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|image= Cyberman (pre-excellent).jpg

|script = The Tomb of the Cybermen (script)

|novelisation= Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen (novelisation)

|series=[[Doctor Who television stories|''Doctor Who'' television stories]]

|season serial number = 1

|story number= 37

|enemy= The [[Cyber-Controller (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|CyberTelosian-Controller]]

|setting= [[Cyber-tomb]], [[Telos]], [[26th century]]

|director= [[Morris Barry]]

|producer= [[Peter Bryant]]

|epcount = 4

|format= 4x25-minute episodes

|serial production code= [[List of production codes|MM]]

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It is the earliest [[Second Doctor]] serial to survive in its entirety and, from its recovery in the early 1990s until the recovery of ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'' in 2013, it was the only complete serial extant from season 5.

Toberman returns to Miss Kaftan and reports that "it is done". Klieg confides to Kaftan that he is struggling to decode what he needs to do to get into the tomb. Kaftan assures him that logic will prevail and that he has plenty of time. Parry and the group return. He calls the group together and decides to abandon the expedition and return to Earth. At this point, however, Hopper returns and angrily reveals that someone has sabotaged the rocket ship — no-one will be leaving until he can effect repairs and no-one will be allowed aboard until his crew has done so. Viner freaks out again, not wanting to be left overnight. Klieg jumps on this delay to take advantage and explore the area. Shortly after, he cracks the code, with a little help from the Doctor, opening the door to the tomb. Everyone except Victoria and Kaftan are to go. Victoria protests, but the Doctor asks her to stay and keep an eye on Kaftan. She relents. Kaftan asks for Toberman to stay, but the Doctor pretends that he will stay if it were not for the protection of Toberman. Kaftan relents. Left alone, Kaftan places something in Victoria's drink.

Klieg and his party find a vast chamber beneath, with a multistory structure containing cells of frozen Cybermen, entombed in suspended animation.

* [[Crewman (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|Crewman]] - [[Ray Grover]]

* [[Cyber-Controller|Cyberman Controller]] - [[Michael Kilgarriff]]

* Cybermen Voices - [[Peter Hawkins]]

* [[Visual Effects]] - [[Michealjohn Harris]], [[Peter Day]]

=== Food and drinks ===

* Kaftan offers Victoria some roasted [[veal]], [[chicken]] and roast [[beef]]. Victoria decides on roast chicken, but she is surprised when she is given a tablet instead.

* [[Morris Barry]] wanted Michael Kilgarriff to play the Cyber Controller right from the beginning. However, Kilgarriff had never seen ''Doctor Who'' before and knew nothing about the Cybermen. So when Barry approached him about the role, he was very surprised to learn that the part would involve him being encased in silver and that he would not have any lines. Three days later, he telephoned Barry and agreed to do the role.

* This is Victoria's only televised story that does not take place on Earth.

* [[Deborah Watling]] admitted the scene in which Victoria gets sealed inside the sarcophagus was difficult for her to film due to her claustrophobia.

* [[Patrick Troughton]] and [[Frazer Hines|Frazer Hine]]<nowiki/>[[Frazer Hines|s]] came up with the gag of the Doctor and Jamie holding each other's hands themselves. They did so without the director's knowledge, so that he'd have no choice but to leave it in.

* 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.

=== Ratings ===

* A Cyberman head from this story was stolen around the same time as a BBC producer quit outside the ''Doctor Who'' production office.

* Eric Klieg's mention of "Whitehead logic" in episode one was an in-joke referring to Cyberman actor Reg Whitehead. ''(It wasn't. This was, in fact, a reference to mathematical logician Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947).)''

=== Filming locations ===

== Continuity ==

* The Doctor returned to Telos in his [[sixth incarnation]], re-encountering the Cyber-Controller and also encountering the [[Cryon]]s, the original inhabitants of the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')

* The Cyber-Controller says that "we were becoming extinct" after the destruction of Mondas. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') When talking about their weakened state, the Doctor muses "so that's why you attacked the moonbase". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')

* Photo Gallery

* Production Subtitles

* Commentary: [[Frazer Hines]] and [[Deborah Watling]]

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