Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen (TV)
1967·United Kingdom·143 min.
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The TARDIS arrives in Tibet in 1935 and the Doctor visits the remote Detsen monastery in order to return a sacred bell, the ghanta, given to him for safe keeping on a previous visit. There he meets an Englishman, Travers, on an expedition to track down the legendary Abominable Snowmen or Yeti. It transpires that the Yeti roaming the area are actually disguised robots, which scare away or kill anyone who approaches. The High Lama Padmasambhava, whom the Doctor met hundreds of years earlier on his previous visit, has been taken over by a nebulous alien being, the Great Intelligence, which has artificially prolonged his life and is now using him to control the Yeti by way of models on a chessboard-like map.
DirectorGerald Blake
MusicRon Grainer
CastPatrick Troughton·Frazer Hines·Deborah Watling·Norman Jones·David Grey·Raymond Llewellyn·David Spenser·Jack Watling·Reg Whitehead
Original titleDoctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen (TV)