As the TARDIS materializes in the Himalayas the Doctor looks for the "Ghanta", a sacred bell which will ensure them a warm welcome at the nearby Tibetan monastery.  Leaving Jamie and Victoria to continue searching, the Doctor goes outside to explore, and comes across the remains of a campsite, where he discovers a dead body and takes the backpack he was wearing.  Jamie and Victoria go looking for the Doctor, but get sidetracked by a fresh set of large footprints, following them to a cave.  Explorer Professor Travers, who is searching  for Yeti,  sees the backpack of his dead companion, and accuses the Doctor of his murder. The Doctor protests his innocence as Khrisong, the chief warrior, orders the Doctor taken away.  Inside the cave Jamie and Victoria meet a Yeti, which attacks.  During the scuffle, the Yeti's control sphere gets knocked loose, allowing them to discover that the yeti is actually a fur covered robot being directed by the evil Great Intelligence, a cosmic entity who now possesses the body of The High Padmasambhava, an old friend of the Doctor. The Doctor finds a way to immobilize the Yeti and defeats the Great Intelligence.  On the way back to the TARDIS with Travers they finally discovers a real yeti - a shy and harmless creature.




The Doctor: Patrick Troughton
Jamie McCrimmon: Frazer Hines
Victoria Waterfield: Deborah Watling

Guest Appearances:
Professor Travers: Jack Watling
Khrisong: Norman Jones
Thonmi: David Spencer
Rinchen: David Grey 
Sapan: Raymond Llewellyn
Songsten: Charles Morgan
Padmasambhava: Wolfe Morris
Ralpachan: David Baron
Yeti: Reg Whitehead, Tony Harwood, Richard Kerley, John Hogan

Producer: Innes Lloyd.
Script Editor: Peter Bryant.
Writer: Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln.
Director: Gerald Blake.
Designer: Malcolm Middleton. 
Costume: Martin Baugh.
Make up: Sylvia James.
Visual Effects: Ron Oates, Ulrich Grossner
Music : No Music

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Novelised as "Doctor Who - And The Abominable Snowman" by Terrence Dicks (0 426 11455 8) first published by Universal Tandem in 1974 with cover by Chris Achilleos. New edition by W. H. Allen (now Virgin Publishing Ltd.) in 1983 with cover by Andrew Skilleter. Target library number 1.

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Limited Availability On Video: Episode 2 included on "The Troughton Years" (BBCV 4609) first released in 1991 with photomontage cover.
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"The Abominable Snowman released in July 2001 in a double-CD version presented by Frazer Hines, from the BBC Audio Collection.

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Jack Watling, who played Professor Travers, is the real-life father of Deborah Watling who plays Victoria. He would return later this season in "The Web of Fear," a sequel to this story.

Episode 2 exists as a 16mm telerecording, as returned by a private collector in February 1982. Telesnaps from this episode exist.

Ealing Film Studios, Stage Unknown. (23-25 August 1967)
Studio recording in Lime Grove D. (15-16, 23, 30 September; 7, 14 October 1967)
Nant Ffrancon Pass, Gwynedd, North Wales. (4-9 September 1967)

Episode 1 - From inside the TARDIS, snow can be seem through the scanner, but when the travellers step outside, the surroundings are totally flake-free.