History Recap / DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear

For over 40 years, this story was considered by many to be one of the holy grails of lost episodes. In October 2013, it was announced that film copies of all but part 3 were found at a TV relay station in Jos, Nigeria. It emerged in September 2015 that all six episodes were in fact present, but the third disappeared during the negotiations to get the prints back; almost certainly stolen.

Unfortunately, since he first turns up in Episode 3, the first appearance of the soon-to-be Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is therefore ''still'' lost. The story was released on iTunes with a telesnap reconstruction of part 3. A DVD, also featuring the reconstructed part 3, was released February 2014. A Special Edition DVD / Blu-ray with an animated version of the missing episode followed in August 2021.

* ArbitraryScepticism: Everyone accepts the idea of Yeti and the Great Intelligence. But the the Doctor having a time machine? Nonsense

* LovableCoward: Evans approaches this at times, with his garralous frankness about how he's mainly looking for an escape and wasn't meant to be here meaning he comes across as oddly likable, even when he's advocating sacrificing the Doctor to save everyone else (i.e. him).

-> '''Captain Knight:''' What's a girl like you doing in a job like this?\\

'''Production code:''' QQ

Written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln. This six-episode serial first aired from February 3 to March 9, 1968.

* SequelHook: The Intelligence has been driven away, but there's always the possibility it will return. Turns out it took ''forty-four years'' of real time for this particular hook to catch.

Leaving the army under their new friend, Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, to do the clearing up, the travellers depart for new adventures...

Unfortunately, since he first turns up in Episode 3, the first appearance of Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart is therefore ''still'' lost. The story was released on iTunes with a telesnap reconstruction of part 3. A DVD, also featuring the reconstructed part 3, was released February 2014. A Special Edition DVD / Blu-ray with an animated version of the missing episode followed in August 2021.

Leaving the army under Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart to do the clearing up, the travellers depart for new adventures...

-> '''Captain Knight''': What's a girl like you doing in a job like this?\\
'''Anne Travers''': Well, when I was a little girl I thought I'd like to be a scientist, so I became a scientist.

The one with deadly silly string and the debut of DW's resident BadassNormal with the (fake) moustache.

** When Driver Evans takes a chocolate bar from a platform vending machine. The bar's wrapper is shown to read "Camfield's Fairy Milk Chocolate"-- a reference to director Creator/DouglasCamfield and to comply with the BBC's policy of not displaying brand named products on screen.

* WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis

* TheXOfY

** When Driver Evans takes a chocolate bar from a platform vending machine. The bar's wrapper is shown to read "Camfield's Fairy Milk Chocolate"-- a reference to director Douglas Camfield and to comply with the BBC's policy of not displaying brand named products on screen.

* PlayingGertrude: Jack Watling as the older Professor Travers.

Written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln. This serial first aired February 3-March 9, 1968.

* GirlySkirtTwirl: Victoria shows off her new skirt this way in the first episode, but Jamie is [[NotDistractedByTheSexy more interested in the sandwiches he's eating]].

* MindRape: This almost happened to the Doctor. The Intelligence's plan is to draw all of the Doctor's memories from his brain, leaving him an empty shell. There's even some discussion that if he gets his mind wiped, Jamie has to promise to look after him until he learns to walk and talk again. Jamie saves him, spoiling the Doctor's plan.

* TheNthDoctor: The Intelligence somehow causes the Yeti in Silverstein's museum to upgrade itself on-screen from the original "The Abominable Snowmen" design to the new design. (''The Discontinuity Guide'', one of the best-known reference books on the series ever written, insisted this could not possibly have been intentional and listed it under "bloopers".)

* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognise: Inverted. Considering he continues making appearances up to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven 48 years after this story]] was released, it's blatantly obvious (with the benefit of modern hindsight) that Lethbridge-Stewart is NOT the mole.

* ArbitraryScepticism: Everyone's accepts the idea of Yeti and the Great Intelligence. But the the Doctor having a time machine? Nonsense

The one with deadly silly string and the debut of DW's resident BadassNormal with the (fake) BadassMoustache.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Everyone's accepts the idea of Yeti and the Great Intelligence. But the the Doctor having a time machine? Nonsense

** To his credit, though, he also takes everything he learns about the Doctor and the Yeti in stride, showing none of the ArbitrarySkepticism that he would become known for five seasons later. Keep in mind by then he had become a seasoned Brigadier with a lot more responsibilities on his plate and was now dealing with a much more [[Creator/JonPertwee irascible incarnation]] of the Doctor that loved to showboat, upstage him and his authority and ''frequently'' got on his nerves.