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+{{Infobox Story SMW
 |image= Cyberman (pre-excellent).jpg
-|script=The Tomb of the Cybermen (script)
+|script = The Tomb of the Cybermen (script)
 |novelisation= Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen (novelisation)
 |series=[[Doctor Who television stories|''Doctor Who'' television stories]]
-|season number= Season 5
+|season number= Season 5 (Doctor Who 1963)|
 |season serial number = 1
 |story number= 37
-|doctor=Second Doctor
+|doctor = Second Doctor
 |companions= [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]]
-|featuring = [[Peter Haydon|Haydon]]
+|featuring= Parry
-|enemy= [[Cyber-Controller (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]], [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], [[Eric Klieg|Klieg]], [[Kaftan]]
+|featuring2= Hopper (The Tomb of the Cybermen)
-|setting= [[Cyber-tomb]], [[Telos]], the [[25th century]]
+|featuring3= Peter Haydon{{!}}Haydon
-|writer= [[Kit Pedler]] & [[Gerry Davis]]
+|enemy= The [[Cyber-Controller (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|CyberTelosian-Controller]]
+|setting= [[Cyber-tomb]], [[Telos]], [[26th century]]
+|writer= Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis
 |director= [[Morris Barry]]
 |producer= [[Peter Bryant]]
-|epcount=4
+|epcount = 4
-|broadcast date= [[2 September (releases)|2]] - [[23 September (releases)|23 September]] [[1967 (releases)|1967]]
+|broadcast date= 2 - 23 September 1967
-|network=[[BBC1]]
+|network = BBC1
 |format= 4x25-minute episodes
 |serial production code= [[List of production codes|MM]]
 |prev= The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)
 |next= The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)
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-'''''The Tomb of the Cybermen''''' was the first serial of [[season 5]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It introduced the first [[Cyber-Controller]] and the [[Cybermat]]s.
+'''''The Tomb of the Cybermen''''' was the first serial of [[Season 5 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 5]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It introduced the first [[Cyber-Controller]] and the [[Cybermat]]s.
 It is the earliest [[Second Doctor]] serial to survive in its entirety and, from its recovery in the early 1990s until the recovery of ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'' in 2013, it was the only complete serial extant from season 5.
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 Toberman returns to Miss Kaftan and reports that "it is done". Klieg confides to Kaftan that he is struggling to decode what he needs to do to get into the tomb. Kaftan assures him that logic will prevail and that he has plenty of time. Parry and the group return. He calls the group together and decides to abandon the expedition and return to Earth. At this point, however, Hopper returns and angrily reveals that someone has sabotaged the rocket ship — no-one will be leaving until he can effect repairs and no-one will be allowed aboard until his crew has done so. Viner freaks out again, not wanting to be left overnight. Klieg jumps on this delay to take advantage and explore the area. Shortly after, he cracks the code, with a little help from the Doctor, opening the door to the tomb. Everyone except Victoria and Kaftan are to go. Victoria protests, but the Doctor asks her to stay and keep an eye on Kaftan. She relents. Kaftan asks for Toberman to stay, but the Doctor pretends that he will stay if it were not for the protection of Toberman. Kaftan relents. Left alone, Kaftan places something in Victoria's drink.
+[[File:FrozenTombs of TheCybermen.png|thumb|Frozen tombs of the Cybermen.]]
 Klieg and his party find a vast chamber beneath, with a multistory structure containing cells of frozen Cybermen, entombed in suspended animation.
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 * [[Crewman (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|Crewman]] - [[Ray Grover]]
 * [[Cyber-Controller|Cyberman Controller]] - [[Michael Kilgarriff]]
-*[[Cyberman|Cybermen]] - [[Hans de Vries]], [[Tony Harwood]], [[John Hogan]], [[Richard Kerley]], [[Ronald Lee]], [[Charles Pemberton]], [[Kenneth Seeger]], [[Reg Whitehead]]
+* [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] - [[Hans de Vries]], [[Tony Harwood]], [[John Hogan]], [[Richard Kerley]], [[Ronald Lee]], [[Charles Pemberton]], [[Kenneth Seeger]], [[Reg Whitehead]]
 * Cybermen Voices - [[Peter Hawkins]]
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 * [[Visual Effects]] - [[Michealjohn Harris]], [[Peter Day]]
-== References ==
+== Worldbuilding ==
 === Food and drinks ===
 * Kaftan offers Victoria some roasted [[veal]], [[chicken]] and roast [[beef]]. Victoria decides on roast chicken, but she is surprised when she is given a tablet instead.
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 * This story had the working titles of ''The Ice Tombs of Telos'' and ''The Cybermen Planet'' (also sometimes referred to as ''The Cyberman Planet'').
 * This is the only Cybermen story of the 1960s to feature the word "Cybermen" in the title.
-* This serial was believed lost in 1978 (when the BBC's film archive was first properly audited, although it is absent on earlier 1976 listings) until 16mm black & white film telerecordings of all four episodes were returned to the BBC by the Hong Kong television company ATV (formerly called RTV) in late 1991. The serial was released, to much fan excitement and with a specially recorded introduction by director Morris Barry, on VHS in May 1992 and, within the first week of being on sale, it out-sold ''Silence of the Lambs''.
+* This serial was believed lost in 1978 (when the BBC's film archive was first properly audited, although it is absent on earlier 1976 listings) until 16mm black & white film telerecordings of all four episodes were returned to the BBC by the [[Hong Kong]] television company ATV (formerly called RTV) in late 1991. The serial was released, to much fan excitement and with a specially recorded introduction by [[Morris Barry]], on VHS in May 1992 and, within the first week of being on sale, it out-sold [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film) ''The Silence of the Lambs''].
-* Following the story's recovery in 1991 and return early in 1992 after decades of being presumed wiped, the episodes were screened to a packed audience at BAFTA in Piccadilly on [[26 April (releases)|26 April]] [[1992 (releases)|1992]], along with guests including director [[Morris Barry]], producer [[Peter Bryant]], story editor [[Victor Pemberton]] and actors [[Frazer Hines]], [[Deborah Watling]], [[Shirley Cooklin]], [[Clive Merrison]], [[George Roubicek]] and [[Michael Kilgarriff]]. [[Tony Clark]], one of the audience members, recalled huge rounds of applause and thought that "everyone did love it". The broad verdict of a group of reviewers in ''DWB'' issue 101 agreed that the long-missing story lived up to the hype of its reputation of existing "at the very apex of ''Doctor Who''{{'}}s pyramid of masterpiece stories" when it was originally released on VHS. [[Gary Russell]], reviewing the story in [[DWM 187]], gave a "largely positive" review and said he "could go on forever about what's good in ''The Tomb of the Cybermen''". ([[TEDW 1]])
+* As a result of the serial's temporary absence, archive footage from a surviving episode of ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'' was used to represent the Second Doctor's confrontation with the Cybermen as the events of ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'' were recalled in the 1982 serial ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]''.
-* Toberman was originally intended to be deaf, hence his lack of significant speech; his hearing aid would foreshadow his partial transformation into a Cyberman. These elements were included in the novelisation. This omission in the TV story along with Toberman's servile nature, unfortunately contributed to the now perceived racist stereotypical characterisation of Toberman, due to the casting of a black actor, [[Roy Stewart]], in the role.
+* Following the story's recovery in 1991 and return early in 1992 after decades of being presumed wiped, the episodes were screened to a packed audience at [[BAFTA]] in [[Piccadilly]] on [[26 April (releases)|26 April]] [[1992 (releases)|1992]], along with guests including director [[Morris Barry]], producer [[Peter Bryant]], story editor [[Victor Pemberton]] and actors [[Frazer Hines]], [[Deborah Watling]], [[Shirley Cooklin]], [[Clive Merrison]], [[George Roubicek]] and [[Michael Kilgarriff]]. [[Tony Clark]], one of the audience members, recalled huge rounds of applause and thought that "everyone did love it". The broad verdict of a group of reviewers in ''DWB'' issue 101 agreed that the long-missing story lived up to the hype of its reputation of existing "at the very apex of ''Doctor Who''{{'}}s pyramid of masterpiece stories" when it was originally released on VHS. [[Gary Russell]], reviewing the story in [[DWM 187]], gave a "largely positive" review and said he "could go on forever about what's good in ''The Tomb of the Cybermen''". ([[TEDW 1]])
+* Toberman's servile nature unfortunately contributed to the now perceived racist stereotypical characterisation of Toberman, due to the casting of a black actor, [[Roy Stewart]], in the role.
 * ''Radio Times'' credits [[Peter Hawkins]] as "Cybermen Voices" for episode two, and as "Cyberman Voices" for episodes three and four. All on-screen credits read "Cybermen Voices".
-* Actress Shirley Cooklin (Kaftan) was married to producer Peter Bryant. Her character was written especially for her by Gerry Davis. Frazer Hines actually flirted with her, not realising that she was his boss's wife.
+* [[Shirley Cooklin]] (Kaftan) was married to producer [[Peter Bryant]]. Her character was written especially for her by [[Gerry Davis]]. [[Frazer Hines]] actually flirted with her, not realising that she was his boss's wife.
-* Peter Bryant, who had previously been assistant to [[Gerry Davis]] and been newly promoted to script editor on the preceding story, was allowed to produce this serial to test if he could take over from [[Innes Lloyd]] as producer later in the season. Bryant's own assistant, Victor Pemberton, acted as script editor on this serial and was also an uncredited Assistant Script Editor on ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'' and ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]''. He did not want to be a full time script editor, preferring to pen his own scripts and, later that season, he wrote [[Fury from the Deep (TV story)|''Fury from the Deep'']]. When Bryant's eventual promotion to producer came, [[Derrick Sherwin]] became script editor.
+* [[Peter Bryant]], who had previously been assistant to [[Gerry Davis]] and been newly promoted to script editor on the preceding story, was allowed to produce this serial to test if he could take over from [[Innes Lloyd]] as producer later in the season. Bryant's own assistant, Victor Pemberton, acted as script editor on this serial and was also an uncredited assistant script editor on ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'' and ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]''. He did not want to be a full time script editor, preferring to pen his own scripts and, later that season, he wrote ''[[Fury from the Deep (TV story)|Fury from the Deep]]''. When Bryant's eventual promotion to producer came, [[Derrick Sherwin]] became script editor.
 * The serial begins the semi-recurring tradition of Cybermen stories being titled "...of the Cybermen". This format is also used in the televisions stories ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]''; the comic stories ''[[The Power of the Cybermen (comic story)|The Power of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Time of the Cybermen (comic story)|Time of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]''; the audio stories ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Hour of the Cybermen (audio story)|Hour of the Cybermen]]''; the video game ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'' and the novel ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]''.
 * The story was chosen by [[BBC America]] to represent the [[Patrick Troughton]] era during their 50th-anniversary programming. Edited into an [[omnibus]] format, it was aired by BBCA on [[24 February (releases)|24 February]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]], after the debut of their homegrown special called, ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Second Doctor]]''. It also aired in the [[United Kingdom]] later in the year on [[13 October (releases)|13 October]], along with the ''Revisited'' special, on the [[Watch (TV channel)|Watch]] channel.
 * It has been noted that the Tomb of the Cybermen has a very similar layout to the tomb of Tutankhamun. The only significant differences being the 'bodies' in this story are underground while in Tutankhamun's they were all on the same level and there is no booby trap in the hallucination chamber. Booby traps did exist in some Egyptian tombs, but not in Tutankhamun's.
-* Morris Barry wanted Michael Kilgarriff to play the Cyber Controller right from the beginning. However, Kilgarriff had never seen ''Doctor Who'' before and knew nothing about the Cybermen. So when Barry approached him about the role, he was very surprised to learn that the part would involve him being encased in silver and that he would not have any lines. Three days later, he telephoned Barry and agreed to do the role.
+* [[Morris Barry]] wanted Michael Kilgarriff to play the Cyber Controller right from the beginning. However, Kilgarriff had never seen ''Doctor Who'' before and knew nothing about the Cybermen. So when Barry approached him about the role, he was very surprised to learn that the part would involve him being encased in silver and that he would not have any lines. Three days later, he telephoned Barry and agreed to do the role.
 * This is Victoria's only televised story that does not take place on Earth.
-* This is the only story of [[Season 5]] not to consist of six episodes.
+* This is the only story of [[Season 5 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 5]] not to consist of six episodes.
-* Deborah Watling admitted the scene in which Victoria gets sealed inside the sarcophagus was difficult for her to film due to her claustrophobia.
+* [[Deborah Watling]] admitted the scene in which Victoria gets sealed inside the sarcophagus was difficult for her to film due to her claustrophobia.
-* Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines came up with the gag of the Doctor and Jamie holding each other's hands themselves. They did so without the director's knowledge, so that he'd have no choice but to leave it in.
+* [[Patrick Troughton]] and [[Frazer Hines|Frazer Hine]]<nowiki/>[[Frazer Hines|s]] came up with the gag of the Doctor and Jamie holding each other's hands themselves. They did so without the director's knowledge, so that he'd have no choice but to leave it in.
-* When Victoria asks the Doctor what a Cybermat is, he points to a book and says, "One of those". This was an ad-lib by Patrick Troughton when he forgot his line.
+* When Victoria asks the Doctor what a Cybermat is, he points to a book and says, "One of those". This was an ad-lib by [[Patrick Troughton]] when he forgot his line.
-* [[Desmond Llewelyn]] was unsuccessfully sought for the role of Professor Parry.
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Llewelyn Desmond Llewelyn] was unsuccessfully sought for the role of Professor Parry, while [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladek_Sheybal Vladek Sheybal] was considered for Eric Klieg before [[George Pastell]] was cast. All three actors appeared in ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love_(film) From Russia with Love].''
-*[[Vladek Sheybal]] was considered for Eric Klieg.
 * According to [[Julian Knott]], when the VHS was released in 1992, it outsold the home video release of ''[[Aliens]]''. ([[TEDW 1]])
 * [[Eleventh Doctor]] actor [[Matt Smith]] cited ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'' as one of his favourite ''Doctor Who'' stories. ([[TEDW 1]])
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 * The Cybermats were controlled by various means – some by wires, some by wind-up clockwork, some by radio-control, and some by simply being shoved into the shot. When the team were not filming, it was known for the people controlling the radio-controlled Cybermats to chase Deborah Watling around on set.
 * The scene of the Cybermen breaking out of their tombs was filmed entirely in one take.
-* Morris Barry was impressed by the design work of the cyber tombs by [[Martin Johnson (designer)|Martin Johnson]]. Peter Bryant claimed that [[Sydney Newman]] called him to praise the story.
+* [[Morris Barry]] was impressed by the design work of the cyber tombs by [[Martin Johnson (designer)|Martin Johnson]]. [[Peter Bryant]] claimed that [[Sydney Newman]] called him to praise the story.
-*As well as being only one of two serials to fully exist from Season 5, this is the only Cyberman story produced in the 60s black and white era where all original episodes exist in their entirety. ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', [[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|''The Wheel in Space'']] and ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'' are all technically incomplete, with ''Wheel'' being the only story not to be fully restored using animation.
+* As well as being only one of two serials to fully exist from Season 5, this is the only Cyberman story produced in the 60s black-and-white era where all original episodes exist in their entirety. ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'' and ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'' are all technically incomplete, with ''The'' ''Wheel in Space'' being the only story not to be fully restored using animation.
+* The Cyberman Controller's headpiece was meant to glow, but the mechanism didn't work as intended.
+* There was consideration to having this be the finale of [[Season 4 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 4]].
+* The Cyberman Controller's head was originally meant to explode when he was sealed in the tombs.
+* Some Cybermats were radio-controlled, battery-powered or clockwork, while others were designed simply to be pulled along on a string, and a few were not intended to be mobile at all.
+* [[Deborah Watling]] had the flu during the recording of episode three.
+* Filming in [[Lime Grove Studios]] in the summer was so hot that [[Shirley Cooklin]] actually fell asleep while playing Kaftan's corpse. Her castmates only realised she was asleep when she started snoring.
+* The scene where fluid spurts out of a Cyberman's innards drew criticism for being too violent and grisly. [[Kit Pedler]] even appeared on the premiere of the BBC's commentary programme ''Talkback'' to debate the issue and defend ''Doctor Who''.
 === Ratings ===
-* Episode 1 - 6.0 million viewers
+* Episode one - 6.0 million viewers
-* Episode 2 - 6.4 million viewers
+* Episode two - 6.4 million viewers
-* Episode 3 - 7.2 million viewers
+* Episode three - 7.2 million viewers
-* Episode 4 - 7.4 million viewers
+* Episode four - 7.4 million viewers
 === Myths ===
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 * A Cyberman head from this story was stolen around the same time as a BBC producer quit outside the ''Doctor Who'' production office.
 * Eric Klieg's mention of "Whitehead logic" in episode one was an in-joke referring to Cyberman actor Reg Whitehead. ''(It wasn't. This was, in fact, a reference to mathematical logician Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947).)''
+* Toberman was originally intended to be deaf, hence his lack of significant speech; his hearing aid would foreshadow his partial transformation into a Cyberman. ''(The source for this myth is that in the script for episode four, Toberman now has an earpiece as a byproduct of being partially cyberconverted, but this was cut. He did not have a hearing aid in the script, nor is there any mention of him being deaf.)''
 === Filming locations ===
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 * In episode one, the Doctor and Jamie hold one of the tomb doors closed with their feet.
 * In episode one, as Kaftan knocks on the sarcophagus after Viner leaves to get the Doctor, Patrick Troughton can be seen standing in the entryway waiting for his cue to come onto the set.
-* A Cyberman uses a visible harness to lift Toberman over his head. ''The DVD production notes imply that this was less obvious on the non-remastered version of the story. In the remastered DVD release, the wires holding up the Cyberman that Toberman throws are clearly visible.''
+* A Cyberman uses a visible harness to lift Toberman over his head. ''The DVD production notes imply that this was less obvious on the non-remastered version of the story. In the remastered DVD release, the wires holding up Toberman are clearly visible.''
 * In episode four, Toberman spins what is clearly shown to be a dummy Cybercontroller.
 * Just after Toberman throws the Cybercontroller onto the control panel, it is visible for a brief second that the helmet has come loose and the face of the mask breaks.
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 == Continuity ==
+* The story is set roughly five hundred years after the Cybermen were last seen, with Parry remarking in episode 2 that Vinder can't have seen a live one as they've "been dead for the last five hundred years". At the time this would set the story circa 2570, as their [[Cyber-invasion (The Moonbase)|attack on the Moonbase]] occurred in 2070. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')
 * The Doctor returned to Telos in his [[sixth incarnation]], re-encountering the Cyber-Controller and also encountering the [[Cryon]]s, the original inhabitants of the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
 * The Cyber-Controller says that "we were becoming extinct" after the destruction of Mondas. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') When talking about their weakened state, the Doctor muses "so that's why you attacked the moonbase". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')
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 * Photo Gallery
 * Production Subtitles
-* Easter Eggs (Short clip done using [[VidFIRE]]/Audio of trailer for ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'')
+* Easter Eggs (Clean 1967 title sequence/Short clip done using [[VidFIRE]]/Audio of trailer for ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'')
 * Commentary: [[Frazer Hines]] and [[Deborah Watling]]
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 File:The Tomb of the Cybermen DVD Australian cover.jpg|DVD Region 4 Australian cover
 File:The Tomb of the Cybermen DVD US cover.jpg|DVD Region 1 US cover
+File:The Cybermen (2013 box set).jpg|thumb|The Cybermen 2013 Box-Set
 </gallery>
-A special edition of ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'' DVD was released in Revisitations 3 boxset, released in 2012. The other stories in the boxset set were ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'' and ''[[The Robots of Death (TV story)|The Robots of Death]]''. Extras featured on the special edition include a new commentary, two new documentaries (''[[The Curse of the Cybermen's Tomb (documentary)|Curse of the Cybermen's Tomb]]'' and ''[[The Lost Giants (documentary)|Lost Giants]]''), a promo TV spot, a documentary on the VidFIRE treatment on the story and an extended version of the Cybermen documentary which was originally released in the 2009 new series Cybermen collection. For this release, the story's original video look was restored via VidFIRE technology, something that wasn't done for the 2002 DVD release.
+==== Special Edition ====
+A special edition of ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'' DVD was released in the ''[[Revisitations|Revisitations 3]]'' boxset alongside ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'' and ''[[The Robots of Death (TV story)|The Robots of Death]]'' in 2012.
+===== Special Edition =====
+* Commentary by Deborah Watling ([[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]]) and Frazer Hines ([[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]]) recorded in 2001
+* Commentary by Deborah Watling, Frazer Hines, [[Bernard Holley]] ([[Peter Haydon|Haydon]]), [[Shirley Cooklin]] ([[Kaftan]]), [[Reg Whitehead]] ([[Cyberman]]) and [[Victor Pemberton]] (Script Editor), moderated by [[Toby Hadoke]], recorded in 2010
+* Morris Barry Introduction - The director's introduction from 1993
+* Title Sequence Tests
+* ''Late Night Line-Up'' - Behind the scenes at the BBC Visual Effects department in 1967
+* ''The Final End'' - 8mm film from ''The Evil of the Daleks''
+* ''[[The Lost Giants (documentary)|The Lost Giants]]'' - Cast and crew look back on the making of this story
+* ''[[The Curse of the Cybermen's Tomb (documentary)|The Curse of the Cybermen's Tomb]]'' - Sir [[Christopher Frayling]] and Dr [[Debbie Challis]] examine the story's ancient Egyptian origins
+* ''[[Cybermen: Extended Edition (documentary)|Cybermen - Extended Edition]]'' - A history of the Cybermen by [[Matthew Sweet]]
+* ''[[The Magic of VidFIRE (documentary)|The Magic of VidFIRE]]'' - The technology behind this unique process
+* ''[[Walls' Sky Ray lollies advertisement|Sky Ray Advert]]'' - 1960's ice lolly promo
+* ''[[Radio Times]]'' Listings (DVD-ROM)
+* [[Dr Who's Space Adventure Book|''Wall's Sky Ray'' Promotional Material]] (DVD-ROM)
+* Production Information Subtitles
+* Photo gallery
+* Coming Soon trailer - ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]''
+* [[Easter Egg]]s:
+** ''The Abominable Snowmen'' Audio Trailer. To access this hidden feature, enter Disc One's Episode Selection menu, at which point the feature will play automatically.
+** Clean 1967 title sequence. To access this hidden feature, press left at Title Sequence Tests on Disc One's Special Features menu to reveal a hidden ''[[Doctor Who]]'' logo.
+** CGI reconstructions of sets from the story. To access this hidden feature, press left at ''The Lost Giants'' on Disc Two to reveal a hidden ''Doctor Who'' logo.
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 The Tomb of the Cybermen Special Edition Region 2 DVD.jpg|Special Edition Region 2 UK cover
 The tomb of the cybermen.jpg|Special Edition Region 1 US cover
+The Tomb of the Cybermen SE Region 4 DVD cover.jpg|Special Edition Region 4 Aus cover
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