With Sword of Orion in Audio Club this week, now is a good time to discuss your favourite appearances by the Cybermen on audio.
Is it their mini-series spin off entitled: Cyberman; their origin story - Spare Parts; their flash animation foray in Real Time; or even their loose trilogy of The Reaping, The Gathering and the Harvest.
What about their appearances in Bernice Summerfield such as The Crystal of Cantus or Lucie Miller’s encounter with them in Human Resources?
Or are you a champion for one of their less well-received offerings such as Return to Telos, The Isos Network or Last of the Cybermen?
Which stories would convert you and which would you delete?
This has made me realise I havent’ listened to a single Cyberman story on audio (at least to completion, got half through Spare parts ages ago bu t don’t remember it)
The Cyberman series is my absolute favourite thing that I’ve listened to that Big Finish produced. It’s phenomenaly good in my opinion. The first audio is a little weak, but from then on it’s excellent.
Spare Parts will always top the list for myself - it’s brilliant. The Silver Turk is also good, but I was less enamoured of it than lots of people seem to be.
The Harvest is superb.
Human Resources was also good.
I think I’m one of the few who didn’t mind The Isos Network or Last of the Cybermen but I do agree that Return to Telos was a bit naff.
Yippee I get to sing the praises of Bernice Summerfield: Blood and Steel.
Because oh my god… it is imo one of the finest releases Big Finish have done in recent years.
The bleak atmosphere in Nazi-occupied Germany, Benny and the Doctor’s relationship, the fact that the Cybermen are treated like a force of nature hell bent on converting humanity rather than tin soldiers, the entirety of Wulf. Just everything is damn near perfection.
There are certainly quite a few actually! I do think the Cybermen have such a pretty solid Track record when it comes to Audio! Audiobook-wise I’ve been listening on and off with Scourge of the Cybermen and while I still have one Part left, unless that one single Part somehow ruins it for me, I am pretty confident in saying that I am enjoying myself quite a bit with it! Similarly, I do like the Liz Shaw Companion Chronicle, it’s pretty solid!
Audio drama wise you get quite a few, such as The Quintessence, the entire seventh box set of Bernice & the Unbound Doctor (still in my eyes the unbeaten Big Finish Boxset ever.) Conversion from Warzone/Conversion is another incredible one, so is Spare Parts, even if it’s a bit overrated. Silver Turk, another a great one, and how can somebody forget Legend of the Cybermen?
They do have their duds, Return to Telos is disappointing. Swords of Orion is a bit of a boring one, and I am sure there are quite a few, some which I have yet to listen, some which I probably just forgot. That said when they hit they can be quite some of the best Stories of their individual Ranges, I still think The Quintessence is the best 3DA or at least up there from what I’ve heard
