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Silver Nemesis
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Synopsis


The Cybermen
The Cybermen
 The Doctor and Ace visit England in 1988, where three rival factions - the Cybermen, a group of Nazis and a 17th Century sorceress named Lady Peinforte - are attempting to gain control of a statue made of a living metal, validium, that was created by Rassilon as the ultimate defence for Gallifrey.

 Can The Doctor plays the three factions off against one other and eventually defeat to the Cyber Leader?

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General Information

Season: Twenty Five
Production Code: 7K
Story Number: 150
Episode Numbers:675 - 677
Number of Episodes: 3
Percentage of Episodes Held:100%
Working Titles:"The Harbinger" and "Nemesis"
Production Dates: June - July 1988
Broadcast Started: 23 November 1988
Broadcast Finished: 07 December 1988
Colour Status: Colour
Studio: None
Location: Arundel, West Sussex: Arundel Castle, Arundel Estate, London Road, High Street and Tarrant Street.
Others: Greenwich Gas Works (North Greenwich), Casa Del Mar, (Aldsworth Avenue, Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex), St Mary's House (The Street, Bramber, West Sussex) and Black Jack's Mill (Harefield, Middlesex).
Writer:Kevin Clarke
Director:Chris Clough
Producer:John Nathan-Turner
Script Editor:Andrew Cartmel
Production Assistant:Jane Wellesley
Production Associate:June Collins
Assistant Floor Managers:Jeremy Fry and Lynn Grant
Designer:John Asbridge
Costume Designer:Richard Croft
Make-Up Designer:Dorka Nieradzik
Cameramen:Alan Jessop (Outside Broadcast) and Barry Chaston (Outside Broadcast)
Visual Effects:Perry Brahan
Incidental Music:Keff McCulloch
Special Sounds (SFX Editor):Dick Mills
Title Sequence:Oliver Elmes
Title Music:Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Arranged by Keff McCulloch
Stunt Arrangers: Nick Gillard and Paul Heasman
Cybermen Originally Created By: Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
Number of Doctors: 1
The Doctor: Sylvester McCoy (The Seventh Doctor)
Number of Companions: 1The Companion: Sophie Aldred (Ace) Guest Cast: Courtney Pine (Jazz Quartet), David Banks (Cyber Leader) Additional Cast: Fiona Walker (Lady Peinforte), Anton Diffring (De Flores), Gerard Murphy (Richard), Leslie French (Mathematician), Metin Yenal (Karl), Martyn Read (Security Guard), Adrian Reid (Jazz Quartet), Ernest Mothle (Jazz Quartet), Frank Tontoh (Jazz Quartet), Mark Hardy (Cyber Lieutenant), Chris Chering (Skinhead), Symond Lawes (Skinhead), Brian Orrell (Cyberman), Dolores Gray (Mrs Remmington)Setting: Windsor (1638 and 1988) Villains: Cybermen, Lady Peinforte and The Fourth Reich

The Episodes

No. Episodes Broadcast
(UK)
Duration Viewers
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In Archive
675Part 123 November 198824'31"6.1PAL 1" colour videotape
676Part 230 November 198824'12"5.2PAL 1" colour videotape
677Part 307 December 198824'36"5.2PAL 1" colour videotape

Total Duration 1 Hour 13 Minutes


Audience Appreciation

Average Viewers (Millions) 5.5
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (1998)61.37%  (Position = 115 out of 159)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2009)55.26% Lower (Position = 176 out of 200)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2014)58.98% Higher (Position = 206 out of 241)
Doctor Who Magazine Poll (2023) Position = 9 out of 12


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 All three episodes exist as PAL 1” colour videotapes. A 71-edit scratch print of all episodes also exists, as does a 72-edit of episode 3.



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Notes


"Silver Nemesis" is the ‘anniversary’ story celebrating twenty-five years of Doctor Who. It is the 150th story of the show and sees the return of the Cybermen.

Fledgling writer Kevin Clarke was offered the chance to write this three-part anniversary story. Like Script Editor Andrew Cartmel, Kevin Clarke was interested in reintroducing The Doctor as a more enigmatic figure, and so they decided to make the question of The Doctor's identity a key point of this story. Kevin Clarke also devised the concept of the contents of a meteor affecting Earth's history. With Andrew Cartmel, this was fleshed out into a weapon-bearing silver figure, named Nemesis after the Greek god of retribution. It was producer John Nathan-Turner who added the final element, observing that the obvious enemy to include in a silver anniversary adventure were the silver giants themselves, the Cybermen.

As well as featuring the Cybermen this story includes a pair of time travellers and soldiers of the Fourth Reich.

Kevin Clarke drew heavily from the precepts of Jacobean theatre, particularly in crafting the character of Lady Peinforte (whose name came from the 17th century torture peine forte et dure - literally meaning ‘long and hard trauma’ - in which increasingly heavy weights are placed on the body). De Flores’ name was a reference to the 1622 play The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

Fiona Walker, who plays Lady Peinforte, appeared as Kala in the 1964 First Doctor story "The Keys of Marinus".

Jazz musician Courtney Pine and his musicians (Ernest Mothle (double bass), Adrian Reid (piano) and Frank Tontoh (drums)) appeared in this story.

David Banks appeared, for his fourth Doctor Who engagement, as the Cyber Leader. He was once again reunited with Mark Hardy, playing the Cyber Lieutenant. Mike Hardy had acted alongside David Banks in the 1982 Fifth Doctor story "Earthshock" and the Twentieth Anniversary special "The Five Doctors", but had been unavailable for the 1985 Sixth Doctor story "Attack of the Cybermen".

Cameo appearances as extras are made by a number of Doctor Who luminaries from in front of and behind the cameras. These are: Nicholas Courtney (who is famous for playing the part of The Brigadier - this being his first Doctor Who appearance since the Twentieth Anniversary special "The Five Doctors"); producer John Nathan-Turner; writer Graeme Curry; directors Fiona Cumming (with her husband, Production Assistant Ian Fraser), Andrew Morgan and Peter Moffatt; and Production Unit Manager Kathleen Bidmead. Also appearing was writer Kevin Clarke himself - he played a pedestrian while Lady Peinforte and Richard wander the streets of Windsor, and a motorist who passes by the hitchhiking Peinforte.

Prince Edward was approached for a cameo, but declined as had just begun work with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Company.

It has been rumoured that John Nathan-Turner even attempted to get the real Queen Elizabeth II to appear as herself in the story (much as members of the Royal Family had appeared on an episode of Coronation Street). This though could not be arranged, so an impersonator (Mary Reynolds) was enlisted for a short scene of the Queen with her corgis.

It has been reported that Leslie French, who plays Lady Peinforte's mathematician, was one of the actors considered for the role of the First Doctor in 1963.

Anton Diffring, well known for his numerous roles as German officers in Second World War films, appears in this story as De Flores. This was Anton Diffring’s last work as an actor before his death in 1989.

This story includes a brief guest appearance by Hollywood and Broadway musical star Dolores Grey. The character of the American tourist Milton P Remington had been replaced by Miss Hackensack. But when John Nathan-Turner realised that Dolores Gray was available the name was switched back to Mrs Remington.

As with Season Twenty Four, the final six episodes of Season Twenty Five in production would be divided into two three-part stories, one made entirely on location and the other totally in studio. This story being this season’s location-only story, and so Kevin Clarke rewrote his scripts so that the TARDIS Console Room would not be needed. Ace’s souped-up ghetto blaster was used to replace the scanner screen.

The director assigned to all six episodes was Chris Clough, who had handled the tandem of "Delta and the Bannermen" and "Dragonfire" the season before. However, at the end of May, the previous story into production, "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", experienced a major crisis when an asbestos scare at BBC Television Centre forced the cancellation of its studio sessions. John Nathan-Turner had managed to rescue "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" at the last minute by arranging to have it completed in a tent erected on a BBC parking lot, but the resulting delays meant that this story lost the majority of its rehearsal period. Because of this, Chris Clough was left with only a vague idea of the timing of Kevin Clarke’s scripts.

Location filming, where The Doctor and Ace meet and combat the Cybermen, was held at the Greenwich Gas Works in London on the site that later became The O2 (formerly known as the Millennium Dome), During these three days, in June 1988, delays began to build up – mainly due to scenes having to be rewritten and then recorded without being unrehearsed so as to complete all the required material. Scenes also containing the Cybermen's servants, nicknamed the ‘Walkmen’ had to be recorded without actors Dave and John Ould as they were not available during one of the recording days - despite the fact that they were due to appear in some of the scenes. This resulted in the Walkmen's inclusion in the finished story being rather haphazard.

The production then moved to Arundel Castle in West Sussex, standing in for Windsor Castle. Chris Clough had originally hoped to film at Windsor Castle itself, but was told by Buckingham Palace that only documentary crews were permitted to shoot there.

Several scenes were shot in woodland areas around Arundel Castle, notably the climax of the second episode, when The Doctor and Ace discuss the Cyber-threat while sitting near a fallen tree. The damaged and fallen trees, which can often be seen in these shots, were a result of the recent storm of 1987 that had caused widespread damage throughout southern England.

Partly because of the lack of rehearsals, all three episodes of this story were found to overrun badly, requiring a number of cuts. Included amongst these were The Doctor hypnotising the Windsor Castle guards, The Doctor explaining about getting the bow to the Nemesis statue, Karl rescuing De Flores from a Cyberman, and perhaps most famously a scene in Windsor Castle in which Ace notices a 19th century portrait of herself which (from her perspective) she has not yet posed for.

This story reflected a darker turn in the Doctor Who storylines so as to reinstate the mystery of the show with the intention being to reveal the secrets of The Doctor. In particular Ace is heard asking The Doctor at the end of the story: ‘Who are you?’ as clues to the Dark Time and The Doctor’s mysterious origins are given. These plot developments would later be followed up in the Virgin and BBC Doctor Who books series.

The Doctor is heard revealing that Courtney Pine’s quartet play his favourite kind of jazz (‘straight blowing’). In this scene Ace gets a cassette tape signed by Courtney Pine.

As indicated in "The Happiness Patrol", Ace follows Charlton Athletic football club, and reads the Daily Mirror.

Ace compares the events she encounters in this story with those in "Remembrance of the Daleks". Ace is also heard to mention that her stereo was destroyed by the Daleks (which occurred in the same story). For this story her stereo is replaced by one of The Doctor’s inventions. It has been revealed that it was to have Zygon like speakers, but more conventional technological ones were used instead.

Lady Peinforte time travels from 1638 to 1988. It is later revealed that Lady Peinforte’s time travelling is caused not by her own ingenuity but by Fenric (see the 1989 story "The Curse of Fenric").

At one point Lady Peinforte shows her servant, Richard Maynard, his grave. In the 1985 Sixth Doctor story "Revelation of the Daleks", The Doctor is heard explaining to Peri that if he took her to Earth after she had died, she could see her own gravestone.

The Doctor plays chess against an unknown opponent, thought to be Fenric. The Doctor battles Fenric later on in "The Curse of Fenric", but before this, in the 1989 story "Battlefield", Morgaine speaks of how she always beat The Doctor at chess. Both Morgaine and Fenric are powerful beings from another dimension.

"Battlefield" also deals with time as a major factor. Lady Peinforte's tomb does not contain her bones because she is destroyed in space when the Nemesis explodes. In "Battlefield", the events occur because of what The Doctor will do in the future, leading to The Doctor writing himself a note and claiming that he should have given himself more warning.

A late change was the modification of the element ‘Makarianite’ to ‘Validium’.

Validium is a Gallifreyan living metal (see also the 1976 Fourth Doctor story "The Deadly Assassin"), while Lady Peinforte calls the Validium her Nemesis. According to this story it fell to Earth in 1638. An arrow and a bow were formed from it. The arrow stayed in Lady Peinforte’s possession while the bow disappeared in 1788 and by the 1980s had come into the possession of De Flores.

It is revealed that Nemesis circles the Earth in a decaying orbit once every 25 years (coming closest to the Earth on the eve of the Great War (1913), and during the years of Adolf Hitler’s annexation of Austria (1938) and US President JF Kennedy’s assassination (1963).

From Nemesis Lady Peinforte learned of a grim secret of The Doctor's from the ‘Old Time, the Time of Chaos’. This secret though is never revealed. Also not revealed is how the Cybermen found out about Nemesis, although they know of Lady Peinforte.

This story is a sequel to an untelevised adventure (which Ace knows nothing about, although presumably it involved the Second Doctor, as Lady Peinforte refers to The Doctor still being little) involving Validium, set in 1638. The evil Lady Peinforte fashioned a statue Nemesis from the metal.

In the BBC Books’ The Eight Doctor Stories novel "Interference: Book Two", written by Lawrence Miles, there is another Validium based weapon featured.

This story marks the only on-screen appearance of the Mark VII Cybermen. This story is also the last to feature the Cybermen in the original run of the show.

It was originally scripted for the policemen at the Nemesis’ crash site to be killed by a swarm of Cybermats.

The Cybermen (in particular the Cyber-Leader) recognise The Doctor. While, The Doctor indicates that he knows Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II would be portrayed again later in the 2007 Tenth Doctor story "Voyage of the Damned" (along withwith an indirect reference to her made in 2005 Tenth Doctor story "The Christmas Invasion").

The Doctor is heard stating that the last time he was at Windsor the castle was being built. In the extended video version, there is also a portrait of Ace in Victorian clothes, which hints at another untelevised adventure. This is explained in the Virgin Books’ The New Adventures novel "Set Piece", written by Kate Orman.

Ace is seen wearing a fez in the first episode. The Doctor would later wear a fez in the 2010 Eleventh Doctor story "The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang".

Ace uses gold to fight the Cybermen, and Lady Peinforte’s arrows are made of gold.

This story contains a number of errors. Namely: The earring Ace is seen wearing on her jacket an earring that she will not be seen to acquire until the next story, "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" (this is a continuity error caused by a late change in the season's transmission order as that story was made prior to this and John Nathan-Turner wanted the first episode of "Silver Nemesis" to be seen on the actual Twenty Fifth Anniversary date); also Ace’s rucksack was destroyed in this story yet appears in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"; Although this story is meant to be set in November, Courtney Pine and his Quartet are playing outside in the sunshine, and Ace is in a T-shirt. The foliage is also decidedly lush, green, and non-Autumnal as well; It is never explained why the two controlled humans shoot at The Doctor and Ace in the first episode as the Cybermen, at this point, are not aware of this incarnation of The Doctor; Strangely Lady Peinforte and Richard's arrival does not draw any response from the people in the café; When the policemen are gassed by Nemesis, the person sitting in a car ends up with his legs under the vehicle; When Ace is going across the gantry in the third episode the cameraman stumbles or knocks into something; It is never explained how The Doctor and Ace appear to be allowed to walk away from the Queen's private residence after being stopped there by the security guards; In the second episode a helicopter was used to simulate the Cybership landing, the craft being superimposed over it. However, the blades are sometimes visible. Why don't Ace's coins just bounce off rather than pierce the Cybermen? David Banks’ eyes are visible as the Cyberleader pulls the coin out in the third episode.

Early in the second episode the TARDIS dematerialises just as an arrow hits it. The same thing happens at the end of the 2007 Tenth Doctor story "The Shakespeare Code". In both cases the arrow dematerialises with the TARDIS. This contradicts events in the 1963 First Doctor story "An Unearthly Child" where spears, which had become stuck in the TARDIS, fell off during dematerialisation.

The biggest anomaly with this story is it has been stated that it would be impossible for anyone from 1638 to calculate correctly a day 350 years later as in 1752 the Julian calendar was 'brought into line' with the Gregorian one (effectively meaning that 11 days from 3 to 13 September were skipped over). However, this discrepancy is later explained in "The Curse of Fenric". As discovered in this later story, this is not an error, but further proof that Fenric has consistently been manipulating the timeline so as to control Ace.

In a deleted scene, The Doctor is seen donning a pair of glasses, akin to the Fifth Doctor. However, he uses them to hypnotise two guards in a similar way to the Optical instruments utilised by the War Lords in the 1969 Second Doctor story "The War Games".

The first episode debuted on the very day of the silver anniversary, the 23rd of November. While in New Zealand the entire story was screened on the 25th - making this just the second occasion on which Doctor Who that episodes premiered first outside the UK. The first such instance, ironically, was on the 23rd November 1983 when parts of North America screened the twentieth anniversary story, "The Five Doctors" two days before its transmission in the UK.

An extended version of this three-part story was released on VHS. Released as ‘Silver Nemesis: Special Edition’ in April 1993 with a non-standard photomontage cover. As well as including many scenes that were cut prior to transmission the video included a documentary looking back at the production and covering the on-location filming of this story. This is an edited version of the New Jersey Network's anniversary special, "The Making of Silver Nemesis", which was produced at the time of this story’s recording. This documentary was not included on the August 2010 DVD release which was released as part of a Box Set with the 1975 Fourth Doctor story "Revenge of the Cybermen".

The DVD contains the original three part broadcast version, much to the consternation of a number of Doctor Who fans who consider the extended version to be the definitive one. It does however contain 22 minutes worth of deleted scenes. While including some never before seen, it nevertheless omits two scenes and several instances of cut dialogue, now only to be found in the previous VHS release.

An outtake from this story sees the Seventh Doctor tripping over a bush and then trying to stab it with his umbrella. This blooper appears in the documentary on the making of the story, and was also played during Sylvester McCoy’s 1988 ‘Clown Court’ appearance on The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow. This blooper was later included on the 2009 DVD release of "Delta and the Bannermen".



First and Last

The Firsts:

 The first Doctor Who story to be written by Kevin Clarke.


The Lasts (Subject to Future Stories):

 The last story, in the original run of Doctor Who, to feature the Cybermen.

 The last Doctor Who story, that was broadcast, to be directed by Chris Clough.

 David Banks' last involvement in the show as the Cyber Leader.


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The Plot

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The Doctor
The Doctor

In South America, 1988, a man named De Flores receives confirmation that ‘the landing’ is to take place the next day, the 23rd November, in Windsor. He calls together a group of paramilitary men and they toast their destiny: the Fourth Reich. They then leave for England, taking with them a silver bow.

In Windsor, in the year 1638, a sorceress called Lady Peinforte is anxious for a mathematician to complete his calculations. He eventually tells her that the object of her interest will land in the meadow outside in the year 1988. Peinforte and her squire, Richard, kill the mathematician to obtain blood for a potion. Taking with them a supply of poisoned gold-tipped arrows and a single silver arrow, they use the potion to travel forward in time to 1988, materialising in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

The Doctor and Ace are meanwhile listening to an outdoor jazz recital given by Courtney Pine and his musicians. The Doctor’s pocket watch bleeps but he is unable to remember what this alarm signifies. They then head back to the TARDIS but on the way they are attacked by two men wearing strange headphone-like devices. They manage to escape and get back to the TARDIS, where The Doctor uses a scanner device, incorporated into a new ghettoblaster that he has built for Ace, to display an image of Earth. The Doctor admits that he has known since the 23rd November 1638 that the planet will be destroyed at this time. He takes Ace to a storage area in Windsor castle to find a silver bow, but it is not there. They then travel in the TARDIS to Lady Peinforte’s house in 1638, where The Doctor discovers the dead mathematician. This confirms, to The Doctor, that Lady Peinforte has travelled forward in time to 1988.

Ace
Ace

The Doctor tells Ace that a quantity of a silver-coloured living metal called validium, the purpose of which is destruction, fell to Earth and was used by Lady Peinforte to make a statue of herself. The statue has three components - a bow, an arrow and the figure itself - that must be brought together in order for it to be activated. They have been separated since 1638 when, in order to foil the first attempt by Lady Peinforte to seize it, The Doctor launched the figure into orbit in a powered asteroid. Since then the asteroid has been approaching Earth at twenty-five yearly intervals, leaving a succession of disasters in its wake.

With the next arrival due in 1988 The Doctor and Ace return to that time-zone but the TARDIS arrives in the grounds of Windsor Castle, There they try to follow the Queen inside, in an attempt to summon help, but they are apprehended by two guards. Meanwhile the meteor lands in Windsor and it is cordoned off by the police. But they are all knocked out by a gas that starts to be emitted from alien-looking pipes that emerge from the earth around the strange looking object. Shortly afterwards De Flores and his men arrive to take charge of the meteor. Unaware that they are being watched by Lady Peinforte and Richard, who are in hiding, De Flores’s second in command, Karl, places the bow on the meteor which starts to glow in time with the statue buried inside. The TARDIS arrives and De Flores threatens to kill Ace unless The Doctor tells him where the arrow is. The Doctor explains that validium needs to have a critical mass to operate and that both the bow and the arrow are required to make up this mass.

Courtney Pine
Courtney Pine

Suddenly a massive spaceship arrives and from it emerge Cybermen, who attack De Flores’s men. Lady Peinforte and Richard also despatch several Cybermen with their gold-tipped arrows. In the confusion, The Doctor grabs the bow and, along with Ace, they depart in the TARDIS leaving The Cybermen to defeat De Flores’s men. The Cybermen then take the meteor into a nearby hangar in order to cut the statue out of it. They then take the statue to Lady Peinforte’s crypt elsewhere in the grounds of Windsor Castle and hide it in her tomb, where they wait in the expectation that The Doctor will bring the bow to them. But the TARDIS arrives elsewhere in the grounds and The Doctor uses the bow to home in on the statue. He explains to Ace that validium was created by Omega and Rassilon as the ultimate defence for Gallifrey in the olden times. Meanwhile the Cybermen try to communicate with their fleet, but The Doctor jams their transmissions by playing a jazz tape on Ace’s ghettoblaster.

When Lady Peinforte and Richard arrive at the crypt the Cybermen believe that Lady Peinforte will be driven mad by the realisation of her own death, but this does not happen. Richard instead destroys several more Cybermen with the gold-tipped arrows. Meanwhile Ace blows up the Cybermen’s spaceship with some of her nitro-9 while The Doctor distracts its human guards (who are the same men who attacked them after the jazz recital). The Cybermen then kill the men for failing in their task of protecting their spaceship.

Back at the TARDIS, The Doctor is at first unable to locate the Cybermen’s fleet on the holographic ‘screen’ above Ace’s ghettoblaster. He then realises that the fleet of spaceships are invisible. But he overcomes this, thereby revealing thousands of Cyber warships waiting in space.

Ace and The Doctor
Ace and The Doctor

Meanwhile Lady Peinforte finds the statue in her tomb, but escapes with Richard through a secret exit as De Flores arrives. The Cyber Leader also returns to the tomb with the silver arrow, which is grasped by the statue. As the statue starts to come to life The Doctor and Ace arrive, and The Doctor allows the statue to touch the bow for a moment before snatching it away again. As the statue awakes they run for the TARDIS, The Doctor explaining to Ace that it will now follow the bow. The Doctor takes the TARDIS first to Lady Peinforte’s house in 1638, where Ace obtains some gold coins, and then back to the meteor in the hangar where they witness the statue arriving and coming to rest in the meteor. When The Doctor gives it the bow, the statue talks to Ace and explains that it is whatever it is made to be – and at the moment it is Nemesis.

The Cybermen arrive and attack the hangar. They chase after Ace, who picks the Cybermen off one by one by firing gold coins at them with a catapult. The Doctor meanwhile sets up the meteor so that, when launched, it will be on course for the Cyber fleet in space. He intends Nemesis to destroy the fleet, but declines to release it once it has completed this task as he may have further use for it. He puts paid to the remaining Cybermen in the hangar by causing the meteor’s in-built rockets to fire automatically. De Flores then arrives and tries to take charge, only to be killed by the Cyber Leader after it recovers from being hit by Ace’s final gold coin. Lady Peinforte also arrives, accompanied by Richard, and argues with the Cyber Leader over who should have the bow. Lady Peinforte gloats that she alone knows The Doctor’s true identity, as this was revealed to her by the statue.

The Doctor appears to concede defeat; however he gives the bow not to Lady Peinforte but to the Cyber Leader. Lady Peinforte threatens to reveal The Doctor’s secrets – of the old time on Gallifrey, the time of chaos – but the Cyber Leader has no interest in this. The Doctor returns the bow to Nemesis and the Cyber Leader orders the statue to launch. But at the last moment, Lady Peinforte jumps into the meteor with the statue and merges with it. The meteor launches and destroys the Cyber fleet. This prompts the Cyber Leader to try and kill The Doctor, but Richard grabs a gold-tipped arrow that was lodged in the TARDIS door and uses it to destroy the creature.

With Lady Peinforte, De Flores and the Cybermen defeated The Doctor and Ace return Richard to 1638. There Ace asks The Doctor who he really is, but in response he just puts a finger to his lips…

 
Lady Peinforte and Richard Maynard
Lady Peinforte and Richard Maynard
De Flores and his Troops
De Flores and his Troops
The Cybermen Arrive
The Cybermen Arrive
The Cyberleader
The Cyberleader
 
The Painting of Ace
The Painting of Ace
The Doctor
The Doctor
Lady Peinforte
Lady Peinforte
The Nemesis Statue
The Nemesis Statue




Quote of the Story


 'This may qualify as the worst miscalculation since life crawled out of the seas on this sad planet.'

The Doctor



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Release Information

FormatTitleRelease Date (UK)Code NumberCover ArtRemarks
Video
VHS
Silver NemesisApril 1993BBCV 4888Photo-montageExtended version. Includes "The Making of Silver Nemesis", a documentary produced by New Jersey Network public broadcasting covering the on-location filming
Audio
CD
30 Years at the Radiophonic Workshop1993BBC CD 871Photo-montageSound effects
Video
DVD
Silver NemesisAugust 2010BBCDVD 2854Photo-montagePart of a Cyberman Box Set released along with "Revenge of the Cybermen"
Video
Blu-Ray
Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 25 (Limited Edition)Due: October 2024Photo-montageBlu-Ray Limited Edition boxed set containing 4 specially restored stories


In Print

FormatTitleRelease Date (UK)PublisherAuthorCover ArtRemarks
Novel
Novel
Silver NemesisNovember 1989Target No. 143Kevin ClarkeAlister PearsonISBN: 0-426-20340-2
Novel
Novel
Silver NemesisSeptember 1993Target No. 143Kevin ClarkeAlister PearsonVirgin new cover reprint.
ISBN: 0-426-20340-2
CD
CD
Silver NemesisJuly 2023Target No. 143Kevin ClarkeAlister PearsonAudio version of the Target Novel read by David Banks.
Doctor Who CMS Magazine (In Vision)Issue 98 (Released: September 2001)
Doctor Who Magazine - PreviewIssue 143 (Released: December 1988)
Doctor Who Magazine - After ImageIssue 146 (Released: March 1989)
Doctor Who Magazine - ArticleIssue 198 (Released: April 1993)
Doctor Who Magazine - ArchiveIssue 244 (Released: October 1996)
Doctor Who Magazine - Time TeamIssue 408 (Released: May 2009)
Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of FictionIssue 504 (Released: November 2016)
Doctor Who DVD FilesVolume 102 (Released: November 2012)

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Doctor Who CMS Magazine (In Vision): Issue 98
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Doctor Who Magazine - Archive: Issue 244
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Doctor Who Magazine - Time Team: Issue 408
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Doctor Who Magazine - The Fact of Fiction: Issue 504
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Doctor Who DVD Files: Volume 102
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