THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN

Written by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davies.

Directed by Morris Barry.

Transmitted originally: 2 September 1967 to 23 September 1967.

"Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing. Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing." - The Doctor.

THE STORY

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Telos where an Earth archaeological expedition, led by Professor Parry, is attempting to uncover the lost tombs of the Cybermen . With a lot of help from the Doctor, the archaeologists enter the tombs. There, one of the party, Klieg, reveals that he and his business partner, Kaftan, are planning to revive the frozen Cybermen. he wants to use their strength to combine with the intelligence of his own Brotherhood of Logicians to become an all powerful force.

It transpires however that the tomb is actually a trap, designed to lure humans suitable to become Cybermen - a fate that almost befalls Toberman, Kaftan's mighty assistant. After fending off an attack by small but dangerous cybernetic creatures, Cybermats, the Doctor eventually defeats the Cybermen and their Controller, and reseals the tomb.

CAST:

Dr Who (Patrick Troughton), Jamie (Frazer Hines), Victoria (Deborah Watling), Toberman (Roy Stewart), Professor Parry (Aubrey Richards), John Viner (Cyril Shaps), Jim Callum (Clive Merrison), Kaftan (Shirley Cooklin), Captain Hopper (George Roubicek), Eric Kleig (George Pastell), Ted Rogers (Alan Johns), Peter Haydon (Bernard Holly), Crewman (Ray Grover), Cyberman Controller (Michael Kilgariff), Cybermen (Hans de Vries, Tony Harwood, John Hogan, Richard Kerley, Ronald Lee, Charles Pemberton, Kenneth Seeger, Reg Whitehead), Cyberman Voices (Peter Hawkins).

FACTS:

Toberman was described in the original scripts as wearing a hearing aid (relating to the fact that he was virtually mute and possibly to the theme of cyberisation). The idea was dropped at the request of director Morris Barry.

The Doctor guesses that he might be about 450 years old in Earth terms.

The gigantic Cyber Controller, who leads the Cybermen in this story made a reappearance in the 1985 story 'Attack of the Cybermen', played on both occasions by Michael Kilgariff.

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