The Yeti of the British

United Kingdom

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 science fiction television series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

, although resembling the cryptozoological

Cryptozoology

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 creatures also called the Yeti

Yeti

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, are in actuality alien

Extraterrestrial life

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 robot

Robot

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s. Their external appearance, that of a huge hairy biped

Biped

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, disguises a small spherical mechanism that provides its motive power. The Yeti serve the Great Intelligence, a disembodied entity from another dimension, which tried to form a physical body in order to conquer the Earth. The Yeti are initially a ruse to scare off curiosity seekers, and later form an army serving the Great Intelligence.

The Great Intelligence and its Yeti minions were thwarted twice by the Doctor

Doctor (Doctor Who)

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's second incarnation

Second Doctor

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, played by Patrick Troughton

Patrick Troughton

Patrick George Troughton was an English actor most widely known for his roles in fantasy, science fiction and horror films, particularly in his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969,...

, in the serials The Abominable Snowmen

The Abominable Snowmen

The Abominable Snowmen is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from September 30 to November 4, 1967. The story is notable for the introduction of recurring foes, the Yeti....

and The Web of Fear

The Web of Fear

The Web of Fear is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 3 February to 9 March 1968. This serial — which marks the return of the Yeti, the Great Intelligence, and Professor Travers — is the sequel to The Abominable...

. A Yeti was also one of the creatures in the Death Zone featured in The Five Doctors

The Five Doctors

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.

Martin Baugh designed the Yeti costume. The sound effect of a Yeti's roar is created by slowing down the sound of a flushing toilet

Toilet

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.

Other appearances

Yeti also feature in the spin-off video Downtime

Downtime (Doctor Who)

Downtime is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-video and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures...

, which was novelised as part of Virgin's Missing Adventures

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 range. The Yeti also appear in the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites

Millennial Rites

Millennial Rites is an original novel written by Craig Hinton and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

by Craig Hinton

Craig Hinton

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. Rites follows the New Adventure

Virgin New Adventures

The Virgin New Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who...

 All-Consuming Fire

All-Consuming Fire

All-Consuming Fire is an original novel written by Andy Lane and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The novel is a crossover with Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes featuring the characters of both Holmes and Doctor Watson, and also...

by Andy Lane

Andy Lane

Andrew Lane , who also writes as Andy Lane, is a British author and journalist. He has written a number of spin-off novels in the Virgin New Adventures range and audio dramas for Big Finish based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who , as well as assorted non fiction books based...

 in identifying the Great Intelligence with H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

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's Yog-Sothoth

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, a being from the universe before this one. The Great Intelligence appeared in a back-up comic strip in Doctor Who Weekly

Doctor Who Magazine

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