scientist and Politician, who plans to rule the world with volcanoes. Despite those who follow his ultimate reign, the Doctor impersonates him to gain full access to his research station and reveal him for who he really is.
41	5	The Web of Fear (Episode 3 missing)	Douglas Camfield	Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln	3 February 1968 10 February 1968 17 February 1968 24 February 1968 2 March 1968 9 March 1968	QQ	7.2 6.8 7.0 8.4 8.0 8.3	54 53 51 53 55 55
Avoiding a web-like substance from space the Tardis lands in the London Underground. But when they find that the Yeit are suddenly now running the system, it's cause chaos for everyone, even the military. The Doctor, with the help of the military, tries to stop them invading the London Underground.
42	6	Fury from the Deep (All episodes missing)	Hugh David	Victor Pemberton	16 March 1968 23 March 1968 30 March 1968 6 April 1968 13 April 1968 20 April 1968	RR	8.2 7.9 7.7 6.6 5.9 6.9	55 55 56 56 56 57
The TARDIS lands in the North Sea off the eastern coast of England. The Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach where there's something nasty in the pipes. A refinery base takes them prisoner and it's soon to reveal that a parasite had been sucked up from seaweed and is taking mind control of those who come in contact.
43	7	The Wheel in Space (Episodes 1, 2, 4 & 5 missing)	Tristan DeVere Cole	David Whitaker and Kit Pedler	27 April 1968 4 May 1968 11 May 1968 18 May 1968 25 May 1968 1 June 1968	SS	7.2 6.9 7.5 8.6 6.8 6.5	57 60 55 56 57 62
The Doctor and Jamie find themselves on a deserted spaceship carrying Cybermen heading for a nearby space station, The Wheel.

Missing episodes

See also: Doctor Who missing episodes

• The Abominable Snowmen - Episodes 1, 3 - 6 (of 6 total)
• The Ice Warriors - Episodes 2 & 3 (of 6 total)
• The Web of Fear - Episode 3 (of 6 total)
• Fury from the Deep - All 6 Episodes
• The Wheel in Space - Episodes 1, 2, 4 & 5 (of 6 total)

DVD releases

See also: List of Doctor Who home video 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	4 April 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	6 × 25 min.	26 August 2013	28 August 2013	17 September 2013
The Enemy of the World	6 × 25 min.	25 November 2013	27 November 2013	10 December 2013 (Canada) 20 May 2014 (USA)
The Web of Fear	5 × 25 min. 1 x 25 min reconstruction.	24 February 2014	26 February 2014	22 April 2014

Lost in Time
Lost in Time was released in two formats in Region 1, with individual releases for volumes one and two (which cover First Doctor and Second Doctor episodes respectively), as well as an edition combining both volumes. In Regions 2 and 4, Lost in Time is available only as the combined single volume.

Includes episodes from	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
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) (Also includes surviving clips from Fury from the Deep)	5 × 25 min.	1 November 2004	2 December 2004 (Original release) 1 July 2010 (Re-release)	2 November 2004

In print

Main article: List of Doctor Who novelisations

Serial name	Novelisation title	Author	First published
The Tomb of the Cybermen	Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen	Gerry Davis	1978
The Abominable Snowmen	Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen	Terrance Dicks	1974
The Ice Warriors	Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors	Brian Hayles	1976
The Enemy of the World	Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World	Ian Marter	1981
The Web of Fear	Doctor Who and the Web of Fear	Terrance Dicks	1976
Fury from the Deep	Fury from the Deep	Victor Pemberton	1986
The Wheel in Space	The Wheel in Space	Terrance Dicks	1988