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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The Doctor quotes the soliloquy from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The Doctor quotes the soliloquy from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.paraphrases ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'':
-->Dusty death. Out, out with.
-->Dusty death. Out, out with.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The novelisation adds an epilogue of the Doctor, Sarah and Harry heading [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons for Loch Ness]].
* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, the Vogans needed humanity to build the glittergun because their gold is useless against the Cybermen otherwise.
** In ''A History of the Universe'' and ''aHistory'', this story is arbitrarily dated to 2875, as the Doctor had previously dated the construction of the Nerva Beacon to the late 29th century at the earliest
* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, the Vogans needed humanity to build the glittergun because their gold is useless against the Cybermen otherwise.
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* SamePlotSequel: The story is a near-remake of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]": Cybermen using a fake plague attack a human outpost somewhere in the solar system intending to use it as a base for an attack on another planet.
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The only appearance of the Cybermen in the Seventies, and the only Tom Baker Creator/TomBaker episode to feature them. They [[LongBusTrip hadn't appeared]] since the Second Doctor's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]" and wouldn't return again until "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]". The serial was written by Cyberman creator Gerry Davis and had uncredited rewrites by script editor Creator/RobertHolmes. This was also the first story to be released on home video.
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* ChromosomeCasting: Sarah is the only female character in the story.
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The only appearance of the Cybermen in the Seventies, and the only Tom Baker episode to feature them. They [[LongBusTrip hadn't appeared]] since the Second Doctor's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]" and wouldn't return again until "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]". The serial was written by Cyberman creator Gerry Davis and had uncredited rewrites by script editor Creator/RobertHolmes. \n This was also the first story to be released on home video.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The novelisation adds an epilogue of the Doctor, Sarah and Harry [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons for Loch Ness]].
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* AdaptationExpansion: The novelisation adds an epilogue of the Doctor, Sarah and Harry heading [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons for Loch Ness]].
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* {{Corpsing}}: It apparently took ''tens'' of takes before Creator/TomBaker was able to deliver the line "We're headed for the biggest bang in history" without Creator/ElisabethSladen - and most of the floor crew - disintegrating into hysterics. (The writers had missed the DoubleEntendre, and intended it as a completely straight WhamLine.)
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Kellman's last action is to push Harry out of the path of a rockfall, getting fatally caught in it himself.
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* AdaptationExapnsion: The novelisation adds an epilogue of the Doctor, Sarah and Harry [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons for Loch Ness]].
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The only appearance of the Cybermen in the Seventies, and the only Tom Baker episode to feature them. They [[LongBusTrip hadn't appeared]] since the Second Doctor's ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]'' Invasion]]" and wouldn't return again until ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock.]]'' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]". The serial was written by Cyberman creator Gerry Davis and had uncredited rewrites by script editor Creator/RobertHolmes.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Cybermats have a more snake-like design compared to their earlier, mouse-like design.
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* StrappedToABomb: The Cybermen strap bombs to the Doctor and the surviving members of the beacon crew and force them to march into the heart of Voga.
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* UnnecessarilyLargeVesel: A space station that normally has a crew of 50 is being run by a crew of three, the rest having died from a plague.
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The only appearance of the Cybermen in the Seventies, and the only Tom Baker episode to feature them. They [[LongBusTrip hadn't appeared]] since the Second Doctor's ''[[ ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion]]'' Invasion]]'' and wouldn't return again until ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock.]]'' The serial was written by Cyberman creator Gerry Davis and had uncredited rewrites by script editor Creator/RobertHolmes.
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The only appearance of the Cybermen in the Seventies, and the only Tom Baker episode to feature them. They [[LongBusTrip hadn't appeared]] since the Second Doctor's ''[[ The Invasion Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion]]'' and wouldn't return again until ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock.]]'' The serial was written by Cyberman creator Gerry Davis and had uncredited rewrites by script editor Creator/RobertHolmes.
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* MexicanStandoff: The Doctor briefly sets up one in the third episode by stealing a Cyberbomb and threatening to explode it if anyone comes near him. The Cyber-Leader diffuses the situation by just remotely signalling a Cyberman to ambush the Doctor from behind.
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* MexicanStandoff: The Doctor briefly sets up one in the third episode by stealing a Cyberbomb and threatening to explode it if anyone comes near him. The Cyber-Leader diffuses defuses the situation by just remotely signalling a Cyberman to ambush the Doctor from behind.
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* MexicanStandoffLargeHam: The Cyber-Leader in this story somehow manages to out-ham his 1980s counterpart.
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* MexicanStandoff: The Doctor briefly sets up one in the third episode by stealing a Cyberbomb and threatening to explode it if anyone comes near him. The Cyber-Leader diffuses the situation by just remotely signalling a Cyberman to ambush the Doctor from behind.
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* TheXOfYTheXOfY: An infamous one, since revenge is an emotion that Cybermen are not supposed to have. WordOfGod is that the Vogans incorrectly assume this to be the Cybermen's motive, but in reality they're just taking the entirely logical step of eliminating the threat that caused them to lose their previous war before starting a new one.
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'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''
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* ActorAllusion: Alec Wallis who plays Communication officer Warner also played the Communications Officer in the Sea Devils.
