Cybermen: The Early Years

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Cybermen: The Early Years was a video containing rare episodes from early Cybermen stories. It was presented by Colin Baker and contained the following episodes:

• The Moonbase, Episodes 2 and 4
• The Wheel in Space, Episodes 3 and 6

and also interwiews with Roy Skelton, Morris Barry and Wendy Padbury and clips from The Tenth Planet, The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Invasion.

Behind the scenes

• This was Part of a series of videos produced by John Nathan-Turner intended to release rare episodes and incomplete seriels, as well as interveiws and other extras that wouldn't have seen a video release at the time.
• All British releases were handled by BBC Worldwide, Australasian releases by Polygram and American releases by CBS/Fox
• The video was classified U in the UK and PG for 'Low Level Violence' in Australia.
• It was released on 06/07/1992 in the UK, 1993 in the America and on 10/03/1993 in Australia.
• The arrangement of the Doctor Who theme used for this and succeeding Years releases was originally arranged by Keff McCulloch for the 1989 album Doctor Who: Variations on a Theme.
  

See also

Six similar videos were later released up to 1994, they were

• The Hartnell Years
• The Troughton Years
• The Pertwee Years
• Daleks: The Early Years
• The Tom Baker Years
• The Colin Baker Years

In 1993 the BBC refused to fund production of The Davison Years and The McCoy Years. thumb|300px|right|Part one of Colin Baker's links

thumb|300px|right|Part two

thumb|300px|right|Part three

thumb|300px|right|Part four

thumb|300px|right|Part five