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Synopsis

Mysterious forces are at work in Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and have besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive expecting a friendly welcome from the abbot, but soon become ensnared in the plans of the extradimensional being known as the Great Intelligence. Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: Xīzàng; older splling Thibet) is a region and former independent country in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... The Yeti of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, are in actuality alien robots. ... Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ... Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks. ... James Robert McCrimmon, or simply Jamie, is a fictional character played by Frazer Hines in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Victoria Maud Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Plot

Jamie and Victoria pursued by the Yeti

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Notes

1. All but episode 2 is lost. Remaining footage, plus a handful of clips, were digitially restored and released on the Lost in Time: Collection of Rare Episodes DVD in 2004.
2. All known copies of episode 2, including audio recordings made by fans during the original broadcast, contain a brief audio dropout late in the episode. The Doctor is examining a captured Yeti and is supposed to say "You were right about one thing Victoria — this creature certainly doesn't seem to be flesh and blood!" In what appears to have been a fault with the master videotape recording, the sound cuts in with "...toria..." The original VHS release of the episode saw the soundtrack manipulated to cover the dropout (and avoid customer complaints that the tape was faulty), whilst maintaining the running time of the episode. The DVD release contains a "patchwork repair" of the fault, performed by Mark Ayres of the Doctor Who Restoration Team, using the appropriate words spoken by Troughton with the correct vocal inflexions, taken from other Second Doctor episodes.
3. The character of Professor Travers is played by Jack Watling, the father of actress Deborah Watling, who plays Victoria.
4. The Great Intelligence, the Yeti and Professor Travers would return in the 1968 serial The Web of Fear.

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External links

• Cast and Crew list, on the BBC website
• Photonovel of The Abominable Snowmen on the BBC website