Feast your eyes on long-unseen footage from the classic Doctor Who story, "The Web of Fear" — the first appearance of the Doctor's longtime friend Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. This story is going up for sale at iTunes in its entirety, and we're thrilled to premiere the trailer exclusively at io9.


After months of speculation (and dogged reporting by BleedingCool), it's official — you can be among the first people to watch "The Web of Fear" in 45 years, over at iTunes. (Apart from episode three, which remains missing.) Also recovered, in its entirety: the classic Troughton story "The Enemy of the World," in which Troughton plays both the Doctor and the evil dictator Salamander.

Both of these stories have long been considered among the greatest lost Doctor Who adventures, and they give us more of a view of the under-represented "monster season," Troughton's second year in the role.


Here's what the official BBC press release says: