| 040 – The Enemy of the World | |||
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| Directed by | Barry Letts | ||
| Written by | David Whitaker | ||
| Script editor | Peter Bryant | ||
| Produced by | Innes Lloyd | ||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||
| Music by | Stock music by Béla Bartók | ||
| Production code | PP | ||
| Series | Season 5 | ||
| Running time | 6 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
| First broadcast | 23 December 1967 | ||
| Last broadcast | 27 January 1968 | ||
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The Enemy of the World is the fourth serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 23 December 1967 to 27 January 1968.
The serial is set in Australia and Hungary in 2018. In the serial, the time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companions Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling) work with the spies Giles Kent (Bill Kerr) and Astrid Ferrier (Mary Peach) to expose the Doctor's Mexican doppelgänger Salamander (Troughton) as having created natural disasters on Earth.
The story is a break from the monsters and "base under siege" of season five, instead featuring a dual role for Troughton.
All master tapes for the serial were wiped, and for over forty years only Episode 3 existed in the BBC's archives, a 16mm tele-recording having been saved during mass junkings at BBC Enterprises in the 1970's. On 11 October 2013, the BBC announced that 16mm prints of the remaining five episodes had been found in Nigeria and returned to the BBC.[1][2]