Tomb of the Cybermen

“Telos Your Troubles”, “A Tomb With a View”, “When I’m Klieging Windows”

“The One With the Heroic Special Needs African American” (USA), “Wot, No Digging?” (Archeology Today)

Doctor Who fails to stop some people from defrosting the Cybermen but then manages to refreeze them before they can wake up properly.

*** - It fails to live up to its reputation but then Sue Perkins covered in chocolate sauce would fail to live up to Tomb of the Cybermen’s reputation.

“I’d like to go in as far as the womb… tomb…” (Pat’s mind wanders when he glances over at Debbie)

"I used my own, special technique - keeping my pants open and my mouth shut"

This was Debbie “Padders” Watling’s first story as a companion and she made a very favourable impression by offering oral sex to the cast and crew. She was later diagnosed with a rare neurological condition which makes her replace the word “cake” with something much ruder.

Everyone knows that this story was found in Hong Kong in 1992. What most people don’t realise is that its recovery was the main reason the British were pleased to give the island back to China. “No reason to keep it now,” explained Sir Talbot Bunny-Peigh (Deputy Governor) “though if I had my way we’d give it to the Japanese just to start another war”

Clive “Barnacles” Merrison makes the first of his five Doctor Who appearances in this story. He told his good friend Simon Dee ‘The sausage roles are usually thawed and were once warmed up slightly.”

Toberman was based on Tobermory from television’s The Wombles.

The Brighton Beaver called this story “The biggest find since America” while their football correspondent said “I must’ve fallen asleep during Grandstand – I don’t think this is Aston Villa verses Wolverhampton”

Patricia Routledge called her son “Telos” in tribute to this story while David J Howe named his publishing company after Telos Routledge.

Due to a bizarre series of mix ups, this story was novelised and then the book was adapted for television. The adaptation was then novelised, adapted as a stage play and finally released in revised form as the book of the film.

Patrick Troughton is mistakenly credited as “Mr Who” at the end of episode two.

Si Hunt

"I recall an incident when I was minding my own business on an omnibus and craning to listen to the conversation going on three seats away from me when I heard a preposterous statement from a nine or ten year old prole. "Mummy" began the childish simpleton, "Why are the Cybermen so horrible?" Its mother, no better than it, thought for a moment and replied "They aren't like us - they're monsters and we're people." I pondered this piece of simplistic philosophy for one whole stop before taking my chance to join in the debate. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I said, temporarily falling into her lap when the vehicle took a sharp bend at an inadvisable speed. "There is no real difference between Cybermen and people. Why, I recall the time Ian Devine installed a covert pie warming bed in his boudoir and overloaded the electrical network of Brent Towers. With the power off, my cryogenic unit ceased functioning and those trapped inside it began to stir. Once they realised what had happened, they attempted to put me inside the chamber and make me like them. Luckily Ian Devine's pie warming bed was portable and, when power resumed, we were able to drive them back to safety with the threat of its mild warmth. Had Mr Slickpassage not repaired the fuse box so quickly they might not have been as sensitive to heat and I might have become one of them. So don't give me any of your contemptuous liberal nonsense." I would've moved on to page two of the notes I made while cogitating her initial remark but she rushed off the bus at the next stop claiming my elbow had connected with the child's face and it was in need of medical attention."

The poncho was rebranded after Tomb of the Cyberman and this is the result

So she was named after a dress and him after a type of lamp