Podcasts about Silver Nemesis

Silver Nemesis is a story we've featured a lot on the Power of 3 over the last few months. We've talked to its writer Kevin Clarke, Cyberleader David Banks, and discussed some of the new features to accompany it. Now, we speak with James Cooray Smith, who's written a Black Archive entry on it, giving insightful analysis of what we got to see in Doctor Who's 25th anniversary story. You can order a copy of it here - https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/75-silver-nemesis/

Better late than never, we bring you two more exclusive Season 25-related interviews. We spoke to David John Pope about playing the Kandy Man, and Eric Luskin, about creating The Making of Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis, a few months ago. However, Doctor Who Magazine were interested in them, so they appeared in print first, and now, we bring you the full conversations with the pair!

Season 25 is finally out on blu-ray, and we're all enjoying the lovely new extra content and archival gems. Today, we're delighted to bring you some anecdotes from the making of the original stories, from visual effects assistant (as he was then) Mike Tucker. He shares his memories of working on The Happiness Patrol, Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Doctor Who's 25th anniversary season is just a couple of weeks away on blu-ray. As we countdown to its release, we've got a host of special episodes ready to mark the occasion, including some chats behind the scenes with people involved in the original stories. We kick off today looking at Silver Nemesis, with writer Kevin Clarke, and the Cyberleader himself - David Banks.

Celebrating the silver anniversary of Doctor Who, this story features the return of the Cybermen, Jazz, Windsor and the O2. Who better to join us than @MrsRemingtonFan to ride with us to destiny and discuss Silver Nemesis. 

The one that started it all for Geoff!In November 1988, a young Geoff, future co-host of this very podcast, sat down to watch Doctor Who and the images of Cybermen, explosions, gold tipped arrows and Ace and The Doctor were seared into his mind from that moment on!Many, many years later, the time has come to rewatch this episode... does nostalgia shine a different light on it? Do memories of exploding Cybermen come flooding back?Did Paul ever really like this episode anyway?!Join us as we discuss the twenty-fifth anniversary episode of Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis!Watch this episode on our YouTube Channel here!Send us a text and let us know what you think of our podcast!Support the Show. Subscribe to Who Corner to Corner on your podcast app to make sure you don't miss an episode! Now available to watch on YouTube! Join the Doctor Who chat with us and other fans on Twitter and Facebook! Visit the Who Corner to Corner website and see our back catalogue of episodes! Enjoying what we do? Consider joining our Explorers Subscription plan for more content! Who Corner to Corner: Great guests and 100% positive Doctor Who chat!

Subscriber-only episodeThe one that started it all for Geoff!In November 1988, a young Geoff, future co-host of this very podcast, sat down to watch Doctor Who and the images of Cybermen, explosions, gold tipped arrows and Ace and The Doctor were seared into his mind from that moment on!Many, many years later, the time has come to rewatch this episode...does nostalgia shine a different light on it? Do memories of exploding Cybermen come flooding back?Did Paul ever really like this episode anyway?!Join us as we discuss the twenty-fifth anniversary episode of Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis!Send us a text and let us know what you think of our podcast! Subscribe to Who Corner to Corner on your podcast app to make sure you don't miss an episode! Now available to watch on YouTube! Join the Doctor Who chat with us and other fans on Twitter and Facebook! Visit the Who Corner to Corner website and see our back catalogue of episodes! Enjoying what we do? Consider joining our Explorers Subscription plan for more content! Who Corner to Corner: Great guests and 100% positive Doctor Who chat!

The arrival of a mysterious comet heralds impending danger from the cybermen. As Ace helps the Doctor defend Earth from the cybermen threat, she is confronted with a dangerous question... "just who is the Doctor?" this is silver nemesis welcome to regenerated why not take a look at our social media and give us a review on Apple Podcasts merchandise -https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/regenerated facebook - www.facebook.com/regenerateddoctorwhopodcast/ twitter - twitter.com/Regenerated1963

Dalek and Cyber expert Gavin Rymill advocates for one of Doctor Who's less celebrated adventures : but one which comes with a lot of expectation due to it being an anniversary story. This one has it all - Nazis, Cybermen, Time Lord secrets, and Skinheads who don't like social workers. So, with this being a positive podcast, will gavin and host Toby Hadoke manage to find the gold amongst the Silver Nemesis? Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron-only podcast - Far Too Much Information), regular AMAs and more. Tiers start from as little as £3 per month.  patreon.com/tobyhadoke Or there is Ko-fi for the occasional donation with no commitments: ko-fi.com/tobyhadoke Follow Toby on Twitter @tobyhadoke And these podcasts @HadokePodcasts And his comedy club @xsmalarkey www.tobyhadoke.com for news, blog, mailing list and more.   

What happens when Neo-Nazis, Cybermen, and a 17th Century Sorceress get together? The Doctor and Ace have to find out fast! Join us as we discuss the Classic Doctor Who Serial: Silver Nemesis The Doctor's past (relatively) comes back to haunt him when a Gallifrean statue that he hid in a comet centuries ago returns ...

We could have covered The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, Silver Nemesis, Scream of the Shalka OR The Day of the Doctor to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of a television legend... BUT NO! Suffering is Art and Art is Suffering so Ash made Cliff watch the 1993 Children in Need Eastenders X Doctor Who mashup 'Dimensions in Time'. 5 Doctors, 12 Companions, 13 EastEnders... 0 coherent plot.Help us build future 'UCP Live!' Events here!Join the GamesMaster conversation on Discord!Theme song by Other ChrisFollow Under Consoletation on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on InstagramSend your thoughts to feedback@underconsoletation.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe & Matt; 'We surely do, honey. We surely do!' We bring our riveting date to a conclusion by heading out into the countryside in a stretch limo with an American rich bitch, shooting gold coins at Cybermen in a warehouse and unleashing a living statue on a war fleet!

Joe & Matt; 'What matter...it is dead but I live!' Our date continues with ruthless skinheads threatening us for money, Nazi's ping ping pinging Cybermen, a little stop off for some jazz in the countryside before shrouded lizards (and warfleets!). What a day!

Joe & Matt; 'straight blowing!' The Who Birkin Boyfriends are flouncing around Windsor in period costume, having themselves painted by Frenchmen and avoiding death by Nazi by the arrival of a Cyberman spaceship. What a date!

Welcome to our Doctor Who Review podcast and we are putting the 25th anniversary story 'Silver Nemesis' Around The Console.  https://twitter.com/atheconsole  https://www.facebook.com/Around-the-console-103450838818887  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPpa1cf63YOT8DlUllsjXsw

1988 - Silver Nemesis - The Doctor and Ace encounter a time travelling 17th Century sorceress, a group of Neo Nazis and lets throw in some Cybermen as well! Sound like a formula for adventure and fun? No, but it is muddled and annoying. We discuss this with a range of opinions. Enjoy. Notes Music by PJM25595/Dalekium https://soundcloud.com/user-432517125 Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/GallifreyanGazette

In this episode of the Who's He? Podcast.... Doctor Who - The Anniversary Specials | Silver Nemesis In this story celebrating the 25th anniversary of Doctor Who, the Doctor and Ace face off against the Doctors old enemies the Cybermen (complete with a shiny chrome overhaul), a group of Neo Nazi's fronted by Anton Diffring (who looks like he would rather be somewhere else) and an old enemy of the Doctors, Lady Peinforte, who are all after an ancient Timelord weapon made of living metal. Scott and Phil sit down on a sweltering September evening and chewed the fat over this disappointing celebratory story that features scenes that end abruptly, a flimsy bow from Woolworths and has the dubious honour of making the Cybermen totally useless and defeating them with chocolate coins is the order of the day. You can find us on Twitter and Facebook and you can subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcasts plus many other podcatchers and don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube Channel. #doctorwho #silvernemesis

Threaded through the entire 60+ years of Doctor Who there lurks a handful of stories that drop mountains into what we think of as the placid waters of the show's 'canon' or 'lore'. Stories such as The Time Meddler, which first introduced us to another fugitive from the Doctor's home planet, or The War Games which transported viewers to its hallowed halls for the very first time, or The Deadly Assassin which gave us a whistle-stop tour of Gallifrey and established much of what has since been taken as the unshakeable truth of the Time Lords' heirarchy, history and way of life.There are others too: The Three Doctors introduced us to one of the Time Lords' founders whilst The Five Doctors explored the hitherto unheard-of Dark Times of Gallifrey. There's Remembrance of the Daleks too, and Silver Nemesis, both of which suggested there may be more to the Doctor than we thought we knew.Let's not forget 1976's The Brain of Morbius, which first posited the possibility that there may have been more incarnations of the Doctor which existed prior to what we fans think of as his first.Fugitive of the Judoon arguably drops the most explosive bombshell into the canon of Doctor Who than any of these, not only confirming that the Doctor has more faces than she can remember, it's a story which showed us one of those faces in action!And no one outside of the production cast and crew knew it was coming!Grab your disc, queue the story and join us in real-time as Paul, Geoff and Freya relive the events of what we all thought was going to be a fun romp with Space Rhinos in Glastonbury. The return of Captain Jack? Pah! Fugitive of the Judoon had many more suprises waiting to unfold in its mere 50 minutes of run-time than that...Support the show Subscribe to Who Corner to Corner on your podcast app to make sure you don't miss an episode! Now available to watch on YouTube! Join the Doctor Who chat with us and other fans on Twitter and Facebook! Visit the Who Corner to Corner website and see our back catalogue of episodes! Enjoying what we do? Consider joining our Explorers Subscription plan for more content! Who Corner to Corner: Great guests and 100% positive Doctor Who chat!

Dan & Si jump back to the 80s and check out a Cyberman story that gave Si nightmares as a child!McCoy, Ace, a glowing Silver thingy, and more!FOLLOW US!@SJPWORLDMEDIA@TheDrWhoPod@DanGriffin21

Dan & Si jump back to the 80s and check out a Cyberman story that gave Si nightmares as a child!McCoy, Ace, a glowing Silver thingy, and more!FOLLOW US!@SJPWORLDMEDIA@TheDrWhoPod@DanGriffin21

Les Visiteurs meets The Boys in Brazil with Cybermen and archery

Les Visiteurs meets The Boys in Brazil with Cybermen and archery

Things pick up a bit after last week (which was a bit of a struggle) and obviously Gav Rymill and host Toby Hadoke are united in their adoration of the universally admired comedy scenes featuring Delores Grey ... ahem. Well, maybe not, but they are actually spoiled for choice for favourite things in this action packed finale to the 25th Anniversary celebration story.    Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron only podcast - Far Too Much information), regular AMAs and more. Tiers start form as little as £3 per month.  patreon.com/tobyhadoke   Or there is Ko-fi for the occasionally donation with no commitments: ko-fi.com/tobyhadoke   Follow Toby on Twitter @tobyhadoke And these podcasts @HadokePodcasts And his comedy club @xsmalarkey   www.tobyhadoke.com for news, blog, mailing list and more.   

Cyber gloves! Skinhead facts! An excellent tree! It's not always plain sailing accentuating the positive points of this relatively uncelebrated celebratory story, and your host Toby Hadoke might not always be successful this time around. But he tries! And there is plenty to like - especially as super guest Gav Rymill is a fabulous advocate for all that is great about this Cyber-Nazi-LoonyWoman fest. Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron only podcast - Far Too Much information), regular AMAs and more. Tiers start form as little as £3 per month.  patreon.com/tobyhadoke   Or there is Ko-fi for the occasionally donation with no commitments: ko-fi.com/tobyhadoke   Follow Toby on Twitter @tobyhadoke And these podcasts @HadokePodcasts And his comedy club @xsmalarkey   www.tobyhadoke.com for news, blog, mailing list and more.   

Oh, so it's the "other" anniversary story. The one that people don't seem to talk about so much. Writer, artist, Dalek Prop expert, podcaster and all round renaissance man Gavin Rymill chooses what he describes as the "least popular" (according to the last DWM poll) Cyberman story. It's not one that's ever been high on host Toby Hadoke's list of Who's greatest achievements but will he learn to stop worrying and love the Nazis ... and the mad woman ... and the Cybermen ... and all that jazz? Well, he has to, that's kind of the point of the podcast.   Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron only podcast - Far Too Much information), regular AMAs and more. Tiers start form as little as £3 per month.  patreon.com/tobyhadoke   Or there is Ko-fi for the occasionally donation with no commitments: ko-fi.com/tobyhadoke   Follow Toby on Twitter @tobyhadoke And these podcasts @HadokePodcasts And his comedy club @xsmalarkey   www.tobyhadoke.com for news, blog, mailing list and more.   

Charles Skaggs & Jesse Jackson are joined by special guest companion Holly Mac as they discuss "Silver Nemesis", the third serial from Doctor Who Season 25 in 1988, featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace, and the return of the Cybermen! Find us here:Twitter: @NextStopWho, @CharlesSkaggs, @JesseJacksonDFW @HollyMac_79 Instagram: @nextstopeverywherepodcast Facebook: Facebook.com/Nextstopeverywherepodcast Email: NextStopWho@gmail.com Listen and subscribe to us in Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!

With Warren in the Eastern Zone of Time, the Three Who Rule spend a late Friday night jabbering about Doctor Who like the cool guys they are (not). This consists of not only the rather light assortment of news for the week but also marvelling over the many and various streaming services giving us random Classic Who 24/7. Living the dream! And indeed you will be too as we also bring you 80s Cybermen waving their fists angrily in Part Three of our Classic Series Commentary for “Earthshock”!  Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon The Timelash Gally call for panelists extended to Dec 10 History of the Doctor Who logo Doctor Who Magazine 2023 Yearbook released Eve of the Daleks soundtrack released digitally The Sarah Jane Adventures on iPlayer The Amazing World of Doctor Who: Doctor Who Audio Annual due Apr 20, 2023 Nightmare Fair audio CD due June 1, 2023 Silver Nemesis audio CD due July 6, 2023 Big Finish Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Shades of Fear due Feb 2023 Big Finish Doctor Who — The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Conflicts of Interest due Apr 2023 Big Finish Torchwood: Among Us Part 1, 2, and 3 due May – July 2023 Commentary: Classic Series Commentary – “Earthshock”, Part Three

Just like that, we've reached the end of Tom Baker's first season with Revenge of the Cybermen. And oh boy, is this one a doozy. Could this possibly be the worst Cybermen story to date? Well, obviously, you'll have to listen to this podcast episode to find out what we think in Shoulder Rub of Death!   Along the way, Anthony fights the urge to nitpick every single element of the story, Don expresses his intense dislike of this version of the Cybermen, Julie wonders where she can get herself the sonic vibrator that's mentioned in the story, and Reilly is exasperated by what could only be described as “the world's smallest shoot-out.” The entire team talks about Harry Sullivan being an imbecile (because of course we do!)   If you would like to watch along with us, this serial is available for streaming at both Britbox US (https://www.britbox.com) and Britbox UK (https://www.britbox.co.uk). It can also be found on DVD from either Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3fB8fn2) or as part of a boxset with Silver Nemesis from Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3hceKgC). The entirety of Season 12 can also be found in a lovely Blu Ray boxset from both Amazon US (https://amzn.to/3RWV2md) and Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3d5ZO1N).   Other media mentioned in this episode: Alien (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3nbhOZt | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3BX7I4X) Planet of the Vampires (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3lT9y0M | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3G7zxdg) The Quatermass Xperiment (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3rC8t10 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3DsBVbM) Space: 1999: The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3pbTv08 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3p7W43u) Blake's 7 – The Complete Collection (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2Zh7045 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/39luyGI) The James Bond Collection (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3FWn6kg | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3DQB4lR) Rick and Morty – Seasons 1-4 (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3lAWSLv | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/31pNymB) Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ptuM83 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3BSULsQ) Sapphire and Steel (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3zOacTZ | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3TZB0J3)   Finally, you can also follow us and interact with us on various forms of social media - Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also e-mail us at watchers4d@gmail.com. If you're enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to the show, and leave us a rating or review.

The Doctor, cybermen, neo-Nazis, and a sorceress all vie for control of powerful living metal in this surprisingly lackluster anniversary special.

In this episode Dylan is joined by John Isles of the Tripodscast to discuss more Doctor Who extended universe adventures. First up they look at Malcolm Hulke's novelisation of 'The Sea Devils', then it's NJN's making of Silver Nemesis documentary and finally they review BBV Sontaran audio 'Old Soldiers'.  And they answer the questions:What made John  hand in his Doctor Who fan card?How did Mike Tucker change Dylan's life?How did Jo Grant lose an IQ point? 

Some Doctor Who casting is inexplicable. You might call it bizarre, bonkers, barmy, or stunt casting.  In this podcast, Christian Cawley and James McLean consider the history of Doctor Who's guest casting ups and downs, highs and lows, covering names such as (but not limited to) Barbara Windsor, John Cleese, Simon Pegg, Ken Dodd, Richard Briers, Stubby Kaye, and that woman in Silver Nemesis who no one under 50 in 1988 actually knew. Get in touch If you've enjoyed the show, please head to Apple Podcasts to leave a rating and review. Any new reviews will be read out. Not on Apple Podcasts? Leave us a review somewhere else, send the link over on Twitter or Facebook or podkasterborous@gmail.com, and you'll get a mention.

Tread Perilously wraps up Doctor Who month with its 25th Anniversary story: "Silver Nemesis." The Doctor and Ace's jazzy afternoon in Windsor gets interrupted by an alarm signalling imminent danger headed for Earth. Meanwhile in 1638, Lady Peinforte and her manservant, Richard, plan to travel 350 years into the future to recover a statue The Doctor launched into space some months before. Elsewhere, Herr De Flores plots to take the statue for himself and for "zee Fatherland." Is this all according to The Doctor's design? Or will another gaggle of shambling Cybermen throw off his calculations? Also, will the Queen recognize The Doctor? Erik and Justin discover a three-part Doctor Who story can still be jam-packed with characters and explosions. Sylvester McCoy proves once again to be Justin's favorite Doctor while Ace continues to climb up the companion leaderboard. Erik tries to mention why 23 November is important to Doctor Who. The discussion goes off the rails to discuss Birds of Prey. Navid Negahban joins the list of actors Tread Perilously would love to see as The Doctor. Erik investigates the filmography of guest actor Anton Diffring. The Other gets compared to Division. The various Doctor/companion dynamics get analyzed. Erik once again voices his disappointment in Chris Chibnall and the Cyber-Leader has a very bad day.

Three adversaries this time as we look at Lady Peinforte, De Flores and the Nemesis from the shows 25th anniversary tale.

Three adversaries this time as we look at Lady Peinforte, De Flores and the Nemesis from the shows 25th anniversary tale.

As big fans of the Cybermen, Matt and Billy review and compare two of the lowest-ranked Cyberman stories on the 2014 DWM poll, Sylvester McCoy's Silver Nemesis and Matt Smith's Closing Time. Which story is "excellent" and which should be "eradicated"? Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Follow The Review of Death on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReviewofDeath Review of Death Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thereviewofdeath?fbclid=IwAR3d1em61_nl0E10tkNbND5SCX2tpfLI0vYR7S6fuqe71QY_ayA2vSKWilY Subscribe to The Review of Death on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/batmanmarch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toni and Joe are joined by Mike Gordon and Ashley Raburn to discuss an abundance of villains, the history of Doctor Who and hats, and a llama?! in the Classic Doctor Who serial Silver Nemesis. This episode is brought to you by Friend of Rassilon bisexualbrigadier. If you’re interested in being a Friend of Rassilon, … The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon: Episode 154: Silver Nemesis (We Gotta Cancel the Doctor) Read More » The post The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon: Episode 154: Silver Nemesis (We Gotta Cancel the Doctor) appeared first on The ESO Network.

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Have your golden arrows at the ready, as WhoSoc fires shots at a variety of killer robots and a few overly camp villains in the 25th anniversary episode Silver Nemesis (1988), and Robot of Sherwood (2014).

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Joe & David; we are beautiful, are we not? We identify the location of the title sequence. Huge love, admiration, talk tales and trivia about the glamorous superstar Dolores Grey! We surely do, honey, we surely do!

Joe & David; they were invisible! Dreadful impressions of incredible acting, character options ideas, Top Trump card tales, disco Cybermen, convention tales, ‘what are you, social workers?', a Lady Peinforte porno?, and we discuss the best way of watching Silver Nemesis.

Joe & David; riding the back of time in Silver Nemesis; the Musical. Hot Nazis, trajectory's decaying, the Doctor/companion dream team, destiny beckons!, an autograph seance, a fez, guilty pleasures, name dropping, awkward transitions, and a discussion about companions screaming.

A vocal-chord damaged Luke and a birthday-hyped Chris discuss how this 25th anniversary story of parrots and nazis inadvertently lead the way for the modern era. Yes, really. Plus new segment "Cassandra's Confessions", the quiz, listener's thoughts and News & Gossip.

With Warren fighting bears in the wilderness of British Columbia this weekend, our friend Heather Berberet joins us for the news this week, and what great news to discuss in the first guest announcement for Gallifrey One in 2022! We also have follow-up to the Noel Clarke controversy, VR goggles, missing episodes, audio releases – and that’s all before the main event, our Torchwood Revisited commentary for “Greeks Bearing Gifts”! And happy 25th anniversary this week to the Doctor Who TV Movie! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! First Gallifrey One guest block Noel Clarke allegations extend to his time on Doctor Who Galaxy Four tipped to be the next animated release Harry Van Gorkum interview about almost being the Eighth Doctor Children in Need will offer more Doctor Who bears in 2021 Upcoming BBC Audio releases Big Finish Six Versus Eleven due September Brit SciFi Online event hosted by The National Space Centre Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes Obverse Books Black Archive sale Commentary: Greeks Bearing Gifts

We take a look at the classic "Doctor Lite" episode, "Blink", featuring Oscar-nominee Carey Mulligan. There's also a Seventh Doctor story with Nazis, Cybermen, and a sorceress, but really "Blink" is the thing. WILL PORTER LIKE IT???

We take a look at the classic "Doctor Lite" episode, "Blink", featuring Oscar-nominee Carey Mulligan. There's also a Seventh Doctor story with Nazis, Cybermen, and a sorceress, but really "Blink" is the thing. WILL PORTER LIKE IT???

This week my classic series re-watch reaches Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis the 25th Anniversary story.   You may wish to contribute to the show’s running costs, it’s Patreon is here https://www.patreon.com/tdrury or buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/timdrury   The show is also on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/   If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

It's the 25th (i.e. silver) anniversary of Doctor Who and Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory enjoy the 7th Doctor and Ace's battle against their silver enemies, the Cybermen, Nazis, an Elizabethan witch, and a weapon from the Doctor's own past. And the Queen!

It's the 25th (i.e. silver) anniversary of Doctor Who and Jimmy, Dom, and Fr. Cory enjoy the 7th Doctor and Ace's battle against their silver enemies, the Cybermen, Nazis, an Elizabethan witch, and a weapon from the Doctor's own past. And the Queen! The post Silver Nemesis appeared first on SQPN.com.

Silver Nemesis; in this bumper show, Adam, Ian, Debbie, Mary, Kirby, Robert and Matthew cram into the show this week while we review the classic era's final Cyberman story. We also have banter, news and feedback.

On this episode the crew covers Silver Nemesis with the plotting of The Doctor getting deeper, Nazi bad guys right of the bat, the Cybermen and the glory of the Cyberleader, Ace gets to kick butt, and more of the master plan revealed. To find previous episodes go to: tscn.tv/gtw To subscribe to this podcast … Continue reading Going Through Who 11.11: Silver Nemesis →

Happy 25th Anniversary to Doctor Who! The Doctor and Ace for the party as are a Jacobian villian and Richard, Deflores and his Nazis, The Cyberleader and Cybermen, OldWho, NuWho, and @TheCityofJeff  gate crash the party to see what is what.

Lewis Moon and Dr Cool return for the second edition of the programme together since the lockdown situation started, as they host a Mccoy centric show, including a review of seventh Doctor Cyberman "Classic" Silver Nemesis, plus the first episode of a new feature, which actually proves quite successful, in which they redeem the irredeemable stories of the show, this time taking a look at Paradise Towers, the story they consider the worst to ever be made. (Next Week-Fear Hers on Redeeming the Irredeemable Round 2 plus some Hartnell review action)

As humanity hunkers down to ward off the global pandemic, the Three Who Rule are joined by Big Finish’s head of publicity Steve Berry for the news, and what news there be with Doctor Who tweetalongs, short stories, and hints of more missing episodes from one Philip Morris keeping us sane in our respective bunkers, along with (of course) some Big Finish info from Mr. Berry himself. Plus we have two of the wizards what whom colourized an episode of “The Daleks’ Master Plan” in the form of precocious rascals Kieran Highman and Richard Tipple! Enjoy! Links: Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon! Fantom Films Time Space Visualizer featuring Philip Morris and Enemy of the World Fantom Films teases new commentary for “The Space Pirates” Fantom Films next tweetalong will be Silver Nemesis on April 11 Something Who Ep 20 with Steven New Thirteenth Doctor short story from Pete McTighe Next Doctor Who Lockdown will be The Doctor’s Wife with Neil Gaiman Previous Doctor Who Lockdown: The Eleventh Hour Amazon Prime made The Eleventh Hour free on April 3 New animated short story “The Raggedy Doctor”, by Steven Moffat Torchwood “Captain Jack Harkness” tweetalong with John Barrowman Free content coming soon to the Big Finish app The Time War Volume 4 coming from Big Finish September 2020 Torchwood Dinner and a Show by Gareth David-Lloyd due June 2020 Hamish Wilson passes away from COVID-19 Colourized clip of “The Evil of the Daleks” from Kieran Highman Interview: Kieran Highman Richard Tipple Doctor Hue Day of Armageddon Guest: Steve Berry Big Finish

Hurtling back in time to November 1988, our 23rd episode sees us tackle the controversial 25th anniversary story Silver Nemesis and ask ourselves whether the poor reputation of the story is fair. Along the way we ask A LOT of questions such as: Why is Ace so scared after a picnic? Who planted the gas canisters? Who lit all the candles in the crypt? Why does anyone ever trust the Cybermen? Did the Doctor really kickstart both the First and Second World Wars? and What the heck is anyone's plan in this story? We decide that you can ride a horse through this story's plotholes, but there is some debate as to whether we can do it in the same time it takes to get to Windsor from London! Elsewhere we have a quiz about unmade Troughton tales in which Alex must decide 'Trought-on' or 'Trought-off' and Andy has a prescient moment when he predicts the appearance of the Cailleach/crows in a future Season 12 episode before Praxeus aired. All this and Nazis, Kellman's hair, unadulterated hatred of jazz, and Alex's tenuous and entirely untrue Silver Nemesis claim to fame. Enjoy. We love you all. Andy & Alex xxx Next Time: The Krotons!

Adam and Erik prepare to ride to destiny, as they're joined by Mark from the Trap One Podcast to discuss the 25th anniversary story Silver Nemesis. Is this the human condition known as madness? Listen to find out!   Mark: Twitter Trap One

It's back to the 7th Doctor's era for another 7&7 chat. Join Deb, Erika, and Liz as we talk about Doctor Who's 25th anniversary story, "Silver Nemesis". AKA, "Remembrance of the Daleks...Again".   What do you think of this story? Is received fan wisdom correct this time? Or is this episode pure gold silver? Let us know in the comments!   ^E   Happy things: Liz is writing for Big Finish again, this time for River Song! Erika finally bought her membership to Chicago TARDIS! Deb delights in Jodie Whittaker's delight at meeting members of Coldplay! Extra-special thanks to this week's guest editor, Steven Schapansky of Castria! Support Verity! on Patreon

The Doctor and Ace are caught in the middle of enemies arriving from across time and space, all fighting for control of a dangerous weapon capable of destroying Earth. Email: contact@thedoctorscompanion.us Join our The Doctor's Companion Listener Group on Facebook. Support us on Patreon! … Continue reading →

A new season of irreverent, political, subversive and downright rude viewpoints on Doctor Who (1963-1989). Never try and bluff a cyberman - just run! We continue to unpack in our Eighties' odyssey of Cyberstories with The Five Doctors to Silver Nemesis among others in the Timelash. Also includes guess the line, Jeremy Corbyn, Maggie Thatcher, Dolores Gray, and much, much more! TX: 6 May 2019. Features strong language and adult humour. Listener discretion is advised.

In this episode, Ben and David try to sort out the mess that is Silver Nemesis. In what seemingly has become a Metebelis Two tradition, the two try to pitch story alternatives to improve upon this 25th anniversary story. This is story is a grab bag of a bit of everything from straight-blowing Jazz to black magic to the boys of Brazil to mysterious chess games to Cybermen to aging starlets, but what it is not is coherent. Ace is great though! Opening music is the tail end of "No Greater Love" and closing music is the beginning of "Just You, Just Me" from Courtney Pine's excellent 1989 LP "The Vision's Tale."

Outro Music: Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem

This week on Radio Free Skaro, we’re looking to the future as the first wave of Gallifrey One guests get announced for 2019, Series 11 of Doctor Who wraps up filming, a new Thirteenth Doctor publicity photo emerges, and many a soundtrack (well, two) for Classic Who drops from the sky into your ears. And if that isn’t enough sensory overload, we have an interview with notable game merchants Susan and Lee Cummings as they discuss their upcoming Steam and mobile game, Doctor Who Infinity! Links:  – Gallifrey One 2019 first guest block announced – Series 11 wraps filming – Thirteenth Doctor Titan Comics Issue 1 variant covers – Thirteenth Doctor promo image, “On Top of the World” – Doctor Who Fan Show Steven Moffat interview part 3 – William Hartnell blue plaque at Ealing Studios – The Invasion soundtrack – The Five Doctors soundtrack – Eccleston & Tennant DVD collection – Smith DVD collection – Capaldi DVD collection – Silver Nemesis 30th anniversary DVD announced then unannounced – Alan Bennion died Interview: – Doctor Who Infinity – Susan Cummings – Lee Cummings

Shannon and Steve return once more to mark their 150th podcast episode by reviewing the 150th TV episode, Silver Nemesis. Also celebrated friend of the show Fat Apollo's birthday! St Patrick's Day! The countdown to Sci-Fi On The Rock 12! The eternal 6th versus 7th Doctor debate! And a submission from script editor Andrew Cartmel.

Join Jordan, Diane, and Ashford as they discuss the Invasion, a Patrick Troughton story, featuring the Silver Nemesis themselves, the Cybermen!  Allen Wright has a segment included where he gives background to many of the actors in this serial.  Forgive Ashford on this episode, for he was rather spirited, filled with spirit, or filled with spirits.  You make the call.  *wink* The is Straight Outta Gallifrey: A State of Temporal Grace, which is an extended podcast to Straight Outta Gallifrey!  

As far as nemesises ... nemesees... namesisses... Neemeesees ... Enemies .. go. You'd really want one made of silver. It's a malleable metal and has a relatively low melting point, so the enemy has a lot of weak points for you to attack. ... Which is a pretty good description of how we feel about this episode, too. Show notes and links: "Doctor Who" Silver Nemesis: Part One (TV Episode 1988) (imdb.com)

Well hard pigeons. Social workers. Gary Downie in a wig. Probing by cybermen. "Visiting Geneva with Mike Yates". Colin Cyberleader.   Yes, it's a John Rivers turn to join us as he defends the 'official' 25th anniversary story, Silver Nemesis. 

What do John and Taylor tackle after reviewing the 50th anniversary special and Peter Capaldi's final episode? Well, it was another anniversary story, but how does Silver Nemesis stack up against other anniversary specials? Was a story involving three villains (Lady Peinforte, Nazis, and Cybermen) just too much for Classic Who to handle? And why do all dying Cybermen sound like they're yawning and stubbing their toes at the same time? We talk about all that and more this time on Podcastica!!

What do John and Taylor tackle after reviewing the 50th anniversary special and Peter Capaldi's final episode? Well, it was another anniversary story, but how does Silver Nemesis stack up against other anniversary specials? Was a story involving three villains (Lady Peinforte, Nazis, and Cybermen) just too much for Classic Who to handle? And why do all dying Cybermen sound like they're yawning and stubbing their toes at the same time? We talk about all that and more this time on Podcastica!!

Even if you don't think Silver Nemesis is poetry itself, after this episode there will be no denying it. Poet Adam Ford joins us and not only defends Doctor Who's 25th Anniversary story but actually immortalises it in verse. Sad Cybermen, dodgy stunts, potions, villainous go-getters - this one has it all.

This week we cover story #150, Silver Nemesis!  When a pair of travelers come to present-day England from hundreds of years in the past in anticipation of the arrival of the destructive comet Nemesis, the Doctor and Ace must get involved -- but the Cybermen have arrived as well, and a group of neo-Nazis styling themselves as the fourth Reich.  What could the comet's secret be, and what does it have to do with the Doctor? QotW: If you could mix three themes, elements, characters, or ideas into a single Doctor Who story, what would you mix? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Silver Nemesis" (Charlie 9, Connor 10, David 8, Trevor 8.5) Big Finish Audio Adventure: THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN JACK - Wednesdays for Beginners (Charlie 7, Connor 8.9 chocolate bars, David 7.5, Trevor 7.5 cheetos) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Connor The Deadly Emerald Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #151, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy! You can stream the serial from BritBox, rent the DVD from Netflix, or buy the DVD from the usual sources if it’s still in stock. For our audio adventure, we’ll continue The Lives of Captain Jack boxed set with the third adventure: One Enchanted Evening.

  This week we cover story #149, The Happiness Patrol!  The Doctor and Ace explore the colony of Terra Alpha, where unhappiness has been outlawed.  This displeases them, much to their own peril! QotW: If you were to be executed by lethal candy, what kind of candy would you want it to be? So Here are the Things.../Listener Mailbag Discussion of "The Happiness Patrol" (Trevor 6, Charlie 7.75, David 6.75) Connor's Corner Big Finish Audio Adventure: THE LIVES OF CAPTAIN JACK - The Year After I Died (Trevor 6.5, Charlie 6.5, David 7) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #150, Silver Nemesis! You can stream the serial on BritBox, buy a digital copy on iTunes, rent the DVD from Netflix, or buy the DVD from Amazon.com or other fine retailers. For our audio adventure, we’ll be continuing The Lives of Captain Jack boxed set with the second adventure, Wednesdays for Beginners. The boxed set is available from BigFinish.com.

This week, Brendan’s listening to some meaningless jazz, and Nathan’s hanging from a tree in his underwear, while Richard rides — to destiny. All things shall soon be ours: it’s Silver Nemesis.

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Ow. This week it’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination! No, that’s not right. What else happened around that time? It’s Silver Nemesis, written by Kevin Clarke and aired November and December of 1988. Doctor Who © The BBC Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast.Continue reading →

It’s the beginning of the next 400 episodes of Radio Free Skaro, and what better way to start off this new era than with talk of Star Wars, weather in Florida, hockey, Tim Hortons and other irrelevant meanderings! The Three Who Rule eventually focused their energies and relayed what little Doctor Who news eked out this week, including such gems as new guests for Gallifrey 2014 (and the lineup for our own live show on Friday, February 14th), the return of friend of the show Phil Ford to Doctor Who, and other assorted newsy morsels. All mere preamble to a commentary recorded this summer at Westercon for "Silver Nemesis". We’re not saying our commentary is good, but rest assured it is better than the story itself, so have a listen to it, won’t you? Check out the show notes at http://www.radiofreeskaro.com

A discussion of story 154: Silver Nemesis.

A discussion of story 154: Silver Nemesis.

Was this episode any better than the last time we had a Cyber story with Silver in the title? Available in YouTubeHD – http://youtu.be/B3yR4Skd9hg?hd=1

The Cybermen, a woman from 1638, and a Nazi want to get their hands on an all-powerful weapon The Doctor seemingly created ages ago ("Silver Nemesis"). Then The Doctor and Ace visit a deadly circus where they become the acts ("The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"). Also, Mike doesn't understand the titles of British sitcoms, the perils of white men in their 30s writing rap, and Dan's greatest secret is revealed!

The Cybermen, a woman from 1638, and a Nazi want to get their hands on an all-powerful weapon The Doctor seemingly created ages ago ("Silver Nemesis"). Then The Doctor and Ace visit a deadly circus where they become the acts ("The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"). Also, Mike doesn't understand the titles of British sitcoms, the perils of white men in their 30s writing rap, and Dan's greatest secret is revealed!

The Cybermen, a woman from 1638, and a Nazi want to get their hands on an all-powerful weapon The Doctor seemingly created ages ago ("Silver Nemesis"). Then The Doctor and Ace visit a deadly circus where they become the acts ("The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"). Also, Mike doesn't understand the titles of British sitcoms, the perils of white men in their 30s writing rap, and Dan's greatest secret is revealed!

In this week’s episode we tackle another Adversary Archive – The Cybermen 2.0. A look at two stories featuring the silver giants, the Sixth Doctor’s encounter with the Cybermen in Attack of the Cybermen, and the Seventh Doctor’s go around with the metal menace, Silver Nemesis. Also, some birthday wishes for five artists who have left their impressions in the Whoniverse, and a look at some of the stories making headlines in Doctor Who news....Read more The post Episode 63 – Lady Fancypants appeared first on Traveling the Vortex.

47 weeks until Gally 23. LIVE: From the Gally 22 Lobby, Saturday evening February 19, 2011: The Cupboard of Rassilon. Join Eric & Josh and friends (in no particular order):  Erik (@sjcaustenite) [Doctor Who Book Club] Paul (@KungFuYoda) [Pharos Project] Steve [TARDIS Tavern] Kyle (@FunctionalNerd) [nerdist.com] Emily (@emilyooo) Chris (@dubbayoo) [Radio Free Skaro] WARNING: This commentary contains miscellaneous NüWHO & Classic SPOILERS pertaining to Doctor Who. If you are 100% spoilerphobic to New & Classic epsiodes not yet seen, DO NOT complain to us. This episode is EXPLICIT and as always there are strokes of innuendo throughout. LINKS: The TARDIS Tavern: http://tardistavern.libsyn.com/ The Pharos Project: http://thepharosproject.libsyn.com/ The Doctor Who Book Club: http://www.dwbcpodcast.blogspot.com/ Radio Free Skaro: http://www.radiofreeskaro.com/ Podcasting in a Doctor Who World by Kyle Anderson: http://www.nerdist.com/2011/03/podcasting-in-a-doctor-who-world/ Running through Corridors: http://www.amazon.com/Running-Through-Corridors-Marathon-Doctor/dp/1935234064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300859921&sr=1-1 DISCLAIMER: A few stories that may or may not be mentioned in this podcast: Time and the Rani, The Web Planet, The Twin Dilemma, Timelash, Underworld, Time-Flight, Warriors of the Deep, Ghostlight, Nightmare of Eden, Horns of Nimon, Destiny of the Daleks, The Underwater Menace, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Time Cupboard, Attack of the Cybermen, Silver Nemesis, The Time Monster, The Gunfighters, The Chase, The Two Doctors, The Space Pirates, Enemy of the World, The Macra Terror, The War Machines, Day of the Daleks, Planet of the Daleks, Human Nature, Family of Blood, The Sea Devils, The Curse of Peladon, The Green Death, The Three Doctors, The Sontaran Experiment, Dimensions in Time, Remembrance of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, Terror of the Autons, Forrest of the Dead, and Spearhead from Space. Spoiler: MHC #?5 Chris Gore   DON'T PANIC   Host/Producer: Eric Escamilla Email: EscoWHO ~at~ gmail ~dot~comSkype username: Bullitt33Twitter: @Bullitt33Facebook: facebook.com/Bullitt33Blog: bullitt33tvblog.wordpress.com Co-host: Josh Zimon Email: whomeJZ ~at~ yahoo ~dot~comTwitter: @whomeJZ Coverart/Sketch Artist: Louis BlairEmail: samwisewise ~at~ gmail ~dot~comTwitter: @LB_ToschedeviantART: type40productions.deviantart.comHitchikersCutaway: mostlyharmless.freevar.com Mostly Harmless CutawayEmail: guidetothewhoverse ~at~ gmail ~dot~comWebsite: guidetothewhoverse.libsyn.com Twitter: @DoctorWhoMHCTumblr: doctorwhomhc.tumblr.com Facebook: Doctor Who: Mostly Harmless Cutaway   MHC Theme created by Eric Escamilla.Anonymous cold open by Emily K. (@emilyooo)

A sliver of silver James and Tom are in the campervan this week and take the opportunity to review a recent 2Entertain release, the Cybermen box set. This set contains two classic era Cybermen stories...

The Doctor and Ace visit England in 1988, where three rival factions - the , a group of Nazis and a 17th century sorceress named Lady Peinforte - are attempting to gain control of a statue made of a living metal, validium, that was created by Rassilon as the ultimate defence for Gallifrey. [] Synopsis (This is based on the Extended Version presented on the VHS release rather than that originally broadcast.) , 22 November 1988. In an office full of imagery, a man looks at a computer screen displaying details on which he sees "Landing Location, , Grid Ref: 74W 32N, November 23, 1988". He tells his superior, , who is preparing to shoot a parrot with a bow and arrow. Windsor, England, 1638. A finely dressed woman is shooting pigeons with a bow and arrow whilst her servant looks on. In her house, an elderly mathematician is performing complex calculations. The woman enters and demands to know how long his work will take, but he is too engrossed in his work to answer her. She goes to the fireplace, and picking up a poisoned arrow, hands it to her servant and tells him to put it with the others. He enquires after a silver arrow, and she replies that she will deal with that arrow personally. Back in the Nazi office, De Flores addresses a group of followers, telling them they are at the turning point of history. He proposes a toast to the fourth , before taking a silver bow from a display case, preparing to board an aircraft. In space, a is seen from which a glowing energy emanates… Back in Windsor, the mathematician finally reveals the result of his calculations to the woman, telling her that the Nemesis comet circles the earth every 25 years, and its decaying trajectory means that it will eventually fall to Earth from the point where it originally departed — the meadow outside. This will occur on 23 November 1988. At a performance by , the and relax and enjoy the music. Ace's newspaper has a story about a comet heading to Earth, but she is more interested in the results. The Doctor hears a bleeping from his pocket watch, and wonders of what it is trying to remind him. Pine's performance ends to applause and Ace asks him to sign a tape for her. As they head back to the , a concealed marksman raises a gun towards them. At the sound of gunfire, Ace and the Doctor duck down and retreat quickly towards the TARDIS, but have to jump in the river to escape their pursuers. Two men arrive wielding guns and wearing headsets, but assuming they must have got their targets leave again. The Doctor and Ace then struggle back on to the riverbank, safe now. In 1638, the mathematician dreams of great inventions that he could discover. The lady tells her servant to bring forth the potion, and he replies that they only require the final ingredient, human blood. They look meaningfully towards the mathematician… The Doctor fetches out a new tape deck that he has built to replace the one of Ace's that had been destroyed by the . This one however, can do much more than play tapes. Telling Ace that his reminder had a terminal rating meaning some planet somewhere is facing imminent destruction, an image of the planet Earth appears on the tape deck… In 1638, the woman and her servant drink their magic potion and begin and are surrounded by a glowing miasma, and beginning to travel forwards through time. They appear in present day Windsor in the middle of a crowded cafe. Admitting that he has known about the possible destruction of Earth for 350 years, the Doctor and Ace take a quick trip in the TARDIS to . In its basement, the Doctor tells Ace he is looking for a silver bow. As the comet finally hits Earth, the Stuart woman's arrow begins to pulsate with light. In the castle, the Doctor and Ace feel the force of the impact. The Doctor tells Ace that it is the return to Earth of a comet called Nemesis, and then reveals that it was he who had launched it into space in the first place. Led by their glowing bow, the group of Nazis head towards the comet in a van. De Flores is in no rush to retrieve the Nemesis yet, as the comet will be too hot due its descent through the atmosphere. He tells his soldiers they will wait in a hotel leaving British police to guard the site, unaware of the true power of the Nemesis. In the castle, Ace finds a card telling the history of the bow, relating how it disappeared in 1788, and that unless a place is kept in the castle for its return, the entire silver statue will return to destroy the world. The Doctor tells her that the statue has indeed returned with that purpose. At this point, the lights dim, and Ace thinks it is a power cut. Travelling back in time to 1638, the Doctor and Ace go to the time travelling woman's house in Windsor. Seeing the corpse of the mathematician, the Doctor hurriedly covers it with a cloth so that Ace does not see it. The Doctor sees the mathematician's calculations and is impressed that he had been able to work out when the Nemesis comet will return to Earth, only months since the Doctor's previous visit. The Doctor reveals that the woman — Lady Peinforte — made the Nemesis statue depicting herself out of a silver metal that fell to Earth in the meadow outside her house. The Doctor sees a chessboard, the game is going rather badly. He tells Ace that Peinforte managed to travel forward in time to 1988 using the arrow and a rudimentary knowledge of time travel, but mostly . He says that she has a nose for secrets. The Doctor tells Ace the statue is made of a living metal — Validium — which is capable of great destruction. Peinforte and her servant Richard withdraw from the statue to assess the strength of the police guarding it. The police are having their own problems, their radios are not working, the batteries are dead. Around the comet crash site, vents emerge from the ground spewing gas, causing the policemen to choke and fall unconscious. The TARDIS materialises outside Windsor Castle in 1988. The Doctor and Ace follow a group of tourists on a guided tour. Seeing a no entry sign, they sneak into the castle. Hearing the bark of dogs, they see a woman coming towards them with several . Although the Doctor does not recognise the woman, Ace immediately realises that it is the and drags him into hiding. However, when she tells him who it was, he races after the Queen, saying they need the armed forces and police on their side, and what better person could they ask? The Doctor and Ace are seized by security guards before they can get anywhere near the Queen. The Doctor informs them that they got into the castle by travelling in time and space, but they are incredulous. The Doctor tells them the fate of every living person is in danger, but the guards do not believe him. The Doctor dons a pair of oversized glasses and glaring at them intones, "you will believe me! you will let us go!" Distracted by this spectacle, the Doctor and Ace flee into the corridors of the castle. As they run, Ace sees a portrait of herself hanging on a stairwell wall. When she says she does not remember this happening, the Doctor tells her that it has not happened yet. Richard asks Peinforte what she will do when she gains control of the Nemesis, and she replies that first she will exact revenge on that "predictable little man". She predicts that he will soon arrive, and tells Richard she knows the secret of the "nameless Doctor." De Flores and his Nazis make their move for the Nemesis comet and see the unconscious policemen. He takes the bow case and places it on the comet, and within the Nemesis statue begins to glow. The Doctor and Ace arrive, and De Flores demands they hand over the arrow. The Doctor reveals that the bow and arrow give the Validium metal critical mass. The Doctor confronts De Flores and asks if he has observed the advanced technology, which has been used to attack the policemen, and the power blackouts that have been occurring over the last few days. De Flores threatens to shoot Ace if they do not tell him where the arrow is, but at this moment a large spacecraft lands near the crash site. The doors open and from within emerge a troop of … The Cyberleader recognises the Doctor, even though his , and tells the onlookers that the Cybermen had predicted his presence. The Nazis open fire on the Cybermen but their bullets are ineffective. The Cybermen open fire and drive the Nazis away. The Doctor says that this happened before, but before it was the and Lady Peinforte. Peinforte shoots one of the Cybermen with a bow and arrow. De Flores finds one of her arrows and sees that it is gold-tipped. Peinforte and Richard withdraw, allowing the Nazis and the Cybermen to fight it out, hoping to retrieve the Nemesis in the aftermath. In the confusion, the Doctor and Ace manage to seize the silver bow and return to the TARDIS. Peinforte sees this and tries to shoot them, but her arrow thuds into the TARDIS door just as it dematerialises. While Peinforte and Richard enter the town of Windsor, the Cybermen begin to cut the Nemesis statue free of the comet. The Doctor and Ace go back to Peinforte's house in 1638. The body of the mathematician has gone, and the chess pieces have also been moved. The Doctor tells Ace that although the mathematician was a genius, he had needed a little help to get started. The Doctor picks up a piece of paper from the desk and throws it into the fireplace. Making a further move on the chessboard, they leave. Materialising back in the present day, the Doctor explains that Validium was created on Ancient by and as the ultimate defence. Some of it however left Gallifrey, and now they must stop Peinforte or anyone else reuniting the statue, the bow and the arrow. Using the bow to lead them, they proceed in the direction of the statue. In Windsor, Peinforte and Richard are confronted by two thugs, who think they are mugging social workers. The Doctor finds and questions them later; they had been left naked in a tree. As Richard is terrified by the sight of a bizarre creature, a , Peinforte tells him that if he does not help her retrieve the Nemesis, she will abandon him in this future time. He then sees that they are standing by a memorial statue. She tells him that it is his tomb, placed in the grounds of her own burial place. The arrow starts glowing and they realise that that is where the Cybermen have taken the Nemesis statue. As they scour the tomb for Nemesis, the Cybermen prepare to attack, but realising they are armed with gold arrows retreat. Opening up her grave, they see that it does not contain her bones. Ace destroys the Cybermen vehicle with . De Flores strikes a deal with the Cyberleader to kill Peinforte and Richard in exchange for a share of control of Earth after its conquest. The Cybermen have no intention of honouring the deal, and plan to kill the Nazis after the death of Peinforte. The Doctor tells Ace that every time the Nemesis comet approached Earth in its 25 year orbit, it caused destruction: in 1913, the eve of the ; 1938, Hitler annexes ; 1963 assassinated, and now it is 1988. They use the tape deck scanner trying to find the cyber-fleet. Opening up the grave fully, Peinforte gazes upon her own image shown on the Nemesis statue. However, De Flores and his man arrives with guns, and Richard has only one arrow left. In fear, he hands over the arrow to De Flores and drags Peinforte away leaving the Nazis in control of Nemesis. De Flores believes he now has all three parts of the Validium. Placing the arrow in the statues hands, it becomes more animated. The Cybermen arrive and ask De Flores where the bow is. When he opens the case he sees that he does not have it at all. The Doctor sees a and realises the Cyber-fleet is shrouded, and making the adjustment to the tape deck reveals the entire fleet of Cyber-warships, thousands of them… The Doctor decides to activate the Validium by taking the bow to the crypt. When Ace seems frightened, the Doctor tells her she can wait in the TARDIS, but she refuses and wants to accompany the Doctor. Meanwhile, De Flores realises he has overplayed his hand and tries to negotiate with the Cyberleader. The Cyberleader orders his lieutenant to kill De Flores, but he throws gold dust in the leader's face and flees. The other Nazi however turns on De Flores and offers him to the Cybermen, asking to be made into a Cyberman himself. The two Nazis are then taken to be prepared for Cyber-conversion. As the Doctor and Ace arrive at the crypt, the jazz tape finishes playing and the Cybermen's communications begin working. The Doctor enters the crypt holding the bow, and manoeuvring past the Cybermen with Ace places the bow in the Statue's hands but snatches it away again. The statue awakens and begins to follow the bow. Going back to 1638, the Doctor continues his chess game against his . Ace asks him who brought the Validium to Earth in the first place, and what is really going on but he remains silent. Taking a bag of gold coins, they leave. Peinforte begins to rant about all power being hers and her intent to retrieve the Nemesis. They come to the road, and attempt to hitch a lift in a passing car. Richard stands with his thumb out but no cars stops for them. Seeing this fail, Peinforte steps into the middle of the road. A large car stops, and an American woman offers to take them into Windsor. She tells them that she is in England discovering her roots. Revealing she is descended from the 17th century Remington family, Peinforte calls them thieves and swindlers. Mentioning a Dorothea Remington, the American woman recognises the name, and Peinforte knows that Dorothea died in 1621 from a slow poison. With the Cybermen set off after the Nemesis and the Doctor, De Flores is released from his bonds by his man, who had deceived the Cybermen into thinking he had betrayed the Nazi leader. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Ace materialise inside the hangar containing the comet. Soon the Nemesis statue arrives, and the Doctor gives it the bow. The Nemesis speaks to Ace telling her that it was fashioned by Peinforte into its current beautiful form, but that it has also had horrific forms in the past, and will again in the future. The Cybermen arrive and Ace shoots one down using a gold coin and a catapult. The Cybermen pursue her, but she manages to elude them. The Doctor sets the trajectory of the rocket sled containing the Nemesis, headed for the Cyber-fleet. Ace becomes trapped on a gantry between two Cybermen and the Cyberleader, with only a single remaining gold coin. The Cybermen lift their guns to shoot her, but she fires the gold coin at the Cyberleader and ducks, causing the other two Cybermen to shoot each other instead. The Nemesis asks the Doctor if she must destroy the entire Cyber-fleet, to which he says that she must. She asks the Doctor whether she will be needed again, or whether she will have her freedom, but the Doctor hushes her. Ace arrives down from the gantry, but is surrounded by two more Cybermen. They demand that the Doctor hands the bow over to them, but the Doctor threatens to destroy the bow if they harm her. Placing it in front of the rocket sled engines, he grabs Ace. As the two Cybermen advance towards them, the engines fire killing the two Cybermen. However, up on the gantry the Cyberleader plucks the gold coin from its chest unit. De Flores arrives and picks up the bow. He speaks to the Nemesis, but she remains silent. The Cyberleader raises his gun and shoots De Flores dead, and demands that the Doctor hands over the bow. At this point, Peinforte and Richard arrive. Demanding the bow for herself, she asks Ace , and whether she knows where he came from. Ace says that nobody knows who the Doctor is, but Peinforte says that she does. When Ace asks how, she says the Nemesis told her. The Doctor asks what will happen if he gives her the bow, to which Peinforte replies his power will be hers, but his secrets remain his own. Appearing to concede defeat, the Doctor says he is surrendering, but not to Peinforte, rather to the Cybermen. Peinforte threatens to reveal his secrets, so he calls her bluff. She says that she will tell them of Gallifrey, of the Old Time, the time of Chaos. However, the Cyberleader says that the secrets of the Time Lords are of no interest of the Cybermen. The Cyberleader tells the Doctor to cancel the Nemesis's destructive capabilities. The Doctor asks the statue if she understands the Cyberleader's instructions, and she replies "perfectly". The triumphant Cyberleader tells the Doctor to set that statue's course to rendezvous with the Cyberfleet. He tells them that the Earth will become their new base planet, the new Mondas. Launching the Nemesis, Peinforte screams and throws herself into the rocket sled and merges with the Nemesis. The rocket sled takes off and heads out into space. It arrives in the midst of the Cyber-fleet and there is an enormous explosion, destroying all of the Cyber-warships. The Cyberleader asks how it is possible, and the Doctor replies that he merely asked if Nemesis had understood the instruction, but had not said anything about obeying them. The Cyberleader prepares to kill the Doctor, but Richard grabs the gold-tipped arrow from the TARDIS door, and stabs it into the Cyberleader's chest unit, finally killing it. The Doctor and Ace return Richard to 1638. There, Richard and a Stuart woman perform a concert for them. Ace asks the Doctor who he really is, but he just puts a finger to his lips and listens to the music… [] Continuity [] The Doctor In this story, Lady Peinforte claims to be the only one to know the Doctor's true identity. When Ace says she knows the Doctor is a , Peinforte shakes her head conspiratorially. Neither this nor any further televised story elaborates, although in a deleted scene from , the Doctor claims to be "far more than just another Time Lord"; further omissions from would have featured challenging the Doctor's identification as a Time Lord. These elements are all part of what fans have dubbed the , a long-term scheme by the show's script editor to return some mystery to the show by way of questioning certain aspects of continuity — in particular the Doctor's character. Although the series was cancelled before the plan could run its course, its spirit was continued in the subsequent novel line. (See .) [] Cybermen Although the Cybermen's weakness to gold was established in (1975), the Cybermen in Silver Nemesis are far more vulnerable than usual. In , broadcast only six years earlier, the Doctor had to grate gold filings directly into the Cyber Leader's chest unit then shoot it several times before it was defeated. In this serial, even a low-velocity impact with a gold (or gold plated) object proves instantly fatal to the Cybermen. This is the last appearance of the Cybermen in the Classic series. [] Recurring Themes The Doctor comments, with apparent seriousness, that Lady Peinforte can use black magic, the first time the series refers to magic as anything more than trickery. later implies that Fenric himself had to some degree manipulated these events, leaving open the question as to whether Peinforte used magic or merely believed she was doing so. [] Production Serial details by episode Episode Broadcast date Run time Viewership (in millions) "Part One" 23 November 1988 (1988-11-23) 24:31 6.1 "Part Two" 30 November 1988 (1988-11-30) 24:12 5.2 "Part Three" 7 December 1988 (1988-12-07) 24:36 5.2 Working titles for this story included The Harbinger and Nemesis. Permission was refused for filming at . Scenes set there were instead shot at . [] Locations The scenes at the Gas Works where The Doctor and Ace meet and combat the Cybermen were filmed on the site that later became (formerly the ) [] Casting previously played Kala in . The first episode of this serial features a brief guest appearance by the British musician as himself. In this serial, the Doctor briefly encounters , played by an actress. The producers attempted to get the real monarch to appear on the programme (just as members of the British Royal Family had appeared as themselves on ), but arrangements could not be agreed.[] [] Broadcast and reception Episodes two and three were the second and third respectively of the series ever to be premiered outside of the United Kingdom (the first being ), being shown as part of a compilation broadcast of the story on 's , after part one had shown in the UK but prior to the other two being transmitted there. Silver Nemesis inspired the first section of 's concert []. This section called Silvanemesis includes a lot of futuristic details such as robotic dancers and the transformation of Kylie into a Cyberwoman. Her stylist and friend recognised having been widely inspired by the series Doctor Who in his work.[] Kylie joined in the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas Special, "", playing the companion . [] Commercial releases On 3 May 1993 an extended version of this three-part serial was released on . Apart from featuring footage not shown in the original broadcast, the video included a short documentary looking back at the production of the adventure. This serial will be released on DVD as part of a Box Set with on August 9th 2010 The DVD will include only the original three part broadcast version, much to the consternation of a number of Doctor Who fans who consider the extended version to be the definitive one. Instead, the footage from the extended version will be included in the deleted scenes section.

P The Cybermen are a race of who are amongst the most persistent enemies of in the series, . Cybermen were originally a wholly species of humanoids originating on Earth's twin planet that began to implant more and more artificial parts into their bodies as a means of self-preservation. This led to the race becoming coldly logical and calculating, with emotions usually only shown when naked aggression was called for. They were created by Dr. (the unofficial scientific advisor to the programme) and in 1966, first appearing in the serial, , the last to feature as the . They have since been featured numerous times in their extreme attempts to survive through conquest. A version of the Cybermen appeared in the ' two-part story, "" and "". These Cybermen also appeared in the two-part 2006 season finale, "" and "". This then carried through to the spin-off in the episode "". They would later return to the revived series in the 2008 Christmas Special "", introducing two new variants of the race; the Cyber-Shades and the Cyber-King. Contents [] // [] Physical characteristics An original Cyberman from The Tenth Planet While the Doctor's other old enemies the were on the whole unchanged during the original series' twenty-six season run, the Cybermen were seen to change with almost every encounter. The Cybermen are , but have been augmented to the point where they have few remaining organic parts. In their first appearance in the series, the only portions of their bodies that still seemed human were their hands, but by their next appearance in (1967), their bodies were entirely covered up in their metallic suits, with their hands replaced by two finger claws, but changed back to regular five-fingered hands in (1968). As they are relatively few in number, the Cybermen tend towards covert activity, scheming from hiding and using human pawns or to act in their place until they need to appear. They also seek to increase their numbers by converting others into Cybermen (a process known as "cyber-conversion"). It is presumed (and often implied) that there are still organic components beneath their suits, meaning they are actually cyborgs, not robots: in The Tenth Planet, a Cyberman tells a group of humans that "our brains are just like yours", although by the time of , their brains seem to have been replaced with electronics. Also in this same story, two human slave-prisoners of the Cybermen on the planet Telos, named Bates and Stratton, reveal that their organic arms and legs have been removed by the Cybermen, and replaced by Cyber-substitutes. In (1982), the actors' chins were vaguely visible through a clear perspex area on the helmet to suggest some kind of organic matter. In (1967), veins and brains were visible through the domed head of the Cyberman Controller and similarly, in (1985) and "" (2006), the Cyber-Controller's brain is visible through the dome. The first is a Mondas Cyber Controller, while the second involves alternative Earth's John Lumic. However, in (1975), the Doctor says they are "total machine creatures". The audio play implies that the converted victim's face remains beneath the Cyberman faceplate, although the audio plays, like all non-televised spin-off media, are of uncertain with regards to the television series. The novel by states that some Cybermen experience rare flashes of emotional memory from the time before they were converted, which are then usually suppressed. The parallel Earth Cybermen in the 2006 series are usually constructed from human brains bonded to a Cyberman exoskeletal shell with an artificially grown nervous system threaded throughout ("The Age of Steel"), although direct grafting of cyber-components is another method of conversion (""). Although the Cybermen often claim that they have done away with human emotion, they have exhibited emotions ranging from anger to smug satisfaction in their confrontations with the Doctor (although this is only clearly present during their appearances in the 1980s). Some Cybermen in the early stories were even given individual names such as "Krang". Some parallel Earth Cybermen did retain some memories of their pre-conversion lives, although their emotional response varied. In "Cyberwoman", the partial conversion led to a degree of insanity in , which was retained even after she transferred her brain into a cyberman body. In "", Yvonne Hartman is able to retain at least some elements of her personality in order to prevent the advance of a group of other Cybermen, and is last seen weeping what appears to be either an oil-like substance or blood. In the same episode, the Cyber-Leader expresses clear frustration at the humans' refusing to surrender, although in a later scene he criticizes the Doctor for showing emotion. In "", the Doctor is able to defeat the Cybermen by shutting down their emotional inhibitors, enabling them to "see" what had become of them. Their realization of what they had become led them to either simply shut down out of sheer horror, or partially explode. Lastly, when the first Cyber Leader is killed, his head explodes with some white liquid leaking down his body; there are references in that episode to a patented Cybus Industries mixture of chemicals used to preserve the brain. The novel by suggests that some Cybermen imitate emotions to intimidate and unnerve their victims. The Big Finish Productions audio play (set on Mondas in the early days of cyber-conversion) suggests that the Cybermen deliberately remove their emotions as part of the conversion process to stifle the physical and emotional trauma of becoming a Cyberman. The conversion process in the parallel Earth is termed "upgrading". This motive behind the removal of emotions is made more explicit in "The Age of Steel" where it is done by means of an emotional inhibitor. In that episode, the deactivation of their emotional inhibitors drives the converted Cybermen insane when they realise what they have become, killing them. This motive may also be applicable to Mondas Cybermen, given their forcible conversion of other lifeforms to Cybermen to maintain their numbers, despite the fact the Mondasians appear to have originally willingly converted themselves as a survival mechanism.[] Cybermen have a number of weaknesses over the years. The most notable weakness is the element . Their aversion to gold was not mentioned until their attempt to destroy the planetoid Voga (the so-called "Planet of Gold") in (1975). Initially, it was explained that, due to its non-corrodible nature, gold essentially their . For example, the glittergun, a weapon used during the Cyber-Wars in the future, fired gold dust at its targets. However, in later serials, gold appeared to affect them rather like affects , with gold coins or gold-tipped fired at them having the same effect. The revived series' Cybermen have no such weakness, though the tie-in website for the episode makes mention of it. Cybermen are also rather efficiently killed when shot with their own guns. Other weaknesses from early stories include , based technology, and excessive levels of . In "The Age of Steel" an grenade is shown to disable a Cyberman and shut down its emotional inhibitor. Their armour is often depicted as flexible and resistant to bullets, but can be penetrated by gold arrows and projectiles made of gold. The Parallel Earth Cybermen are bullet-proof and are very resilient, but are not indestructible — they are vulnerable to heavy explosives, electromagnetic pulses and specialised weaponry, as well as weapons. [] Costume details The design of the Cybermen acted almost as a guide to prevailing at the time of transmission. Nearly all were silver in colour and included items and material such as cloth, rubber diving suits, , chest units, tubing, practice balls, ' gloves, and silver-painted boots. A BBC Cyberman costume from the black & white era of TV has recently been discovered. The 1980s design used converted flight suits painted silver. Unlike the Doctor's other foes, the Cybermen have changed substantially in appearance over the years, looking more and more modern, although retaining certain commonalities of design, the most iconic being the "handle bars" attached to Cybermen heads, that were supposed to aid with their hearing, their round eyeholes and their chest units. Completely black-coloured Cybermen were seen briefly in "". A Cyberman head from the 1975 serial Revenge of the Cybermen, seen here in a display case in "" (2005). Aside from these changes, variations in design between rank-and-file Cybermen and their leaders have been seen. In and (both 1968), the Cyber Director was depicted as an immobile mechanism. In The Tomb of the Cybermen and Attack of the Cybermen, the Cyber Controller was a larger Cyberman with a high domed head instead of the "handle bar" helmet design. In Revenge of the Cybermen, the Cyber Leader had a completely black helmet except for his face. From (1982) onwards he could be distinguished from his troops by the black handle bars on his helmet. The Cyber-Leader in "Army of Ghosts" also had black handles. Because the Doctor is a time traveller, he meets the Cybermen at various points in their history out of sequence from the order the serials were made. This can be confusing since Cybermen from serials set in "earlier" periods of history can sometimes look more sophisticated than those from "later" periods. suggests in his reference work About Time 5 that the anachronistically designed Cybermen of Earthshock and Silver Nemesis are time travellers, like those in Attack of the Cybermen. A Cyberman head was seen in the 2005 episode, "", kept in a display case. The text on the info card states that the head was found in a sewer, suggesting that the head was from . However, the enlarged Cyber-Handles suggest that the head is from . The info card states the head was found in 1975, the year in which was set and the year in which Revenge of the Cybermen was broadcast. The Cybermen returned in episodes 5 and 6 of the 2006 season of the new series, in a two-part story set on an alternate Earth. The new Cybermen were designed by production designer 's team and at Millennium FX. The new Cyberman design is physically imposing, being about 6 feet 7 inches (2.0 m) tall. The general design is made to resemble modern consumer electronics, such as the . To this extent, they are made from burnished steel instead of silver, feature the Cybus Corporation symbol on its chest, and have a general design. The other distinct Cyberman design is that of the Cyber-Controller, which had glowing eyes, a transparent forehead revealing the brain, and sockets on its chest-plate providing connectors to other systems. The episode "" features a partially cyber-converted woman who lacks the outer plating of a fully converted Cyberman. Her body is encased in metal structures but much of her flesh, including her face, is visible. She also has clearly visible metallic breasts, though it is not clear how much of her own flesh has been replaced and how much is merely covered. Another character speculates she could be 40-45% human, and 55-60% Cyberman. [] Voice Early Cybermen had an unsettling, sing-song voice, constructed by placing the inflections of words on the wrong syllables. In their first appearance, the effect of this was augmented by the special effect of having a Cyberman abruptly open his mouth wide and keep it open, without moving his tongue or lips, while the separately recorded voice would be playing, and then shut it quickly when the line was finished. Although the cloth-like masks of the first Cybermen were soon replaced by a full helmet, a similar physical effect involving the mouth "hatch" opening and then shutting when the line was finished was used until (1968). Later, the production team used from its by adding first a , then a , to modify speech to make it sound more alien and computer-like. In later stories of the original series and in the audio plays, two copies of the voice track were sampled and pitch-shifted downwards by differing amounts and layered to produce the effect, sometimes with the addition of a small amount of . From Revenge of the Cybermen to (1988) the actors provided the voices themselves, using microphones and transmitters in the chest units. The voices for the 2006 return of the Cybermen are similar to the buzzing electronic monotone voices of the Cybermen used in The Invasion. They were provided by (who performed the voices for the Cybermen in Big Finish audio stories as well as the in both the new series and the audio stories). As shown in the season 2 DVD special feature "Confidential Cut Downs," the timbre was created by processing Brigg's voice through a Moog ring modulator. Unusually, in "The Age of Steel", the Cyber-Controller (John Lumic, played by ) retains his voice after being upgraded, but it is still electronic. In "Doomsday", a Cyberman which contains the brain of director Yvonne Hartman retains a female-sounding though still electronic voice, as does the partially converted in "Cyberwoman" when her Cyberman personality is dominant. The reason for this is that their minds are taking control of the suit into which their brain has been placed, thus allowing the Cyber-suit's design to be exploited through sheer mental power. In an effect reminiscent of the earliest Cybermen's mouths snapping open while speaking, the new Cybermen have a blue light in their "mouths" which blinks in synchronisation with their speech. [] Cybermen variants Some Cybermen are given titles, being credited as "Cyber Leader" (or variants thereof), "Cyber Lieutenant", "Cyber Scout" or the "Cyber Controller". The Cyber Controller in particular has appeared in multiple forms, both humanoid and as an immobile computer, and has also been referred to as the "Cyber Planner" or "Cyber Director". The Controller seen (and destroyed) in various serials also may or may not be the same consciousness in different bodies; it appears to recognize and remember the Doctor from previous encounters. In Iceberg, the first Cyber Controller is created by implanting a Cyber Director into the skull of a recently converted Cyberman. The Cyber-Controller in "The Age of Steel" used the brain of , the creator of the Cybermen in that parallel reality. In "Doomsday", a Cyber-Leader appears, and when he is destroyed, mention is made of downloading his data files into another Cyberman unit, which is then upgraded to Cyber-Leader. The 2008 Christmas special, "", featured a new variant called a Cybershade., The Doctor theorises that it is a more primitive version of a Cyberman, using the brain of a cat or a dog. In the same story a "Cyber-King" appears; according to the Doctor, it is a "-class" ship resembling a Cyberman hundreds of feet tall, and contains a Cyber-factory in its chest. It is controlled from within its mouth. Its right arm can be converted into a cannon, and its left into a laser. [] Technology Cybermen technology is almost completely oriented towards weaponry, apart from their own bodies. When originally seen in The Tenth Planet they had large energy weapons that attached to their chests. In The Moonbase, the Cybermen had two types of weaponry: an electrical discharge from their hands, which stunned the target, and a type of gun. They also made use of a large laser cannon with which they attempted to attack the base itself. The hand discharge was also present in The Tomb of the Cybermen, which featured a smaller, hand-held cyber-weapon shaped like a that was described as an . In The Wheel in Space the Cybermen could use the discharge to also operate machinery, and had built into their chest units. They displayed the same units in The Invasion as well as carrying large rifles for medium distance combat. In Revenge of the Cybermen and Real Time their weapons were built into their helmets. Killing Ground indicates that this type of Cybermen also have more powerful hand weapons. Subsequent appearances have shown them armed almost exclusively with hand-held cyberguns. The Cybermen have access to known as cobalt bombs, which are also sometimes known as Cyber-bombs, which were banned by the galactic (Revenge of the Cybermen). A "Cyber-megatron bomb" was mentioned in The Invasion, supposedly powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth. In Earthshock, the Cybermen also used androids as part of their plans to invade Earth. The parallel Earth Cybermen their victims by touching them and at first carried no other weaponry. In "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", the Cybermen are equipped with retractable energy weapons housed within their forearms (these were actually first shown in "", but only very briefly and were not used during that episode), but also use modified human weapons to battle the Daleks. The arm mounted guns prove effective against humans but are unable to penetrate Dalek shields. Two Cybermen sent to parley with Dalek Thay at the Battle of Canary Wharf shot the Dalek but were promptly exterminated. In the episode "" the partially converted used her electrical touch against the Torchwood team, as well as an energy beam fired from her arm which could only stun the part of the body at which it was aimed. [] Cybermats The Cybermen also use smaller, cybernetic creatures called "cybermats" as weapons of attack. In their first appearance in The Tomb of the Cybermen, they resembled oversized metallic and had segmented bodies with hair-like tactile sensor probes along the base of their heads, which were topped with crystalline eyes. The described them as a "form of metallic life," implying that they may be semi-organic like the Cybermen, and that they attacked by feeding off brain waves. The second model of cybermat seen in The Wheel in Space was used for sabotage, able to tune in on human brainwaves. They were carried to the "Wheel" in small but high-density sacs that sank through the hull of the space station, causing drops in air pressure. These cybermats had solid for eyes instead of crystals. The Second Doctor used an audio frequency to jam them, causing them to spin, crash and disintegrate. The third model, seen in Revenge of the Cybermen, was a much larger, snake-like cybermat that could be remotely controlled and could inject poison into its victims. It had no visible eyes or other features, and was as vulnerable to gold dust as the Cybermen were. In Spare Parts, "mats" are cybernetically augmented creatures, sometimes kept as pets. Cybermats of a different design are used for surveillance by Mondas' Central Committee. The creatures occasionally go wild, chewing on power sources, and must be rounded up by a "mat-catcher." In the novel by and , set in the 1940s, the Cybermen create cybermats by cyber-converting local animals like cats or birds, possibly because of lack of technological resources. In the audio adventure , a Cyberman reveals that the organs of children who are too small to be fully cyber-converted are used in the creation of cybermats. [] History [] Conceptual history The name "Cyberman" comes from , a term coined in 's book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (MIT Press, 1948). Wiener used the term in reference to the control of complex systems in the animal world and in mechanical networks, in particular self-regulating control systems. By 1960, doctors were performing research into surgically or mechanically augmenting humans or animals to operate machinery in space, leading to the coining of the term "cyborg", for "cybernetic organism". In the 1960s, "spare-part" surgery was starting out, with the first, gigantic heart-lung machines being developed. There were also serious suggestions of wiring the nerve endings of amputees directly into machines for quicker response. In 1963, Kit Pedler had a conversation with his wife (who was also a doctor) about what would happen if a person had so many prostheses that they could no longer distinguish themselves between man and machine. He got the opportunity to develop this idea when, in 1966, after an appearance on the BBC science programmes and , the BBC hired him to help on the Doctor Who serial . That eventually led to him writing, with Gerry Davis's help, The Tenth Planet for Doctor Who. Pedler, influenced by the logic-driven from the comic strip, originally envisaged the Cybermen as "space monks", but was persuaded by Davis to concentrate on his fears about the direction of spare-part surgery. The original Cybermen were imagined as human, but with plastic and metal prostheses. The Cybermen of The Tenth Planet still have human hands, and their facial structures are visible beneath the masks they wear. However, over time, they evolved into metallic, more robot-like designs. The Cybermen attracted controversy when parents complained after a scene in The Tomb of the Cybermen in which a dying Cyberman spurted white foam from its innards. Another incident was initiated by Pedler himself, who took a man in a Cyberman costume into a busy shopping area of . The reaction of the public was predictable, and the crowd almost blocked the street and the police were called in. Pedler said that he "wanted to know how people would react to something quite unusual," but also admitted that he "wanted to be a nuisance." Pedler wrote his last Cyberman story, The Invasion, in 1968, and left Doctor Who with Gerry Davis to develop the scientific thriller series . [] History within the show [] Origins Millennia ago, during prehistoric times, Mondas was knocked out of solar orbit and drifted into deep space. The Mondasians, already far in advance of Earth's technology and fearful for their race's survival, sent out spacecraft to colonise other worlds, including , where they pushed the native Cryons aside and used the planet to house vast tombs where they could take refuge in when necessary. On Mondas, the Mondasians were dying out, and therefore, in order to survive and continue the race, they replaced most of their bodies with Cybernetic parts. Having eventually removed all emotion from their brains, to maintain their sanity, the natives installed a drive propulsion system so they could pilot the planet itself through space. As the original race was limited in numbers and were continually being depleted, the Mondasians — now Cybermen — became a race of conquerors who reproduced by taking other organic beings and forcibly changing them into Cybermen. The origins of the Cybermen were further elaborated upon in Spare Parts. The move to "cybernise" Mondasians must have commenced on Mondas before they conquered Telos. Otherwise, there must have been some ongoing contact between Mondas and Telos after it was conquered, or the move to develop into Cybermen must have been paralleled after that point. [] The Earth invasions The Cybermen's first attempt at invading Earth, around 1970, was chronicled in The Invasion. A group of Cybermen from "Planet 14" had allied themselves with industrialist Tobias Vaughn, who installed mind control circuits in electrical appliances manufactured by his International Electromatics company, paving the way for a ground invasion. This was uncovered by the newly formed , led by , who repelled the invasion with the help of the , and . In The Tenth Planet, the and his companions and , met an advance force of Cybermen that landed near an space tracking station in the year 1986. This advance force was to prepare for the return of Mondas to the . As Mondas approached, it began to drain Earth's energy for the Cybermen's use, but in the process absorbed too much energy and disintegrated. The Cybermen on Earth also fell apart as their homeworld was destroyed. In 1988 a fleet of Cyber warships was assembled to convert Earth into a New Mondas. A scouting party was sent to Earth in search of the legendary Nemesis statue, a artifact of immense power, made of the "living metal" validium. Due to the machinations of the and his companion , however, the Nemesis destroyed the entire Cyber-fleet instead. (Silver Nemesis). In 2012, the inert head of a Cyberman was part of the Vault, a collection of alien artefacts belonging to American billionaire ("", 2005). According to its label, it was recovered from the sewers in 1975 and presumably came from the 1970 invasion attempt, although it is of a design only seen in Revenge of the Cybermen, which took place in the late 29th century (in a sense, the label is accurate, as Revenge was broadcast in 1975). By the mid-21st century, mankind had reached beyond its planet and set up in deep space. One of these, Space Station W3, known as "The Wheel," was the site of a takeover by Cybermen who wanted to use it as a staging point for yet another invasion of Earth. The , and prevented this in The Wheel in Space. The Cybermen returned in The Moonbase. By the year 2070, Earth's weather was being controlled by the Gravitron installation on the . The Cybermen planned to use the Gravitron to disrupt the planet's weather patterns and destroy all life on it, eliminating a threat to their survival. This attempt was also stopped by the Second Doctor, , , and the surviving crew of the moonbase. [] The Cyber-Wars Five centuries after the destruction of Mondas, the Cybermen had all but passed into legend when an archaeological expedition to the planet Telos uncovered their resting place in The Tomb of the Cybermen. However, those Cybermen were not dead but merely in hibernation, and were briefly revived before the Second Doctor returned them to their eternal sleep, with help from some of the archaeologists, Jamie and Victoria. This was short-lived, however. By the beginning of the 26th century, the Cybermen were back in force, and the galactic situation was grave enough that Earth hosted a conference in 2526 that would unite the forces of several planets in a war against the Cybermen. A force of Cybermen tried to disrupt this conference, first by trying to infiltrate Earth in a freighter and when that was discovered by the , to crash the freighter into Earth and cause an ecological disaster. Although the attempt failed, the freighter was catapulted back in time to become the (Earthshock). Unfortunately, the Doctor's Companion was trapped aboard the freighter, and died in the crash; leaving the , and to mourn him. The Cybermen faced complete defeat now that humanity was united against them in the Cyber-Wars. The glittergun had been developed as a weapon against them, with , the legendary "Planet of Gold", being a major supplier of gold dust ammunition. Meanwhile, the native Cryons on the planet Telos rose up and sabotaged the Cybermens' hibernation tombs. Using a captured time travel machine, a group of Cybermen travelled back to Earth in 1985 to try to prevent the destruction of Mondas, but were stopped by the and his companion (Attack of the Cybermen). The Cryons also finally succeeded in taking back Telos. The Cybermen did survive, but by the late 29th century they had been reduced to small remnant groups wandering throughout space. The , and encountered one such group during this time; and the Doctor very sarcastically pointed out their diminished state, noting that they had "no home planet, no influence, nothing!", and were "just a bunch of pathetic tin soldiers, skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spaceship." These Cybermen had discovered that Voga had drifted through space and wandered into the , being pulled into orbit around as a new moon. They planned to restore their race's power with a plan of revenge against Voga by destroying it with Cyber-bombs. They hoped that this would disrupt their enemies' supply of gold, but their plot was stopped by the Doctor. This was their last chronological appearance to date, with the Cybermen seemingly vanishing from history after this point (Revenge of the Cybermen). A Cyberman (of the type seen in The Invasion) also appeared in the exhibit in (1973). Three squads of Cybermen of the Earthshock variety, each led by a Cyber-Leader, appeared in (1983) in a slightly larger role. [] Parallel Earth and the Battle of Canary Wharf In the ""/"" two-part story, the , , and crash down into a parallel London in a parallel universe, where the Cybermen are being created on modern-day Earth. These alternate Cybermen were created as an "upgrade" to humanity and the ultimate move into cyberspace, allowing the brain to survive in an ageless steel body. These Cybermen also referred to themselves as "Human Point 2 (Human.2)" and "deleted" all those deemed incompatible with the upgrade. They could electrocute humans with a touch. These Cybermen were created by , a terminally ill and insane genius whose company, Cybus Industries, had advanced humanity considerably. To find a way to survive, he perfected a method to sustain the human brain indefinitely in a cradle of chemicals, bonding the synaptic impulses to a metal exoskeleton. The Cybermen "handle bars" were part of a high-tech communications device called an EarPod. Also created by Lumic, the EarPods were used extensively in the place of MP3 players and mobile phones, allowing information to be directly downloaded into people's heads. Lumic began to trick and abduct homeless people and convert them into Cybermen, and assassinated the President of Great Britain after the President rejected his plans. Using the EarPods, Lumic took mental control of London, marching thousands to be cyber-converted. He was betrayed by an old friend who damaged his wheelchair's life-support systems. He had told the Cybermen that he would upgrade 'only with my last breath' and since that moment was at hand he was involuntarily upgraded into the Cyber-Controller, a superior model of Cyberman. However, the Doctor and his companions, having accidentally landed on the parallel Earth, managed to foil his plans. They freed London from mental control and disabled the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors, causing them to go insane and in some cases explode. Lumic himself fell to his apparent death into the burning remains of his factory. A human resistance group, the Preachers, then set about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world. These Cybermen reappeared in the 2006 season finale "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday". It is to be noted that these Cybermen also use energy weapons built into their right arms. However, in "The Age of Steel" after the conversion sequence, the newly created Cybermen can be seen to have the retractable weapons in place after exiting the conversion chambers. Having infiltrated that world's version of the and discovering a breach between universes caused by the passage of an interdimensional , the Cybermen used it to invade the Doctor's universe. However, the void ship's users, the , also revealed themselves, leading to all-out war across London with mankind caught in the crossfire. Eventually, the Doctor re-opened the breach, causing the Cybermen and Daleks (who had been saturated with background radiation from the ) to be sucked back into it. The breach then sealed itself, leaving the Cybermen and Daleks (except the , who used their emergency temporal shift function to escape) seemingly trapped in the Void forever. [] Torchwood Three Incident Lisa the "Cyberwoman" In "" it was revealed that at the height of the "" the Cybermen had begun to directly convert whole bodies using regular Earth technology, rather than transplant their brains into parallel earth Cyberman shells. One of their victims, a woman called , was only partially converted when the power was shut off and she was rescued by her boyfriend, . Jones took her to in along with a cyber-conversion unit which he made into a life support system for her under her directions. He tried to find a cure for her condition, calling on cybernetics expert Dr Tanizaki. Unfortunately Hallett's Cyberman personality asserted itself, leading to her killing Tanizaki and trying to take over Torchwood Three as a staging area for a new Cyberman army. She eventually transplanted her own brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl whom she let into the base, and was shot to death by the other members of the Torchwood team. [] The CyberKing A small handful of the Cybermen t