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* [[Tom MacRae]], who wrote [[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'' / ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', drew inspiration from this story and gave [[Marc Platt]] a story credit as acknowledgement.
* [[Tom MacRae]], who wrote [[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'' / ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', drew inspiration from this story and gave [[Marc Platt]] a story credit as acknowledgement.
* This story has similarities to the unproduced story ''Genesis of the Cybermen''. Both looked into the past of the Cybermen and featured the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
* This story has similarities to the unproduced story ''Genesis of the Cybermen''. Both looked into the past of the Cybermen and featured the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
* [[Paul Copley]] (Mr Hartley) would play [[Clem McDonald]] in [[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Series 3]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''.
* [[Derren Nesbitt]] (Thomas Dodd) previously played [[Tegana]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'' and would later play [[Quences (Auld Mortality)|Ordinal-General Quences]], the Doctor's great-great-uncle, in [[NOTDWU]]: ''[[Auld Mortality (audio story)|Auld Mortality]]''.
* This audio drama was recorded on [[26 March (production)|26]] and [[27 March (production)|27 March]] [[2002]] at [[The Moat Studios]].
* This audio drama was recorded on [[26 March (production)|26]] and [[27 March (production)|27 March]] [[2002]] at [[The Moat Studios]].
* The parts of this audio story have individual names. Part 1 is "Surfacing", Part 2 is "Necessary Force", Part 3 is "Popping the Seals", and Part 4 is "Shelter".
* The parts of this audio story have individual names. Part 1 is "Surfacing", Part 2 is "Necessary Force", Part 3 is "Popping the Seals", and Part 4 is "Shelter".

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Spare Parts was the thirty-fourth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was released in July 2002. It saw a return to Mondas for Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor and his companion Nyssa, played by Sarah Sutton. This story was the inspiration for two 2006 Doctor Who television episodes; it had a credit in both TV: The Age of Steel and TV: Rise of the Cybermen.

Publisher's summary

"I'm not even sure they are people by the end. They’re just so many tinned left-overs..."

On a dark frozen planet where no planet should be, in a doomed city with a sky of stone, the last denizens of Earth's long-lost twin will pay any price to survive, even if the laser scalpels cost them their love and hate and humanity.

And in the Mat-infested streets, round about tea-time, the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa unearth a black market in secondhand body parts and run the gauntlet of augmented police and their augmented horses.

And just between the tramstop and the picturehouse, the Doctor's worst suspicions are finally confirmed: the Cybermen have only just begun, and the Doctor will be, just as he always has been, their saviour...

Plot

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Cast

References

Species

  • Yvonne has a pet Cybermat.
  • The Doctor tries to fight off a Cyberman with gold, but it has no effect.
  • This story marks the first chronological appearance of a Cyber-Planner. It originates in a union of the brightest minds of the Mondasian Council.
  • Part of the Cybermen design is structured after the Doctor's own brain.
Preview illustration by Martin Geraghty featured in DWM 320

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