Tenth Planet Cyberman

 According to The Doctor Who Magazine (issue 357) the Doctor Who Production Office have confirmed that the next series of Doctor Who will see The Doctor and Rose come up against old enemies from the planet Mondas - the terrible Cybermen!

Doctor Who producer Phil Collinson, is reported as saying “Next year sees the 40th anniversary of the Cybermen’s first appearance, and we’d be mad to miss that date. And the public response to the first series seems to point out that viewers, much like fans, enjoy a mix of the old and the new. We’ve got plenty of brand new creations on the way - some terrifying, some just plain mad! - but at the same time, there’s great public affection for old Doctor Who icons. The Cyberrnen exist in that category of classics, the monsters just about everyone of a certain age knows. They were a work of genius back in the 1960s, when they were created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, and we want to honour that genius now, in the twenty-first century. The story will be a two-parter, but I don’t want to give away any more plot than that. But I can promise that this will be a loving recreation of an old foe, and a return that will reinvent and reinvigorate the silver giants for old and new viewers alike...”

Silver Nemesis (1988)

The Cybermen first appeared in Doctor Who in the "The Tenth Planet" - the very last story for the First Doctor, played by William Hartnell, in 1966. They then appeared on a semi-regular basis until their last television story "Silver Nemesis" which starred Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

For those of you who have been watching the latest series would not have failed to notice that in the fifth story "Dalek" that Van Statten's museum of alien artifacts also included a Cybermen head from "Revenge of the Cybermen".

Please Click Here to visit our Cybermen page for more information and photos of these aliens.

We at Whotopia are looking forward to seeing the return of Doctor Who's second greatest enemy to our television screens.