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The Yeti are fictional robots in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They were originally created by Henry Lincoln and Mervyn Haisman, and first appeared in the 1967 serial ''The Abominable Snowmen'', where they encountered the Second Doctor and his companions Jamie and Victoria. The Yeti resemble the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, with an appearance Radio Times has described as "cuddly but ferocious", disguising a small spherical device that provides its motive power. The Yeti serve the Great Intelligence, a disembodied entity from another dimension, which first appeared trying to form a physical body so as to conquer the Earth. Initially the Yeti are a ruse to scare off curiosity seekers, later serving as an army for the Great Intelligence. Disagreements arose between Lincoln and Haisman with the BBC in 1968 over a serial introducing another new monster, ''The Dominators'', leading to the writers' departure from the series and the retirement of the Yeti as antagonists. The Yeti have since appeared infrequently in flashbacks or cameo appearances, in addition to 1990s ''Virgin Missing Adventures'' novels and the 1995 Reeltime spin-off production ''Downtime''. The Great Intelligence has since returned in Series 7 of the revived series, portrayed by Sir Ian McKellen and Richard E Grant, without the aid of its Yeti servants. ==Creation== The Yeti, along with contemporary villains such as the Cybermen and Ice Warriors, were an effort by the production team to create replacement monsters for the Daleks, who creator and part-copyright owner Terry Nation desired to have appear in an American spin-off series. ''The Evil of the Daleks'', the last serial of the fourth season, had been intended as a final confrontation between the Doctor and the Daleks. Producer Innes Lloyd had already overseen the creation of the Cybermen by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler and saw the monsters as an alternative to Daleks. Lloyd later recollected that the need to replace the Daleks also influenced the decision to pick up the Yeti as recurring monsters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/category/innes-lloyd/ )〕 After Henry Lincoln and Mervyn Haisman had spoken with Patrick Troughton, who expressed disappointment in the lack of Earth-bound stories in his first season as the Doctor, Lincoln chose the stories of the yeti as a suitable concept around which to create a serial for the program.〔 Lincoln and Haisman pitched the idea to the Doctor Who offices, where it was formally commissioned. Lloyd and script editor Peter Bryant were impressed with ''The Abominable Snowmen'' and commissioned Haisman and Lincoln for a second Yeti adventure. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yeti (Doctor Who)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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