The Web of Fear

(Series 5, Episodes 23-28)

Summary: The Great Intelligence is back and it’s taken over London with giant glowing bubble wrap.  All that stands in the way of the Intelligence and its Womble-like Yetis is the refreshingly competent and level-headed Anne Travers.  Victoria gets her quota of screaming in, Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, Jamie and the Cowardly Lion set up an Englishman, Scotsman and Welshman joke, and we learn that journalists are unscrupulous.  In the final act, the Doctor throws a wobbly because Jamie’s well-meaning yet gung-ho rescue means he doesn’t get to show off his terribly clever idea.

Watch it because: The London Underground sets.

Original Air Date: 3 February – 9 March 1968.

Doctor: Patrick Troughton.

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

Writer: Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln.

Director: Douglas Camfield.

Producer: Peter Bryant.

Available on DVD? Yes, although Episode 3 is only available as a reconstruction.