The Cybermen plan on destroying Earth in order to prevent the destruction of their home world, Mondas. The Doctor also discovers the Cyber Controller is far from dead.The Cybermen plan on destroying Earth in order to prevent the destruction of their home world, Mondas. The Doctor also discovers the Cyber Controller is far from dead.The Cybermen plan on destroying Earth in order to prevent the destruction of their home world, Mondas. The Doctor also discovers the Cyber Controller is far from dead.
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Keith Chamberlain
- Passer-by
- (uncredited)
Pat Gorman
- Slave Worker
- (uncredited)
Christopher Holmes
- Passer-by
- (uncredited)
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- Paula Woolsey
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- Eric Saward(uncredited)
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- TriviaIt has been estimated that 55 deaths occur on screen in this serial.
- GoofsThe Doctor plays the opening line from Bach's "Toccata in D-minor", but hits the wrong notes on the keyboard. The notes are supposed to be A, G, A, G, F, E, D, C-sharp, D; he plays C-sharp, C, C-sharp, C, B, A, G, F-sharp, G. Even if he was trying to play in a different key, the notes would not match; the closest key to the notes being played would be G-minor, which would sequence D, C, D, C, B-flat, A, G, F-sharp, G (matching 5 of the 9 notes).
- Quotes
The Doctor: The TARDIS, when working properly, is capable of many amazing things. Not unlike myself.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cybermen (2009)
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Attack of the Cybermen: Part One
Colin Baker's first full season. There is a format change. Now all episodes are 50 minutes long. Just as Nu Who episodes are.
Only die hard fans long for the 25 minutes format to this day. I knew at an instant that 50m minutes was the way to go. The serial could be wrapped the following Saturday.
The show returned to its traditional Saturday teatime slot. By this time it was clashing with The A Team on ITV. Kids liked that and its cartoonish violence.
The moment had been prepared for. Peter Davison's final season had ramped up the gun play. Script Editor had a liking for a nihilistic violent Who. Producer John Nathan Turner really went deep down on the continuity path. To be fair Doctor Who fans wanted consistency. Who would have thought that twenty years later loose continuity would be in vogue.
Another change was the Tardis. The chameleon circuit was fixed. The Tardis lands in a junkyard in Totter's Lane and eventually changes form.
The Doctor followed a distress call after tracking Halley's comet. Also in London us the mercenary Lytton (Maurice Coulbourne) planning a diamond heist by going inside the sewers. His real target are the Cybermen.
In the Planet Telos, a couple of prisoners of the Cybermen escape and plan to get the hell out.
When the Cybermen discover that the Doctor is in the sewers as well. They want to steal the Tardis and get back to Telos.
Viewers might have been aghast with shooting inside the Tardis or Cybermen getting their heads knocked off.
The plot is murky. It does look more like a mid 1980s violent crime drama shot on video that could easily had been shown at a 9.00 pm slot on BBC2. Think Dead Head which had even more violence and sex to boot.
Michael Grade then head of BBC1 might have been shocked. He had no real answer as an alternative apart from reducing the budget the following season.
Mid 80s Who was a product of its time both on television and cinema. It had gone away from its children's television roots. Despite a dense plot, it was rather enjoyable.
Only die hard fans long for the 25 minutes format to this day. I knew at an instant that 50m minutes was the way to go. The serial could be wrapped the following Saturday.
The show returned to its traditional Saturday teatime slot. By this time it was clashing with The A Team on ITV. Kids liked that and its cartoonish violence.
The moment had been prepared for. Peter Davison's final season had ramped up the gun play. Script Editor had a liking for a nihilistic violent Who. Producer John Nathan Turner really went deep down on the continuity path. To be fair Doctor Who fans wanted consistency. Who would have thought that twenty years later loose continuity would be in vogue.
Another change was the Tardis. The chameleon circuit was fixed. The Tardis lands in a junkyard in Totter's Lane and eventually changes form.
The Doctor followed a distress call after tracking Halley's comet. Also in London us the mercenary Lytton (Maurice Coulbourne) planning a diamond heist by going inside the sewers. His real target are the Cybermen.
In the Planet Telos, a couple of prisoners of the Cybermen escape and plan to get the hell out.
When the Cybermen discover that the Doctor is in the sewers as well. They want to steal the Tardis and get back to Telos.
Viewers might have been aghast with shooting inside the Tardis or Cybermen getting their heads knocked off.
The plot is murky. It does look more like a mid 1980s violent crime drama shot on video that could easily had been shown at a 9.00 pm slot on BBC2. Think Dead Head which had even more violence and sex to boot.
Michael Grade then head of BBC1 might have been shocked. He had no real answer as an alternative apart from reducing the budget the following season.
Mid 80s Who was a product of its time both on television and cinema. It had gone away from its children's television roots. Despite a dense plot, it was rather enjoyable.
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- Feb 1, 2024
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