April 21st, 2013
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The Archive Tapes Cybermen Audio CD
The Archive Tapes – Cybermen
The Archive Tapes: Cybermen Box Set is available from Amazon
They’re back!
Actor David Banks created the character of the CyberLeader in BBC TV sci-fi series Doctor Who. In 1988 he wrote the book Cybermen, ‘everything you wanted to know about the Cyber Race but were afraid to ask’, illustrated by the acclaimed Doctor Who artist Andrew Skilleter. (the book came The ArcHive Tapes, an audiobook series released in 4 parts on separate cassettes in 1989.
This new 4 CD box set is a high definition remastering of that audiobook series, the hypothesised history of the Cyber Race, written, narrated and entirely reconstructed by the CyberLeader himself.
A gripping retelling of their origins and history, fully dramatised with new effects, and original music heard here for the first time, it includes exclusive video interviews with Andrew Skilleter and David Banks.
Just when you thought the Cybermen would never return, here they are again – large as life and ten times as scary! The ArcHive Tapes: Cybermen. One small purchase for a human, one huge cyber leap for humankind.
Disc: 1
1. Imagine
2. Cosmological Beginnings
3. Prehistoric Period
4. Departure Of Mondas
5. The 14 Planet Theory
6. Locating Planet 14
7. Journey To The Edge Of Space
8. The Culture Of Logic
9. Excising The Emotions
10. First Divergence Of Species
11. The Transformation Of Mondas
12. Developments On Planet 14
13. Meanwhile On Earth…
Disc: 2
1. Welcome To The Cyber Hive
2. First Invasion Of Earth
3. Inhuman Killers From Another World
4. Cyber Mind Control
5. Destroy Life On Earth
6. The Quiet Invasion
7. The Destruction Of Mondas
8. Cybermondasian
9. Misery Or Mastery
10. Second Divergence Of Species
11. Space Station W3
12. Late Cyberfaction
13. The Cybership
14. The Moonbase
Disc: 3
1. The Vogan War
2. The Colonisation Of Telos
3. Awakening Of The Cybertelosians
4. The Pursuit Of Voga
5. Late Cybernomad
6. The Vengeful Cybermen
7. Proliferating Cybermen
Disc: 4
1. Cybermen On Gallifrey
2. In The Death Zone
3. The Deadly Chequerboard
4. Onslaught On Earth
5. Cybermen Take Control
6. Spiralling Backwards In Time
7. Departure From Telos
8. The Tardis On Telos
9. A Wider Proliferation?
10. Living Metal
11. The Human State Of Madness
12. The End Of The Cybermen
The Archive Tapes: Cybermen Box Set is available from Amazon
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Amys Handbag
April 23rd, 2013 - 11:33pmI’m looking forward to this, I only have the first part )from when the BBC released it as part of a set with something else). Very interesting and well presented.
Johnny
April 25th, 2013 - 9:33amThe Cybermen audio boxset came with “The Tenth Planet” and “The Invasion” off air soundtracks, plus “The Origins of the Cybermen” CD from this set.
eddy
April 23rd, 2013 - 7:09pmlooks, good but whatever the price, dont think it would be worth it
mrewanwatson
April 22nd, 2013 - 9:02pmWhen is this out
Johnny
April 25th, 2013 - 9:28amMonday 6th May.
McGann is the Doctor
April 22nd, 2013 - 10:21amDoes it still have all the pictures ?
KORSAIR
April 22nd, 2013 - 1:35pmIt’s an audio.
MAXP
April 22nd, 2013 - 7:59amyeah – “THIS IS EXCELLENT!”
MAXP
April 22nd, 2013 - 3:00amI would love to see David Banks reprise the role in the new series.
Connor
April 22nd, 2013 - 12:31amThis looks amazing what is this about? The musc, there history someone please tell me
KORSAIR
April 22nd, 2013 - 1:03amIt’s a narrated history of the Cybermen,a lot of it is very interesting.
Connor
April 22nd, 2013 - 1:34amCheers i will get it then!
THE ENIGMATIC WATCHER
April 21st, 2013 - 9:29pmOooooh, I do like the look of this!
Gareth T
April 21st, 2013 - 9:22pmI have the Cybermen book, this is a must buy to expand my referential material.
TheWhomobile
April 21st, 2013 - 9:20pmDoes he actually read it as the cyber leader or just normally? It would be cool if he did it as the cyber leader
Johnny
April 25th, 2013 - 9:30amHe reads the words written by Arch-Hivist Hegalia, but Banks id playing another Arch-Hivist who is not named.
If he did it as the Cyber-Leader, some of it would be unintelligible.
KORSAIR
April 21st, 2013 - 7:35pmI have this from a few years back when it was first released.
the 13th Doctor
April 21st, 2013 - 8:49pmis it any good?
KORSAIR
April 22nd, 2013 - 8:56amIt can be a bit heavy in parts,but I like it.
Dalek The Supreme
April 21st, 2013 - 7:29pmThis looks like something I’d want! The Cybermen are one of my favorite monsters of all time!
DOCTOR WHO ONE
April 21st, 2013 - 7:27pm“EXCELLENT !”
I have a copy of the aforementioned book made by David Banks. Brought it about 5 years ago from The Who Shop when they was originally just opposite East Ham Train Station.