Silver Nemesis
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The Cybermen from "Silver Nemesis"
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| Directed by | Chris Clough | ||||
| Written by | Kevin Clarke | ||||
| Script editor | Andrew Cartmel | ||||
| Produced by | John Nathan-Turner | ||||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||||
| Incidental music composer | Keff McCulloch | ||||
| Production code | 7K | ||||
| Series | Season 25 | ||||
| Length | 3 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||||
| Originally broadcast | 23 November–7 December 1988 (UK) 25 November 1988 (New Zealand) |
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| Author | Kevin Clarke |
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| Cover artist | Alister Pearson |
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Doctor Who book: Target novelisations |
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143 |
| Publisher | Target Books |
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16 November 1989 |
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Silver Nemesis is the third serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast in the UK in three weekly parts from 23 November 1988 (the 25th anniversary) to 7 December 1988. Featuring Sylvester McCoy as the seventh incarnation of the Doctor, Silver Nemesis reflected an attempt at a darker turn for Doctor Who storylines, with the intention being to suggest that the Doctor was not merely a wanderer in time and space. It is the last appearance of the Cybermen in the original run of Doctor Who.
The Doctor and Ace visit England in 1988, where three rival factions—the Cybermen, a group of Neo-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.
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 Peinforte to seize it, the Doctor launched the figure into orbit in a powered asteroid.
This asteroid has been approaching the Earth at twenty-five yearly intervals ever since, leaving a succession of disasters in its wake, and has now crash-landed near Windsor Castle.
The Doctor plays the three factions off against one another and eventually appears to concede defeat to the Cyber Leader. However, this is just part of a carefully laid trap, and the Cybermen's fleet is totally wiped out by the statue.
The working titles for this story included The Harbinger and Nemesis. Writer Kevin Clarke, who appears twice in the serial itself playing a tourist at Windsor, discusses the development of the plot on the DVD. He points out that he had seen very little of Doctor Who and that he met the production team without any idea of what his proposed story would be about. He made up a story on the spot in front of producer John Nathan-Turner that the Doctor is literally God, though this was not realised on-screen. The Cybermen were added later at the request of Nathan-Turner, to tie in with the programme's silver anniversary.
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