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The Tenth Planet is among the most famous of the episodes of BBC's long running science fiction series Doctor Who, and perhaps the most infamous of the incomplete missing serials of the show. There are two reasons for this. One, is that this is the first regeneration for the Doctor. Second, is because the story introduced yet another recurring enemy for the heroic Time Lord: the ice cold and heartless steel beings known as the Cybermen. In the Tenth Planet, their home planet of Mondas was destroyed at the conclusion, and the Cybermen along with it. Or so it seemed... Many adventures later, the Doctor along with companions Ben, Polly and Jamie, land at an Earth moonbase operated by a taskforce that controls the more dangerous weather on the planet through manipulation of gravity. But there seems to be something wrong. An epidemic has been spreading through the base, and those who fall sick end up missing one by one from the sick bay. Behind the mystery are the Cybermen, miraculously surviving their fate back in The Tenth Planet. They are experimenting on the humans they have made ill to turn them into robotic slaves to take the base and use the machinery as a primary weapon for their conquest of the universe. The Doctor has his work cut out for him as once again his surprise visit has the poeple of the moonbase initially mistrust him, a mistrust that continues to ferment as things get worse. And the Cybermen don't just show themselves, but hide in the shadows waiting to strike. He needs to prove the Cybermen are within the base, and help the people to mount up a defence against an oncoming Cybermen fleet. Can he do all this? Can he get himself and his friends to safety? The Cybermen are both heartless and cruel, and believe that all beings will be for the better if they were robotised! What is the their fate? Doctor Who and the Cybermen is based on the late 1960s episode The Moonbase, but there are some differences. The Cybermen have flat monotone voices, the like of that from the Cybermen of the 1980s and the more recent appearances in the current series. The leaders also have names. The people operating the moon base also appear to have different nationalities, something which the serial apparently lacked. And the Cybermen appear straight off in the book, rather than staying hidden from both the characters and the audience for a great deal of time on the television episode. (Perhaps creating some suspense for the story). All in all, one of the better reads of the novelisations of the classic series episodes of Doctor Who!Read full review
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