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| Directed by | Morris Barry | ||
| Written by | Kit Pedler Gerry Davis | ||
| Script editor | Victor Pemberton | ||
| Produced by | Peter Bryant | ||
| Executive producer(s) | 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 | ||
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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.
The Tomb of the Cybermen is the earliest serial known to exist in its entirety starring Troughton as the Second Doctor. It is also the only known complete Cyberman story produced in the 1960s, and introduces the concepts of the Cyber Controller and the Cybermats, both of which would be re-used in later Cyberman stories.