Tag Archives: Cybermen

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Roger Pocock

This surely wins the prize of the Doctor Who episode that has the most to do. It’s a celebration of 100 years of the BBC, and therefore has to function in some way as a celebration of the 59 years … Continue reading →

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Ascension of the Cybermen

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Roger Pocock

This article covers the episodes Ascension of the Cybermen  and The Timeless Children, which together form a single Doctor Who story. “That which is dead can live again, in the hands of a believer.” This one is going to divide … Continue reading →

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The Haunting of Villa Diodati

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Roger Pocock

Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley (well, she will be), John Polidori. All great writers, and fascinating human beings. It’s a job to get a sense of that from this episode, which just packs so much in. It’s difficult enough … Continue reading →

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Spare Parts (revisited)

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Roger Pocock

A new review from Mike has been added below.  If you haven’t read mine, take a look.  If you have, scroll on down… I can’t let the month of Halloween go by without taking a close look at a Cybermen … Continue reading →

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Silver Nemesis

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Silver Nemesis is not a popular story, and I can understand why.  The problems are obvious, with three different sets of enemies who all fall short in some way, and are largely kept separate from the Doctor and Ace, who … Continue reading →

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The Invasion

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Make the most of The Invasion, because it will be nearly 50 years before anyone comes close to recapturing the magic and scariness of the 1960s Cybermen stories.  They have very little screen time in The Invasion, but that is … Continue reading →

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The Wheel in Space

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Season Five of Doctor Who is obviously known as being a series of base-under-siege stories, with people trapped somewhere while the monsters try to get in.  This doesn’t apply to every story, and in fact the series starts with a … Continue reading →

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The Tomb of the Cybermen

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Roger Pocock

I am going to have to get autobiographical here, because The Tomb of the Cybermen is my favourite Doctor Who story.  That’s not something that is unheard of.  Tomb is generally placed relatively highly in fan polls, but to consider … Continue reading →

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The Moonbase

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Now listen, everybody. I don’t know how many more of these Cybermen there are, but from our point of view we’re under siege. It is remarkable the extent to which the Troughton era arrives fully formed here, with a format … Continue reading →

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Earthshock

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Roger Pocock

During the 1980s, Doctor Who started to do a couple of things over and over again, which almost certainly contributed to the eventual cancellation of the show: very violent stories, and stories which feed off the past of the show.  … Continue reading →

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