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The Cybermen
The Cybermen were created by a working doctor, and it shows. Kit Pedler was a medical scientist who advised the programme, and his anxiety was specific and professional: he had been thinking about how far spare-part surgery could go before the patient stopped being a person.
- First appearance
- Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (1966), BBC
- Created by
- Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis
- Also known as
- Cyberman, Mondasian Cybermen
- Universe
- Doctor Who
- Appears in
- television, books, comics
Who is The Cybermen?
The Cybermen were created by a working doctor, and it shows. Kit Pedler was a medical scientist who advised the programme, and his anxiety was specific and professional: he had been thinking about how far spare-part surgery could go before the patient stopped being a person. The Cybermen are the answer taken to its end — a species that replaced itself piece by piece until nothing was left to object. That makes them a fundamentally different threat from the Daleks, who hate difference; the Cybermen do not hate anyone, they simply intend to improve you, and the conversion is framed as a medical procedure rather than an execution. The original 1966 design, with cloth faces and visible human hands, is considerably more disturbing than the polished metal versions that followed.
The Cybermen: the details
- First appearance
- The Tenth Planet, October 1966
- Created by
- Kit Pedler, a medical scientist advising the programme, with writer Gerry Davis
- Born from spare-part surgery
- Pedler was thinking about how far replacement surgery could go before the patient stopped being a person
- They do not hate you
- Unlike the Daleks, they intend to improve you — conversion is framed as a medical procedure
- The 1966 design is the disturbing one
- Cloth faces and visible human hands, before the polished metal versions
- First appeared in a regeneration story
- The Tenth Planet is also the serial in which the lead actor was first replaced
- A different threat from the Daleks
- Conformity rather than extermination, which is why both have lasted
Why The Cybermen endures
Science fiction's most sustained treatment of medical augmentation as horror, devised by an actual medical scientist rather than by a screenwriter.
What The Cybermen looks like on a shirt
Signature motif: A blank silver humanoid head with handlebar ear pieces and a teardrop eye
The head is a strong minimal mark — a featureless metal face with a distinctive handlebar shape over the ears, readable in one colour. Silver on black, and the blankness is exactly what makes it work as a graphic.
A featureless metal face with distinctive handlebar ear pieces — strong in one colour, silver on black. The blankness is what makes it work graphically. Teen and adult sizing.
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Who created The Cybermen?
The Cybermen was created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, first appearing in Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet in 1966 (BBC).
What does a The Cybermen T-shirt usually look like?
A blank silver humanoid head with handlebar ear pieces and a teardrop eye. A featureless metal face with distinctive handlebar ear pieces — strong in one colour, silver on black. The blankness is what makes it work graphically. Teen and adult sizing.
Are The Cybermen T-shirts made for children?
No. The Cybermen comes from work made for older audiences, so we keep the character off our kids pages even where children's sizes are manufactured.
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