Noel’s Saturday Roadshow (TV story)

Noel’s Saturday Roadshow
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Featuring:	Cyber-Leader
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	16 September 1989
Premiere network:	BBC1
Format:	3 minute sketch

Noel’s Saturday Roadshow was the name given by The Collection Season 26 blu-ray to a sketch that was featured in The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow.

The booklet to Season 26 describes it as an in character appearance of Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and David Banks as a Cyber-Leader.

Official synopsis

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Plot

The Seventh Doctor materialises in front of host Noel Edmonds, claiming he needed help repairing the TARDIS, whose cyclismic energy cells and peon particle appropriator have developed an electro-magnetic echo.

When Edmonds (who instead tries to get information about his future in the far-off year of 2014 out of the Doctor) confesses that he has no idea what that even means, an unconcerned Doctor instead beckons the Cyber-Leader out of the TARDIS, revealing that he has hired the Cyberman to fix the ship, instead. After the Doctor succeeded in restarting the TARDIS, the Cyberman was left behind and replaced Edmonds, inviting viewers to tune in next week for the "Cyberman Saturday Roadshow".

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Noel Edmonds - himself
• Cyber-Leader - David Banks

Crew

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Worldbuilding

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Notes

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Continuity

• Noel Edmonds would later meet Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor in the introduction to Dimensions in Time. Both skits have the Doctor dismissing Edmonds's idealistic predictions of his own future by saying that he travels through time, not Fantasy Island.
• The Cybermen later demonstrate an interest in taking over BBC programming in Cyberman Ident Interruption, wherein a Cyberman hijacked the continuity announcements of BBC One and BBC One Northern Ireland.