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revenge of the cybermen

story 79 : season 12 : serial 4D : 4 episodes

Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Michael E Briant
Writer: Gerry Davis
Writer: Robert Holmes
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Roger Murray-Leach

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan); Michael Wisher (Magrik); Christopher Robbie (Cyberleader); Jeremy Wilkin (Kellman); Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Commander Stevenson); William Marlowe (Lester); Alec Wallis (Warner); David Collings (Vorus); Kevin Stoney (Tyrum); Brian Grellis (Sheprah); Melville Jones (First Cyberman);

crew information

Rosemary Hester (Assistant Floor Manager); Russ Karel (Assistant Floor Manager); Prue Handley (Costumes); Elmer Cossey (Film Cameraman); Sheila S Tomlinson (Film Editor); Carey Blyton (Incidental Music); Peter Howell (Incidental Music); Cecile Hay-Arthur (Make-Up); John Bradburn (Production Assistant); George Gallacio (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Derek Slee (Studio Lighting); Norman Bennett (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Jim Ward (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 19 April 1975 at 17:35 24'19" 9.5mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 26 April 1975 at 17:30 24'24" 8.3mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 3 May 1975 at 17:50 24'32" 8.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 10 May 1975 at 17:35 23'21" 9.4mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
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  2. Part Two
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  3. Part Three
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  4. Part Four
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release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 051 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1976 Published by Allan Wingate Ltd, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
20 May 1976 Published by Tandem, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10997 X
17 August 1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Chris Achilleos
ISBN: 0 426 10997 X
June 1979 Published by Pinnacle Books, USA in paperback
With cover artwork by: David Mann
1991 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 10997 X
1994 Published by Empire Books, Poland in paperback
Translated into Polish by
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 8 386 12605 1

plot synopsis

The Time Ring given to the travellers by the Time Lord when they arrived on Skaro returns them to Nerva, but it's in an earlier time period when the station was still a beacon. A plague has killed off a large percentage of the crew, leaving only four survivors, one of which is the treacherous Kellman. He is working for the Vogans, using Cybermats to kill off the humans, whilst laying a trap for the Cybermen, who want to destroy Voga, the planet of gold -the only substance that can kill them. The Cybermen arrive, and send the Doctor down to Voga with two of the beacon's crew as living bombs. He has to overcome that situation, and save Sarah and Harry, who are still on the beacon, before the Cybermen find out

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