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Silver Nemesis begins in 1988 on 23rd November. Lady Peinforte and her loyal servant Richard have travelled from the year 1638 for this moment. Herr de Flores' dreams of establishing the Fourth Reich rest on this point in time. The Cybermen's planned invasion of Earth is scheduled for the same time.
The link between the three? The statue Nemesis, fashioned from validium - the living metal first made by Rassilon on Gallifrey and capable of bestowing the power of life and death on any individual. Can the Doctor and Ace prevent its awesome power from falling into any of their evil hands?
In Revenge of the Cybermen, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrives on the Nerva Beacon, hoping to find the TARDIS waiting for them, instead the intrepid trio find a space station in the grip of a deadly plague that has wiped out most of its crew. But the Doctor soon comes to suspect that the 'plague' is no natural illness – and that some of his oldest and most fearsome foes are behind it...
The beacon has been set up to warn space traffic of a new satellite orbiting Jupiter, but one craft is taking no notice of the order to stay clear – a Cybership. The satellite is Voga, Planet of Gold, home to the seemingly harmless Vogans – but why are the Cybermen so determined to destroy it?
Without the TARDIS, the Doctor is unable to return Sarah and Harry to the 20th Century. But then Sarah falls victim to the mystery virus, and unless the Doctor can find a cure – quickly – she will never make it home at all...
Silver Nemesis
- Commentary with actors Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, director Chris Clough and script editor Andrew Cartmel.
- Industrial Action - cast and crew look back at the making of this story. With actors Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Gerard Murphy, director Chris Clough, writer Kevin Clarke, script editor Andrew Cartmel, stunt arranger Nick Gillard and musician Courtney Pine.
- Deleted and Extended Scenes.
- Trails and Continuity - BBC1 trails and continuity announcements from the story's original transmission.
- Photo Gallery
Revenge of the Cybermen
- Commentary with actors Elisabeth Sladen and David Collings, producer Philip Hinchcliffe.
- The Tin Man and the Witch - a look back at the making of the story, with director Michael E. Briant, incoming producer Philip Hinchcliffe and outgoing producer Barry Letts.
- Location Report - New Doctor Tom Baker is interviewed by BBC News on location at Wookey Hole during the location shoot for the story.
- Cheques, Lies and Videotape - in the days before official VHS and DVD releases, Doctor Who fans had no option but to swap and trade episodes with other fans, often for extortionate sums of money. Featuring interviews with fans Jamie Wells, Paul Jones, Dave Hankinson, David Palfreyman, Alison Lawson and Damian Shanahan.
- Photo Gallery.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Way back in 1975, I didn't know what cybermen were or heard of them before until Weetabix did a promo of Dr Who stand up figures in their cereal packs and one of Dr Who's enemy featured was a Cyberman and lo and behold that same Saturday evening Revenge of the Cybermen story was broadcasted. Brilliant! I really enjoyed this story. So nostalgically the release on DVD has been brilliant. I have since seen most of the Classic series Cybermen Stories with EarthShock and Revenge being my all time favorites, though I do not rate the 'New' series Cybermen as I think they are useless and boring.
The highlight of the DVD extras for Revenge of the Cybermen is 'Cheques, lies and videotape'. This is a well produced and fascinating documentary about what die-hard fans would pay in terms of money and swap-exchange of Dr Who memorabilia to get hold of rare Dr Who stories on Video before they became commercial and available in shops. Often the quality were so poor like the 10th generation copy of Revenge of the Cybermen featured in this DVD extra.
The featured Easter Egg is the original 1983 BBC Video intro before the Video programme starts.
The Making of Revenge is great. The newsreport at Wookey Hole featuring a great Tom Baker interview before his pre-fame Dr Who role. This DVD extra was already featured on The Ark In Space DVD, however it is relevant on this Revenge DVD.
The Revenge of the Cybermen Photo gallery seems to be lack lustre compared to previous DVD releases. Not many Cybermen photos but too many boring Vogans pictures.. Surely a right balance of interesting photos and behind the scenes would have made this more interesting like they did with Frontier In Space/Planet of the Daleks photo galleries.
I've seen small clips from TV documentaries from Silver Nemesis and reviews about the story, but I have never watch this Cybermen story ever until this DVD. From a fresh outlook point of view I really enjoyed this 3 part tale. It's fast pace, with some great stunt scenes and pyro-technic explosions. The scene with Ace on the metal frame balcony overlooking the TARDIS below was terrific!
The Extended Deleted scenes were an added bonus as an extra, clocking in around 22 minutes!
The making of Silver Nemesis was great; the lead actors gave some great imput.
I found the photo gallery for Silver Nemesis faired better than Revenge of the Cybermen DVD.
Another Tom Baker story The Seeds of Doom is due out on 25 October 2010. Also reported is Day of The Daleks DVD sometime next year which will include a new optional voice track for the Daleks. The Mutants is also expected.
The highlight of the DVD extras for Revenge of the Cybermen is 'Cheques, lies and videotape'. This is a well produced and fascinating documentary about what die-hard fans would pay in terms of money and swap-exchange of Dr Who memorabilia to get hold of rare Dr Who stories on Video before they became commercial and available in shops. Often the quality were so poor like the 10th generation copy of Revenge of the Cybermen featured in this DVD extra.
The featured Easter Egg is the original 1983 BBC Video intro before the Video programme starts.
The Making of Revenge is great. The newsreport at Wookey Hole featuring a great Tom Baker interview before his pre-fame Dr Who role. This DVD extra was already featured on The Ark In Space DVD, however it is relevant on this Revenge DVD.
The Revenge of the Cybermen Photo gallery seems to be lack lustre compared to previous DVD releases. Not many Cybermen photos but too many boring Vogans pictures.. Surely a right balance of interesting photos and behind the scenes would have made this more interesting like they did with Frontier In Space/Planet of the Daleks photo galleries.
I've seen small clips from TV documentaries from Silver Nemesis and reviews about the story, but I have never watch this Cybermen story ever until this DVD. From a fresh outlook point of view I really enjoyed this 3 part tale. It's fast pace, with some great stunt scenes and pyro-technic explosions. The scene with Ace on the metal frame balcony overlooking the TARDIS below was terrific!
The Extended Deleted scenes were an added bonus as an extra, clocking in around 22 minutes!
The making of Silver Nemesis was great; the lead actors gave some great imput.
I found the photo gallery for Silver Nemesis faired better than Revenge of the Cybermen DVD.
Another Tom Baker story The Seeds of Doom is due out on 25 October 2010. Also reported is Day of The Daleks DVD sometime next year which will include a new optional voice track for the Daleks. The Mutants is also expected.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Sadly, for much of the last twenty years, Revenge of the Cybermen has always been underrated, arguably due to the fact that it was the very first VHS release and watched so many times, that most fans became bored of it. It has all the right elements. The fourth Doctor era at his best before it became humourous a few years later. For some (me included), the best Cyberman design, and certainly the snake-like Cybermat is glorious compared to the 1960s ones. Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter are one of the best companion double acts, and the scene where Sarah gets poisoned is simply brilliant. Jeremy Wilkin is suitably chilling as the secondary villain.
The story has a few flaws, such as the chocolate roll planet effect, the American Cyberleader accent and the Cyberleader shaking the Doctor, but that aside it is an almost-classic still worthy of five stars.
Revenge of the Cybermen should have been released on its own, but it was not, and I partially accept this on the basis that one gets a bonus bit of cardboard when two or more stories are clumped together.
Silver Nemesis should have been equally good, but is heavily flawed which was marginally remedied with the extended VHS Silver Nemesis. Why we have not got this here as an option beggars belief, it now seems rather pointless just having the deleted scenes as extras. Anyone who has the VHS, hold on to it!!!
Revenge *****
Silver **
Overall *****
Revenge should not suffer because Silver is with it. The box set is certainly cheap enough.
The story has a few flaws, such as the chocolate roll planet effect, the American Cyberleader accent and the Cyberleader shaking the Doctor, but that aside it is an almost-classic still worthy of five stars.
Revenge of the Cybermen should have been released on its own, but it was not, and I partially accept this on the basis that one gets a bonus bit of cardboard when two or more stories are clumped together.
Silver Nemesis should have been equally good, but is heavily flawed which was marginally remedied with the extended VHS Silver Nemesis. Why we have not got this here as an option beggars belief, it now seems rather pointless just having the deleted scenes as extras. Anyone who has the VHS, hold on to it!!!
Revenge *****
Silver **
Overall *****
Revenge should not suffer because Silver is with it. The box set is certainly cheap enough.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The review line says it all. Forget all this "Delete" and "Upgrade" nonsense - those Cybermen come from an alternate universe...the silver men from Mondas come from our Universe!
I was delighted with the release of the box set. The Cybermen made their debut at the end of the Hartnell reign and plagued the Troughton years. Pertwee managed a photo with them but Revenge of the Cybermen came in the Baker years. The story is rather weak, which is a shame, but nonetheless very enjoyable viewing with Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen at their best! Oh, and let's not forget Harry Sullivan - on the other hand...Just remember to keep a piece of gold jewellery handy if you know there's a Cyberman lurking behind that sofa!
Then we come to Silver Nemesis during the McCoy years. To be honest, I never really understood the story but felt compelled to watch it. If Ace can smash a baseball bat into a Dalek, imagine what she would do with a Cyberman!
Both stories are enjoyable to view as Classic Doctor Who and let's not forget the extras on the CDs...no, let's not...well, okay then...
I was delighted with the release of the box set. The Cybermen made their debut at the end of the Hartnell reign and plagued the Troughton years. Pertwee managed a photo with them but Revenge of the Cybermen came in the Baker years. The story is rather weak, which is a shame, but nonetheless very enjoyable viewing with Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen at their best! Oh, and let's not forget Harry Sullivan - on the other hand...Just remember to keep a piece of gold jewellery handy if you know there's a Cyberman lurking behind that sofa!
Then we come to Silver Nemesis during the McCoy years. To be honest, I never really understood the story but felt compelled to watch it. If Ace can smash a baseball bat into a Dalek, imagine what she would do with a Cyberman!
Both stories are enjoyable to view as Classic Doctor Who and let's not forget the extras on the CDs...no, let's not...well, okay then...
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Dr WHO doing as he should do & it's great
Dr WHO doing as he should do & it's great as the TOM BAKER is one of his best that I say grouing up with the TV , along with histongue in cheek in danger . Read more
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4 parts long and very well presented. Read more
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The Cybermen Box Set
Two good and underated storys loaded with extras, personally my favourate box set well worth the money. This box set is some good entertainment, i just love it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by language geek
One out of two is bad - One Good Tom Baker adventure and One Crap...
I think the BBC needed to re-think their concept of a twin box DVD pack. Sometime the BBC gets it right, for example in the case of Dr Who - The Dalek War. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr G Turner
boxed off - really boxed off!
Another twinning of unrelated stories which will simply damage sales of Revenge as I don't ever want to see Silver Nemesis again (saw it on TV first-time round and it made me... Read more
Published 13 months ago by sean cutter
Buy one get two......for twice the price!!
Please note, this is not a review of the individual episodes but of the overall package.
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Published 14 months ago by Ian Sharp
Classic Doctor Who
I remember watching the Tom Baker story revenge of the cybermen when first shown on tv, it was great to watch it again. Classic Doctor Who. Read more
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A MIXED BAG
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