7K. Silver Nemesis
Writer: Kevin Clarke
Director: Chris Clough
Designer: John Asbridge
Incidental Music: Keff McCulloch
Stunt Arrangers: Paul Heasman (1-2) and Nick Gillard (2)
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
675. Part One 23.11.88 7.35pm - 8.00pm 6.2M/76th/71%
676. Part Two 30.11.88 7.35pm - 8.00pm 5.2M/94th/70%
677. Part Three 07.12.88 7.35pm - 8.00pm 5.2M/98th/70%
CAST:
DE FLORES: Anton Diffring; LADY PEINFORTE: Fiona Walker; RICHARD MAYNARDE: Gerald Murphy; KARL:
Metin Yenal; CYBERLEADER: David Banks; JAZZ QUARTER: (all 1) Courtney Pine, Adrian Reid, Ernest Mothle, Frank
Tontoh; MATHEMATICIAN: Leslie French (1); SECURITY GUARD: Martyn Read (1); CYBERLIEUTENANT: Mark Hardy
(2-3); CYBERMAN: Brain Orrell (2-3); SKINHEADS: Chris Chering (2), Symond Lawes 92); MRS REMINGTON:
Dolores Gray (3). UNCREDITED: CYBERMEN: Paul Barrass, Danny Boyd, Tony Charlton, Bill Malin, Scott Mitchell;
PARAMILITARIES: Steve Ausden, Jon Baker, Sean Barry-Weske, Jamie Durdy, Keith Harvie, David Howarth, Sean McCrory,
Julian Redmond, Andrew Searle, Jack Talbot; GARDENER: Terry Duran (1); MAID: Jacquella Tew (1); SECURITY
GUARD: Derek Van Weenan (1); DOUBLE FOR THE DOCTOR: Paul Heasman (1); THE QUEEN: Mary Reynolds (1);
POLICEMEN: (all 1) Daryl Brook, Christian Fletcher, Anthony Gilding; TOUR GUIDE: Vere Lorrimer (1);
TOURISTS: (all 1) Jane Busby, Kevin Clarke, Fiona Cumming, Ian Fraser, Sandra Granville, Sharon Granville, Katy Jarrett,
Audrey Joyce, John Lewery, Ian Fraser, Peter Moffat, Andrew Morgan, Tony Stewart, Gary Webb, Pat Worth; WALKMEN: Dave
Ould (1-2), John Ould (1-2); HITCHHIKER: Ricardo Mulhall (3).
STORY:
Sometimne, long ago, the Doctor launched into space a mass of validium - living metal - but with an orbit that brought it close
to Earth every 25 years. In order for the validium to become active it must have a critical mass. For this reason two pieces
were split off the main validium - shaped into a bow and arrow.
The Doctor and Ace visit Windsor in 1988, a time when the validium was next due. Three factions are chasing the validium:
DeFlores, who possessed the bow, Lady Peinforte, who possessed the arrow, and the Cybermen, who took control of the biggest
piece when it fell from its orbit.
The three factions fought against each other in an attempt to possess all validium whilst the Doctor, working to his own agenda,
ensured that only the faction he wanted possessed the validium.
The Doctor programmed the validium to attack the cyberfleet that was cloaked in orbit around Earth. When the Doctor announced
that the Cybermen should have the full validium Lady Peinforte committed suicide by joining with the validium. When the
Cybermen used the validium, the fleet was destroyed.
BLOOPERS:
Episode 1: When the Doctor and Ace are running away from the people shooting at them, and they fall off a bridge into a
stream, the Doctor drops his umbrella to the right, i.e. downstream, and falls off the bridge to the left, i.e. upstream. Then
when we see him again, he is swimming upstream, with the umbrella in his hand.
Episode 2: The Doctor and Ace use a jazz tape to jam the Cybermen's communications and keep them from calling for
reinforcements. Then in episode 3, they run out of tape (because, even with all the other gizmos he built into the tape deck,
the Doctor forgot to include auto-reverse!) But once the tape stops, the Cybermen never call for those reinforcements.
Episode ?: As the Cybermen attack for the first time, one of them (just left of centre I think) is clearly having
trouble keeping his head in position.
In 1638 a mathematician calculates that Nemesis will return exactly 350 years later on 23rd November 1988. Unfortunately,
something happened in 1752 which would render his calculations out by nearly two weeks. The Julian calendar was brought in
line with the Gregorian one, which meant that the 11 days from the 3rd to the 13th of September that year were simply skipped
over. So Nemesis should actually return on 4th December. (11 days later than 23rd November...)
LOCATIONS:
Greenwich, London; Arundel, Sussex;
WORKING TITLE:
Nemesis
NOTES:
This story was to celebrate the 25th anniversary, hence the use of silver (Validium, Cybermen, etc)
NOVELISATION:
Silver Nemesis
Kevin Clarke
VIDEO:
Silver Nemesis
