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* ''Radio Times'' credits [[Peter Hawkins]] as "Cybermen Voices" for episode two, and as "Cyberman Voices" for episodes three and four. All on-screen credits read "Cybermen Voices". | * ''Radio Times'' credits [[Peter Hawkins]] as "Cybermen Voices" for episode two, and as "Cyberman Voices" for episodes three and four. All on-screen credits read "Cybermen Voices". | ||
* Actress Shirley Cooklin (Kaftan) was married to producer Peter Bryant. Her character was written especially for her by Gerry Davis. Frazer Hines actually flirted with her, not realising that she was his boss's wife. | * Actress Shirley Cooklin (Kaftan) was married to producer Peter Bryant. Her character was written especially for her by Gerry Davis. Frazer Hines actually flirted with her, not realising that she was his boss's wife. | ||
* [[Peter Bryant]], who had previously been assistant to [[Gerry Davis]] and been newly promoted to script editor on the preceding story, was allowed to produce this serial to test if he could take over from [[Innes Lloyd]] as producer later in the season. Bryant's own assistant, Victor Pemberton, acted as script editor on this serial and was also an uncredited assistant script editor on ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'' and ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]''. He did not want to be a full time script editor, preferring to pen his own scripts and, later that season, he wrote [[Fury from the Deep (TV story)| | * [[Peter Bryant]], who had previously been assistant to [[Gerry Davis]] and been newly promoted to script editor on the preceding story, was allowed to produce this serial to test if he could take over from [[Innes Lloyd]] as producer later in the season. Bryant's own assistant, Victor Pemberton, acted as script editor on this serial and was also an uncredited assistant script editor on ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'' and ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]''. He did not want to be a full time script editor, preferring to pen his own scripts and, later that season, he wrote ''[[Fury from the Deep (TV story)|Fury from the Deep]]''. When Bryant's eventual promotion to producer came, [[Derrick Sherwin]] became script editor. | ||
* The serial begins the semi-recurring tradition of Cybermen stories being titled "...of the Cybermen". This format is also used in the televisions stories ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]''; the comic stories ''[[The Power of the Cybermen (comic story)|The Power of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Time of the Cybermen (comic story)|Time of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]''; the audio stories ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Hour of the Cybermen (audio story)|Hour of the Cybermen]]''; the video game ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'' and the novel ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]''. | * The serial begins the semi-recurring tradition of Cybermen stories being titled "...of the Cybermen". This format is also used in the televisions stories ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]''; the comic stories ''[[The Power of the Cybermen (comic story)|The Power of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Time of the Cybermen (comic story)|Time of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]''; the audio stories ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Hour of the Cybermen (audio story)|Hour of the Cybermen]]''; the video game ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'' and the novel ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]''. | ||
* The story was chosen by [[BBC America]] to represent the [[Patrick Troughton]] era during their 50th-anniversary programming. Edited into an [[omnibus]] format, it was aired by BBCA on [[24 February (releases)|24 February]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]], after the debut of their homegrown special called, ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Second Doctor]]''. It also aired in the [[United Kingdom]] later in the year on [[13 October (releases)|13 October]], along with the ''Revisited'' special, on the [[Watch (TV channel)|Watch]] channel. | * The story was chosen by [[BBC America]] to represent the [[Patrick Troughton]] era during their 50th-anniversary programming. Edited into an [[omnibus]] format, it was aired by BBCA on [[24 February (releases)|24 February]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]], after the debut of their homegrown special called, ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Second Doctor]]''. It also aired in the [[United Kingdom]] later in the year on [[13 October (releases)|13 October]], along with the ''Revisited'' special, on the [[Watch (TV channel)|Watch]] channel. | ||
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* The scene of the Cybermen breaking out of their tombs was filmed entirely in one take. | * The scene of the Cybermen breaking out of their tombs was filmed entirely in one take. | ||
* [[Morris Barry]] was impressed by the design work of the cyber tombs by [[Martin Johnson (designer)|Martin Johnson]]. [[Peter Bryant]] claimed that [[Sydney Newman]] called him to praise the story. | * [[Morris Barry]] was impressed by the design work of the cyber tombs by [[Martin Johnson (designer)|Martin Johnson]]. [[Peter Bryant]] claimed that [[Sydney Newman]] called him to praise the story. | ||
*As well as being only one of two serials to fully exist from Season 5, this is the only Cyberman story produced in the 60s black-and-white era where all original episodes exist in their entirety. ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', [[The Wheel in Space (TV story)| | *As well as being only one of two serials to fully exist from Season 5, this is the only Cyberman story produced in the 60s black-and-white era where all original episodes exist in their entirety. ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'' and ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'' are all technically incomplete, with ''The'' ''Wheel in Space'' being the only story not to be fully restored using animation. | ||
*The Cyberman Controller's headpiece was meant to glow, but the mechanism didn't work as intended. | *The Cyberman Controller's headpiece was meant to glow, but the mechanism didn't work as intended. | ||