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Episode Four

Series Episode Number: 177

World Premiere: Sat 21 Oct 1967 - 5:24pm BST [BBC One] (United Kingdom)
Running Time: 24 minutes 11 seconds

7.10 Million (UK)

Appreciation Index: 50 (UK)

Chart Position: 60 () (UK)

Recorded on Sat 30 Sep 1967 in Lime Grove D
Archive State: Missing

Imprisoned in the monastery, Victoria is able to escape. The old High Lama is in the control of the alien Great Intelligence which plans to invade Earth.

Characters include uncredited
Dr. Who		Patrick Troughton
Travers		Jack Watling
Jamie		Frazer Hines
Victoria		Deborah Watling
Khrisong		Norman Jones
Thonmi		David Spenser
Songsten		Charles Morgan
Padmasambhava		Wolfe Morris
Ralpachan		David Baron
Sapan		Raymond Llewellyn
Rinchen		David Grey
Yeti		Reg Whitehead
Yeti		Tony Harwood
Yeti		Richard Kerley
Yeti		John Hogan

Production Team hide uncredited
Writer		Mervyn Haisman
Writer		Henry Lincoln
Director		Gerald Blake
Producer		Innes Lloyd
Designer		Malcolm Middleton
Film Cameraman		Peter Bartlett
Film Cameraman		Ken Westbury
Film Editor		Philip Barnikel
Story Editor		Peter Bryant
Title Music		Ron Grainer
and the		BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Costumes		Martin Baugh (uncredited)
Make-up		Sylvia James (uncredited)
Lighting		Howard King (uncredited)
Sound		Alan Edmonds (uncredited)
Visual Effects Designer		Ulrich Grosser (uncredited)
Visual Effects Designer		Ron Oates (uncredited)
Special Sound		Brian Hodgson (uncredited)
Assistant Floor Manager		Roselyn Parker (uncredited)
Production Assistant		Marjorie Yorke (uncredited)
Title Music Arranger		Delia Derbyshire (uncredited)
Title Sequence		Bernard Lodge (uncredited)

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