Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

1968 · 150 min · ★ 7.9 · Drama, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, TV Movie, Horror

The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the web and by the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti. The time travellers learn this crisis was precipitated when Professor Travers, whom they first met in the Himalayas some thirty years earlier, accidentally caused one of the Yeti to be reactivated, opening the way for the Intelligence to invade again.

Directed by Douglas Camfield · Written by Mervyn Haisman

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