Cyberman

:This article is about the Doctor Who villains. For the movie about Steve Mann, see Cyberman (movie).

Other appearances

The BBV audios Cyber-Hunt and Cybergeddon and the BBV video Cyberon feature the Cyberons, which are a race of cyborgs not dissimilar to the Cybermen. The Cybermen have also been featured in the Virgin New Adventures novel Iceberg, by actor David Banks, who played the Cyber Leader in the television series from Earthshock on. Banks had previously written, in 1988, Cybermen, a fictional history of the Cybermen which included a "future" version of them.

Related Topics:
BBV - Virgin New Adventures - David Banks - Earthshock - 1988

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The Past Doctor Adventures novel Illegal Alien by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry featured Cybermen and cybermats in London during the Blitz. Cyber-technology left over from that adventure was subsequently misused in Loving the Alien, written by the same authors.

Related Topics:
Past Doctor Adventures - Mike Tucker - Robert Perry - The Blitz

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The Cybermen appeared in the Big Finish plays Sword of Orion, the abovementioned Spare Parts, Real Time (produced as a webcast for BBCi and later released as a CD), and The Harvest. The first installment of a four-CD series titled Cyberman, was released in September 2005.

Related Topics:
Sword of Orion - Real Time - The Harvest - Cyberman

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They have also appeared in the Doctor Who comic strip, most recently in The Flood, published in Doctor Who Magazine #346-#353. A Cyberman named Kroton was briefly a companion of the Eighth Doctor. In The World Shapers (DWM #127-#129), it was revealed that the Voord were the race that evolved into the Cybermen and that Mondas was previously the planet Marinus. The canonicity of the comic strips, like the other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear.

Related Topics:
Doctor Who Magazine - Kroton - Companion - Eighth Doctor - Voord - Canonicity - Spin-off

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Cybermen have also been the subject of parody. Examples include the Dead Ringers comedy series, which featured a suburban Cyberman family struggling to balance galactic domination with everyday domestic crises, and a segment in The Real McCoy which showed a clip from Earthshock with the Doctor and the Cyber Leader dubbed in "Jamaican". In a Doctor Who sketch on The Lenny Henry Show, a Cyberman leader is dressed to look like the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with a blonde wig and handbag. It is referred to as "Thatchos," a reference to the Daleks' creator Davros.

Related Topics:
Parody - Dead Ringers - The Real McCoy - The Lenny Henry Show - Prime Minister - Margaret Thatcher - Davros

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