The Web of Fear, Episode 1

Season 5, Episode 23, Aired

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The TARDIS is caught by a mysterious force which causes it to materialise in present-day London. Forty years have passed since their adventure in Tibet, and their old friend Professor Travers has succeeded in reactivating one of the dormant Yeti control spheres only to summon the Great Intelligence back to Earth. The streets of London are choked with fog, Yeti roam the Underground, and a beleaguered team of soldiers and scientists struggles to find a solution before the city falls completely to the invader. A new commander arrives, Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart but is he really the new commander of the garrison or is he the Intelligence's new human agent? And if he isn't, then who is? The Doctor must find the traitor before the base is overrun by the Web and London falls...moreless
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      • The Doctor: Salamander started the TARDIS without first closing the doors. He was sucked out. Jamie: Aye, and I nearly joined him! The Doctor: Well, I'm very glad you didn't. He's not in a very enviable position, you know, at the moment, floating around in time and space. Now then, where shall we go? Jamie: Oh, lets just get our breath back first before you start tearing off anywhere! Anyway, as you know, the TARDIS has a mind of its own. You know you can't control it.

      • (The Doctor sets the TARDIS into flight.) Victoria: Here we go again! Jamie: I wonder where it'll be this time. The Doctor: Yes, I wonder…

      • Captain Knight: Well, he was certainly a brave soldier, no doubt about that. He gave his life for his country and I was proud to serve under him. Is that all right? Chorley: Oh super, sterling stuff. You talk in pure quotes, old boy. Captain Knight: Not just quotes, Mr. Chorley. I meant what I said!

      • Captain Knight: Look, it's no good shouting at me, Professor. I didn't ask for you. Travers: Who did then? Captain Knight: Your daughter. Travers: Anne? Just like her mother, always interfering in things she knows nothing about!

      • Captain Knight: What's a girl like you doing in a job like this? Anne [ drily ]: Well, when I was a little girl I thought I'd like to be a scientist… So I became a scientist. Captain Knight: Just like that? Anne: Just like that.

      • The Doctor: Shall we go out and have a look? Victoria: Now? Is it safe? The Doctor: Oh, I shouldn't think so for a moment.

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      • Novelisation: Doctor Who – The Web of Fear by Terrance Dicks (ISBN 0 426 11084 6) first published by Wyndham Publicatons in 1976.

      • John Levene plays one of the Yeti in this story. He would later become a regular on the show as Corporal/Sergeant/RSM Benton.

      • The master copies of this serial were wiped in or shortly after September 1969. This episode exists in the BBC archives as a 16mm telerecording recovered from Hong Kong in 1978. This episode and clips from Episodes 2, 4 and 5 are available on the Lost In Time DVD set. Episodes 2 and 6 exist in audio format only.

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