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Nightmare in Silver

Key crew

Writer:

Neil Gaiman

Director:

Stephen Woolfenden

Producer:

Denise Paul

Release details

Story number:

238

Premiere broadcast:

11 May 2013

Premiere network:

BBC One

Format:

1x45 minute episode

Official trailer

Memorable moment

Another memorable moment

Behind the scenes video

More behind the scenes stuff

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Nightmare in Silver was the twelfth and penultimate episode of series 7 of Doctor Who.

This adventure introduced a dramatic redesign of the Cyberman race that replaced the previous Cybus Industries design they had maintained since their return in Rise of the Cybermen, with these Cybermen employing a multitude of new abilities, including that of being able to convert species other than humans. Not counting the ambiguous Cybus-like Cybermen from A Good Man Goes to War-onward, this episode also definitively reintroduced the original Cybermen of the Doctor's universe to television for the first time since the series restarted back in 2005, their last television appearance being Silver Nemesis 25 years prior. Likewise, the Cybermats evolved with their progenitors into a more compact form known as Cybermites. Additionally, the Cybermen utilised a Cyber-Planner for the first time onscreen in the revived series, last seen in The Invasion. The episode also saw the introduction of the "Cyberiad", the collective consciousness of all Cybermen. It also saw the Cybermen become much more efficient and deadly, being able to almost instantly adapt to weaknesses; they also overcame their weakness to gold.

Unknown to the viewers at the time, the Doctor's threat to purge Mr Clever from his body through regeneration was a lie. Similar to the The Twin Dilemma with character Azmael, the Doctor had no regenerations left.

This episode also marks one of the few times on-screen that the Doctor has allowed children inside of the TARDIS, due to them being associated with one of his companions. He previously had done so in his previous incarnation with Sarah Jane's companions in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith when they asked to take a look inside the time machine.

This episode also allowed Matt Smith to undertake a dual role as the Eleventh Doctor gained an evil Cyberman alter-ego, Mr Clever, making Smith the sixth actor of the Doctor to have played both the Doctor and one of the main antagonists in a story, following William Hartnell in The Massacre, Patrick Troughton in The Enemy of the World, Tom Baker in Meglos, and Peter Davison and Colin Baker in Arc of Infinity.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eleventh Doctor takes his companion, Clara Oswald, and her wards, Angie and Artie, to the biggest amusement park in the galaxy, Hedgewick's World of Wonders. However, the theme park is empty, occupied only by a "punishment platoon" and a lone impresario with empty Cyberman shells as exhibits... or so it seems. When the Doctor decides to stay a while to investigate strange insect creatures that are roaming the park, he soon discovers that these insects are really machines seeking to convert the life forms on Hedgewick's World into the newest generation of the ever-upgrading menace...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The TARDIS lands and the Eleventh Doctor, Clara, Angie, and Artie Maitland step out. The Doctor welcomes them to Hedgewick's World of Wonders, the biggest and best amusement park ever. Angie and Artie point out that it looks like the Doctors is wrong and that they are actually on the moon, despite his protests to the contrary. Suddenly, a rock opens and a short man in a top hat peeks out and asks if they are his ride from Dave's Interstellar Taxi Service. They deny it, prompting the man to note that the service was supposed to come months ago.

A shout goes up and the man disappears. A military platoon comes storming out and demands identification from the travellers. The Doctor flashes his Golden Ticket, and when that doesn't work, whips out the psychic paper. The captain recognises him as the Imperial Consul, and asks for news of the Emperor. The Doctor tells her that he hasn't heard anything more than she has; from this, the Doctor learns that the Emperor has vanished. The Doctor dismisses the platoon, and the top-hat man comes out again.

The man leads them into the desolate, formerly grand amusement park, and then into his attraction: Webley's World of Wonders. He introduces himself as Impresario Webley, and shows them his waxwork attractions of beings. He asks Artie for a game of chess, and leads him to a chess board, explaining that "we destroyed them 1000 years ago, and now he's back to destroy you. Behold the enemy!" Webly pulls a sheet of the other side of the table, revealing a Cyberman powering up. The Doctor yells for everyone to get down.

However, Webly smiles and assures them that it's completely harmless. He cites his display as "the six hundredth and ninety-ninth wonder of the universe", and a master at chess, despite the fact that it is an empty shell. He offers five Imperial shillings for a penny if Artie can beat the Cyberman at chess. Artie offers a sandwich, and Webley accepts. The Cyberman defeats Artie with a fool's mate. Webley shows that the shell is free of all devices and offers a silver penny to Angie if she can figure out how it works. She guesses that it's done with mirrors, but the Doctor deduces that it's being controlled by a man inside the box. He opens up the box, revealing Webley's conspirator, Porridge, and Webley gives Angie the silver penny.

Webley shows off the rest of his Cyberman collection, as well as a wax figure of Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI, Defender of Humanity and Imperator of Known Space. The adults lead the kids off to the Spacey-Zoomer ride - an anti-grav ride - and let them fly and float around. Afterwards, Clara wants to get the kids home, but the Doctor doesn't want to leave. He finds "funny insects" that he wants to investigate, and forces everybody to stay longer. The kids crash on couches in Webley's house, and the adults go off to explore, with the Doctor warning the kids not to wander off. The terrified kids settle into the couches.

Webley resets his chess board while eating the sandwich he won off of Artie. Suddenly, the Cyberman grabs him and Cybermites begin upgrading him. Meanwhile, Angie declares the future to be stupid, complaining that there isn't even phone service. She leaves, despite protests from Artie, as the insects crawled over Clara's phone. Elsewhere, Porridge explains the Cybermen to Clara. He tells her of the Tiberian spiral galaxy, which had to be blown up to destroy the Cybermen. Porridge comments that he feels like a monster: instead of mourning a billion trillion deaths, he feels sorry for the person who had to press the button. The Doctor interrupts and asks Clara if she told Angie she could go to the barracks. Clara realises that Angie has wandered off.

In the barracks, the platoon are trying to fix their systems, when Angie appears. The captain asks Angie where her sister was. Realising that she meant Clara, Angie denies that they are sisters, calling Clara stupid and saying she was talking to Porridge (the captain mistaking this as Clara talking to real porridge). The captain pulls Angie off for a talk.

An improved Mondasian Cyberman.

Meanwhile, Artie wanders off, looking for a light switch. After he finally finds the lights, one of the Cybermen suits suddenly grabs him.

At the barracks, Angie is telling the captain about Porridge when Clara storms in. Without warning, an upgraded Cyberman appears in the doorway. The Cyberman captures Angie and escapes. Clara tries to go after Angie but is stopped by the Doctor. He promises that he will get Angie back and invokes his "power" as "Imperial Consul", stripping the captain of her rank and giving it to Clara. He tells Clara not to let them blow up the planet, to get to somewhere defensible, and to stay alive.

The Cyberman brings Angie to a room, where she finds her brother controlled by a Cyber earpiece. She attempts to get his attention; he responds in an electronic voice that she should wait to be upgraded. Seeing Webley shushing her, Angie screams in terror.

Meanwhile, Clara, in her new role as commander, scrounges up all their resources to build an offence against the Cybermen. They decide to move to Natty Longshoe's Comical Castle for defence. The captain informs Clara that the platoon can deal with one Cyberman, but there are protocols that they must follow if they cannot find and destroy it: specifically to blow up the planet. Clara rejects this and orders the platoon to move to the castle.

The Doctor returns to where he left the children, finding them missing. He spots a cyber insect on a display. Regarding it, he informs whoever is watching the feed that the children are under his protection, and he is coming to get them. Then he informs the machine that "[it] is beautiful!", sonics it, and studies it. He uses the sonic to tune into the local transmat, bringing himself to the children and Webley. Webley explains to the Doctor that, as the battle raged between humanity and the Cyberiad, the Cybermen built a bunker to repair their damaged units. They needed children's brains to build a new Cyber-Planner, as a child's brain has infinite potential. However, now that the Doctor is there, they have no need of the children; a Time Lord has a brain filled with more potential than mere children. The Doctor scoffs, telling them that they can only convert humans. Webley tells him that that is no longer true; thanks to the Cyber-Wars, the Cybermen were forced to learn how to bypass their limitations of assimilating only humans into their fold.

Webley throws Cybermites onto the Doctor, which incorporate him into the Cybernetwork. He becomes the Cyber-Planner, with non-human brain power to dream up ideas to strengthen the Cyberiad. The Cyber-Planner takes stock of the Doctor's body, noting the unfamiliar systems and remarkable brain power. Finding the title "Cyber-Planner" dull, it instead calls itself "Mr. Clever." Inside the Doctor's mind, the two meet and battle for control, the Cyber-Planner using his memories to torment the Doctor.

The Cyber-Planner finds delight in his cleverness, realising that there is information on the Time Lords available. The Doctor blocks it all but information on regeneration. He threatens to regenerate right then and there, to burn out the Cyber-Planner. He doesn't want to, unsure of what he'll end up with next, but acknowledges that he could do it. The Cyber-Planner declares a stalemate, concluding that they are too well balanced; each controls 49.881% of the brain, leaving .238% unclaimed. The Doctor challenges the Cyber-Planner to a game of chess; winner takes all. If the Cyber-Planner wins, he gets the Doctor's mind. If the Doctor wins, he gets his mind back, the children are freed, and nobody dies.

Elsewhere, Missy takes guard of a corridor. She notices a shadow, and reports it as a possible Cyberman. It is a Cybermen. The Cyberman detaches its hand, which crawls over to Missy and drags her out of her hiding place. Back at base, the platoon realise that the Cyberman is on its way. Clara demands to be shown all weapons, which consist of one anti-cyber gun, hand pulses able to disable a Cyberman on contact, and a weapon which can implode the planet. Clara takes the remote control for the last weapon from the captain, but the captain informs her that the fallback voice-activation is set to respond to her voice only. Clara orders her to detonate the device only when she directly orders her to. The captain challenges Clara's command, but Clara asserts her authority with Porridge's help and signs for the remote control.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and the Cyber-Planner begin their chess game. While they play, the Cyber-Planner asks the Doctor why the Cyberiad has no record of him. He then realises that the Doctor has purposely erased himself from history, and notes that he could be reconstructed from the holes he left. The Cyber-Planner rails against him, telling the Doctor that he cannot win against him. The Doctor counters with his knowledge of early Cybermen. Their codes can be scrambled by cleaning fluids and gold. The Cyber-Planner laughs: "That's your plan? Cleaning fluid?" The Doctor replies in negative, slapping his Golden Ticket on the the metallic growth on his face, temporarily scrambling the circuits. He comes back to himself, collects the chess board, and leaves with the children and Webley.

Back at the castle, the captain and Porridge are discussing a secret regarding Porridge. Clara interrupts, asking why it was necessary to blow up a whole planet just to get rid of one Cyberman. Porridge says there are other ways to kill a Cyberman, but they don't always work. Blowing up the planet is the only sure-fire way to do it. The captain says that she was sent to the punishment platoon because she didn't follow orders, and that she can make up for it now. She declares that she will do what she was born to do: fight for the Empire. She begins to voice-activate the weapon but is shot by a Cyberman. Clara decides to go on the offensive, otherwise facing death. The platoon mobilises with hand pulses and the anti-cyber gun and launch sneak attacks on the Cybermen, with limited success.

The Doctor approaches the castle with the children and Webley in tow. Clara comes out with the anti-cyber gun and the Doctor greets her. The Doctor rattles off his news: he kidnapped the Cyber-Planner, which is in his head, the kids are in a walking coma, which he may or may not be able to correct, there are more Cybermen active, and the Cyber-Planner is installing a gold patch. He asks for a table and for somebody to immobilise him.

Once tied up, the Doctor removes the gold sheet from his face; either of his own will, or because Mr. Clever managed to bypass gold weakness. The Cyber-Planner reemerges and begins to taunt Clara. As the Cyber-Planner continues to rattle on threats, the Doctor moves his hand, writing "HIT ME!" on the notepad beside the chess board. Clara obliges, smacking him; the Doctor explains that a sudden shock to his nerves is what he needed to get back control. Clara demands to know the stakes. The Doctor tells her but admits that the Cyber-Planner will probably break his promise if the Doctor wins the chess match. Clara begs the Doctor to fix Angie and Artie, but he says that they're just in standby mode. When Clara protests, the Doctor says the children have a much better chance of getting out this situation alive than she does. Taken aback, Clara asks which of the two personalities said that. With a smirk, Mr. Clever states it was him. He threatens her immediate death, and she leaves to prepare the platoon for the coming onslaught.

Clara discusses their weapons, which are minimal at that point. Spotting a cable, she cleverly devises a plan to electrify the water in the moat. They drop the cable into the water, turn on the power, and raise the drawbridge to force the Cybermen to cross the water.

The Doctor's game continues. Inside his mind, the Cyber-Planner awakes the legions of Cybermen hidden in the barracks.

Inside the castle, the platoon prepares their defence. The Doctor calls for Clara, and she goes to check on him. The Doctor cheerfully asks her for a rundown on their weapons, with keen interest in the planet-imploding bomb. She shows him the remote trigger, which he tries to take possession of. She snatches it away from him, suspicious of who really is in control. The Doctor says the Cyber-Planner is hibernating, but Clara doesn't buy it. She tells him to tell her something only the Doctor knows. Looking rather sincere, the Doctor begins to tell her that he is falling in love with her. He moves to kiss her, but Clara slaps him again.

The Doctor comes to himself, asking Clara how she knew. Clara that's even if what Mr. Clever said was true about the Doctor; the Doctor himself would never say those things. Clara tells him to finish the game, and the Cyber-Planner grabs her hand, wresting the remote control from her and destroying it. The Doctor is grim, but is overtaken once more; Mr. Clever states that without the threat of the planet blowing up to deter them, he can now order the Cybermen to attack.

Clara and the platoon ready their attack with the five hand pulses and the nearly depleted anti-cyber gun. The Cyber-Planner declares endgame and moves to finish the Doctor. The Cyber-army begins to assault the castle. One steps into the moat and is apparently electrocuted. The platoon celebrates, but then the Cyberman upgrades itself. The patch is spread through the ranks, and the Cybermen continue onward. Clara gives orders to defend the castle, and tells Porridge to keep himself safe. Two soldiers shoot down the first Cyberman, but balk as more come through. Porridge grabs the bomb, muttering that he should have destroyed the planet when he had the chance.

The Cyber-Planner taunts the Doctor, offering him one more deal. If the Doctor sacrifices his queen, the Cyber-Planner will release the children but win the game in five moves and take the Doctor's mind. The Doctor accepts the deal and Angie and Artie are released. The Cyber-Planner taunts him once more, telling him how foolish he was to have pointlessly sacrificed himself for two human children. He mockingly asks the Doctor if he thinks that the death of the children will affect his relationship with Clara. Webley moves to kill the children, but Porridge slaps a hand pulse onto his leg and kills him. Angie awakes and the Doctor tells her to look after Artie.

The Doctor taunts the Cyber-Planner, telling him that sacrificing his queen was the best move he could have made. The Time Lords invented chess, and the Doctor has cleverly set up a trap that will give him checkmate in three moves. Outside, the Cybermen are overwhelming the platoon, but as they are about to deliver the killing blows, the Cyber-Planner pulls in their resources, giving him extra processing power to figure out and counter the Doctor's strategy. It saves the lives of Clara and the rest of the platoon, but puts the Doctor at a serious disadvantage.

As the platoon makes their last stand, the Doctor initiates his endgame. Move One: Turn on sonic screwdriver. Move Two: Activate pulse. Move Three: Apply pulse. "That's cheating!" the Cyber-Planner howls in impotent fury. The Doctor slaps himself with the hand pulse and destroys the Cyber-circuitry in his body.

Clara rushes in to find the Doctor completely back to himself and unties him. The Doctor explains that, having been expelled from his body, Mr. Clever is now in every Cyberman. The Doctor decides that they need to blow up the planet to destroy the Cybermen. This seems impossible since the captain is dead, but Angie deduces that Porridge can voice activate it, since he is the Emperor. The statue was made taller than he actually was but his face matches that of it, as well as the face on the coin she was given. Porridge reluctantly admits that Angie is right, but states that he hates his job and if he activates the Desolator, its all over. Confronted with the reality of the situation, Porridge reluctantly activates the Desolator, which will blow in about 80 seconds. However, the activation by Porridge has signalled the Imperial Flagship which transmats everyone and, at the Doctor's request, the TARDIS, aboard. As the group watches, the Desolator destroys Hedgwick's World of Wonders and presumably all of the Cybermen.

Porridge remarks that he liked being normal: not an emperor of a thousand galaxies, not lonely. Clara says that he doesn't have to be lonely, and he agrees, proposing to her on the spot. The Doctor attempts to interrupt, but is shushed by Clara, who prompts the Emperor to continue. Porridge makes a convincing argument, to which Clara declines gently. Angie calls her stupid for not saying yes, loudly declaring that one day, she'll be queen of the universe. Porridge pretends to threaten them with execution, before mirthfully telling them to leave.

The Doctor returns the children and Clara to their home, pondering Clara's identity once more. Back on the imperial ship, the Emperor asks if there was any Cybertech remaining. With the answer being no, the Emperor then flies his ship home — with a floating Cybermite blinking in the darkness of space.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Uncredited Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Big Red - Julian Seager
Platoon Soldiers - Georgina Burford, Annelisse Murray, Sasha Latoya, Alphaeus Daniel, Eugene Henderson, Danielle Saunders
Cybermen - Martin Challinor, Toby Rattery, Angus Brown, Paul Bailey, Charlie Smith, Simon Carew
Emperor's Guards - Anne Lyken-Garner, Remington Croney, Sy Turner
Gloria - Katie Dowler

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Executive Producers Caroline Skinner and Steven Moffat

Series Producer Marcus Wilson


Written by Neil Gaiman	Produced by Denise Paul	Directed by Stephen Woolfenden	Director of Photography Tim Palmer BSC	Production Designer Michael Pickwoad	Visual Effects Stargate Studios

Make-up Designer Barbara Southcott	Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG	Music Murray Gold	Costume Designer Howard Burden	Edited by Iain Erskine	Special Effects Real SFX
Original theme music by Ron Grainer • With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales • Conducted and orchestrated by Ben Foster • Recorded by Gerry O'Riordan • Mixed by Jake Jackson Cybermen created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis

General production staff

Script department

Assistant Script Editor - John Phillips

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Casting

Casting Associate - Alice Purser

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound


Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.

Uncredited crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Stargate Studios[[edit] | [edit source]]

BBC Wales VFX[[edit] | [edit source]]

VFX Supervisor - Sue Land^[2]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Waxworks sculpted in the likeness of a Shansheeth, an Uvodni head, the upper body of a Blowfish, a creature resembling a Gastropod, an Ultramancer, a Pan-Babylonian and a Lugal-Irra-Kush can be seen on display inside the room housing the chessboard.

Cybermen[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Cyber-Wars ended 1,000 years ago. The planet where Hedgewick's World is situated was used to hide 3 million Cybermen and repair them.
The "Cyberiad" refers to the collective consciousness of the Cybermen.

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Whilst under possession by the Cyber-Planner, the Doctor mimics the Ninth Doctor's accent and catchphrase of "Fantastic", as well as the Tenth Doctor's of "Allons-y".
In addition to his binary vascular system, the Doctor has a hyper-conductive nervous system and "remarkable brain processing power", according to Mr Clever. He also notices that the Doctor has had "ten complete re-jigs" (regenerations).

Clara[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Clara meet on Wednesdays for their adventures.

Games[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor claims that the game of chess was invented by the Time Lords.
Artie Maitland plays chess versus the "Cyberman" (Porridge) and accidentally commits a Fool's mate.

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Angie has a cell phone but can't get any service on Hedgewick's World.
The platoon has a broken solid state, sub ether ansible-class communicator, a malfunctioning weather controller, and these pieces of cyberia-class weaponry: an anti-cyber gun, hand pulses, and a bomb that can implode the planet.

Influences[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to "Behind the scenes...", the Cybermen were redesigned for this episode and got a variety of new abilities and features. These new Cybermen share several similarities with the Borg of Star Trek franchise - which were in turn originally based somewhat upon the Cybermen. The Cybermen's ability to adapt to attacks is reminiscent of the Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Additionally, the Borg used nanoprobes to convert individuals, similar to the Cybermites, and Webley's cyber-appearance is reminiscent of the Borg's "half machine, half human" face. And as of Star Trek: First Contact they, like these Cybermen, assimilated new members by use of something coming out of their wrists. Voice notifications for individuals to convert were also typical for the Borg and the Cybermen, both new and old.
This episode uses a camera technique known as "Bullet Time", popularised in The Matrix to frame out the high-speed movements of the new Cybermen, as shown in the "Behind the Scenes" featurette.

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

The episode had the working titles of The Last of the Cybermen, Silver Ghosts, A Nightmare in Silver and The Last Cyberman.
Clara asks "Can Cybermen fly?", with the answer being no. However, they eventually gain the ability to in Death in Heaven, where Missy's Cybermen are able to fly.
Though not stated in the episode, Neil Gaiman revealed that he saw it as taking place "a quarter of a million years into the future".^[3]
The ending of the story, in which a lone Cybermite is seen drifting into space, having escaped the destruction of the planet, is reminiscent of the end of The Tomb of the Cybermen, in which a single Cybermat escapes from the tombs just before they are sealed.
Subsequently, the Cybermen exiting their tombs mirrors the cliffhanger of Earthshock Part 3 when three rows of Cybermen march towards the camera. It's also very similar to the scene where the Cybermen come out of their tombs in The Tomb of the Cybermen.
The Doctor threatens to regenerate to eliminate all traces of Mr Clever from his body, though it's later revealed that this was actually a bluff. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) However the Doctor could have been threatening to commit suicide, like Azmael previously did. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)
The scene where Porridge operates a Cyberman exoskeleton in a game of chess is a homage to the Turk, an animatronic man that was purported to be a chess-playing automaton (an animatronic capable of completely independent motion). In reality, the Turk was operated from within by a human chessmaster, not unlike Hedgewick's "Cyberman". The Turk previously served as an inspiration for the television story The Girl in the Fireplace and audio stories The Silver Turk.
This is the eleventh time the actor playing the Doctor has portrayed a different character in the same story - although in this case only, the Doctor and the other character physically inhabit the same body. Other doppelgangers previously were seen with:

William Hartnell (The Chase and The Massacre)
Patrick Troughton (The Enemy of the World)
Tom Baker (The Android Invasion and Meglos)
Peter Davison (Arc of Infinity and The Caves of Androzani)
David Tennant (Journey's End)
Matt Smith (The Almost People and The Wedding of River Song)

When the Doctor lets Mr Clever access his memories on regeneration, the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors are seen. Each image is taken from photograph stills used as promotional material during the respective actors' tenures.
The converted Webley tells the Doctor that the Cybermen had turned children into Cyber-Planners in the past because of a child's imagination. This mirrors the reasoning behind the Renegade Daleks' use of a young girl as their Battle computer in Remembrance of the Daleks.
The Cyber-Planner makes its first appearance within the revived series. However, this is not the first time it has been incorporated into the elements of the revived timeline. Cyber-Planners previously appeared in GAME: The Eternity Clock.
This is the third consecutive series' penultimate episode where the Cybermen have been featured, after The Pandorica Opens and Closing Time.
Following the success of The Doctor's Wife, Steven Moffat invited Neil Gaiman to write a second script for the series. Gaiman advised Moffat that he would be unlikely to be available, especially since his previous episode had been such a time-consuming endeavour. However, he was persuaded when Moffat suggested that this would be an opportunity to revamp the Cybermen.
A lifelong fan of the series, Neil Gaiman had fond memories of Patrick Troughton's encounters with the Cybermen. He felt that it made sense for them to be regularly updated, thinking in terms of the rapid evolution of modern technology like smartphones. He also wanted to make the Cybermen more stealthy and spooky, whereas the modern versions had been portrayed as noisy and slow-moving. Gaiman felt that the parallel-universe Cybermen would likely have merged with their counterparts from Mondas, giving him the freedom to conceive a new form of Cyberman which drew upon the best of all of their previous appearances.
Neil Gaiman was keen to revisit the Cybermats. He knew that the they had been inspired by silverfish, which led him to take the concept to its next logical stage, in the form of the Cybermites. He imagined that this microscopic form of Cyber life could actually be a component of the process which turned a human being into a Cyberman.
Neil Gaiman considered various settings, including the Greater Cyrrhenic Empire. He settled on a 1950s seaside fairground. However, when he described potential scenes such as an army of Cybermen emerging from the water onto the beach, he was informed by the production team that his notions were not achievable on the series' budget. Instead, Gaiman reworked his plans for a futuristic amusement park.
The Doctor was originally to be accompanied by a Victorian governess named Beryl Montague and her two charges, Charlotte and Godfrey. Neil Gaiman accordingly conceived elements which would suit Beryl's nineteenth-century origins, such as the presence of an alien freak show and the primacy of Porridge's duty to his subjects.
Neil Gaiman's work on the script ground to a halt when he lost his laptop after leaving it behind on an aeroplane. Too busy with other commitments to reconstruct his work to date, Gaiman deferred further progress.
Alice's punishment platoon was initially conceived as being exclusively female.
The sequence in which the soldiers are attacked by a Cyberman moving at incredible speed was inspired by Neil Gaiman's attendance at a party in late April to recognise the third anniversary of Kickstarter. Observing the silver balloons which festooned the venue, he considered how easy it would be for a Cyberman to inveigle itself into the proceedings unnoticed while the guests danced and celebrated.
In the aftermath of the Cybermen's defeat, there was initially a sequence in which Angie saw an older version of herself wearing a wedding dress who had apparently been brought to the imperial ship by a future Doctor.
The episode was to end with an ominous scene in the Cyberiad featuring Cybermen from throughout their televised history, including the “Oldest Cyberman” resembling those seen in The Tenth Planet, who would hint at a broader plot to snare the Doctor.
The showdown with the Cyber army was originally set on an island attraction accessible only by boat; like the castle which replaced it, this bore the moniker "Natty Longshoe", which was an homage to Pippi Longstocking.
Nehemiah Webley was named after folk and alternative musician Jason Webley, who had collaborated with Neil Gaiman's wife, Amanda Palmer.
The chess-playing Cyberman was dubbed Marvello, and then The Amazing Marvel, before losing its moniker altogether.
Until a very late stage, the theme park was called Lampwick's World after the delinquent boy who led Pinocchio astray. However, the name was amended to Hedgewick's World when it was discovered that there was an actual retailer of light fixtures called Lampwick's World.
The episode comprised Block Ten of season seven.
This was the third of four consecutive episodes produced by Denise Paul, while Marcus Wilson, who would receive a credit as series producer on these occasions, turned his attention to The Day of the Doctor.
The scenes at the castle was the first material to be shot.
Neil Gaiman announced his return to the series during his Hugo Award acceptance speech for The Doctor's Wife, commenting that "only a fool or a madman would try again – so [he was] on his third draft now".
Warwick Davis stated that it was a "thrill" to be in the series, especially in an episode with the Cybermen written by Neil Gaiman.
Neil Gaiman hoped to write a script that would win Matt Smith a BAFTA.
Production on The Name of the Doctor began the day special effects shots were completed on this episode, as the requirements of the schedule necessitated the overlapping of Blocks Ten and Eleven.
During editing, a scene was dropped in which the Doctor mimicked Prince Philip while masquerading as the Proconsul; ironically, Matt Smith would later play the Duke of Edinburgh in the first two seasons of The Crown.
Neil Gaiman struggled to find a way to better involve the Doctor in the action. He finally came up with the idea of engaging the Doctor and the Cyber-Planner in a duel set inside the Time Lord's mind, affording Matt Smith the opportunity to give a very different onscreen performance.
Neil Gaiman originally wanted the Cybermen to be silent, as he found the 1960s Cybermen much scarier than the Daleks "because they were quiet, and they slipped in and out of rooms".
On redesigning the Cybermen, Neil Gaiman decided to "take the 1960s Cybermen and [incorporate] everything that's happened since". However, Gaiman said that he "got completely side-tracked by a mad, strange romp". Steven Moffat stated that the Cybermen were redesigned because they did so often in the classic series, and yet had been consistent in the new series. The previous design of the Cybermen also appear in this episode, but are not the primary threats.
Neil Gaiman was motivated to provide a "rationalisation" for the Cybermen in current Doctor Who continuity. The classic series had depicted the Cybermen as alien cyborgs, while the revived series depicted them as human cyborgs from a parallel Earth; Gaiman opined that his Cybermen stemmed from an encounter and amalgamation of these two types of Cybermen following The Next Doctor.
During filming at Castell Coch, a copy of the readthrough script was found in a taxi in Cardiff. It was marked as being Eve De Leon Allen's copy and had the working title of The Last Cyberman. The script was found by Hannah Durham, who posted a picture of the script to Facebook with the caption: "found Dr Who script in the back of a taxi. Cheeky spoilers anyone?" It was then posted to Reddit by Dan Rowling with the caption: "Look what a Facebook friend found in a taxi in Cardiff on Monday". Arrangements were then made by Hannah Durham and Dan Rowling to return the script to the BBC.
The theatre-repurposed-as-military-barracks is the same theatre-repurposed-as-military-barracks from The Doctor's Daughter.
The punishment platoon use the same communicators as the Clerics from The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone.
Matt Smith found his dual performance to be a struggle and received little support from the crew, whom he constantly voiced his frustrations at.
While Neil Gaiman enjoys the script as he wrote it, he found that the finished product was misinterpreted by Stephen Woolfenden, leaving a lot of his intentions unclear. Gaiman revealed in 2018 that he felt like the product was being taken out of his control and being weakened without his consent, leaving him with a bitter experience. Whilst this hasn't altered his love of the show or his desire to return, it did lead him to demand full creative control over future projects based on his scripts.

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

Overnight viewing figures estimate that the episode was watched by 4.7 million viewers, rising to 6.64 million after calculating the final ratings, making it the ninth most-watched programme of the week on BBC One.^[4]

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Myths[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ha-Ha is Alfie Owens grown up. This theory circulated on Tumblr, postulated as a result of Ha-Ha's claim that he "has heard of the Cybermen since [he] was in [his] cradle," which was taken to be a direct reference to the events of Closing Time, as well as actor Calvin Dean's physical similarity in build to James Corden, who played Alfie's father Craig. As the story is set some 1,000 years after the supposed final destruction of the Cybermen and the end of the Cyber Wars, this is unlikely. It is also not borne out by any dialog in the episode itself.

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

When the Doctor is running to the castle, the gold ticket he used to shut down the Cyber-Planner is missing from his face. However, when he encounters Clara and the Platoon, the ticket is on his face again.
One of the Cybermen's chestplates is pushed up, most likely due to it being too short for the actor wearing it.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to Webley, there are 699 Wonders of the Universe. The Third Doctor once declared as much after the destruction of the 700th wonder, the Great City of the Exxilons. (TV: Death to the Daleks)
The Doctor can play chess. (TV: The Sun Makers, The Androids of Tara, The Curse of Fenric, The Wedding of River Song). Also, the Time Lords inventing chess was a query first considered by the Second Doctor. (PROSE: Dreams of Empire)
This is not the Doctor's first encounter with a Cyberman purported to be an automated game-playing machine. When the Eighth Doctor encountered the Silver Turk, a Cyberman, it too attacked its 'controllers'. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk)
The Doctor mentions and exploits the Cybermen's weakness to gold (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen, Earthshock, Silver Nemesis) and cleaning fluid. (TV: The Moonbase)
Two impact suits can be seen. (TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)
The Doctor says the children are under his protection. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
Angie and Artie Maitland travel in the TARDIS, as they had previously blackmailed Clara into taking them along. (TV: The Crimson Horror)
The Doctor shows Mr Clever the memory of his most recent regeneration. (TV: The End of Time)
When talking about the Doctor to Clara, Mr Clever says that he's "had some cowboys in here". The Tenth Doctor used this phrase to describe the state of the ship SS Madame de Pompadour. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace) The Eleventh Doctor also said this to young Amelia Pond. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
Mr Clever seems excited to get knowledge of the Time Lords, whereas earlier in their history, the Cyber-Leader considered the secrets of the Time Lords to be of no concern to the Cybermen. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
Several wax replicas of creatures are seen in Webley's room. This includes an Uvodni head, (TV: Warriors of Kudlak) a Blowfish head, (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) a Shansheeth head, (TV: Death of the Doctor) a Chameleon, (TV: The Faceless Ones) a dummy, (TV: The God Complex) an Ultramancer, a Pan-Babylonian, and a Lugal-Irra-Kush. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
The Doctor previously visited an amusement park "controlled" by aliens. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
Angie's mobile phone has no service, indicating that the Doctor didn't give her a superphone, as he had with other companions since his ninth incarnation. (TV: The End of the World, 42, The Doctor's Daughter, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
The Doctor mentions the Cybermats. (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen, Revenge of the Cybermen, Closing Time)
The Doctor echoes a quote from his former companion Rory Williams when confronted by the troops aiming guns at him: "Don't shoot, I'm nice!" (TV: The God Complex)
The Doctor's defeat of the Cyber-Planner, distracting him with a bluff about an alleged checkmate to drain his power, is the same stratagem he used against Fenric in his seventh incarnation. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
The Doctor refers to an enemy, the Cybermite, as "beautiful". (TV: Tooth and Claw, The Girl in the Fireplace, The God Complex, PROSE: Dark Horizons)
The Doctor has previously told companions not to "wander off". (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
UNIT also designed a device that would blow up a planet to be used if left with no other options, the Osterhagen Project. (TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End)
The Doctor and Mr Clever discuss the Doctor removing himself from databanks across the universe. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, The Angels Take Manhattan)
The Doctor says that the Cybermen can't convert non-human beings. However, in his sixth incarnation, he met Cybermen who, whilst in the Land of Fiction, converted Fairies, Trolls, Mermen, Vampires and even a Whale into their Cyber-forces. (AUDIO: Legend of the Cyberman)
Porridge's title of Imperator is similar to a title Imperiatrix on Gallifrey which Pandora and the Doctor's former companion Romana held. (AUDIO: Lies, Pandora to Appropriation)
The Doctor's body being possessed by a villainous being that makes him appear to be an evil version of himself is similar to the instance where the Ninth Doctor had his body overtaken by an entity in COMIC: The Cruel Sea.
The Tenth Doctor also considered regenerating to rid himself of a being who was possessing him. (TV: 42)

Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Series 7, Part 2 DVD cover.

DVD & Blu-ray releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Nightmare in Silver was released on DVD and Blu-ray as part of Doctor Who Series 7 Part Two in region 1/A on 28 May 2013, region 2/B on 27 May 2013, and region 4/B on 22 May 2013.
Also, this episode was released as part of the Complete Seventh Series boxset on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1/A on 24 September 2013, in region 2/B on 28 October 2013 and in region 4/B on 30 October 2013.

Digital releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the United Kingdom, this story is available on BBC iPlayer.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Nightmare in Silver at The Locations Guide

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

↑ Smith also plays a Cyber-Planner who has partially overtaken the Doctor's mind and body.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Failes, Ian (22 May 2013). Doctor Who: Stargate’s adventures in time. fxguide. Retrieved on 20 November 2018.
↑ http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-05/doctor-who-neil-gaiman-sets-the-scene-for-nightmare-in-silver
↑ Doctor Who Ratings - UK final

[1] Smith also plays a Cyber-Planner who has partially overtaken the Doctor's mind and body.

[Stargate-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Failes, Ian (22 May 2013). Doctor Who: Stargate’s adventures in time. fxguide. Retrieved on 20 November 2018.

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-'''''Nightmare in Silver''''' was the twelfth regular episode of the [[series 7 (Doctor Who)|seventh series]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' produced by [[BBC Wales]].
+'''''Nightmare in Silver''''' was the twelfth and penultimate episode of [[Series 7 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 7]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
-== Synopsis ==
+This adventure introduced a dramatic [[Weapons-grade Cyberman|redesign]] of the [[Cyberman]] race that replaced the previous [[Cybus Industries]] [[Cybusman|design]] they had maintained since their return in ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', with these Cybermen employing a multitude of new abilities, including that of being able to convert species other than humans. Not counting the ambiguous Cybus-like Cybermen from ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]''-onward, this episode also definitively reintroduced the original Cybermen of [[N-Space|the Doctor's universe]] to television for the first time since the series restarted back in 2005, their last television appearance being ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'' 25 years prior. Likewise, the [[Cybermat]]s evolved with their progenitors into a more compact form known as [[Cybermite]]s. Additionally, the Cybermen utilised a [[Cyber-Planner]] for the first time onscreen in the revived series, last seen in ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]''. The episode also saw the introduction of the "[[Cyberiad]]", the collective consciousness of all Cybermen. It also saw the Cybermen become much more efficient and deadly, being able to almost instantly adapt to weaknesses; they also overcame their weakness to [[gold]].
-[[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]: the perfect theme park day out. And ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection.
-== Plot ==
+Unknown to the viewers at the time, the Doctor's threat to purge [[Mr Clever]] from his body through regeneration was a lie. Similar to the ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'' with character [[Azmael]], the Doctor had no regenerations left.
-The doors of the TARDIS open and four heads pop out: [[The Doctor]], [[Clara]], [[Angie Maitland|Angie]], and [[Artie Maitland|Artie]]. The Doctor welcomes them to Hedgewick's World of Wonders, the biggest and best amusment park there will ever be! Clara and Angie look sceptical, with Angie declaring that his (The Doctor's) "stupid box" couldn't get them to the right place. Indeed, they appear to be on the Moon, with the Earth suspended in the background and a plastic-looking American flag stuck in the dirt. The Doctor repeats that it's not the Moon, looking rather annoyed.
-Suddenly, a rock opens and a short man in a top hat peeks out. He asks the group if they were Dave's Discount Interstellar Removals, who were apparently six months late. A shout goes up and the man disapears. A military platoon comes storming out and demands identification from the travelers. The Doctor flashes his Golden Ticket, and when that doesn't work, whips out the Psychic Paper. The captain recognizes him as the Imperial Consort, and asks for news of the Emperor. The Doctor dismisses the platoon, and the top-hat man comes out again. He leads them into the desolate, formerly grand amusment park, and then into his attraction: Webley's World of Wonders.
+This episode also marks one of the few times on-screen that the Doctor has allowed children inside of the TARDIS, due to them being associated with one of his companions. He previously had done so in his [[Tenth Doctor|previous incarnation]] with [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]]'s companions in ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' when they asked to take a look inside the time machine.
-He introduces himself as Embassario Webley, and shows them his waxwork attractions of famous and infamous beings. He asks Artie for a game of chess, and leads him to a covered display. Webley declares it a dangerous enemy, long deafeated, but now returned to destroy him. He unveils the display to reveal a Cyberman at a chess board. The Doctor yells to get down as the Cyberman powers up. Webley reassures them that it's completely harmeless,telling them that there are no more living Cybermen. He cites his display as "the six hundredth and ninety-ninth wonder of the universe", and a master at chess, despite the fact that it is an empty shell. Angie guesses at first that it is controlled by magic, Webley agreeing with her. He offers five Imperial shillings for a penny if Artie can beat the Cyberman at chess. Artie offers a sandwich, and Webley accepts. He shows that the shell is free of all devices, while the Doctor scans it with the sonic.
+This episode also allowed [[Matt Smith]] to undertake a dual role as the Eleventh Doctor gained an evil Cyberman alter-ego, Mr Clever, making Smith the sixth actor of the Doctor to have played both the Doctor and one of the main antagonists in a story, following [[William Hartnell]] in ''{{nwlh|[[The Massacre (TV story)|The Massacre]]}}'', [[Patrick Troughton]] in ''{{nwlh|[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]}}'', [[Tom Baker]] in ''{{nwlh|[[Meglos (TV story)|Meglos]]}}'', and [[Peter Davison]] and [[Colin Baker]] in ''{{nwlh|[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]}}''.
-Artie begins the match, the Doctor criticizing his moves. Webley offers a silver penny to Angie if she can figure out how it works. She guesses that it's done with mirrors, prompting the Doctor to praise her cleverness. He deduces that it's being controlled by a man inside the box, named Porridge, and Webley gives Angie a silver penny.
+== Synopsis ==
+The [[Eleventh Doctor]] takes his [[companion]], [[Clara Oswald]], and her wards, [[Angie Maitland|Angie]] and [[Artie Maitland|Artie]], to the biggest [[amusement park]] in the galaxy, [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]. However, the theme park is empty, occupied only by a "[[punishment platoon]]" and a lone impresario with empty [[Cyberman]] shells as exhibits... or so it seems. When the Doctor decides to stay a while to investigate strange insect creatures that are roaming the park, he soon discovers that these insects are really machines seeking to convert the life forms on Hedgewick's World into the newest generation of the ever-upgrading menace...
-Webley shows off the rest of his Cyberman collection, as well as a wax figure of Emperor Ludince Nimrod Kedbrig, etc. the 41st, Defender of Humanity and Imperitor of Known Space. Clara comments that he looks rather full of himself, and Porridge warns her not to say such things, fearing their wrath. The adults lead the kids off to the Spacey-Zoomer ride, while Angie stays. She looks at her penny, and compares it to the wax figure, before Artie drags her off.
+== Plot ==
+The TARDIS lands and the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Clara Oswald|Clara]], [[Angie Maitland|Angie]], and [[Artie Maitland]] step out. The Doctor welcomes them to [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]], the biggest and best amusement park ever. Angie and Artie point out that it looks like the Doctors is wrong and that they are actually on the moon, despite his protests to the contrary. Suddenly, a rock opens and a short man in a top hat peeks out and asks if they are his ride from Dave's Interstellar Taxi Service. They deny it, prompting the man to note that the service was supposed to come months ago.
-The Spacey-Zoomer ride turns out to be an anti-grav ride, letting the children fly and float around. Clara takes pictures of them. As Porridge lets them down, Artie declares that the most fun ride ever, while Angie judges it to be okay. Clara wants to get the kids home, but the Doctor doesn't want to leave. He finds "funny insects" that he wants to investigate, and forces everybody to stay longer. The kids crash on couches in Webley's house, and adults go off, with the Doctor warning the kids not to wander off. The terrified kids settle into the couches.
+A shout goes up and the man disappears. A military platoon comes storming out and demands identification from the travellers. The Doctor flashes his Golden Ticket, and when that doesn't work, whips out the [[psychic paper]]. The captain recognises him as the Imperial Consul, and asks for news of the Emperor. The Doctor tells her that he hasn't heard anything more than she has; from this, the Doctor learns that the Emperor has vanished. The Doctor dismisses the platoon, and the top-hat man comes out again.
+The man leads them into the desolate, formerly grand amusement park, and then into his attraction: Webley's World of Wonders. He introduces himself as Impresario [[Webley]], and shows them his waxwork attractions of beings. He asks Artie for a game of [[chess]], and leads him to a chess board, explaining that "we destroyed them 1000 years ago, and now he's back to destroy you. Behold the enemy!" Webly pulls a sheet of the other side of the table, revealing a Cyberman powering up. The Doctor yells for everyone to get down.
-Webley resets his chess board while eating the sandwich he won off of Artie. Suddenly, the Cyberman grabs his hands. As Webley struggles, the "funny insects" that resemble [[cybermite]]s crawl over his body. The Cyberman informs him that he will be upgraded. The insects light up and begin upgrading Webley as he screams.
+However, Webly smiles and assures them that it's completely harmless. He cites his display as "the six hundredth and ninety-ninth wonder of the universe", and a master at chess, despite the fact that it is an empty shell. He offers five Imperial shillings for a penny if Artie can beat the Cyberman at chess. Artie offers a [[sandwich]], and Webley accepts. The Cyberman defeats Artie with a [[fool's mate]]. Webley shows that the shell is free of all devices and offers a silver penny to Angie if she can figure out how it works. She guesses that it's done with [[mirror]]s, but the Doctor [[deduce]]s that it's being controlled by a man inside the box. He opens up the box, revealing Webley's conspirator, Porridge, and Webley gives Angie the silver penny.
-Angie declares the future to be stupid, complaining that there isn't even phone service. She leaves, despite protests from Artie, as the insects crawled over Clara's phone.
+Webley shows off the rest of his Cyberman collection, as well as a wax figure of Emperor [[Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI]], Defender of Humanity and Imperator of Known Space. The adults lead the kids off to the Spacey-Zoomer ride - an anti-grav ride - and let them fly and float around. Afterwards, Clara wants to get the kids home, but the Doctor doesn't want to leave. He finds "funny insects" that he wants to investigate, and forces everybody to stay longer. The kids crash on couches in Webley's house, and the adults go off to explore, with the Doctor warning the kids not to wander off. The terrified kids settle into the couches.
-Porridge explains the Cybermen to Clara, citing their long wars with them. He said that human armies couldn't win, especially since the Cybermen used their dead for spare parts. Clara reasons that the humans must have won, or Porridge wouldn't be standing there, so she wants to know how. Porridge points to a section of the sky and ask Clara what she sees. She says nothing, just black, no stars. Porridge tells her of the Tiberian Spiral Galaxy, consisting of a million star systems, a hundred million worlds, a billion trillion people. The Tiberian Spiral Galaxy had to be blown up to destroy the Cybermen. Porridge comments that he feels like a monster: Instead of mourning a billion trillion deaths, he feels sorry for the person who had to press the button.
+Webley resets his chess board while eating the sandwich he won off of Artie. Suddenly, the Cyberman grabs him and Cybermites begin upgrading him. Meanwhile, Angie declares the future to be stupid, complaining that there isn't even phone service. She leaves, despite protests from Artie, as the insects crawled over Clara's phone. Elsewhere, Porridge explains the Cybermen to Clara. He tells her of the [[Tiberian spiral galaxy]], which had to be blown up to destroy the Cybermen. Porridge comments that he feels like a monster: instead of mourning a billion trillion deaths, he feels sorry for the person who had to press the button. The Doctor interrupts and asks Clara if she told Angie she could go to the barracks. Clara realises that Angie has wandered off.
-The Doctor interrupts and ask Clara if she told Angie she could go to the barracks. Clara says that she did not, then realizes with horror that Angie had wandered off anyway. In the barracks, the platoon are trying to fix their systems, when Angie appears, loudly declaring that she was bored. The captain asks Angie where her sister was. Realizing that she meant Clara, Angie denied that they were sisters, calling Clara stupid and saying she was talking to Porridge. The captain pulls Angie off for a talk.
+In the barracks, the platoon are trying to fix their systems, when Angie appears. The captain asks Angie where her sister was. Realising that she meant Clara, Angie denies that they are sisters, calling Clara stupid and saying she was talking to Porridge (the captain mistaking this as Clara talking to real porridge). The captain pulls Angie off for a talk.
-Meanwhile, Artie wanders off, looking for a light switch. The house makes noises and creaks, scaring him. He finally finds the lights. Suddenly, a cyberhand claps over his mouth. Back at the barracks, Angie is telling the captain about Porridge when Clara storms in. Angie yells at Clara to leave her alone. Without warning, an upgraded Cyberman appears in the doorway. The captain declares attack formation, and the platoon fights feebly. The Cyberman, able to move faster that the eye could see, dodges the bullets, leaps over the makeshift barricades, and captures Angie. Clara tries to go after Angie, being stopped by the Doctor. He promises that he will get her back, then addresses the captain. He realizes that the platoon doesn't do much fighting. The captain tells him that they are a punishment platoon. The Doctor invokes his "power" as "Imperial Consort", stripping the captain of her rank and giving it to Clara. He tells Clara not to let them blow up the planet, to get to somewhere defensible, and to stay alive. The Cyberman brings Angie to a room, where she finds her brother in a waking coma, controlled by a Cyber earpiece. In the corner is a partially upgraded Webley. In a cybernetic version of Artie's voice, her brother informs her that she will be upgraded. Realizing what is going to happen, she screams. Webley raises his cyber hand in a shushing gesture.
+[[File:Cyberman Nightmare.jpg|left|thumb|An [[Weapons-grade Cyberman|improved]] Mondasian Cyberman.]]
+Meanwhile, Artie wanders off, looking for a light switch. After he finally finds the lights, one of the Cybermen suits suddenly grabs him.
-Meanwhile, Clara in her new role as commander, scrounges up all their resources to build a offense against the Cybermen. The captain takes her to a map of the amusment park, looking for the most defensible place in the park. They decide on Natty Longshoe's Comical Castle as their base, with a drawbridge and a moat. The captain informs Clara that the platoon can deal with one Cyberman, but there are protocals that they must follow if they cannot find and destroy it: specifically to blow up the planet. Clara rejects this with disgust, and orders her to move the platoon and their weapons to the castle, supported by Porridge.
+At the barracks, Angie is telling the captain about Porridge when Clara storms in. Without warning, an upgraded Cyberman appears in the doorway. The Cyberman captures Angie and escapes. Clara tries to go after Angie but is stopped by the Doctor. He promises that he will get Angie back and invokes his "power" as "Imperial Consul", stripping the captain of her rank and giving it to Clara. He tells Clara not to let them blow up the planet, to get to somewhere defensible, and to stay alive.
-The Doctor returns to where he left the children, finding them missing. He spots a cyber insect on a display. Regarding it, he informs whoever is watching the feed that the children are under his protection, and he is coming to get them. Then he informs the machine that "[it] is beautiful!", sonics it, and studies it. He comments that it wasn't even a [[Cybermat]] anymore, but a Cybermite. He uses the sonic to tune into the local transmat, bringing himself to the children. He rushes over to them, and realizes with horror what has happened to them and Webley. His brain fully converted, Webley speaks for the Cybermen. He informs the Doctor that they needed children, and declares him the "savior of the Cybermen".
+The Cyberman brings Angie to a room, where she finds her brother controlled by a Cyber earpiece. She attempts to get his attention; he responds in an electronic voice that she should wait to be upgraded. Seeing Webley shushing her, Angie screams in terror.
-The platoon approaches the castle, and the captain tries to convince Clara to blow up the planet. Porridge puts in a plea to let them hunt the Cyberman. Forcefully, Clara declares that the only reason she was alive is because she listened to the Doctor. She asks if they can guareentee that her children will be returned to her alive and unharmed, and then asks if they trust the Doctor. The captain asks if the Doctor knows what he his doing, and Clara says that she wouldn't go that far.
+Meanwhile, Clara, in her new role as [[commander]], scrounges up all their resources to build an offence against the Cybermen. They decide to move to [[Natty Longshoe's Comical Castle]] for defence. The captain informs Clara that the platoon can deal with one Cyberman, but there are protocols that they must follow if they cannot find and destroy it: specifically to blow up the planet. Clara rejects this and orders the platoon to move to the castle.
-Webley tells the Doctor of the Cybermen. As the battle raged between humanity and the Cyberiad, they built a bunker to repair their damaged units. They needed children's brain to build a new Cyberplanet, as a child's brain has infinite potential. However, now that the Doctor is there, they have no need of the children. The Cybermites have been scanning his brain, and it is quite remarkable. The Doctor scoffs, telling them that he is useless to the Cybermen: they can only convert humans. CyberWebley tells him that that is no longer true. Their upgrades enable non-human conversion as well. He throws Cybermites on the Doctor, which incorporate him into the Cybernetwork. He becomes the [[Cyber-Planner]], with non-human brain power to dream up ideas to strengthen the Cyberiad.
+The Doctor returns to where he left the children, finding them missing. He spots a cyber insect on a display. Regarding it, he informs whoever is watching the feed that the children are under his protection, and he is coming to get them. Then he informs the machine that "[it] is beautiful!", sonics it, and studies it. He uses the sonic to tune into the local transmat, bringing himself to the children and Webley. Webley explains to the Doctor that, as the battle raged between humanity and the Cyberiad, the Cybermen built a bunker to repair their damaged units. They needed children's brains to build a new Cyber-Planner, as a child's brain has infinite potential. However, now that the Doctor is there, they have no need of the children; a Time Lord has a brain filled with more potential than mere children. The Doctor scoffs, telling them that they can only convert humans. Webley tells him that that is no longer true; thanks to the [[Cyber-Wars]], the Cybermen were forced to learn how to bypass their limitations of assimilating only humans into their fold.
-He takes stock of his body, noting the unfamilar systems and remarkable brain power. The Doctor, locked away in his mind, jerks back to himself and yells at his Cyberself to get out of his mind. The Cyberplanner is rummaging through his knowledge and memories to get information to upgrade the Cybermen. Inside the Doctor's mind, the two meet. Rather in a Jekyll and Hyde manner, the two wage war for control, the Cyberplanner using his memories to torment the Doctor. The Cyberplanner finds delight in his cleverness, realizing that there is information on the Time Lords available. The Doctor blocks it all but information on regeneration. He threatens to regenerate right then and there, to burn out the Cyberplanner. He doesn't want to, unsure of what he'll end up with next, but acknowleges that he could do it. The Cyberplanner declares a stalemate, concluding that they are too well balanced. One must take over. Each controls 49.881% of the brain, leaving .23 % unclaimed. The Doctor challenges the Cyberplanner to a game of chess, winner takes  all. If the Cyberplanner wins, he gets the Doctor's mind. If the Doctor wins, he gets his mind back, the children are freed, and nobody dies.
+Webley throws Cybermites onto the Doctor, which incorporate him into the Cybernetwork. He becomes the [[Cyber-Planner (Nightmare in Silver)|Cyber-Planner]], with non-human brain power to dream up ideas to strengthen the Cyberiad. The Cyber-Planner takes stock of the Doctor's body, noting the unfamiliar systems and remarkable brain power. Finding the title "Cyber-Planner" dull, it instead calls itself "[[Mr Clever|Mr. Clever]]." Inside [[the Doctor's mind]], the two meet and battle for control, the Cyber-Planner using his memories to torment the Doctor.
-Missy takes guard of a corridor. She notices a shadow, and reports it as possibly a Cyberman. Frightened, she hides. The Cyberman steps out of the shadows and detaches its hand. It crawls over to Missy and drags her out of her hiding place.
+The Cyber-Planner finds delight in his cleverness, realising that there is information on the [[Time Lord]]s available. The Doctor blocks it all but information on [[regeneration]]. He threatens to regenerate right then and there, to burn out the Cyber-Planner. He doesn't want to, unsure of what he'll end up with next, but acknowledges that he could do it. The Cyber-Planner declares a stalemate, concluding that they are too well balanced; each controls [[49.881 (number)|49.881]]% of the brain, leaving [[0.238 (number)|.238]]% unclaimed. The Doctor challenges the Cyber-Planner to a [[Eleventh Doctor-Mr Clever chess match|game of chess]]; winner takes all. If the Cyber-Planner wins, he gets the Doctor's mind. If the Doctor wins, he gets his mind back, the children are freed, and nobody dies.
-Back at base, the platoon realize that the Cyberman is on its way. She demands to be shown any and all weapons. There is only one anti-cyber gun, a miracle since the Cybermen went extinct a thousand years earlier. She shows them hand pulses, a much more advanced version of the electromagnetic bomb invented and wielded by Mrs. Moore in the Cybus attack on alternate-London in 2006. [[TV]]: [[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]] Like its predecessor, the hand pulse is able to disable a Cyberman on contact. Finally is the weapon to implode the planet. Clara takes the remote control from the captain, but the captain informs her that it is set to respond to her voice only. Clara orders her to detonate the device only when she directly orders her to. The captain challenges Clara's command, declaring she will follow her own orders. Clara asserts her authority, and signs for the remote control.
+Elsewhere, [[Missy (Nightmare in Silver)|Missy]] takes guard of a corridor. She notices a shadow, and reports it as a possible Cyberman. It ''is'' a Cybermen. The Cyberman detaches its hand, which crawls over to Missy and drags her out of her hiding place. Back at base, the platoon realise that the Cyberman is on its way. Clara demands to be shown all weapons, which consist of one anti-cyber gun, hand pulses able to disable a Cyberman on contact, and [[The Desolator|a weapon which can implode the planet]]. Clara takes the remote control for the last weapon from the captain, but the captain informs her that the fallback voice-activation is set to respond to her voice only. Clara orders her to detonate the device only when she directly orders her to. The captain challenges Clara's command, but Clara asserts her authority with Porridge's help and signs for the remote control.
-The Doctor and the Cyberplanner begin their game. While they play, the Cyberplanner asks the Doctor why the Cyberiad has no record of him. He then realizes that the Doctor purposlly erased himself from history, noting that he could be reconstructed from the holes he left. The Doctor acknowledges that and says he'll work on that. The Cyberplanner rails against him, telling the Doctor that he cannot win against him. The Doctor counters with his knowledge of early Cybermen. Their codes can be scrambled by cleaning fluids and gold. He then slaps on the cyberpatches his Golden Ticket, temporarily scrambling the circuits. He comes back to himself, collects the chess board, and brings the children and CyberWebley to another room.
+Meanwhile, the Doctor and the Cyber-Planner begin their chess game. While they play, the Cyber-Planner asks the Doctor why the Cyberiad has no record of him. He then realises that the Doctor has purposely erased himself from history, and notes that he could be reconstructed from the holes he left. The Cyber-Planner rails against him, telling the Doctor that he cannot win against him. The Doctor counters with his knowledge of early Cybermen. Their codes can be scrambled by cleaning fluids and [[gold]]. The Cyber-Planner laughs: "That's your plan? Cleaning fluid?" The Doctor replies in negative, slapping his Golden Ticket on the the metallic growth on his face, temporarily scrambling the circuits. He comes back to himself, collects the chess board, and leaves with the children and Webley.
-The captain and Porridge are discussing a secret regarding Porridge. She talks about guarding the old Emperor, and how she knows. Clara interrupts, asking why it was necessary to blow up a whole planet just to get rid of one Cyberman. Porridge says there are ways to kill a Cyberman, but they don't always work. Blowing up the planet is the only surefire way to do it. The captain says that she was sent to the punishment platoon because she didn't follow orders, and that she can make up for it now. She declares that she will do what she was born to do: live for the Empire, fight for the Empire, die for the Empire. She begins to voice-activate the weapon, identifying herself as Captain Alice Berry. As Clara tries to stop her, she is shot by the Cyberman.
+Back at the castle, the captain and Porridge are discussing a secret regarding Porridge. Clara interrupts, asking why it was necessary to blow up a whole planet just to get rid of one Cyberman. Porridge says there are other ways to kill a Cyberman, but they don't always work. Blowing up the planet is the only sure-fire way to do it. The captain says that she was sent to the [[punishment platoon]] because she didn't follow orders, and that she can make up for it now. She declares that she will do what she was born to do: fight for the Empire. She begins to voice-activate the weapon but is shot by a Cyberman. Clara decides to go on the offensive, otherwise facing death. The platoon mobilises with hand pulses and the anti-cyber gun and launch sneak attacks on the Cybermen, with limited success.
-Clara decides to go on the offensive, otherwise facing death. The platoon moblizes with hand pulses and the anti-cyber gun. The members of the platoon launch sneak attacks on the Cybermen, with limited success. The Cybermen take some of the force and put them in a waking coma, which are then deactivated by the pulse.
+The Doctor approaches the castle with the children and Webley in tow. Clara comes out with the anti-cyber gun and the Doctor greets her. The Doctor rattles off his news: he kidnapped the Cyber-Planner, which is in his head, the kids are in a walking coma, which he may or may not be able to correct, there are more Cybermen active, and the Cyber-Planner is installing a gold patch. He asks for a table and for somebody to immobilise him.
+Once tied up, the Doctor removes the gold sheet from his face; either of his own will, or because Mr. Clever managed to bypass gold weakness. The Cyber-Planner reemerges and begins to taunt Clara. As the Cyber-Planner continues to rattle on threats, the Doctor moves his hand, writing "HIT ME!" on the notepad beside the chess board. Clara obliges, smacking him; the Doctor explains that a sudden shock to his nerves is what he needed to get back control. Clara demands to know the stakes. The Doctor tells her but admits that the Cyber-Planner will probably break his promise if the Doctor wins the chess match. Clara begs the Doctor to fix Angie and Artie, but he says that they're just in standby mode. When Clara protests, the Doctor says the children have a much better chance of getting out this situation alive than she does. Taken aback, Clara asks which of the two personalities said that. With a smirk, Mr. Clever states it was him. He threatens her immediate death, and she leaves to prepare the platoon for the coming onslaught.
-The Doctor approaches the castle with the children and CyberWebley in tow. He raises the chessboard defensively, with pleas not to shoot. Clara comes out with the anti-cyber gun and the Doctor greets her. She asks if the kids are all right, and when the Doctor fudges, she cocks her weapon. The Doctor rattles off his news: he kidnapped the Cyberplanner, which is in his head. The kids are in a walking coma, which he may or may not be able to correct. There are more cybermen active, and the Cyberplanner is installing a gold patch. He asks for a table and for somebody to imoblize him (except for his hands).
+Clara discusses their weapons, which are minimal at that point. Spotting a cable, she cleverly devises a plan to electrify the water in the moat. They drop the cable into the water, turn on the power, and raise the drawbridge to force the Cybermen to cross the water.
-The Doctor, now tied to a chair, removes the gold sheet from his face. The Cyberplanner reemerges, telling Clara that the Doctor's chances of winning are low. The Cyberplanner taunts Clara, mocking the Doctor's previous incarnations (with his catchphrases such as "Fantastic!" and "Allons-y!"). He looks at her with interest, telling Clara that she is the impossible girl, and was the object of the Doctor's interest. She asks why she is the "impossible girl". As the Cyberplanner continues to rattle on, the Doctor moves his hand, writing "HIT ME!" on the notepad beside the chess board. Clara obliges, delivering a stinging slap. The Doctor thanks Clara, who then repeats her question, which he deflects. Clara demands to know the stakes at hand. The Doctor explains the stakes, and elaborates that the Cyberplanner will probably break his promise anyway. She begs the Doctor to fix Angie and Artie. He says that they're just in standby mode, which is not reassuring to Clara. He then elaborates that they are more likely to leave alive than she is. Sensing the change in control, she surmises that the Cyberplanner said those words. He threatens her immediate death, and she leaves to prepare the platoon for the coming onslaught.
+The Doctor's game continues. Inside his mind, the Cyber-Planner awakes the legions of Cybermen hidden in the barracks.
-Clara discusses their weapons, which are minimal at that point. Spotting a cable, she cleverly devises a plan to electrify the water in the moat. They drop the cable into the water, turn on the power, and raise the drawbridge to force the Cybermen to cross the water.
+Inside the castle, the platoon prepares their defence. The Doctor calls for Clara, and she goes to check on him. The Doctor cheerfully asks her for a rundown on their weapons, with keen interest in the planet-imploding bomb. She shows him the remote trigger, which he tries to take possession of. She snatches it away from him, suspicious of who really is in control. The Doctor says the Cyber-Planner is hibernating, but Clara doesn't buy it. She tells him to tell her something only the Doctor knows. Looking rather sincere, the Doctor begins to tell her that he is falling in love with her. He moves to kiss her, but Clara slaps him again.
-The Doctor's game continues. Inside his mind, the Cyberplanner awakes the legions of Cybermen hidden in the barracks. Inside the citadel, the platoon prepares their defense. Porridge gives Clara a bowl of soup to warm her up. The Doctor calls out for Clara, and she goes to check on him. The Doctor cheerfully asks her for a rundown on their weapons, with keen interest in the planet-imploding bomb. She shows him the remote trigger, which he tries to take possession of. She snatches it away from him, suspicious of who really is in control. The Doctor says the Cyberplanner is hibernating, but Clara doesn't buy it. She tells him to tell her something only the Doctor knows. Looking rather sincere, the Doctor begins to tell her that he is falling in love with her. He moves to kiss her, but Clara slaps him again. The Doctor comes to himself, overtaking the Cyberplanner's tricks. He asks her how she knew it wasn't him, and she says that whether or not what the Cyberplanner said about the Doctor's feelings were genuine, the Doctor would rather die than say it out loud. She tells him to finish the game, and the Cyberplanner grabs her hand, wresting the remote control from her grasp and destroying it. The Cyberplanner roars, ordering the attack to commence.
+The Doctor comes to himself, asking Clara how she knew. Clara that's even if what Mr. Clever said was true about the Doctor; the Doctor himself would never say those things. Clara tells him to finish the game, and the Cyber-Planner grabs her hand, wresting the remote control from her and destroying it. The Doctor is grim, but is overtaken once more; Mr. Clever states that without the threat of the planet blowing up to deter them, he can now order the Cybermen to attack.
-Clara and the platoon ready their attack with the five hand pulses and the nearly empty anti-cyber gun. The Cyberplanner declares endgame and moves to finish the Doctor. The Cyberarmy begins to assault the castle. One steps into the moat and is apparently electrocuted. The platoon celebrates, but then the Cyberman upgrades itself. The patch is spread through the ranks, and the Cybermen continue. Clara gives orders to defend the castle, and tells Porridge to keep himself safe. Two soldiers shoot down the first Cyberman, but balk as more come through. Porridge grabs the bomb, muttering that he should have destroyed the planet when he had the chance.
+Clara and the platoon ready their attack with the five hand pulses and the nearly depleted anti-cyber gun. The Cyber-Planner declares endgame and moves to finish the Doctor. The Cyber-army begins to assault the castle. One steps into the moat and is apparently electrocuted. The platoon celebrates, but then the Cyberman upgrades itself. The patch is spread through the ranks, and the Cybermen continue onward. Clara gives orders to defend the castle, and tells Porridge to keep himself safe. Two soldiers shoot down the first Cyberman, but balk as more come through. Porridge grabs the bomb, muttering that he should have destroyed the planet when he had the chance.
-The Cyberplanner taunts the Doctor, offering him one more deal. If he sacrifices his queen in five moves, he'll release the children and take the Doctor's mind. The Doctor accepts the deal and Angie and Artie are released. The Doctor appears to have lost, but the children are free. The Cyberplanner taunts him once more, telling him how foolish he was to have pointlessly sacrificed himself for two human children. He mockingly asks the Doctor if he thinks that the death of the children will affect his relationship with Clara. CyberWebley moves to kill the children, but Porridge slaps a hand pulse onto his leg and kills him. Angie awakes and the Doctor tells her to look after Artie.
+The Cyber-Planner taunts the Doctor, offering him one more deal. If the Doctor sacrifices his [[Queen (chess)|queen]], the Cyber-Planner will release the children but win the game in five moves and take the Doctor's mind. The Doctor accepts the deal and Angie and Artie are released. The Cyber-Planner taunts him once more, telling him how foolish he was to have pointlessly sacrificed himself for two human children. He mockingly asks the Doctor if he thinks that the death of the children will affect his relationship with Clara. Webley moves to kill the children, but Porridge slaps a hand pulse onto his leg and kills him. Angie awakes and the Doctor tells her to look after Artie.
-The platoon are losing the battle. They are out of weapons, and the Cybermen's continual upgrades are proving to be more than a match for the ragtag soldiers. The Doctor taunts the Cyberplanner, telling him that sacrificing his queen was the best move he could have made. The Time Lords invented chess, and the Doctor has cleverly set up a trap that will give him checkmate in three moves. The Cybermen appear to be overwhelming the platoon, but as they are about to delver the killing blows, the Cyberplanner pulls in their resources, giving him extra processing power. It saves the lives of Clara and the rest of the platoon, but puts the Doctor at a serious disadvatage. As the platoon makes their last stand, the Doctor adjust his bowtie and begins his endgame. Move One: Turn on sonic screwdriver. Move Two: Activate pulse. Move Three: Apply pulse. With some resistance from the Cyberplanner, the Doctor slaps himself with the hand pulse and destroys the Cybercircuitry in his body.
+The Doctor taunts the Cyber-Planner, telling him that sacrificing his queen was the best move he could have made. The Time Lords invented chess, and the Doctor has cleverly set up a trap that will give him checkmate in three moves. Outside, the Cybermen are overwhelming the platoon, but as they are about to deliver the killing blows, the Cyber-Planner pulls in their resources, giving him extra processing power to figure out and counter the Doctor's strategy. It saves the lives of Clara and the rest of the platoon, but puts the Doctor at a serious disadvantage.
-Clara rushes in to find the Doctor completely back to himself. He ask her to untie him, but Clara tests him by asking him if he thinks that she is pretty. He tells her that she is too short, too bossy, and her nose is too funny. Convinced, she cuts him loose. The Doctor decides that they need to blow up the planet to destroy the Cybermen. It seems impossible since the captain is dead, but Angie cleverly deduces that Porridge can voice activate it, since he is the Emperor. She figured it out by the image on the coin and the exaggerated waxwork. Porridge confirms it, saying he doesn't want to be Emperor, but after some convincing words from the Doctor, he activates the Dessolator. The Imperial ship warp-jumps them from the planet, including the TARDIS. The bomb ticks down, and the planet blows up, taking the Cyberiad.
+As the platoon makes their last stand, the Doctor initiates his endgame. Move One: Turn on sonic screwdriver. Move Two: Activate pulse. Move Three: Apply pulse. "That's cheating!" the Cyber-Planner howls in impotent fury. The Doctor slaps himself with the hand pulse and destroys the Cyber-circuitry in his body.
-Porridge remarks that he liked being normal: not an emperor of a thousand galaxies, not lonely. Clara says that he doesn't have to be lonely, and he agrees, proposing to her on the spot. Porridge makes a convincing argument, which Clara declines gently. Angie calls her stupid for not saying yes, loudly declaring that one day, she'll be Queen of the Universe. Porridge affectionately tells them to leave.
+Clara rushes in to find the Doctor completely back to himself and unties him. The Doctor explains that, having been expelled from his body, Mr. Clever is now in every Cyberman. The Doctor decides that they need to blow up the planet to destroy the Cybermen. This seems impossible since the captain is dead, but Angie deduces that Porridge can voice activate it, since he is the Emperor. The statue was made taller than he actually was but his face matches that of it, as well as the face on the coin she was given. Porridge reluctantly admits that Angie is right, but states that he hates his job and if he activates [[the Desolator]], its all over. Confronted with the reality of the situation, Porridge reluctantly activates the Desolator, which will blow in about 80 seconds. However, the activation by Porridge has signalled the [[Imperial Flagship]] which transmats everyone and, at the Doctor's request, the TARDIS, aboard. As the group watches, the Desolator destroys Hedgwick's World of Wonders and presumably all of the Cybermen.
-As the children leave the TARDIS, they thank the Doctor for their adventure. The Doctor leaves Angie with a parting gift from the TARDIS: a new phone. Angie apologizes for calling the TARDIS stupid, and bids goodbye to "Clara's boyfriend". Clara thanks him for the adventure and for saving everybody's lives, then bids him goodnight. She says "See you next Wednesday!", leaving the Doctor a little flustered and wondering who exactly she is, calling her "the mystery, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a skirt that's just a little too tight."
+Porridge remarks that he liked being normal: not an emperor of a thousand galaxies, not lonely. Clara says that he doesn't have to be lonely, and he agrees, proposing to her on the spot. The Doctor attempts to interrupt, but is shushed by Clara, who prompts the Emperor to continue. Porridge makes a convincing argument, to which Clara declines gently. Angie calls her stupid for not saying yes, loudly declaring that one day, she'll be queen of the universe. Porridge pretends to threaten them with execution, before mirthfully telling them to leave.
-Back on the imperial ship, the Emperor asks if there was any Cybertech remaining, then flies his ship home, with a floating Cyberhead winking in the starlight.
+The Doctor returns the children and Clara to [[30 Oak Street|their home]], pondering Clara's identity once more. Back on the imperial ship, the Emperor asks if there was any Cybertech remaining. With the answer being no, the Emperor then flies his ship home — with a floating Cybermite blinking in the darkness of space.
 == Cast ==
-* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Matt Smith]]
+* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]<!--Matt is only credited as the Doctor--> - [[Matt Smith]]<ref>Smith also plays [[Mr Clever|a Cyber-Planner who has partially overtaken the Doctor's mind and body]].</ref>
-* [[Clara Oswin Oswald|Clara]] - [[Jenna-Louise Coleman]]
+* [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] - [[Jenna-Louise Coleman]]
 * [[Angie Maitland|Angie]] - [[Eve De Leon Allen]]
 * [[Artie Maitland|Artie]] - [[Kassius Carey Johnson]]
 * [[Webley]] - [[Jason Watkins]]
-* [[Porridge (Nightmare in Silver)|Porridge]] - [[Warwick Davis]]
+* [[Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI|Porridge]] - [[Warwick Davis]]
 * [[Alice Ferrin|Captain]] - [[Tamzin Outhwaite]]
 * [[Beauty (Nightmare in Silver)|Beauty]] - [[Eloise Joseph]]
-* [[Brains (Nightmare in Silver)|Brains]] - [[Will Merrick]]
+* [[Brains]] - [[Will Merrick]]
 * [[Ha-Ha]] - [[Calvin Dean]]
 * [[Missy (Nightmare in Silver)|Missy]] - [[Zahra Ahmadi]]
-* [[Cyberman|Cyberman]] - [[Aidan Cook]]
+* [[Cyberman]] - [[Aidan Cook]]
-* Voice of the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
+* [[Cyberman|Voice of the Cybermen]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
+=== Uncredited Cast ===
+* Big Red - [[Julian Seager]]
+* Platoon Soldiers - [[Georgina Burford]], [[Annelisse Murray]], [[Sasha Latoya]], [[Alphaeus Daniel]], [[Eugene Henderson]], [[Danielle Saunders]]
+* Cybermen - [[Martin Challinor]], [[Toby Rattery]], [[Angus Brown]], [[Paul Bailey]], Charlie Smith, [[Simon Carew]]
+* Emperor's Guards - [[Anne Lyken-Garner]], [[Remington Croney]], [[Sy Turner]]
+* [[Gloria (Nightmare in Silver)|Gloria]] - [[Katie Dowler]]
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+==== Stargate Studios ====
+* [[Visual effects supervisor|VFX Supervisor]] - [[Mark Spatny]]<ref name="Stargate">{{cite web|url=https://www.fxguide.com/featured/doctor-who-stargates-adventures-in-time/|title=Doctor Who: Stargate’s adventures in time|author=Failes, Ian|date of source=22 May 2013|website name=fxguide|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref>
+* [[Visual effects producer|VFX Producer]] - [[Darren Frankel]]<ref name="Stargate" />
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-== References ==
+== Worldbuilding ==
-=== Alien Species ===
+=== Species ===
-* The head of a [[Uvodni]] and upper body of a [[Blowfish]] can be seen on display inside the room housing the chessboard.
+* Waxworks sculpted in the likeness of a [[Shansheeth]], an [[Uvodni]] head, the upper body of a [[Blowfish]], a creature resembling a [[Gastropod]], an [[Ultramancer]], a [[Pan-Babylonian]] and a [[Lugal-Irra-Kush]] can be seen on display inside the room housing the chessboard.
 === Cybermen ===
-* The [[Cyber-Wars]] lasted 1,000 years. The planet Hedgewick's World is on was used to hide 3 million Cybermen and repair them.
+* The [[Cyber-Wars]] ended 1,000 years ago. The planet where Hedgewick's World is situated was used to hide 3 million Cybermen and repair them.
-* Whilst not being able to convert non-humans in the past, the Cybermen can now process creatures like [[Time Lord]]s, at least partially.
+* The "[[Cyberiad]]" refers to the collective consciousness of the Cybermen.
-* The "[[Cyberiad]]" refers to collective consciousness of the Cybermen.
 === The Doctor ===
-* Whilst under possession by the [[Cyber-Planner]], the Doctor mimics the [[Ninth Doctor]]'s accent and catchphrase of "Fantastic", as well as the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s of "Allons-y".
+* Whilst under possession by the [[Cyber-Planner]], the Doctor mimics the [[Ninth Doctor]]'s accent and catchphrase of "[[Fantastic]]", as well as the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s of "Allons-y".
-* When the [[Cybermite]]s take over, the Doctor lets them see the [[regeneration]] power, by showing him his previous incarnations, plus the regeneration from his tenth to his current self. He claims that he can regenerate at will.
+* In addition to his [[binary vascular system]], the Doctor has a hyper-conductive [[nervous system]] and "remarkable brain processing power", according to Mr Clever. He also notices that the Doctor has had "ten complete re-jigs" (regenerations).
-* The Doctor has been erasing himself from history, leaving a hole in the Cybermen's records that used to be him.
 === Clara ===
-* It is suggested that the Doctor and Clara meet on Wednesdays for their adventures, as opposed to Clara being in residence aboard the TARDIS.
+* The Doctor and Clara meet on [[Wednesday]]s for their adventures.
 === Games ===
-* The Doctor claims that the game of [[chess]] was invented by the [[Time Lords]].
+* The Doctor claims that the game of [[chess]] was invented by the [[Time Lord]]s.
+* Artie Maitland plays chess versus the "Cyberman" (Porridge) and accidentally commits a [[Fool's mate]].
+=== Technology ===
+* Angie has a [[cell phone]] but can't get any service on Hedgewick's World.
+* The platoon has a broken solid state, sub ether [[ansible]]-class [[communicator]], a malfunctioning [[weather controller]], and these pieces of [[cyberia]]-class weaponry: an [[anti-cyber gun]], [[hand pulse]]s, and a [[the Desolator|bomb that can implode the planet]].
+=== Influences ===
-=== Cultural references from the real world ===
+* According to "Behind the scenes...", the Cybermen were redesigned for this episode and got a variety of new abilities and features. These new Cybermen share several similarities with [[Borg (species)|the Borg]] of Star Trek franchise - which were in turn originally based somewhat upon the Cybermen. The Cybermen's ability to adapt to attacks is reminiscent of the Borg from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. Additionally, the Borg used nanoprobes to convert individuals, similar to the Cybermites, and Webley's cyber-appearance is reminiscent of the Borg's "half machine, half human" face. And as of ''{{iw|memoryalpha|Star Trek: First Contact}}'' they, like these Cybermen, assimilated new members by use of something coming out of their wrists. Voice notifications for individuals to convert were also typical for the Borg and the Cybermen, both new and old.
-* The Doctor has a 'Golden Ticket' for World Of Wonders. Possibly a nod to the Golden Tickets from Roald Dahl's 'Charlie & The Chocolate Factory'. Webley's Costume of a Top Hat and Cane is similar to what Willy Wonka may wear too.
+* This episode uses a camera technique known as "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time Bullet Time]", popularised in ''[[The Matrix (film)|The Matrix]]'' to frame out the high-speed movements of the new Cybermen, as shown in the "Behind the Scenes" featurette.
-*[[Porridge (Nightmare in Silver)|Porridge]] is inside an undefeated "automated" chess player. This is very similar to real-world [[the Turk]], who was too exhibited as an undefeatable chess-playing machine, but was actually controlled by a man inside.
-* Interestingly, the Turk was the inspiration for the [[Clockwork Droid]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]])''
 == Story notes ==
-* The episode's title, ''Nightmare in Silver'', is reminiscent of ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'', in that, in both cases, the "Silver" is referring to [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]].
+* The episode had the working titles of ''The Last of the Cybermen, Silver Ghosts, A Nightmare in Silver'' and ''The Last Cyberman.''
-* A working title for the episode was ''The Last Cyberman''.<ref>http://themusic.com.au/interviews/all/2013/01/24/neil-gaiman-rhys-anderson/12337/</ref>
+* Clara asks "Can Cybermen fly?", with the answer being no. However, they eventually gain the ability to in ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', where [[Missy]]'s Cybermen are able to fly.
-* The Cyber-Doctor answers to Clara's question of "More Cybermen?" with "They're waking from their tomb right now." which is a possible reference to the television story [[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|Tomb of the Cybermen]]''.
+* Though not stated in the episode, [[Neil Gaiman]] revealed that he saw it as taking place "a quarter of a million years into the future".<ref>http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-05/doctor-who-neil-gaiman-sets-the-scene-for-nightmare-in-silver</ref>
-* Subsequently, the Cybermen exiting their tombs mirrors the cliffhanger of ''[[Earthshock]]'' Part 3 when three rows of Cybermen march towards the camera. It's also very similar of the scene where the Cybermen come out of their tombs in [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]].
+* The ending of the story, in which a lone Cybermite is seen drifting into space, having escaped the destruction of the planet, is reminiscent of the end of ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', in which a single Cybermat escapes from the tombs just before they are sealed.
-* The Doctor also had a conversation with himself in another Cybermen-story. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')
+* Subsequently, the Cybermen exiting their tombs mirrors the cliffhanger of ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'' Part 3 when three rows of Cybermen march towards the camera. It's also very similar to the scene where the Cybermen come out of their tombs in ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]''.
-* When the Doctor lets the Cyber-Doctor access his memories on regeneration, his previous ten incarnations are seen. Each image of an incarnation is taken from  photograph stills used as promotional material during the respective actors' tenures.
+* The Doctor threatens to regenerate to eliminate all traces of Mr Clever from his body, though it's later revealed that this was actually a bluff. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') However the Doctor could have been threatening to commit suicide, like [[Azmael]] previously did. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'')
-* The Cybermen's ability to adapt to attacks is reminiscient of [[the Borg]] from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. Additionally, the Borg used nanotechnology to convert individuals, similar to the cybermites, and Webley's cyber-appearance is reminiscient of the Borg's "half machine, half human" face.  And as of "[[memoryalpha:Star Trek: First Contact|Star Trek: First Contact]]" they, like these Cybermen, assimilated new members by use of something coming out of their wrists.
+* The scene where Porridge operates a Cyberman exoskeleton in a game of chess is a homage to [[the Turk]], an animatronic man that was purported to be a chess-playing automaton (an animatronic capable of completely independent motion). In reality, the Turk was operated from within by a human chessmaster, not unlike Hedgewick's "Cyberman". The Turk previously served as an inspiration for the television story ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'' and audio stories ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]''.
-* The Cyber-Doctor imitates the [[Ninth Doctor]] and says "[[Allons-y]]" like the [[Tenth Doctor]].
+* This is the eleventh time the actor playing the Doctor has portrayed a different character in the same story - although in this case only, the Doctor and the other character physically inhabit the same body. Other doppelgangers previously were seen with:
+:* [[William Hartnell]] (''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'' and ''[[The Massacre (TV story)|The Massacre]]'')
+:* [[Patrick Troughton]] (''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'')
+:* [[Tom Baker]] (''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]'' and ''[[Meglos (TV story)|Meglos]]'')
+:* [[Peter Davison]] (''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' and ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'')
+:* [[David Tennant]] (''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
+:* [[Matt Smith]] (''[[The Almost People (TV story)|The Almost People]]'' and ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')
+* When the Doctor lets Mr Clever access his memories on regeneration, the [[First Doctor|First]], [[Second Doctor|Second]], [[Third Doctor|Third]], [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]], [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]], [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]], [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]], [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]], [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]] and [[Tenth Doctor]]<nowiki/>s are seen. Each image is taken from photograph stills used as promotional material during the respective actors' tenures.
+* The converted Webley tells the Doctor that the Cybermen had turned children into Cyber-Planners in the past because of a child's imagination. This mirrors the reasoning behind the [[Renegade Dalek]]s' use of a [[Judith Winters|young girl]] as their [[Battle computer]] in ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
+* The [[Cyber-Planner]] makes its first appearance within the revived series. However, this is not the first time it has been incorporated into the elements of the revived timeline. Cyber-Planners previously appeared in [[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]''.
+* This is the third consecutive series' penultimate episode where the Cybermen have been featured, after ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' and ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]''.
+* Following the success of ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]],'' [[Steven Moffat]] invited [[Neil Gaiman]] to write a second script for the series. Gaiman advised Moffat that he would be unlikely to be available, especially since his previous episode had been such a time-consuming endeavour. However, he was persuaded when Moffat suggested that this would be an opportunity to revamp the Cybermen.
+* A lifelong fan of the series, [[Neil Gaiman]] had fond memories of [[Patrick Troughton]]'s encounters with the Cybermen. He felt that it made sense for them to be regularly updated, thinking in terms of the rapid evolution of modern technology like smartphones. He also wanted to make the Cybermen more stealthy and spooky, whereas the modern versions had been portrayed as noisy and slow-moving. Gaiman felt that the parallel-universe Cybermen would likely have merged with their counterparts from Mondas, giving him the freedom to conceive a new form of Cyberman which drew upon the best of all of their previous appearances.
+* [[Neil Gaiman]] was keen to revisit the Cybermats. He knew that the they had been inspired by silverfish, which led him to take the concept to its next logical stage, in the form of the Cybermites. He imagined that this microscopic form of Cyber life could actually be a component of the process which turned a human being into a Cyberman.
+* [[Neil Gaiman]] considered various settings, including [[Cyrrhenic Empire|the Greater Cyrrhenic Empire]]. He settled on a [[1950s]] seaside fairground. However, when he described potential scenes such as an army of Cybermen emerging from the water onto the beach, he was informed by the production team that his notions were not achievable on the series''<nowiki/>''' budget. Instead, Gaiman reworked his plans for a futuristic amusement park.
+* The Doctor was originally to be accompanied by a Victorian governess named Beryl Montague and her two charges, Charlotte and Godfrey. [[Neil Gaiman]] accordingly conceived elements which would suit Beryl's nineteenth-century origins, such as the presence of an alien freak show and the primacy of Porridge's duty to his subjects.
+* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s work on the script ground to a halt when he lost his laptop after leaving it behind on an [[aeroplane]]. Too busy with other commitments to reconstruct his work to date, Gaiman deferred further progress.
+* Alice's punishment platoon was initially conceived as being exclusively female.
+* The sequence in which the soldiers are attacked by a Cyberman moving at incredible speed was inspired by [[Neil Gaiman]]'s attendance at a party in late April to recognise the third anniversary of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickstarter Kickstarter]. Observing the silver balloons which festooned the venue, he considered how easy it would be for a Cyberman to inveigle itself into the proceedings unnoticed while the guests danced and celebrated.
+* In the aftermath of the Cybermen's defeat, there was initially a sequence in which Angie saw an older version of herself wearing a wedding dress who had apparently been brought to the imperial ship by a future Doctor.
+* The episode was to end with an ominous scene in the Cyberiad featuring Cybermen from throughout their televised history, including the “Oldest Cyberman” resembling those seen in ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', who would hint at a broader plot to snare the Doctor.
+* The showdown with the Cyber army was originally set on an island attraction accessible only by boat; like the castle which replaced it, this bore the moniker "Natty Longshoe", which was an homage to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstocking Pippi Longstocking].
+* Nehemiah Webley was named after folk and alternative musician [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Webley Jason Webley], who had collaborated with [[Neil Gaiman]]'s wife, [[Amanda Palmer]].
+* The chess-playing Cyberman was dubbed Marvello, and then The Amazing Marvel, before losing its moniker altogether.
+* Until a very late stage, the theme park was called Lampwick's World after the delinquent boy who led [[Pinocchio]] astray. However, the name was amended to Hedgewick's World when it was discovered that there was an actual retailer of light fixtures called Lampwick's World.
+* The episode comprised Block Ten of season seven.
+* This was the third of four consecutive episodes produced by [[Denise Paul]], while [[Marcus Wilson]], who would receive a credit as series producer on these occasions, turned his attention to ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]].''
+* The scenes at the castle was the first material to be shot.
+* [[Neil Gaiman]] announced his return to the series during his [[Hugo Award]] acceptance speech for ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', commenting that "only a fool or a madman would try again – so [he was] on his third draft now".
+* [[Warwick Davis]] stated that it was a "thrill" to be in the series, especially in an episode with the Cybermen written by [[Neil Gaiman]].
+* [[Neil Gaiman]] hoped to write a script that would win [[Matt Smith]] a [[BAFTA]].
+* Production on ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'' began the day special effects shots were completed on this episode, as the requirements of the schedule necessitated the overlapping of Blocks Ten and Eleven.
+* During editing, a scene was dropped in which the Doctor mimicked [[Prince Philip]] while masquerading as the Proconsul; ironically, [[Matt Smith]] would later play the Duke of Edinburgh in the first two seasons of ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown_(TV_series) The Crown]''.
+* [[Neil Gaiman]] struggled to find a way to better involve the Doctor in the action. He finally came up with the idea of engaging the Doctor and the Cyber-Planner in a duel set inside the Time Lord's mind, affording [[Matt Smith]] the opportunity to give a very different onscreen performance.
+* [[Neil Gaiman]] originally wanted the Cybermen to be silent, as he found the 1960s Cybermen much scarier than the Daleks "because they were quiet, and they slipped in and out of rooms".
+* On redesigning the Cybermen, [[Neil Gaiman]] decided to "take the 1960s Cybermen and [incorporate] everything that's happened since". However, Gaiman said that he "got completely side-tracked by a mad, strange romp". [[Steven Moffat]] stated that the Cybermen were redesigned because they did so often in the classic series, and yet had been consistent in the new series. The previous design of the Cybermen also appear in this episode, but are not the primary threats.
+* [[Neil Gaiman]] was motivated to provide a "rationalisation" for the Cybermen in current ''Doctor Who'' continuity. The classic series had depicted the Cybermen as alien cyborgs, while the revived series depicted them as human cyborgs from a parallel Earth; Gaiman opined that his Cybermen stemmed from an encounter and amalgamation of these two types of Cybermen following [[The Next Doctor|''The Next Doctor'']].
+* During filming at Castell Coch, a copy of the readthrough script was found in a taxi in [[Cardiff]]. It was marked as being [[Eve De Leon Allen]]'s copy and had the working title of ''The Last Cyberman''. The script was found by Hannah Durham, who posted a picture of the script to [[Facebook]] with the caption: "found Dr Who script in the back of a taxi. Cheeky spoilers anyone?" It was then posted to [[Reddit]] by Dan Rowling with the caption: "Look what a Facebook friend found in a taxi in Cardiff on Monday". Arrangements were then made by Hannah Durham and Dan Rowling to return the script to the BBC.
+* The theatre-repurposed-as-military-barracks is the same theatre-repurposed-as-military-barracks from ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]''.
+* The punishment platoon use the same communicators as the [[Cleric|Clerics]] from ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]/[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]].''
+* [[Matt Smith]] found his dual performance to be a struggle and received little support from the crew, whom he constantly voiced his frustrations at.
+* While [[Neil Gaiman]] enjoys the script as he wrote it, he found that the finished product was misinterpreted by [[Stephen Woolfenden]], leaving a lot of his intentions unclear. Gaiman revealed in [[2018]] that he felt like the product was being taken out of his control and being weakened without his consent, leaving him with a bitter experience. Whilst this hasn't altered his love of the show or his desire to return, it did lead him to demand full creative control over future projects based on his scripts.
 === Ratings ===
-''to be added''
+Overnight viewing figures estimate that the episode was watched by 4.7 million viewers, rising to 6.64 million after calculating the final ratings, making it the ninth most-watched programme of the week on [[BBC One]].<ref>[http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php?detail=ratings&type=date Doctor Who Ratings - UK final]</ref>
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+=== Myths ===
+* [[Ha-Ha]] is [[Alfie Owens]] grown up. ''This theory circulated on Tumblr, postulated as a result of Ha-Ha's claim that he "has heard of the Cybermen since [he] was in [his] cradle," which was taken to be a direct reference to the events of ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'', as well as actor [[Calvin Dean]]'s physical similarity in build to [[James Corden]], who played Alfie's father [[Craig Owens|Craig]]. As the story is set some 1,000 years after the supposed final destruction of the Cybermen and the end of the Cyber Wars, this is unlikely. It is also not borne out by any dialog in the episode itself.
 === Production errors ===
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-''to be added''
+* When the Doctor is running to the castle, the gold ticket he used to shut down the Cyber-Planner is missing from his face. However, when he encounters Clara and the Platoon, the ticket is on his face again.
+* One of the Cybermen's chestplates is pushed up, most likely due to it being too short for the actor wearing it.
 == Continuity ==
-* It is never made clear whether these Cybermen are of the [[Mondasian]] or [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybus]] variety, although they use the phrase "upgrade" and two of Webley's Cybermen being similar to the ones from [[Closing Time]] with his third having the Cybus logo like the ones from The Pandorica Opens. Webley's explanation that the Cybermen have adapted and that the new model will be unstoppable may hint that the two types of Cybermen have encountered each other and merged their technology. This would explain why Cybus-like versions had Mondasian ships in ''[[The Pandorica Opens]]'' and ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'', why one of Webley's models have the Cybus logo, and why the [[Cyber-Wars]] lasted longer than has been previously stated.
+* According to Webley, there are 699 [[Wonders of the Universe]]. The [[Third Doctor]] once declared as much after the destruction of the 700th wonder, the [[Great City of the Exxilons]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]'')
-* The Doctor can play [[chess]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sun Makers (TV story)|The Sun Makers]]'', ''[[The Androids of Tara]]'', ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]''). Also, the [[Time Lord]]s inventing chess was a query first considered by the [[Second Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dreams of Empire (novel)|Dreams of Empire]]'')
+* The Doctor can play [[chess]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sun Makers (TV story)|The Sun Makers]]'', ''[[The Androids of Tara (TV story)|The Androids of Tara]]'', ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]''). Also, the [[Time Lord]]s inventing chess was a query first considered by the [[Second Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dreams of Empire (novel)|Dreams of Empire]]'')
-* This is not the Doctor's first encounter with a Cyberman purported to be an automated game-playing machine. When the [[Eighth Doctor]] encountered the [[The Turk|Silver Turk]], a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]], it too attacked its 'controllers'. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
+* This is not the Doctor's first encounter with a Cyberman purported to be an automated game-playing machine. When the [[Eighth Doctor]] encountered the [[The Turk|Silver Turk]], a [[Cyberman]], it too attacked its 'controllers'. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
-* The Doctor mentions the Cybermen's weakness to [[gold]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'') and cleaning fluid. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')
+* The Doctor mentions and exploits the Cybermen's weakness to [[gold]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'') and cleaning fluid. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')
-* Two [[Impact suit]]s can be seen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'')
+* Two [[impact suit]]s can be seen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)|The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]'')
 * The Doctor says the children are under his protection. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'')
 * [[Angie Maitland|Angie]] and [[Artie Maitland]] [[time travel|travel]] in [[the TARDIS]], as they had previously blackmailed Clara into taking them along. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'')
-* The [[Tenth Doctor]]'s regeneration is seen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'').
+* The Doctor shows Mr Clever the memory of his most recent regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
-* Several creatures from previous episodes are seen in [[Webley]]'s room. This includes an [[Uvodni]] head, ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]'') a [[Blowfish]] head, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'') a [[Shansheeth]] head, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'') a [[Chameleon (humanoid)|Chameleon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Faceless Ones (TV story)|The Faceless Ones]]'') a dummy, ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'') and several alien from [[Sun-singers of Akhet]], including an [[Ultramancer]], a [[Pan-Babylonian]] and a [[Lugal-Irra-Kush]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'').
+* When talking about the Doctor to Clara, Mr Clever says that he's "had some cowboys in here". The [[Tenth Doctor]] used this phrase to describe the state of the ship ''[[SS Madame de Pompadour]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') The Eleventh Doctor also said this to young [[Amelia Pond]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
+* Mr Clever seems excited to get knowledge of the [[Time Lord]]s, whereas earlier in their history, the [[Cyber-Leader (Silver Nemesis)|Cyber-Leader]] considered the secrets of the Time Lords to be of no concern to the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'')
+* Several wax replicas of creatures are seen in [[Webley]]'s room. This includes an [[Uvodni]] head, ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]'') a [[Blowfish]] head, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'') a [[Shansheeth]] head, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'') a [[Chameleon (humanoid)|Chameleon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Faceless Ones (TV story)|The Faceless Ones]]'') a dummy, ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'') an [[Ultramancer]], a [[Pan-Babylonian]], and a [[Lugal-Irra-Kush]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'')
 * The Doctor previously visited an amusement park "controlled" by aliens. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'')
-* Clara's [[mobile phone]] has no service, indicating that the Doctor didn't give her a [[superphone]], as he had with every one of his regular [[companion]]s since his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'', ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'') It is strongly implied that Angie is given one at the end, however.
+* Angie's [[mobile phone]] has no service, indicating that the Doctor didn't give her a [[superphone]], as he had with other [[companion]]s since his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'', ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'')
-* The Doctor says to the [[Cybermite]], 'Not even a [[cybermat]]'. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
+* The Doctor mentions the [[Cybermat]]<nowiki/>s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
 * The Doctor echoes a quote from his former companion [[Rory Williams]] when confronted by the troops aiming guns at him: "Don't shoot, I'm nice!" ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'')
 * The Doctor's defeat of the Cyber-Planner, distracting him with a bluff about an alleged checkmate to drain his power, is the same stratagem he used against [[Fenric]] in his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'')
-* The Doctor refers to an enemy as "beautiful." ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'', ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'')
+* The Doctor refers to an enemy, the Cybermite, as "beautiful". ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'', ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'', ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'')
-* [[Webley]] claims that the Chess playing Cyberman is the 699th [[Wonders of the Universe|Wonder of the Universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'')
+* The Doctor has previously told companions not to "wander off". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')
 * [[UNIT]] also designed a device that would blow up a planet to be used if left with no other options, the [[Osterhagen Project]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
-* The Doctor and Mr. Clever discuss the Doctor removing himself from databanks across the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'', ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')
+* The Doctor and Mr Clever discuss the Doctor removing himself from databanks across the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'', ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')
-*The Doctor uses the phrase "You've had some cowboys in here" ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]).
+* The Doctor says that the Cybermen can't convert non-human beings. However, in his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]], he met Cybermen who, whilst in the [[Land of Fiction]], converted [[Fairy|Fairies]], [[Troll]]s, [[Merman|Mermen]], [[Vampire (mythology)|Vampires]] and even a [[Whale]] into their Cyber-forces. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cyberman]]'')
+* [[Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI|Porridge's]] title of Imperator is similar to a title [[Imperiatrix]] on [[Gallifrey]] which [[Pandora]] and the Doctor's former companion [[Romana II|Romana]] held. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]], [[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]] to [[Appropriation (audio story)|Appropriation]]'')
+* The Doctor's body being possessed by a villainous being that makes him appear to be an evil version of himself is similar to the instance where the [[Ninth Doctor]] had his body overtaken by an entity in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Cruel Sea (comic story)|The Cruel Sea]]''.
+* The [[Tenth Doctor]] also considered regenerating to rid himself of a being who was possessing him. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'')
 == Home video releases ==
-''to be added''
+[[File:Series 7b UK DVD Cover.jpg|thumb|Series 7, Part 2 DVD cover.]]
+===DVD & Blu-ray releases===
+* ''Nightmare in Silver'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray as part of Doctor Who Series 7 Part Two in region 1/A on [[28 May (releases)|28 May]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]], region 2/B on [[27 May (releases)|27 May]] 2013, and region 4/B on [[22 May (releases)|22 May]] 2013.
+* Also, this episode was released as part of the Complete Seventh Series boxset on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1/A on [[24 September (releases)|24 September]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]], in region 2/B on [[28 October (releases)|28 October]] 2013 and in region 4/B on [[30 October (releases)|30 October]] 2013.
+=== Digital releases ===
+* In the United Kingdom, this story is available on [[BBC iPlayer]].
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