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The Great Intelligence is a character from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Although the Great Intelligence has no physical form it is capable of both communicating, by itself or through possession, with other characters within the series. The Great Intelligence was originally created by Henry Lincoln and Mervyn Haisman and first appeared in the 1967 serial The Abominable Snowmen where he encountered the Second Doctor and his companions Jamie and Victoria. The Great Intelligence tries to form a physical body so as to conquer the Earth, making use of Yeti robots that resemble the cryptozoological creatures. Initially the Great Intelligence used the Yeti robots to scare off curiosity seekers, only later using them as an army. Both the Intelligence and the Yeti returned in its sequel The Web of Fear.

After disagreements arose between Lincoln and Haisman with the BBC in 1968 over a serial introducing a new monster, The Dominators, the writers departed from the series and both the Great Intelligence and Yeti were retired. The Great Intelligence has since appeared in the 1990s Virgin Missing Adventures range of novels and the 1995 Reeltime spin-off production Downtime with the aid of its Yeti servants. The Great Intelligence returned in the 2012 Christmas Special “The Snowmen”, where it is voiced by Sir Ian McKellen, without the aid of its Yeti servants. Richard E Grant assumed the role in subsequent appearances. It acts as the main antagonist of the seventh series of the revived show.

The Yeti were an effort by the production team to create more recurring antagonists for the Doctor in lieu of the Dalek, who creator and part-copyright owner Terry Nation desired to have appear in an American spin-off series. Writers Henry Lincoln and Mervyn Haisman chose the stories of the yeti to base their new monster upon. The Web of Fear shows the characters experimenting upon one of the spheres and eventually able to control the Yeti it is stored within by using a short-range remote control.

In "The Snowmen", the Great Intelligence's first appearance in the internal chronology of the series, the Great Intelligence—which currently exists in the form of psychic snowflake—animated snowmen across Victorian London to fight for it. In the course of the episode, it also reanimates and takes control of a woman who died by freezing to death in a pond, and later still possesses the dead body of his aide Dr Walter Simeon (Richard E Grant) after his death.

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