The Tomb of the Cybermen

037 – **The Tomb of the Cybermen**
037 – The Tomb of the Cybermen
Doctor Who serial
	The Cybermen emerging from their tombs in a promotional photo for the serial. This has been considered an iconic moment in the serial by reviewers.
Cast
	Doctor Patrick Troughton – Second Doctor;
	Companions Frazer Hines – Jamie McCrimmon; Deborah Watling – Victoria Waterfield;
	Others Shirley Cooklin – Kaftan; Roy Stewart – Toberman; George Pastell – Eric Klieg; Aubrey Richards – Professor Parry; Cyril Shaps – John Viner; Bernard Holley – Peter Haydon; George Roubicek – Captain Hopper; Clive Merrison – Jim Callum; Alan Johns – Ted Rogers; Ray Grover – Crewman; Peter Hawkins – Cybermen Voices; Michael Kilgarriff – Cyberman Controller; Hans De Vries, Tony Harwood, John Hogan, Richard Kerley, Ronald Lee, Charles Pemberton, Kenneth Seeger, Reg Whitehead – Cybermen;
Production
Directed by	Morris Barry
Written by	Kit Pedler; Gerry Davis
Script editor	Victor Pemberton
Produced by	Peter Bryant
Executive producer	None
Music by	Stock music
Production code	MM
Series	Season 5
Running time	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	2 September 1967
Last broadcast	23 September 1967
Chronology
← Preceded by; The Evil of the Daleks	Followed by →; The Abominable Snowmen

The Tomb of the Cybermen is the first serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 2 to 23 September 1967. In the serial, the time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companions, Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling), get caught up in an expedition to the planet Telos. The financiers of the expedition, Eric Klieg (George Pastell) and Kaftan (Shirley Cooklin), intend to revitalise the Cybermen that are buried on Telos in underground tombs, hoping they will share their power to conquer the universe.

The Cybermen had historically been popular antagonists in the series, and the production team for the series was keen to bring them back for another story. Writers Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, inspired by Egyptian archaeology at the time, decided to have the Cybermen be in similarly styled tombs, resulting in the setting of the story. The serial was filmed from June to July 1967. All of its parts were initially wiped, resulting in the episode being considered missing; however, all of its parts were found and recovered in the 1990s in Hong Kong, and it has subsequently been released on home media and a variety of other releases.

The Tomb of the Cybermen has been heralded as one of Doctor Who's greatest stories, with many critics and fans alike considering it to be one of the strongest in the show's history. Retrospective reviews have largely been positive, with particular praise for a scene in which the Doctor comforts Victoria; however, some retrospective critics have disliked the episode, with some writing that elements of its narrative were racially insensitive. The serial has been referenced in subsequent Cyberman stories.