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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen (TV) (TV)

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Original title

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

Year

1967

Running time

143 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Gerald Blake

Screenwriter

Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln, Sydney Newman

Cast

Music

Ron Grainer

Cinematography

John Cura, Peter Bartlett, Ken Westbury

Producer

BBC

Genre

Sci-Fi. Adventure | Time Travel. Aliens. Doctor Who. TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen (TV) (TV)

1967

Gerald Blake