Revenge of the Cybermen
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The Cybermen, having captured the Doctor and Sarah Jane.
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| Directed by | Michael E. Briant | ||||
| Written by |
Gerry Davis Robert Holmes (uncredited) |
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| Script editor | Robert Holmes | ||||
| Produced by | Philip Hinchcliffe | ||||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||||
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Carey Blyton Peter Howell (uncredited) |
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| Production code | 4D | ||||
| Series | Season 12 | ||||
| Length | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||||
| Originally broadcast | 19 April – 10 May 1975 | ||||
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| Author | Terrance Dicks |
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| Cover artist | Chris Achilleos |
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Doctor Who book: Target novelisations |
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Release number
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51 |
| Publisher | Target Books |
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Publication date
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20 May 1976 |
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Revenge of the Cybermen is the fifth and final serial of the 12th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 19 April to 10 May 1975. It was the first to feature the Cybermen since 1968's The Invasion.
Following on from Genesis of the Daleks, the Fourth Doctor, Harry and Sarah use the Time Ring, spinning their way through time and space back to Space Station Nerva. They land back in the control room they left when they last beamed down to Earth, but Sarah notices the TARDIS is not there. The Doctor tells Sarah that it is drifting back in time towards them and they just need to wait for her to catch up. A door slides open, revealing a dead body, and many more beyond, littering the outer ring of the station.
In a communications room, crewman Warner warns off an approaching spaceship away from Nerva Beacon, which is under quarantine due to a plague. Professor Kellman, a planetary surveyor, asks Commander Stevenson how long they can run a 50-man station with three men, but the other young officer, Lester, thinks they can continue to manage. Nerva is on a 30-year assignment to warn ships away from Voga, the new asteroid it is orbiting, until its presence is updated on all the starcharts of inbound ships.
The time travellers find a sealed door leading to Section Q. The Doctor surmises that this is the same station they left, but thousands of years in the past, before the solar flares that devastated Earth. As the Doctor tries to get through the door, the trio fail to see a silver, snake-like creature — a cybermat — crawling around the bodies behind them.
Somewhere else, an alien tries to contact Nerva, and barely gets through to Warner before he is shot by two more of his own kind. The only place the signal could have come from is Voga, but Kellman tells Warner that he set up the transmat station there and spent six months cataloguing its rocks. Voga had drifted into the solar system 50 years before and had been captured by Jupiter's gravity. An asteroid of that size drifting between star systems could not support life and he warns against going down to Voga and spreading the plague. Warner logs the call anyway. The Doctor manages to open the sealed door, which activates an alarm, warning the Commander, Lester and Warner of the intruders.
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