Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 19 April 1975 - 10 May 1975
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Production: Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Unit Manager: George Gallaccio

SCRIPT
Script: Gerry Davis
Story Editors: Robert Holmes

DIRECTION
Director: Michael E. Briant

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Derek Slee
Film Camera: Elmer Cossey

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Sheila S. Tomlinson

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Carey Blyton, Peter Howell (uncredited)

SOUND
Studio Sound: Norman Bennett
Special Sound: Dick Mills

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Cecile Hay-Arthur
Costumes: Prue Handley

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: James Ward

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Roger Murray-Leach

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: John Bradburn
Assistant Floor Managers: Rosemary Hester, Russ Karel

CAST
Tom Baker (The Doctor)
Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith)
Terry Walsh
Kevin Stoney (Tyrum)
William Marlowe (Lester)
Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Stevenson)
David Collings (Vorus)
Michael Wisher (Magrik)
Christopher Robbie (Cyberleader)
Alec Wallis (Warner)
Jeremy Wilkin (Kellman)
Michael Jones (first Cyberman)
Brian Grellis (Sheprah)

PLOT SUMMARY

The Doctor returns to the space station Nerva but thousands of years before their encounter with the Wirrn. It is currently a warning beacon for Jupiter's new moon, a planet of gold. Most of the Nerva's crew are dead and behind it are the Doctor's old enemies, the Cybermen.

Pertwee couldn't stand the Cybermen and never fought them (maybe they were too tied to his predecessor) but the producers felt big name villains should return to face the new Doctor. As a young man, this made me very happy. Now this is unwatchable tosh. The gold idea is silly, the Cybermen look fat and sound Irish and the design is cheap (the resetting on the space station was due to budgetary concerns).

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1975
April
19: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
26: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)

May
3: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)
10: UK - Part One television broadcast (on BBC1)

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.282-284
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens, cybermen, cyborgs, space stations, time travel

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009