by Terrance Dicks
- UK
- Paperback
- Target Books
- May 1976
- (Book Number: 51)
Other Editions
Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen
UK / Hardback / Allan Wingate Ltd / May 1976
USA / Paperback / Pinnacle Books / June 1979 / #5
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
UK / Paperback / Target Books / May 1991 / No.51
Doctor Who: Zemsta Cyborgów
Poland / Paperback / Empire / 1994
Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen was also included as part of
The Doctor Who Omnibus from
Book Club Associates in 1977, and in
The Adventures of Doctor Who omnibus from
Nelson Doubleday in the United States in 1979.
Back Cover Blurb — Target Books (1976)
A mysterious plague strikes Space Beacon Nerva, killing its victims within minutes. When DOCTOR WHO lands, only four humans remain alive. One of these seems to be in league with the nearby planet of gold, Voga... Or is he in fact working for the dreaded CYBERMEN, who are now determined to destroy their old enemies, the VOGANS?
The Doctor, Sarah and Harry find themselves trapped in the midst of a terrifying struggle to death — between the ruthless power-hungry Cybermen and the determined, desperate Vogans.
Back Cover Blurb — Pinnacle Books
THE CYBERMEN
One by one, their limbs became diseased — they were replaced by plastic and steel! Little by little, their brains tired — computers worked just as well!
Locked in a battle once again with these dreadful Cybermen, Doctor Who is caught between desperate Vogans, determined to save their planet, Voga, and the Cybermen, determined to destroy it. But Doctor Who has one last trick up his sleeve: it is a poison — powerful, plentiful, and deadly. And it is the only weapon humans have against the Cybermen, and the only reason the Cybermen must destroy Voga — the planet of Gold.
Television Story
Revenge of the Cybermen
Script Writer: Gerry Davis
4 × 25 Minutes / BBC1 / Colour
19/04/75 Part One
26/04/75 Part Two
03/05/75 Part Three
10/05/75 Part Four
VHS
All episodes exist and have been released on video in the UK and United States.
Regular Characters
Fourth Doctor / Sarah Jane Smith / Harry Sullivan
Familiar Faces
The Cybermen
Notes
- Revenge of the Cybermen was the final work on Doctor Who by Gerry Davis, who had been writing for the series since the mid-1960s, as well as spending a period as the series' story editor.
- Apart from a brief glimpse in the Third Doctor story Carnival of Monsters, this was the first appearance of the Cybermen in Doctor Who since 1968 when they had appeared in the epic eight-part story The Invasion. Less notable was the introduction of yet another weakness in Doctor Who's second most popular monsters: gold. The ultimate extreme of this rather bizarre flaw in their design would occur in 1988's Silver Nemesis when the character of Ace was able to kill them by firing gold coins at their chest units with a catapult...
- Gerry Davis's scripts to Revenge of the Cybermen were published by BBC Books in November 2001 as part of Doctor Who: The Scripts — Tom Baker 1974/5, which contained the scripts to all five stories from Season 12 as well as extensive background notes.