Return of the Cybermen (audio story)

Return of the Cybermen
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Sarah, Harry
Main enemy:	Cybermen
Main setting:	Nerva Beacon
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writers:	Gerry Davis, adapted by John Dorney
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Nicholas Briggs
Sound:	Nicholas Briggs
Cover by:	Ryan Aplin
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Release number:	6.01
Release date:	17 March 2021
Format:	2 CDs Download
Production code:	BFPDWLS29
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-230-9 (physical) ISBN 978-1-83868-231-6 (digital)
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Return of the Cybermen was the first release in the sixth series of The Lost Stories. It was based on the original drafts of the TV story Revenge of the Cybermen originally written by Gerry Davis, the scripts were adapted by John Dorney and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Sadie Miller as Sarah Jane Smith and Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan return to Space Station Nerva in search of the TARDIS. Instead, they find peril, disease and... Cybermen!

These cybernetic monsters have devised a plan to eliminate the greatest threat to their existence. And if the Doctor and his human compatriots do not play their part in this scheme, they are to be destroyed.

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Plot

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Sarah Jane Smith - Sadie Miller
• Harry Sullivan - Christopher Naylor
• Commander Stevenson / Pietersen - Nicholas Asbury
• Bill Lester / Bandenhorst - Robert Whitelock
• Kellman - Nickolas Grace
• Anitra / Coetzee - Amanda Shodeko
• The Cybermen / Cyberleader / Warner - Nicholas Briggs

References

The Cybermen

• The Doctor states that Cybermen are logical. The best way to survive Cybermen is to be useful to them, so that they keep you alive for longer. When a person's usefulness is over, the Cybermen will simply destroy you.
• Upon discovering a body, the Doctor tells Harry that it wasn't a Cybermen as they do not simply murder for gain.
• The Cybermen do not understand the word "insane".

Notes

• Sadie Miller, who recreates the role of Sarah Jane Smith, is the daughter of the character's original actress Elisabeth Sladen.
• This story was recorded on 4 and 11 November 2019 at Audio Sorcery.

Continuity

• The Doctor still has his Five Hundred Year Diary. (TV: The Power of the Daleks, et al)
• When trying to identify the Cybermat, he refers to his diary but struggles to remember that "C" stands for "Cyberman", and "T" stands for "Telos". (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
• The Doctor has seen this Cyber-Virus before. The last one was Neurotrope X. (TV: The Moonbase)
• The team uses gold dust against the Cybermen and Cybermats. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen, Nightmare in Silver)
• Humans believe that the Cybermen all died out hundreds of years ago, presumably during the Vogan War. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen)
• The Cyber-Leader is summoned. (TV: The Tenth Planet, et al)
• The Doctor finds out from his diary that radiation works against Cybermen. (TV: The Moonbase)
• The Doctor states that it takes a Cyberman a long time to reactivate. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, et al)
• The Doctor insinuates that not only has he met Sherlock Holmes, but that Arthur Conan Doyle was Sherlock's real identity. (COMIC: Funhouse, PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
• At first, the Cyber-Leader states that the Cybermen do not negotiations. (TV: Doomsday, et al)
• The Cybermen use humans as workforce. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)

External links

• Official Return of the Cybermen page at bigfinish.com