The Essential Doctor Who Cybermen | |
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Series | Doctor Who |
Country | United Kingdom |
Release date | March 2014 |
Format | Paperback |
No. of pages | 116 |
Original RRP | £9.99 |
Other info | |
Editor | Marcus Hearn |
Published by | Panini Magazines |
In 2014 The Essential Doctor Who: Cybermen was published by Panini UK Ltd.
Cover Blurb[]
INSIDE THE WORLD OF THE ULTIMATE MACHINE CREATURES
Contents[]
- Kit Pedler: The Modified Man - The story of the scientist and script consultant whose work changed Doctor Who forever.
- The Tenth Planet (1966) - At the South Pole, the ailing Doctor encounters ruthless cyborgs from Earth's twin planet.
- Gerry Davis: The Cyber Controller - A 1990 interview with the story editor and writer who worked alongside Kit Pedler to create the Cybermen.
- Return to the Tenth Planet - Alexandra Tynan, who created the costumes for the first Cyberman stories, updates her original design.
- The Moonbase (1967) - A remote weather control station is besieged by Cybermen in the year 2070.
- Cyber Director - Revisiting a 1991 conversation with Morris Barry, director of The Moonbase and Tomb of the Cybermen.
- Animating The Moonbase - Producer Stephanie Youlten describes how the missing Episodes 1 and 3 of The Moonbase were reconstructed.
- The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967) - The ice tombs of Telos unleash a menace that has lain dormant for 500 years...
- Tomb Raiders - Missing believed lost, The Tomb of the Cybermen was sensationally returned to the BBC in 1992. Could it live up to its reputation?
- The Wheel in Space (1968) - The Cybermen target a space station in their latest attempt to invade Earth.
- Fifty Shades of Silver - From the knockabout adventures of the 1960s to the more disturbing stories of recent years, the Cybermen have inspired numerous comic strips.
- The Invasion (1968) - The Cybermen subjugate Earth with the help of a treacherous human accomplice.
- Of Ombudsmen and Cybermats - A 1969 interview with Kit Pedler, conducted after his final contribution to Doctor Who.
- Revenge of the Cybermen (1975) - In the far future a desperate squad of Cybermen launch an attack on Voga, the planet of gold.
- We Are The Cybermen - Interviews with the actors who played the leading Cybermen throughout the 1980s.
- Earthshock (1982) - A familiar enemy emerges from the shadows, with potentially fatal consequences for mankind.
- The Genesis of the Cybermen - Gerry Davis' unproduced story from 1983 is brought to life with new artwork.
- The Five Doctors (1983) - The Cybermen arrive in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, but this time they're part of someone else's scheme...
- Cyber Collectors - Meetings with fans whose homes are filled with original and replica props from the Cyberman stories.
- Attack of the Cybermen (1985) - Time-travelling Cybermen launch an elaborate plan to avert the destruction of their home planet.
- Ghost in the Machine - An interview with writer Marc Platt, whose audio Doctor Who serials include the Cybermen origin story Spare Parts.
- Silver Nemesis (1988) - The Cybermen vie with neo-Nazis and a 17th-century sorceress for possession of an ancient Time Lord weapon.
- 21st-Century Cybermen - A look at how the Cybermen were radically redesigned for their comeback in the 2006 series of Doctor Who.
- Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel (2006) - On a parallel Earth the crippled industrialist John Lumic creates a new race of Cybermen.
- Marching in Time - Choreographer and creature movement specialist Ailsa Berk explains how to walk like a Cyberman.
- Army of Ghosts / Doomsday (2006) - Parallel Earth Cybermen appear all over the world, but are met with resistance from an unexpected quarter...
- The Page of Steel - The Target novelisations of the 1970s were just the beginning of the Cybermen's literary adventures.
- The Next Doctor (2008) - Stranded in Victorian London, a group of Cybermen find a fresh supply of labour for an audacious project...
- Talking Shop - Gareth Roberts discusses his script for Closing Time and recalls some of his favourite Cybermen stories.
- Closing Time (2011) - Staff are going missing at the Sanderson & Grainger department store. Could the threat lie beneath the ground floor?
- Eliminate All Weakness - Neil Gaiman, the writer of Nightmare in Silver, explains how he helped to redefine the Cybermen.
- Nightmare in Silver (2013) - A deserted theme park is attacked by constantly upgrading Cybermen, while the Doctor fights his own conversion...
- The Stuff of Nightmares - The Cybermen's numerous cameo appearances, from The War Games (1969) to The Time of the Doctor (2013).
Notes and other images[]
- Panini Bookazine #4
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