Episode Number:

Episode Title:

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Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

5/1/85

44.17

8.9

2

Episode Two

12/1/85

44.29

7.2

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Twenty Two

Colin Baker

John Nathan-Turner

Eric Saward

Eric Saward,

Paula Woolsey

Matthew Robinson

 

  

Colin Baker - The Doctor

Nicola Bryant - Peri

 

  

Maurice Colbourne - Lytton

Terry Molloy - Russell

Brian Glover - Griffiths

James Beckett - Payne

Michael Attwell - Bates

Jonathan David - Stratton

Stephen Churchett - Bill

Stephen Wale - David

Sarah Berger - Rost

Esther Freud - Threst

Faith Brown - Flast

Sarah Greene - Varne

David Banks - Cyber Leader

Michael Kilgarriff - Cyber Controller

Brian Orrell - Cyber Lieutenant

John Ainley - Cyberman

 

  

Whilst narrowly avoiding a collision with Halley's Comet in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Peri encounter a distress call emanating from London, Earth in 1985. The Doctor decides to investigate...

 

In central London, a gang of diamond thieves, led by ex-Dalek agent Lytton, plan to enter their target building via the sewers. But once down in the darkness, things start going wrong, for lurking in the underground shadows are the Cybermen...

 

After the Doctor and his companion Peri are captured by the Cybermen, they are caught up in a complex scheme which involves dramatically altering history, allowing the Cybermen to prevent the destruction of their first home planet Mondas. Forced to take the TARDIS to the new homeworld of the Cybermen (the ice-tombs of Telos), the Doctor realises the situation is being sinisterly manipulated, but by whom? The Cybermen? Lytton? The Cryons (the original inhabitants of Telos)? Or perhaps even his own race, the Time Lords?

 

  

Working Title:

The Cold War

 

Things to look out for:

  • The TARDIS changes shape for the first time in the series! 

Archive:

All 2 episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

 

Title Information:

  • Attack of the Cybermen
  • Released as part of The Cybermen box-set, together with The Tenth Planet.
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released November 2000
  • BBC Video cat.#7030

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • Attack of the Cybermen
  • Abridged version of the novel read by Colin Baker
  • Manufactured by BBC Worldwide
  • Released 1995
  • Cassette format.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • Attack of the Cybermen
  • Written by Eric Saward
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1989
  • No.138 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • Attack of the Cybermen
  • Written by Eric Saward
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1992
  • No.138 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

**For further information on the Target Books, please visit On Target.


 

   

 

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