The Abominable Snowmen

038 – *The Abominable Snowmen*
038 – The Abominable Snowmen
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Patrick Troughton – Second Doctor;
	Companions Frazer Hines – Jamie McCrimmon; Deborah Watling – Victoria Waterfield;
	Others Jack Watling – Professor Travers; Wolfe Morris – Padmasambhava; Charles Morgan – Songsten; Norman Jones – Khrisong; David Grey – Rinchen; David Spenser – Thonmi; Raymond Llewellyn – Sapan; David Baron – Ralpachan; Reg Whitehead, Tony Harwood, Richard Kerley, John Hogan – Yeti;
Production
Directed by	Gerald Blake
Written by	Mervyn Haisman; Henry Lincoln
Script editor	Peter Bryant
Produced by	Innes Lloyd
Music by	none
Production code	NN
Series	Season 5
Running time	6 episodes, 25 minutes each
Episode(s) missing	5 episodes (1, 3–6)
First broadcast	30 September 1967
Last broadcast	4 November 1967
Chronology
← Preceded by; The Tomb of the Cybermen	Followed by →; The Ice Warriors

The Abominable Snowmen is the mostly missing second serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 30 September to 4 November 1967.

In this serial, the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling) arrive in Tibet in 1935. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a Buddhist monastery, under the orders of a higher being known as the Great Intelligence. After becoming ensnared in its plans, the crew join forces with Professor Edward Travers (Jack Watling) to stop the being and save the planet from conquest. The story is notable for the introduction of the Yeti and The Great Intelligence.

Only one of the six episodes is held in the BBC archives; five remain missing. The story was released in animated form on 5 September 2022.