Cast: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Pamela Binns (Sisterman Constant), Nicholas Briggs (Zheng), Paul Copley (Dad), Kathryn Guck (Yvonne Hartley), Jim Hartley (Frank Hartley), Ann Jenkins (Mrs Ginsberg), Sally Knyvette (Doctorman Allan), Alistair Lock (Minister / TV Commentator), Derren Nesbitt (Thomas Dodd), Gary Russell (Philpott / Nurse)
Always throws me with early BF having the "wrong" music. But I like it...!
After six years training Crewman Donald Philpott will become the first man to set foot on the surface of the world...
Philpott is overcome by the vastness of the universe, and screams in terror!
Some time later, the 5th Doctor and Nyssa are taking a trip to the pictures... but the cinema's closed down.
The Doctor tells Nyssa they're in 1950s London, but she points out they're in a huge underground cavern.
Elsewhere, a family are setting about catching a silver "rat" with a "cheeser", an electronic trap.
Mr. Hartley and his daughter Yvonne come across a nest, but some timber and rubble falls on the man.
Nyssa, having set out to explore, encounters the girl, Yvonne, and attempts to free her dad.
There's no pulse, but just when Nyssa tries to break it to Yvonne that her father's dad, the man speaks up!
With curfew approaching, they insist on taking Nyssa home with them.
Meanwhile, the Doctor finds his way into the shop of Thomas Dodd, a dealer in human body parts for transplant.
It seems the Doctor - who says he's never been on a tram - has his suspicions about which planet he's really on...
At the Hartley's, Yvonne's brother Frank is waiting with Sisterman Constant, a medical official.
Constant enquires after Yvonne's breathing and Mr. Hartley's artificial heart. Nyssa piques her interest too...
Nyssa gets a bit snooty with the Sisterman, who is selecting candidates to be "crewmen" to go to the surface...
Although she leaves, the Sisterman takes out a communicator to give a report on "Nyssa O'Traken".
Dodd confirms the Doctor’s suspicion that the planet he has landed on is indeed Mondas...
Outside the shop the Doctor encounters a cybernetic Policeman...
...who's a primitive cyborg, not yet as advanced as a Cyberman. He tries to arrest them for breaking curfew.
Nyssa shares a meal with the Hartley's, and Frank teases his sister about taking a shine on Eric Krailford...
Yvonne shows Nyssa her rusty cybernetic pet, a bird called Trillby - he's a mark 2.
As Nyssa takes a look at Mr. Hartley's artificial heart, they hear a curfew breaker in distress outside.
Elsewhere, the Doctor and Dodd are puzzled by heavy traffic movement.
At the Hartley's, dad has found a tree for them to put up and decorate for Christmas, like the one in the square.
Nyssa is puzzled by Yvonne's "mat", a 'silver worm'. Mr. Hartley catches wild mats for a living.
In the Church of Former-Day Souls, the Doctor discovers the Police are digging up the graveyard for body parts...
Frank wants to join up to be a crewman, to see the sky when they break through.
Mr. Hartley is dead set against it; no one ever returns.
Yvonne has some form of asthma attack at the news that Eric Krailford has joined up...
The cybernetic police arrive at the Hartley's and Nyssa has to hide.
The Doctor and Dodd are attacked by a Policeman, but they escape by pushing it into the church clock mechanism.
The Doctor sets the bell tolling, to summon the population, to alert them to the horror being perpetrated in their name.
The Doctor hopes the people will force their government to stop development of the Cybermen.
When the cybernetic police rampage through the Hartley house, Frank exposes Nyssa, who has to run for it.
The Doctor and Nyssa are reunited, and make it back to the TARDIS, where they argue about altering history of the Cybermen.
Mondas' Central Committee decides that the Doctor and Nyssa must be found and eliminated as insurgents! End of part one!
Nyssa believes that they should intervene to stop the creation of the Cybermen.
The Doctor hopes his ‘wake-up call’ with the church bell will be sufficient to make the Mondasians change their own future.
The sore point of Adric's death is raised when the two clash about changing history.
The Cybernetic Police use force to crush the unrest.
The Doctor is horrified to learn that the "mat" Nyssa was given by Yvonne, is a Cybermat - and it's aboard his TARDIS!
At the Committee Palace hospital, the cynical Doctorman Allan, the Surgeon-General of Mondas & CMO...
...who's in charge of the Cyberman programme, is increasingly frustrated by the project's failures & rejections.
The TARDIS is trapped on Mondas as "Matty" has gnawed the main energy conduit in the console.
Nyssa offers to work on repairs, but #DoctorWho retorts "it's not a bicycle puncture!"
Doctorman Allan butts heads with the "Committe". She's short of resources & her subjects survive barely a week...
...as their immune systems reject the cybernetic implants. Despite this, the Committee order production stepped up.
Frank arrives at the TARDIS & tells Nyssa that Yvonne has received her call-up papers...
... in other words, she has been taken to be converted into a Cyberman!
The Committee decide to spare Doctorman Allan from conversion for now, while she remains useful.
Constant is horrified by Allan's forecasts of processing for all. Allan seeks her solace in a bottle of wine.
The Doctor attempts to stir up more unrest by causing a truck-load of bones from the graveyard to lose its load in public.
Nyssa & Frank find the TARDIS surrounded by swarms of cybermats.
Yvonne is confused and afraid as Sisterman Constance ushers her towards the processing...
The Committee summon Commander Zheng from the surface to restore order.
Dodd refuses Mr. Hartley credit for a replacement for his malfunctioning chestbox.
The Doctor approaches Dodd, hoping he knows a way into the Committee Palace...
Nyssa worries that Frank may have left the TARDIS door open, which would allow the cybermats to swarm in...
Dodd locks the Doctor in his freezer, hoping to steal his organs and body parts: "fresh supplies", or Spare Parts if you like...
Nyssa diverts power to the TARDIS' outer shell to shock the cybermats.
His assets frozen, #DoctorWho promises to never be facetious about a strawberry Mivvi again...
Tipped off by a Cybermat, a squad of Policemen arrive, and smash through Dodd's shop. #DoctorWho makes his escape.
#DoctorWho tries to make his escape on a cybernetic horse, but is intercepted by Doctorman Allan.
At the home of the Hartleys, Nyssa observes the new ‘Crewmen’ being paraded on television...
...and is horrified to see that they are fully processed Cybermen.
A sudden power-failure throughout the city causes mass panic, as part-processed Cybermen become disorientated.
DoctorWho realises that Mondas is entering the Cherrybowl Nebula...
...with the result that the destruction of Mondas is imminent.
End of part two!
Debris crushes the Police Escort of #DoctorWho & Dodd allowing them to escape into the shelter of the Palace.
Constant is attempting to restrain the half-processed Cybermen, but one of them has escaped.
Allan goes to try to restore power to the Central Committee.
The escaped Cyberman encounters #DoctorWho – Dodd having run off in terror – who offers to help.
The Cyberman is Yvonne. Her memories are still in there, as she remembers wanting to show her dad her uniform.
Mondas' situation is dire: without power the Hartleys are unable to offer Nyssa a cup of tea.
#DoctorWho attempts to rescue Allan from a Cyberman escort, but this early version is immune to the effects of gold.
Allan is able to deactivate the freshly converted Cyberman with a failsafe mechanism, and agrees to team up with #DoctorWho.
Nyssa & Frank find #DoctorWho is not at the TARDIS, and have to evade the police.
As they are searching for a way to restore power to the City, #DoctorWho discovers the truth behind the Committee...
In the hospital ward, one of the semi-processed Cybermen, believing that Constant is withholding data, attacks her.
However, Commander Zheng arrives and kills the rogue Crewman.
His squad take the semi-processed Cybermen into custody until processing can be completed...
...and sends an appalled Constant to be cyber-converted as a way of ‘healing’ the injuries caused by her attacker
...the electronic voice comes from the combined minds of 20 of Mondas’s best thinkers, plugged into a giant computer.
#DoctorWho calls the Committee, "a primitive many headed cybernetic hydra... it's obscene."
When Zheng arrives to oversee repairs to the Committee, #DoctorWho says he's her assistant. "Every Doctor should have one!"
At the Hartley apartment, Nyssa, Frank & Mr. Hartley are horrified as a Cyberman begins to force its way in...
Nyssa is horrified to discover their Cyberman 'attacker' is a distressed Yvonne...
She wanted her dad to see her in her ‘uniform’. When he tries to remove her mask, she flees.
The Committee agrees with #DoctorWho that restoring power to the city must come first and overrules Zheng.
But as #DoctorWho closes the final circuit Zheng reactivates the power before he’s clear.
Mr Hartley tries to calm and comfort Yvonne, and shows her their holiday tree, a symbol of happier times.
But with the power back on the processing automatically starts to complete...
Doctorman Allan is amazed by #DoctorWho's healing capabilities and begins to get a very nasty idea...
Away from the hospital support, Yvonne’s body is unable to cope and she dies.
Allan is horrified to hear that Constance has been taken for processing.
The frozen, poisonous atmosphere begins to flood in through the breach in the dome. Mondas' days are numbered.
With Dodd's help, #DoctorWho is able to phone Nyssa at the Hartley's home...
...but their call is cut short when a Policeman arrives and arrests Nyssa.
A scan has revealed #DoctorWho has an additional brain lobe, not present in humans, which deals with all bodily functions.
Allan can reproduce this in all future Cybermen, which will prevent their bodies rejecting the cybernetic implants.
The Committee instructs her to proceed, declaring from now on the Cybermen will be invincible. "WE WILL SURVIVE!"
PART FOUR! As #DoctorWho is prepared for a scan to produce the necessary template for the new Cybermen...
...the Committee orders the entire population must be processed & work on a planetary propulsion system must quicken
Love that the little communication chime echoes Malcolm Clarke's Earthshock soundtrack there.
Nyssa is brought to Allan & #DoctorWho tries to convince her that Nyssa's bioengineering experience may provide an alternative.
The shocked Allan protests the plan to convert all Mondasians but Zheng relieves her of her duties & takes command.
As #DoctorWho is subjected to a painful scanning process, he rails against the Committee, only to be told "You will be like us!"
To achieve maximum efficiency, the Committee abandons individuality & adopts a single persona, the ‘Cyberplanner’.
Cybermen are despatched to herd the rioting populace – including Mr Hartley & Frank – into the Palace for conversion.
Allan winds Nyssa up, making her believe that the 1st of the new Cybermen is a converted #DoctorWho.
#DoctorWho reappears, and Allan reveals that the Cyberman is actually Thomas Dodd.
Allan says #DoctorWho was the last resort. "You make me sound like Southend-on-Sea!"
Realising every Cyberman he's ever met is based on himself, #DoctorWho's more determined than ever to stop them.
#DoctorWho decides to pour the palace's wine into the nutrient vats which feed the Cyberplanner, causing it to malfunction.
Allan goes to warn the Cyberplanner, but Zheng intervenes...
He's finally decided that the safety of the planet takes priority over the safety of its government.
Another Cyberman tries to stop #DoctorWho & Nyssa, but the Hartleys attack the cyborg and throw it into the nutrient vat.
"What are we waiting for, the football results?"
The Cyberplanner refuses to believe the nutrients have been poisoned...
...and Allan is taken away to be processed whilst Zheng argues with the Cyberplanner.
Mr. Hartley can convert the generators into a giant ‘cheeser’ causing a swarm that will attack the Cyberplanner.
To give them time, #DoctorWho allows himself to be captured and taken before the Cyberplanner.
As Zheng moves to activate the propulsion unit the Cyberplanner shoots him.
As the Cyberplanner starts to feel the effects of the wine #DoctorWho learns that it intends to seek out Mondas' twin planet...
The Cybermat swarm kills the Cyberplanner, allowing the dying Zheng to activate the propulsion unit
#DoctorWho & Nyssa hope that, whilst they haven't stopped the Cybermen, they've redirected their evolution into something good.
Mr Hartley's been put in charge of reconstructing the ceiling, with the work carried out by Cybermen including Dodd.
#DoctorWho & Nyssa depart.
Processing has been halted, and #DoctorWho has provided Allan with instructions on how to partially reverse the conversion.
As she works at her desk, however, assisted by the Cyberman version of Constant...
... Zheng – who she believed dead – walks in & announces, “Doctorman Allan. We begin again.”
THE END
TTFN! K.
Coming Soon... City of Death
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