Doctor Who and the Web of Fear (Target Doctor Who Library, No. 72)

The Doctor and his companions Jamie and Victoria land in the London Underground system. But a spreading killer mist has meant that London has been evacuated. The Great Intelligence is back, and its robot Yeti are roaming the streets and the underground tunnels. The Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria team up with an army unit working with their old friend Professor Travers to combat the menace. The group's new commanding officer is Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, whom the Doctor will come to know far better in the years ahead. This novel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originally broadcast from 3 February-9 March 1968. This title features the second Doctor as played by Patrick Troughton with his companions Jamie and Victoria. Forty years the Yeti had been quiet. A collector's item in a museum. Then without warning it awoke and savagely murdered. At about the same time patches of mist began to appear in Central London. People who lingered anytime in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down, penetrating the Underground System. Slowly it spread... Then the Yeti reappeared, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. Central London was gripped tight in a Web of Fear...