The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story): Difference between revisions

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|story number= 37

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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.

* [[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.

* [[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|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.

* 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.

* 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.

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