The Ice Warriors

(Series 5, Episodes 11-16)

Summary: Giant collars and skin tight cow print onesies will be really hip in the future.  Computers versus the human mind, with some interesting twists.  And oh look – a female scientist!  Victoria does some more screaming, Jamie suffers heroic man-pain and the Doctor is oddly blasé about melting an entire alien race.

Watch it because: Those husky-voiced Ice Warriors.

Original Air Date: 11 November – 16 December 1967.

Doctor: Patrick Troughton.

Companions: Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling).

Writer: Brian Hayles.

Director: Derek Martinus.

Producer: Innes Lloyd.

Available on DVD? Yes, although Episodes 2 and 3 are animations.

Lost Episodes VII

The Abominable Snowmen

(Series 5, Episodes 5-10)

Significant for: The first appearance of the Second Doctor’s recurring foe, the Yeti.

The Tomb of the Cybermen

(Series 5, Episodes 1-4)

Summary: A group of archaeologists visit the planet Telos to discover what happened to the Cybermen.  Look out – it’s a trap!  Oh, but some of you knew that!  This story is just so layered.  Jamie makes a new space buddy, only for him to die horribly minutes later, the Cybermats are introduced, and Victoria screams even more than Polly.

Watch it because:

Victoria: “You probably can't remember your family.”

The Doctor: “Oh yes, I can when I want to. And that's the point, really. I have to really want to, to bring them back in front of my eyes. The rest of the time they... they sleep in my mind and I forget.”

Poor Susan.

Original Air Date: 2 – 23 September 1967.

Doctor: Patrick Troughton.

Companions: Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling).

Writer: Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis.

Director: Morris Barry.

Producer: Peter Bryant.

Available on DVD? Yes.

Lost Episodes VI

The Macra Terror

(Series 4, Episodes 28-31)

Significant for: The first appearance of the Macra and the first re-design of the opening titles since the series began.

The Faceless Ones

(Series 4, Episodes 32-37)

Significant for: The departure of Ben and Polly, who realise they have landed back on Earth on the day they left, in 1966.

The Evil of the Daleks

(Series 4, Episodes 38-44)

Significant for: The Doctor adopts another orphan, Victoria Waterfield, after her scientist father is killed by the Daleks.

The Moonbase

(Series 4, Episodes 24-27)

Summary: The Doctor and his friends visit the moon in Hazmat suits and discover a base that controls the Earth’s weather.  Jamie gets a bump on the noggin and becomes deliriously Scottish, Polly makes a lot of coffee (no tea on the moon) and the Doctor fakes scienceing to buy them time.  The Cybermen are back, but the future still has no women, which is a shame as it turns out the Cybermen can be defeated with nail varnish remover.

Watch it because: The Phantom McCrimmon Piper!

Original Air Date: 11 February – 4 March 1967.

Doctor: Patrick Troughton.

Companions: Ben Jackson (Michael Craze), Polly (Anneke Wills) and Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines).

Writer: Kit Pedler.

Director: Morris Barry.

Producer: Innes Lloyd.

Available on DVD? Yes, although Episodes 1 and 3 are animations.