Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 starts as Klieg (George Pastell) & Kaftan (Shirley Cooklin) hold the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) & the rest at gun point insisting they can still form an alliance with the Cybermen who are trapped in their tomb below. Klieg open the hatchway & together with the Doctor goes below, somehow the Doctor has to foil Klieg's plan & destroy the evil Cybermen for good...
Episode 4 from season 5 this Doctor Who adventure originally aired here in the UK during September 1967, directed by Morris Barry The Tomb of the Cybermen is one of the few surviving complete Patrick Troughton stories & a fine story it is too. The script by Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis has been a nice mix of sci-fi & horror themes & has been nicely effective. At only four episodes long each lasting a mere 25 minutes it tells it's story briskly & to my eyes didn't feature any padding which some of the longer six, seven & even eight part Doctor Who stories do which were common during the Troughton era. The plot holes have been kept to a minimum & aren't that distracting although scenes like Kaftan operating the Cybermen computer control panels even though in context her character should have no idea how to & the likes of Klieg letting a Cyberman sneak up behind him & kill him do become a tad distracting if you think about them too much. This episode features that old horror film cliché of the bad guy who dramatically rises from the dead after everyone thought they had been killed & I thought it was quite effective & unexpected as was the scene right at the end which suggest that maybe the Cybermen haven't been destroyed & that the production team were already think about a follow up story.
The shot of Toberman picking the Cyber Controller up & throwing him onto a control panel is too obviously done with an empty suit & looks a bit silly. This has had a few scary moments & I could see it sending a few chills down young children's spines, this is the sort of Doctor Who story where the term 'hiding behind the sofa' came from. Apparently this episode caused a lot of controversy when originally aired back in '67, there were a lot of complaints & concerns over violent & disturbing imagery particularly the scene when foam spurts out of a Cyberman's chest unit after being attacked by Toberman however the scene in question is extremely mild by todays standards so don't worry about it too much. I wasn't keen on the scenes of the Cybermen returning to their tombs, it was just the earlier footage of them breaking out reversed so we actually see all the Cybermen getting back into their tombs backwards!
The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 is a good way to round of a great Doctor Who story, as usual there are some minor script & production problems but overall I'll give The Tomb of the Cybermen an impressive 7 stars out of 10 across it's four episodes.
Episode 4 from season 5 this Doctor Who adventure originally aired here in the UK during September 1967, directed by Morris Barry The Tomb of the Cybermen is one of the few surviving complete Patrick Troughton stories & a fine story it is too. The script by Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis has been a nice mix of sci-fi & horror themes & has been nicely effective. At only four episodes long each lasting a mere 25 minutes it tells it's story briskly & to my eyes didn't feature any padding which some of the longer six, seven & even eight part Doctor Who stories do which were common during the Troughton era. The plot holes have been kept to a minimum & aren't that distracting although scenes like Kaftan operating the Cybermen computer control panels even though in context her character should have no idea how to & the likes of Klieg letting a Cyberman sneak up behind him & kill him do become a tad distracting if you think about them too much. This episode features that old horror film cliché of the bad guy who dramatically rises from the dead after everyone thought they had been killed & I thought it was quite effective & unexpected as was the scene right at the end which suggest that maybe the Cybermen haven't been destroyed & that the production team were already think about a follow up story.
The shot of Toberman picking the Cyber Controller up & throwing him onto a control panel is too obviously done with an empty suit & looks a bit silly. This has had a few scary moments & I could see it sending a few chills down young children's spines, this is the sort of Doctor Who story where the term 'hiding behind the sofa' came from. Apparently this episode caused a lot of controversy when originally aired back in '67, there were a lot of complaints & concerns over violent & disturbing imagery particularly the scene when foam spurts out of a Cyberman's chest unit after being attacked by Toberman however the scene in question is extremely mild by todays standards so don't worry about it too much. I wasn't keen on the scenes of the Cybermen returning to their tombs, it was just the earlier footage of them breaking out reversed so we actually see all the Cybermen getting back into their tombs backwards!
The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 is a good way to round of a great Doctor Who story, as usual there are some minor script & production problems but overall I'll give The Tomb of the Cybermen an impressive 7 stars out of 10 across it's four episodes.