Doctor Who (TV Series) The Abominable Snowmen: Episode Six (1967) User Reviews

A great story gets a smashing final episode.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 1 March 2021]

The Doctor explains to the monks that Padmasambhava is not the true enemy, he has no other course of action, other than to take on the power behind him.

It's been a story of the highest quality, since it began, it's been atmospheric, intriguing, and offered rich dialogue through some pretty great characters. This final episode is no exception, it sees the final showdown between The Doctor and The Great Intelligence.

Troughton really is at his very best here, the showdown scene really is fantastic. If you can look into the original death scene they had planned to use, it would have been very nasty, but very good.

The Yeti were great, and I always wish they'd have returned when the show was brought back. More so I wish they'd explored The Great Intelligence a little deeper, maybe when it did return in The Bells of St. John, it had perhaps lost something.

Great theories, and thoughtful concepts which would later be picked up in The Web of Fear, and years later in the spin off Downtime.

Overall, it's been a wonderful story, a real high point. Watching this makes me so grateful that The Web of Fear was mostly returned.

Excellent, 9/10.

Great Intelligence, great story!

[A_Kind_Of_CineMagic · 10/10 · 30 August 2014]

Review for all 6 episodes:

A story set in 1935 Tibet with Yeti, a strange alien menace and a Buddhist monastery. The Doctor and his companions are all on top form with Troughton and Hines great as usual and Deborah Watling finding her feet. The story is brilliantly written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and it entertains from start to finish.

This adventure has great characterisation with particularly Travers (Jack Watling) and the interesting villain the Great Intelligence. The switching between the kindly voice of the Great Intelligence's possessed host and the evil true voice of the villain works well and the character - which was to return later in the series and again in the new Doctor Who in recent years - is a really good one. Travers who would also return in The Web of Fear is another interesting and fully three dimensional character.

The Yeti, robots controlled by The Great Intelligence, are effective and cleverly devised monsters although they look a bit too cuddly. The versions in the later story The Web of Fear were slightly more sinister looking.

The first episode is a brilliant set up episode with an effective and atmospheric build up, thereafter the story continues as magnificently high quality entertainment. Overall the story is a classic and sets up the even better Web of Fear later in the series.

All 6 Episodes - 10/10