The ArcHive Tapes, later released as The ArcHive Tapes: Cybermen - The Hypothesised History Of The Cyber Race, were an audio adaptation of the in-universe biographical elements of the David Banks book Doctor Who: Cybermen. The tapes recount Banks' interpretation of the history of the Cybermen. The series comprises a set of four audiocassettes. The series was narrated and produced by David Banks.[1]
Stories
| # | Title | Writer | Featuring | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Origins of the Cybermen | David Banks | Cybermen | 1989 |
| 2 | The Early Cybermen | 1989 | ||
| 3 | The Cyber Nomads | 1990 | ||
| 4 | The Ultimate Cybermen | 1990 |
Subsequent releases
The Origins of the Cybermen was re-released on CD in 2004 in the Cybermen tin.
In May 2013, the entire ArcHive Tapes were given a CD release, remastered and with new music added, in the form of a 4-disc box set.
Notes
- Over the anthology, the narrator refers to the different incarnations of the Doctor as "Doctor (cardinal number)" rather than "the (ordinal number) Doctor".
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ David Banks (1990) Doctor Who: Cybermen, W. H. Allen & Co plc. ISBN 0-352-32738-3.
- ↑ https://open.spotify.com/album/1EswmxRGY2yKVQjzTrbQx3