6T. Attack of the Cybermen
Writer: Paula Moore (alias Paula Woolsey and Eric Saward)
Director: Matthew Robinson
Designer: Marjorie Pratt
Incidental Music: Malcolm Clarke
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
627. Part One Sat 05.01.1985 5.20pm - 6.05pm 8.9M/ 71st/61%
628. Part Two 12.01.1985 5.20pm - 6.05pm 7.2M/104th/65%
CAST:
GUSTAVE LYTTON: Maurice Colbourne; GRIFFITHS: Brian Glover; CYBERLEADER: David Banks; CYBERLIEUTENANT: Brian
Orell; CYBERCONTROLLER: Michael Kilgarriff; CYBERMAN: John Ainley; BATES: Michael Attwell; STRATTON: Jonathon
David; RUSSELL: Terry Molloy (1+reprise2); PAYNE: James Beckett (1); BILL: Stephen Churchett (1); DAVID:
Stephen Wale (1); VARNE: Sarah Greene (2); ROST: Sarah Berger (2); THREST: Esther Freud (2); FLAST: Faith
Brown (2). UNCREDITED: CYBERMEN: Pat Gorman, Thomas Lucy, Ian Marshall Fisher, Roger Pope; STUNT CYBERMAN: Ken Barker;
POLICEMEN: Mike Braben (1), Michael Jeffries (1); PASSERSBY: (all 1) Keith Chamberlain, Christopher Holmes, Penny Lambirth,
Ken Pritchard, Cy Town; MAN BEING CYBERNISED: Ken Pritchard (1); CRYONS: (all 2) Trisha Clark, Maggie Lynton, Irene Williams
STORY:
At the end of
Resurrection of the Daleks one of the only people to survive the Dalek battle was Commander Gustave Lytton. Being stranded on Earth
he took to a life of crime, employing a few people to aid him in robbing a vault of a big diamond merchant.
The Doctor and Peri land in London, 1985, after receiving a distress call. It turns out that Lytton was the sender, and he appears to be
working for new masters - the Cybermen. The Doctor and Peri are ordered by Lytton to take him to the Cybermens' home planet Telos.
The Cybermen have no time travel facilities of their own, but they have captured a time vessel and are planning to use it to return to
1985 and destroy, or severely weaken, Earth by crashing Halley's Comet to ensure their infamous plans of 1986.
(See The Tenth Planet).
Aided by the Cryons the Doctor manages to destroy the Cyberbase, and Cybercontroller.
BLOOPERS:
Episode 2: In the fight scene between the Doctor and the Cybercontroller, the carpet on the studio floor (under the central
console) gets kicked up and rather badly creased.
Episode 2: When Lytton stabs the CyberController, his blood gets splashed onto the camera lens.
STUDIOS:
Television Centre Studio 6
LOCATIONS:
Wapsey's Wood, Gerrards Cross, Bucks; junkyard, Birkbeck Road, Acton, London; scrapyard, Becklow Road, Acton, London; Davis Road and alley,
Acton, London; Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
WORKING TITLE:
The Cold War
NOTES:
This whole of this season consists of 45 minute episodes, as pioneered with
Resurrection of the Daleks
For this story and
Revelation of the Daleks
the writer credit is in upper case characters, unlike other crediting for every other use of this title sequence
NOVELISATION:
Attack of the Cybermen Eric Saward
VIDEO:
Attack of the Cybermen
