THE STORY
The TARDIS lands in Tibet in 1935 and the Doctor visits the remote Detsen monastrey 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 Snowman or Yeti. It transpires that the Yeti roaming the area are actually robots, which scare away or kill anyone who approaches. The High Lama Padmasambhava, whom the Doctor met hundreds of years ago on a previous visit, has been taken over by the nebulous 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. The Intelligence's aim is to create a material form for itself and take over the Earth. The Doctor banishes it back to the astral plane, allowing Padmasambhava finally to die in peace.
CAST:
Dr Who (Patrick Troughton), Jamie (Frazer Hines), Victoria (Deborah Watling), Travers (Jack Watling), Khrisong (Norman Jones), Thonmi (David Spenser), Rinchen (David Grey), Sapan (Raymond Llewellyn), Yeti (Reg Whitehead, Tony Harwood, Richard Kerley, John Hogan), Songsten (Charles Morgan), Padmasambhava (Wolfe Morris), Ralpachan (David Baron).
FACTS:
The Great Intelligence and its Yeti made a return appearance later in the seaon in 'The Web of Fear'.
Only Episode 2 of this adventure is known to still exist.
OTHER FORMATS:
The Second Doctor Novelisations
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