The origin story of the Cybermen, based on the ideas of their co-creator Gerry Davis. Thanks to a neat line or two from Steven Moffat, we know that Cybermen are inevitable. They’re the horrific result of a simple equation: “People plus technology minus humanity.” However, the Cybermen who met the First Doctor at the South … >
Cyber co-creator Gerry Davis ideas become an audio drama for the Fifth Doctor’s Season 19 team. While we famously saw the ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ in 1975, the origins of the Cybermen were only alluded to during Doctor Who‘s classic television run. Instead, they appeared fully formed in ‘The Tenth Planet’, with the cloth-faced monstrosities … >
The First Doctor’s final adventure gets an exclusive audio vinyl release on Record Store Day, April 2025. The Tenth Planet, the Doctor Who story which introduced the iconic Cybermen, will be available for the first time on double vinyl from Demon Records. This narrated BBC soundtrack adventure, first broadcast in 1966, includes the show’s first … >
The Doctor and Jo Jones face the original Cybermen from the doomed planet of Mondas. Pitting the Third Doctor against the Cybermen is always something special, as we didn’t see them during Pertwee era. While it’s happened before on audio, ‘The Quintessence’ offers an intriguing new spin; rather than the robotic sounding creatures who evolved … >
The audio drama draws on the ideas of the Cybermen co-creator Gerry Davis. The Fifth Doctor met the Cybermen on television in the fateful ‘Earthshock.’ However, before that storyline became a fixed point in Doctor Who history, an alternative idea explored the origins of the metal men from Mondas. While the Cybermen were first introduced in … >
Sylvester McCoy’s penultimate season as the Seventh Doctor is the next release in the Doctor Who Blu-ray collection. A special trailer containing archive footage from Season 25 and special features from the release was released to mark the announcement. The stories also feature Sophie Aldred who plays iconic 80s companion, Ace, who joins the Doctor … >
The next volume of Big Finish’s The Third Doctor Adventures will pit the Doctor and Jo Jones against the men from Mondas in ‘The Quintessence’. Famously, Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor didn’t encounter the Cybermen during his original television run. While that fact has been remedied a few times, in ‘The Five Doctors’ and on audio, … >
Titan Comics has released the cover images for the first in their Fifteenth Doctor Comic series and they reveal that the Doctor and Ruby Sunday’s first adventure will be with Cybermen. “The Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday have followed a mysterious signal to a shopping mall in the last days of Earth. It’s sure to … >
The 20th anniversary season of Doctor Who, with Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor is the next release to come to Blu-ray with Season 20. Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 20 includes seven stories from 1983; Arc of Infinity, Snakedance, Mawdryn Undead, Terminus, Enlightenment, The King’s Demons and The Five Doctors. A specially-shot announcement trailer was … >
The metal men from Mondas are getting their own collected volume of comic adventures. As with his other famous foes, the Cyberman have featured frequently in the Doctor’s comic strip exploits over the years. Now, all those adventures come together in a bumper-sized volume from the Doctor Who Magazine publisher Panini, out this September. Cybermen … >