History Recap / DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet

!Tropes

* CreepyMonotone: Quasi-example — the Cybermen talk in bizarre, alternating, almost singsong tones, which nonetheless carry no emotion.

* FakeShemp: The "Doctor passes out at the start of an episode for no clearly explained reason" plot device gets one last outing at the start of Episode 3. so WilliamHartnell would be fully ready for his grand finale in Episode 4. As a result, a body double plays the Doctor for the very brief moments we see him in Episode 3.

Episode 4 is, unfortunately, reduced to audio with stills and scene directions.

[[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xvbva_tardismedia_the-tenth-planet The serial can be seen here.]] Episode 4 is, unfortunately, reduced to audio with stills and scene directions.

-> '''Cyberman''': ''Feelings? I do not understand that word.''\\

[[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xvbva_tardismedia_the-tenth-planet The serial can be seen here.]] The episode with the Doctor's regeneration is, unfortunately, reduced to audio with stills and scene directions.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable - [=Theeee CYbermen have A biZARRE singSONG ACcent.=]
* ApocalypseHow - Somewhere between classes 4 and X, according to the Cybermen, although the Cybermen offer to rescue what humans they can as long as they accept Cyberconversion once they get to Mondas. Mondas itself suffers a Class X at the conclusion of the story.
* BodyHorror - The point of the Cybermen's cloth faces and bare arms.
* ChestBlaster - Actually a gun kept on a chest bracket when not it use.
* CreepyMonotone - Quasi-example: The Cybermen talk in bizarre, alternating, almost singsong tones, which nonetheless carry no emotion.
* CultureClash - The Cybermen genuinely don't understand why the Humans don't wish to cooperate with their plans.
* EarthShatteringKaboom - The major threat for both planets during the final two episodes.

* FakeShemp - The "Doctor passes out at the start of an episode for no clearly explained reason" plot device gets one last outing in this story. William Hartnell's health was in serious decline by this point, and they gave him a break for the third episode so that he'd be fully ready for his grand finale in the fourth. As a result, a body double plays him for the very brief moments we see him in the third episode.
* GeneralRipper - General Cutler.
* ItWasHisSled - The Doctor regenerates.
* TheNthDoctor - The first notable example.
* NukeEm - Cutler's plan in Episode 3.
* RomanceOnTheSet - Michael Craze (Ben) met his future wife Edwina Verner during the filming of this serial. As the production assistant, she got the fun job of throwing around fake snow during the first episode and playfully threw a handful in his face. Unfortunately, he had broken his nose recently and getting the stuff up his nose didn't help the situation. Luckily, this didn't get in the way of their relationship. They married a few years later.
* WellIntentionedExtremist - How the Cybermen got the way they are.
* WhamEpisode: Introduction of the Cybermen, regeneration debuts, WilliamHartnell leaves.

* WhamEpisode: Intoduction of the Cybermen, regeneration debuts, WilliamHartnell leaves.

* WhamEpisode: Regeneration debuts, WilliamHartnell leaves.

* WhamEpisode

* StayInTheKitchen - Polly complains about not being useful. When Carver finally agrees to let her help and asks what she can do...she lamely offers to make coffee.
** Subverted in that Polly makes coffee as a pretext to remain in the control room and do what she can to stop the launch of the z-bomb. And she succeeds. She convinces Barclay to show Ben how to sabotage the launch. Polly saved uncounted lives by staying to "make the coffee".

* StayInTheKitchen - OPollycomplains about not being useful. When Carver finally agress to let her help and asks what she can do...she lamely offers to make coffee.

* StayInTheKitchen - One female character complains about not being useful. When Carver finally agress to let her help and asks what she can do...she lamely offers to make a SpotOfTea.

This planet turns out to be Mondas, Earth's "twin planet" from long ago, and is now the home of the Cybermen, a race of human-like beings who have over many centuries replaced their limbs and organs with metal and plastic. The Cybermen attack the tracking station while Mondas starts to drain Earth's energy. Ben stops General Cutler, in command of the station, from launching a poweful "Z-Bomb" to destroy the Cybermen and Mondas eventually disintegrates from absorbing too much energy.

* HarsherInHindsight - We did, in fact, lose a spacecraft with all hands in 1986.
* HilariousInHindsight - Ben's comment about how meaningless it would be to try to take on the Cybermen with a screwdriver. Many years later, what is the Doctor's most iconic gadget?

* TheNthDoctor - The first notable example. Must have made for some ''intense'' {{HSQ}} when it first aired.
* StrawmanHasAPoint - It's hard not to find yourself agreeing with Cutler's plan, at least as a last resort, despite the huge downsides.

* UncannyValley: The Cybermen. from their ghastly blank faces to [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLAble their computer-like voices.]]

* StayInTheKitchen - One female character complains about not being useful. When Carver finally agress to let her help and asks what she can do...she offers to make a SpotOfTea.

* StayInTheKitchen - This episode goes to some trouble to present an international cast, even to the extent of having the world ruled by an Indian president...but women are only good for making a CupOfTea.

* ApocalypseHow - Somewhere between classes 4 and X, according to the Cybermen, although the Cybermen offer to rescue what humans they can as long as they accept Cyberconversion once they get to Mondas.

[[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xvbva_tardismedia_the-tenth-planet Episodes 1-3 can be seen here.]] The episode with the Doctor's regeneration is, unfortunately, missing.

[[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xvbva_tardismedia_the-tenth-planet Episodes 1-3 can be seen here.]] The episode with the Doctor's regeneration is, unfortunately, missing. Curiously, it isn't missing for the same reasons as the other lost ''Doctor Who'' episodes, but simply because ''BluePeter'' borrowed it and never gave it back.

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--> '''Cyberman''': ''Feelings? I do not understand that word.''\\

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable - [=Theeee CYbermen have A biZARRE singSONG ACcent. WheTHER this IS=] {{narm}} or [[NightmareFuel NIGHTmare FuEL]] [=is UP to the reaDER=]

* NightmareFuel: Cybermen to some people.
* NightmareRetardant: Cybermen to some other people.

* YouFailAstronomyForever - Planets can't become supernovae.

* WhamEpisode

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[[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xvbva_tardismedia_the-tenth-planet Episodes 1-3 can be seen here.]] The episode with Hartnell's regeneration is, unfortunately, missing. Curiously, it isn't missing for the same reasons as the other lost ''Doctor Who'' episodes, but simply because ''BluePeter'' borrowed it and never gave it back.

* UncannyValley: The Cybermen. from their ghastly blank faces to their computer-like voices.

* SpecialEffectsFailure - It's hard to believe the Cybermen started out looking like... that.
** Doesn't change the fact that they are still [[NightmareFuel kinda creepy]].