Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

New to DVD! Digitally remastered Doctor Who classics Revenge of the Cybermen! The time ring takes the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva, but to a period many thousands of years earlier than their previous visit. The station is currently acting as a beacon warning space traffic of the existence of a new asteroid orbiting Jupiter.
This is Voga, also known as the planet of gold as that metal can be found in abundance there. The three friends learn that a space plague has killed all but a handful of Nerva's crew. A visiting civilian scientist named Kellman is in fact a traitor working with a group of Cybermen who want to destroy Voga as gold dust can coat their breathing apparatus and suffocate them.

First Transmitted
1 - 19/04/1975 17:35
2 - 26/04/1975 17:30
3 - 03/05/1975 17:50
4 - 10/05/1975 17:35

The time ring takes the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva, but to a period many thousands of years earlier than their previous visit. The station is currently acting as a beacon warning space traffic of the existence of a new asteroid orbiting Jupiter.
This is Voga, also known as the planet of gold as that metal can be found in abundance there. The three friends learn that a space plague has killed all but a handful of Nerva's crew. A visiting civilian scientist named Kellman is in fact a traitor working with a group of Cybermen who want to destroy Voga as gold dust can coat their breathing apparatus and suffocate them.
The 'plague' is the result of poison injected into its victims by Cybermats. The Cybermen invade the beacon and force the Doctor and two of the remaining humans to carry some cobalt bombs down into the heart of Voga.
Kellman however is really a double agent, secretly working with one faction of the Vogan race on the planet below. Their plan has been to lure the Cybermen onto the beacon and destroy it with a rocket, known as the Skystriker. The Doctor rids himself of the bomb he has been forced to carry and returns to the beacon, which the Cybermen evacuate on learning of the Vogans' intentions.
The missile is launched, but the Doctor gives instructions for it to be redirected away from the beacon and onto a collision course with the Cybermen's ship, which is thus destroyed.

Directed by Michael E Briant
Written by Gerry Davis
Produced by Philip Hinchcliffe < br> Film Editing by Sheila S Tomlinson
Costume Design by Prue Handley

The Radiophonic Workshop's Peter Howell, later to become one of the series' regular incidental music composers, made his uncredited debut on this story when he was asked by producer Philip Hinchcliffe to add to, and enhance, the score provided by Carey Blyton.
A number of sets in this story were reused from The Ark in Space, which was recorded immediately before it.
The Cybermen's voices were provided for the first time by the actors inside the costumes.
Five of this story's guest cast had played notable roles earlier in Doctor Who's history: Kevin Stoney as Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan and as Tobias Vaughn in the previous Cyberman story, The Invasion; Christopher Robbie as the Karkus in The Mind Robber; Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Commander Radnor in The Seeds of Death; and William Marlowe as Mailer in The Mind of Evil. Michael Wisher would go on to play Davros in Genesis of the Daleks, which came after Revenge of the Cybermen in production order.