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 Doctor and Nyssa unearth a black market in second-hand 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 confirmed: the Cybermen have only just begun, and the Doctor will be, just as he always has been, their saviour...
Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
- Yvonne Hartley - Kathryn Guck
- Dad - Paul Copley
- Thomas Dodd - Derren Nesbitt
- Sisterman Constant - Pamela Binns
- Frank Hartley - Jim Hartley
- Mrs Ginsberg - Ann Jenkins
- Doctorman Allan - Sally Knyvette
- Cybermen/Cyber-Commander Zheng - Nicholas Briggs
References
- Yvonne had a Cybermat as a pet.
- The Doctor tries to fight off a Cyberman with gold, it doesn't have any effect.
- The first instance of a Cyber-Planner appears, originating from a union of the brightest minds of the Mondasian Council.
Notes
- This story is credited in the credits of DW: The Age of Steel and Rise of the Cybermen as when those two stories were written they drew much inspiration from this story.
Continuity
- This story takes place at the Cybermen's beginnings, as many of its events lead to DW: The Tenth Planet.
- Cyber-Commander Zheng would later return for a cameo appearance in BFA: The Reaping.
Timeline
- Spare Parts occurs after ST: The Eternity Contract
- Spare Parts occurs before ST: Confabula