History Recap / DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase

'''Production code:''' HH

Written by Kit Pedler. This four-episode serial first aired from February 11 to March 4, 1967.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: The Doctor actually claims to have recieved a medical degree...from Joseph Lister in 1888. Polly is ...skeptical about its continued applicability.

A second wave of Cybermen invade across the Moon's surface but the Graviton quickly sends them flying off into space and the travellers go on their merry way.

* MultinationalTeam: The crew of the Graviton station.

It's 2070 AD and Earth's weather is controlled from a station on the Moon by means of the Graviton. The crew of the station are coming down with a disease that turns out to be a Cyberman-engineered poison. Polly and Ben realise that as Cybermen are part-plastic, solvents ought to harm them, and mix up a cocktail of chemicals which they use in fire extinguishers to defeat the Cybermen on the base.[[note]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Gold]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock will be]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis used later]].[[/note]]

Cybermen on the Moon, as the perennial favourites make their second appearance in essentially a retread of their first. And in the same season to boot!

-> ''"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought."''

The one with coffee.

* DigitalDestruction: The Region 1 disc was incorrectly mastered at 23.98 progressive fields per second rather than the correct 59.94 interlaced fields per second, which both causes the release to lose its restored videotape look and to play roughly 4% slow.

* ResistanceIsFutile

* AllThereInTheScript: The Cybermen originally had names as in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]". For example, the lead Cyberman was named Tarn.

* CostumeEvolution: Due to the original costumes being prohibitively uncomfortable, the Cybermen see their first of many substantial redesigns in this story, replacing the BodyHorror cyborg appearance from "The Tenth Planet" with a cleaner and more purely robotic look.

* WeatherControlMachine: The Gravitron, situated on the moon and which controls the weather on the Earth.

* {{Zeerust}}

It's 2070 AD and Earth's weather is controlled from a station on the Moon by means of the Graviton. The crew of the station are coming down with a disease that turns out to be a Cyberman-engineered poison. Polly and Ben realise that as Cybermen are part-plastic, solvents ought to harm them, and mix up a cocktail of chemicals which they use in fire extinguishers to defeat the Cybermen on the base.[[note]] [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Gold]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock will be]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis used later]]. [[/note]]

* CreepyMonotone: Cybermen's voice turned from bizzare singsong to a fully mechanical voice.

* {{Novelization}}: Was novelized as ''Doctor Who And The Cybermen'' by Gerry Davis.

* SmartBall: Ben Jackson suddenly has considerable knowledge of chemistry, physics, and medicine that he never displays again.
** This was due to the fact that the story was written before it was decided to have Jamie be a regular so to accommodate his inclusion, dialogue that was intended for the Doctor was given to Ben.

* TapOnTheHead: Averted. Jamie's bump on the head is treated very seriously and keeps him bedridden for the first two episodes.
** Which actually happened because Jamie wasn't meant to stick around at first, and the writers had to rush to put him in the script.

* CostumeEvolution: The Cybermen are heavily redesigned for this story, replacing the BodyHorror cyborg appearance from "The Tenth Planet" with a cleaner and more purely robotic look.

Written by Kit Pedler. This serial first aired February 11-March 4, 1967.

* StayInTheKitchen: Polly gets coffee for the weather machine operators (leading to the Doctor solving how some people were getting a disease), and there is one specific moment where she's planned a clever ScienceHero way of defeating the Cybermen and Ben makes her stop because 'this is no job for a bird'.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: Averted, but only just. The story aired 1967, but the episodes were set in 2070.

Cybermen on the Moon, as the perennial favourites make their second appearance in essentially a retread of their first, in the same season to boot!

* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet International Space Command and the Cyberman invasion of 1986 are referenced]].

* SelfPlagiarism: The Cybermen's creators essentially remade "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]" - the moon replaces the South Pole and a virus replaces a space capsule in danger.

* AllThereInTheManual: Later expanded universe sources, ''Doctor Who: Cybermen'' and its audio adaptation ''The [=ArcHive=] Tapes'', identify the Cybermen seen here as descendants of the space-faring [=CyberFaction=] who left Mondas behind, their earlier InUniverse forms seen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace The Wheel in Space]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]". These Cybermen ultimately [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen settle on the planet Telos]] and are recognised by historians as a new subspecies, the [=CyberTelosians=].