The Enemy of the World

040 – **The Enemy of the World**
040 – The Enemy of the World
Doctor Who serial
	Patrick Troughton as the Doctor (right) and the murderous dictator Salamander (left)
Cast
	Doctor Patrick Troughton – Second Doctor;
	Companions Frazer Hines – Jamie McCrimmon; Deborah Watling – Victoria Waterfield;
	Others Patrick Troughton – Salamander; Bill Kerr – Giles Kent; Mary Peach – Astrid Ferrier; Colin Douglas – Donald Bruce; George Pravda – Denes; David Nettheim – Fedorin; Milton Johns – Benik; Henry Stamper – Anton; Rhys McConnochie – Rod; Simon Cain – Curly; Carmen Munroe – Fariah; Reg Lye – Griffin the Chef; Christopher Burgess – Swann; Adam Verney – Colin; Margaret Hickey – Mary; Gordon Faith, Elliott Cairnes – Guard Captains; Bill Lyons, Bob Anderson, William McGuirk, Dibbs Mather – Guards; Andrew Staines – Sergeant to Benik;
Production
Directed by	Barry Letts
Written by	David Whitaker
Script editor	Peter Bryant
Produced by	Innes Lloyd
Executive producer	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
Chronology
← Preceded by; The Ice Warriors	Followed by →; The Web of Fear

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) in creating natural disasters across Earth. The Enemy of the World is the only serial in season 5 which features no monsters and eschews the "base-under-siege" story structure.

All master tapes for the serial were wiped, and for over thirty years only Episode 3 existed in the BBC's archives. In October 2013, the BBC announced that 16mm prints of the remaining five episodes had been found in Nigeria. The Enemy of the World has received mixed reviews from critics, and has been positively re-evaluated by fans since its re-discovery.