The Abominable Snowmen: Episode Four

Episode aired Oct 21, 1967
TV-PG
24m

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7.1/10

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Frazer Hines, Norman Jones, Patrick Troughton, and Deborah Watling in Doctor Who (1963)

Adventure Drama Family Sci-Fi

The Yeti escapes from the monastery and Victoria and Thonmi are accused of assisting it, while the Doctor and Jamie endure a perilous journey back across the mountains.The Yeti escapes from the monastery and Victoria and Thonmi are accused of assisting it, while the Doctor and Jamie endure a perilous journey back across the mountains.The Yeti escapes from the monastery and Victoria and Thonmi are accused of assisting it, while the Doctor and Jamie endure a perilous journey back across the mountains.

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10A_Kind_Of_CineMagic

Great Intelligence, great story!

Review for all 6 episodes:

A story set in 1935 Tibet with Yeti, a strange alien menace and a Buddhist monastery. The Doctor and his companions are all on top form with Troughton and Hines great as usual and Deborah Watling finding her feet. The story is brilliantly written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and it entertains from start to finish.

This adventure has great characterisation with particularly Travers (Jack Watling) and the interesting villain the Great Intelligence. The switching between the kindly voice of the Great Intelligence's possessed host and the evil true voice of the villain works well and the character - which was to return later in the series and again in the new Doctor Who in recent years - is a really good one. Travers who would also return in The Web of Fear is another interesting and fully three dimensional character.

The Yeti, robots controlled by The Great Intelligence, are effective and cleverly devised monsters although they look a bit too cuddly. The versions in the later story The Web of Fear were slightly more sinister looking.

The first episode is a brilliant set up episode with an effective and atmospheric build up, thereafter the story continues as magnificently high quality entertainment. Overall the story is a classic and sets up the even better Web of Fear later in the series.

All 6 Episodes - 10/10

9Sleepin_Dragon

There is so much quality in this story.

The Doctor and Jamie face The Yeti as they try and cross the mountains, The Yeti escapes.

It is so good, it's such a wonderful story, with rich characters, and an amazing, original foe.

Victoria is so, so good in these early stories, she's smart, brave, and not the scared girl she would sometimes appear to be.

Great scenes in the chamber where Songsten speaks with Padmasambhava, and The Great Intelligence. Wonderfully sinister and atmospheric. We hear of The Great Intelligence, but we know so very little about it. That voice is so soothing, but equally menacing and cruel.

I can imagine the scenes of The Doctor and Jamie confronting The Abominable Snowmen look great.

Hopefully one day this will turn up, because it is genuinely brilliant. 9/10.

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This episode was wiped by the BBC and no copy of it is known to exist.

Quotes
Dr. Who: [the Doctor is thinking of an idea of getting inside the TARDIS] Yes.
Jamie: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?
Dr. Who: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
Jamie: What are you going to do?
Dr. Who: Bung a rock at it.
Jamie: Oh be serious, Doctor!
Dr. Who: Jamie, I am.
Jamie: Hey no, Doctor!
Dr. Who: [the Doctor bungs a rock at it, however the Yeti does not react] There you are, you see? Just as I thought. It can't see and it can't feel. Come on.
Jamie: Don't be daft, Doctor.
Dr. Who: Well it's quite all right, Jamie. It's like those three back there, it's either switched off or not receiving. Come along.
Jamie: Are you sure it's quite safe?
Dr. Who: Well, quite frankly no, Jamie. But there's only one way of finding out.
[the Doctor starts to look inside the creature's centre for its flap]
Jamie: Don't, Doctor, you might switch it on.
Dr. Who: No I don't think so, Jamie. There, just as I thought. Now then.
[He gets the flap open]
Dr. Who: Now, Jamie, will you hold this flap open for me please? Thank you.
[He starts to take the control unit from its chest with a screwdriver]
Jamie: Hey you're taking an awful risk, Doctor.
Dr. Who: [removes the Yeti's sphere] Well I'm glad that's over. Catch!
[He throws it at Jamie who catches it]
Jamie: Hey I just thought of something, Doctor. The man that made these robots is very clever, right?
Dr. Who: Yes.
Jamie: And yet we were able to walk right up to it and put it out of action just like that!
Dr. Who: You mean why didn't they build in some sort of protective device?
Jamie: Aye.
Dr. Who: Well perhaps they didn't think it was necessary. I mean look at him. Would you walk up to a creature like that with just a screwdriver in your hand?
Jamie: No, I would not.
Dr. Who: No, there you are. I'm really rather pleased with myself.