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Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen

4th Doctor Novelisation

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Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen

By: Terrance Dicks
Narrated by: Nicholas Briggs
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Nicholas Briggs reads this exciting novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fourth Doctor.

A mysterious plague strikes Space Beacon Nerva, killing its victims within minutes. When the Doctor lands, only four humans remain alive. One of these seems to be in league with the nearby planet of gold, Voga....

Or is he in fact working for the dreaded Cybermen, who are now determined to finally destroy their old enemies, the Vogans?

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry find themselves trapped in the midst of a terrifying struggle to the death—between the ruthless, power-hungry Cybermen and the desperate, determined Vogans.

Nicholas Briggs, who voices the Cybermen in the hit BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks' 1976 novelisation of a TV serial by Gerry Davis.

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Contrary to one review criticising the choice of Nicolas Briggs I thought he did an excellent job.Tom Baker’s voice is not the easiest to tackle but this was done rather well.He also mastered some of the minor characters which shows a care for the show.I hope he reads some more stories going forward.

Excellent reading

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This is not a fan favourite, it has a flawed story with wagon shaped holes (why not just blow Voga up with a missile, why come up with an elaborate plan full of inconsistencies and opportunities to be foiled etc.), the tv story has crap looking and sounding Cybermen (standing around with arms akimbo booming "excellent!" a lot), silly looking aliens etc. But I have always loved it, because of its flaws, and have always thought the Cybermen are iconic in their own way, the Cybermats are back, I love the bitching and bickering between the aliens, and the human villain Kellman is wonderfully hissable.
Nicholas Brigg's reading here is a joy. He retro fits the Cybermen with atonal machine voices from the early cyber stories, thereby eliminating the naffness that some have objected to, giving them extra menace. His reading of the Tardis family is wonderful too, great character acting, picking up mannerisms and nuances convincingly. Overall great dramatic reading, his love of the story is infectious. This is a Terrance Dicks novelisation meaning it it's a minimal fleshing out of the script. But this also makes it pacy and fast moving.
Overall, great fun.

It's Cyberman gold!

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Tom Baker was "My Doctor" and his tenure as the fourth Doctor surely encompassed the Golden Era of classic Who. Revenge of the Cyberman is one of those classic early Tom baker stories I always loved as a child, so it was a no brainer to get this title.

I knew the story, but had not so far listened to an audio book narrated by Nicholas Briggs. I needn't have worried, Brigg's Tom baker is very good and his capacity for rendering different voices is excellent. It isn't easy to do a convincing Tom Baker impression, but Brigg's manages very well. However, the ultimate master of the Tom Baker voice surely has to be John Culshaw who, I might add, also does a superb Jon per twee. Just a shame Culshaw hasn't voiced many more Who audiobooks.

My only minor gripe with the production was that the electronic treatment of the Cyberman voices was perhaps a touch overdone, resulting in the occasional difficulty in understanding what was said. other than that, all other audio effects were excellent and added to the story.
Terrance Dicks' writing style is simple and clear. His prose harks back to a simpler time, a time where children actually read real, paper books! One thing I think he may have gotten wrong, was that the Vogan asteroid was repeatedly referred to as a planet. I don't think the two can be compared. however, not important in the context of the story, just me doing my eternal nit picking.

Revenge of the Cyberman is a trip down memory lane to a time where story telling was straightforward and free of any ideological concerns, unlike modern Who, which has been blighted by it. Anyone who loved classic Who will do well to have Revenge of the Cyberman as part of their Doctor Who audio collection.

Classic Fourth Doctor Story

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