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| Returning to face the threat of the Great Intelligence is an older, more eccentric and cranky Professor Travers (Jack Watling), whose tinkering with a prior deactivated Yeti control sphere restarts the ephemeral terror anew. |
The Web of Fear already had a great setting in which to showcase the Doctor's battle against a superb returning enemy (one deliberately out to trap the Time Lord, no less - then a novelty idea for the series) in the Great Intelligence/Yeti, foes, whose popularity saw them come back incredibly quickly within the show's monster-packed fifth season. But the story also, just as importantly, has a terrific set of supporting characters who have their moments to shine alongside our main heroic trio (notably the important return of Jack Watling to the series 'family' as Professor Travers, much to the delight of his real-life daughter, Deborah Watling, playing Victoria Waterfield). Though sadly not all of them make it to the end of the adventure alive, especially with a traitor in their midst...
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| Travers' daughter Anne (Tina Packer), herself a scientist, runs into the fearsome Yeti. |
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| Deep in the tunnels, the brave but doomed Captain Knight (Ralph Watson) does the best he can in dangerous times. |
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| Soon one of Classic WHO's greatest and enduringly popular supporting characters Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) takes the Doctor captive briefly, as seen for the first time in the missing Episode 3, now being animated. |
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| Conferring with Captain Knight and the Doctor on a daring plan to rescue the TARDIS above surface at Covent Garden. |
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| The obnoxious journalist Harold Chorley (Jon Rollason) chosen to cover the unusual crisis but soon proving himself a fearful coward as the threat underground intensifies. |
Adventures was sorry to hear of the recent passing of
Ralph Watson on 20th June, 2021.
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