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3 unusual facts about The Web of Fear


The Web of Fear

Chorley, who has been attempting to find a way out of the underground, is told of the TARDIS by Victoria and he rushes off to Covent Garden tube station to find it, locking Victoria and The Doctor in the common room.

Victoria is taken to Piccadilly Circus tube station, where the Intelligence abandons its control of Travers.

As the web clears, the Doctor operates a device to land the TARDIS some distance away from its expected point of materialisation, on the London Underground system in the Covent Garden station.


John Levene

He made an uncredited appearance as a Cyberman in the 1967 Doctor Who serial The Moonbase and as a Yeti in The Web of Fear before making his first appearance as then-Corporal Benton in the Doctor Who serial The Invasion in 1968.

London deep-level shelters

The Goodge Street shelter appeared in studio mock-up form in the 1968 BBC Doctor Who story The Web of Fear, while the real location appeared as itself in the 1988 feature film Hidden City, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.


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