History Recap / DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet

->'''Cyberman:''' [[AC:Feeeeelings? I do not understand that word.]]\\
'''The Doctor:''' Emotions. Love. Pride. Hate. Fear! Have you no emotions, sir?\\
'''Cyberman:''' [[AC:Come to Mondas and you will have no need of emotions. You will become like us.]]

'''The Doctor:''' Emotions. Love. Pride. Hate. Fear. Have you no emotions, sir?\\

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

'''Cyberman:''' Come to Mondas and you will have no need of emotions. You will become like us.

* WriterOnBoard: Dr. Kit Pedler based the Cybermen on his fear of dehumanizing medicine -- specifically mechanical things such as pacemakers.

The first overwhelming WhamEpisode of the series. The Doctor embarks on his final adventure, having reached the precipice of his body's lifespan. But it turns out there can be a... ''[[TheNthDoctor second]]'' Doctor?

The Doctor is also weakened and hurries back to the TARDIS without Ben and Polly, where he collapses and the TARDIS takes off of its own accord, Ben and Polly having caught up. Before the humans' astonished eyes, the Doctor's face glows and becomes that of [[Characters/DoctorWhoSecondDoctor a completely different man]]...

->''"Ah yes, thank you, it's good, keep warm."'' [[note]]The last words of the First Doctor, at least in ''this'' story.[[/note]]

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the Doctor says goodbye... for the first time.

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The Doctor is also weakened and hurries back to the TARDIS without Ben and Polly. In a series of events that would remain unrevealed to us for another fifty-one years, upon returning to his TARDIS, his body beginning to glow with strange energy, the Doctor notices a similar TARDIS, with another [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor silver-haired gentleman]] in a state not unlike his own. After a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls circum]][[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime stance]] involving glass people, a World War I captain, and a future companion of his, he returns to his own TARDIS, where he collapses and the TARDIS takes off of its own accord, Ben and Polly having caught up. Before the humans' astonished eyes, the Doctor's face glows and becomes that of [[Characters/DoctorWhoSecondDoctor a completely different man]]...

The Doctor is also weakened and hurries back to the TARDIS without Ben and Polly. In a series of events that would remain unrevealed to us for another fifty-one years, upon returning to his TARDIS, his body beginning to glow with strange energy, the Doctor notices a similar TARDIS, with another [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor silver-haired gentleman]] in a state not unlike his own. After a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls circum]][[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime stance]] involving glass people, a World War I captain, and a future companion of his, he returns to his own TARDIS, where he collapses and the TARDIS takes off of its own accord, Ben and Polly having caught up. Before the humans' astonished eyes, the Doctor's face glows and becomes that of a completely different man...

The one where the Doctor says goodbye... for the first time.

* 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. Creator/WilliamHartnell collapsed with bronchitis and had to take a week off. As a result, Hartnell's regular body double Gordon Craig plays the Doctor for Episode 3, and the lines originally written for the Doctor were given to Ben, Polly and Barclay. Craig also doubles for Hartnell in the "exterior" scenes in Episode 1 as the TARDIS crew are arrested and taken into the base. Hartnell's absence for Episode 3 actually works in the story's favour, as it means the Doctor summoned enough energy for a "once more unto the breach" and you can tell he's dying as Episode 4 progresses.

* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The Doctor ultimately does nothing and the Cybermen and their planet are destroyed by absorbing too much energy. The invasion would have played out exactly the same way if the Doctor and his companions had not been there.

The TARDIS materialises at the South Pole in [[{{Zeerust}} the far future of 1986]], where a manned space probe is being talked down to Earth by a Space Tracking Station. The capsule is in difficulty, the Doctor realises, because of the gravitational pull of another planet that is moving toward Earth.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The Cybermen speak in a bizarre singsong accent, influenced by early experiments with speech synthesis. Later Cyberman stories drop this in favour of a regular MachineMonotone (as the singsong voice made it difficult for Roy Skelton and Peter Hawkins to figure out where their lines began and ended), but the original inflection would reappear in the audio drama [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts "Spare Parts"]] and the Revival Series two-parter [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], which involve the original models of Cybermen seen here.

* AllThereInTheManual: Later expanded universe sources, most notably ''Doctor Who: Cybermen'' and its audio adaptation AudioPlay/TheArcHiveTapes, have InUniverse historians identify the Cybermen seen here as [=CyberMondasians=] (or [=CyberMondans=]), which leads to the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime Twelfth Doctor]] being able to recognise their origin on sight. That [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion more advanced Cybermen appear to have invaded Earth earlier]] is explained as being a group of Mondasian Cybermen called the [=CyberFaction=] who took their upgrades up to eleven and left Mondas for space, while the remaining Mondasians only replaced what was needed.
* AllThereInTheScript: The script to the story says that the power drain from Mondas is also the cause of The Doctor's weakness (and thus regeneration), but this is never actually stated in the story itself. A better explanation as to what's happening to One is given in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon A Time]]".

* AllThereInTheManual: Later expanded universe sources, most notably ''Doctor Who: Cybermen'' and its audio adaptation AudioPlay/TheArcHiveTapes, have InUniverse historians identify the Cybermen seen here as [=CyberMondasians=] (or [=CyberMondans=]), which leads to the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime Twelfth Doctor]] being able to recognise their origin on sight. That [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion more advanced Cybermen appear to have invaded Earth earlier]] is explained as being a group of Mondasian Cybermen called the [=CyberFaction=] who took their upgrades UpToEleven and left Mondas for space, while the remaining Mondasians only replaced what was needed.

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: In this story, the Cybermen all possess individual names, with the first faction led by Krail, and consisting of Talon and Shav, while the second group is led by Kraig, consisting of Jarl, while Gern assumes control of the Earth.

* ColourblindCasting: Williams was originally Welsh. Director Derek Martinus cast Bermudan actor Earl Cameron in the role, deciding that he could be black ''and'' Welsh. This is a stroke of genius, as black people have settled in the dockland areas of Cardiff ''since the 1850s''.

* ColourblindCasting: Williams was originally Welsh. Director Derek Martinus cast Bermudan actor Earl Cameron in the role, deciding that he could be black ''and'' Welsh. This is a stroke of genius, as black people have settled in the dockland areas of Cardiff ''since the 1850's''.

* EarlyInstalmentCharacterDesignDifference: The Cybermen in this story have many more visible humanoid parts (most notably their hands and, if observed more closely, their eyes) than in any later story, making them look less streamlined but adding extra BodyHorror, particularly when compounded by the white cloth facial coverings (which, due to their resemblance to surgical masks, arguably accentuate the grotesqueness of the Cybermen through implicitly painting them as the products of crude cybernetic 'operations') they don in this serial, a marked visual and conceptual contrast from the more generalized robotic aesthetics of their later designs.

* NationalStereotypes: The Italian soldier has pin-up photos all over his bunk and perves over Polly, and the American General is a trigger-happy nut.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: How the Cybermen got the way they are.

* WhamShot: The final moments of Episode 4, in which the Doctor regenerates for the first time.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The Cybermen speak in a bizarre singsong accent, influenced by early experiments with speech synthesis. Later Cyberman stories drop this in favor of a regular MachineMonotone (as the singsong voice made it difficult for Roy Skelton and Peter Hawkins to figure out where their lines began and ended), but the original inflection would reappear in the audio drama [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts "Spare Parts"]] and the Revival Series two-parter [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], which involve the original models of Cybermen seen here.

* TheNthDoctor: The first notable example.

* YouCantFightFate: The first time that this trope is applied to something that ''the Doctor'' evidently knows as being a historical fact, but which is still in the "future" of the viewers watching at home. Once he recognises where he is and what's going on, the Doctor subsequently treats all events in the story as being inevitable. Of course, since the power drain will ''destroy'' Mondas before it threatens Earth, and the plan to destroy Earth to stop the drain in time requires human help (apparently, they never invented radiation suits) the Doctor knows that the proper course is to sit back and wait for the Mondasians' time to run out. It's less "you can't fight fate" and more "don't screw with fate when it's on your side." Though near the end they must stall to prevent the Cybermen from killing anyone else, most of the drama isn't fighting the Cybermen, but stopping General Cutler from using his doomsday weapons that could leave Earth an irradiated wasteland - or from killing the Doctor and company in punishment afterward.