The Doctor dismisses the platoon, and the top-hat man comes out again. The Doctor tells her that he hasn't heard anything more than she has from this, the Doctor learns that the Emperor has vanished. The captain recognises him as the Imperial Consul, and asks for news of the Emperor. The Doctor flashes his Golden Ticket, and when that doesn't work, whips out the psychic paper. A military platoon comes storming out and demands identification from the travellers. They deny it, prompting the man to note that the service was supposed to come months ago.Ī shout goes up and the man disappears. Suddenly, a rock opens and a short man in a top hat peeks out and asks if they are his ride from Dave's Interstellar Taxi Service. Angie and Artie point out that it looks like the Doctors is wrong and that they are actually on the moon, despite his protests to the contrary. The Doctor welcomes them to Hedgewick's World of Wonders, the biggest and best amusement park ever.
The TARDIS lands and the Eleventh Doctor, Clara, Angie, and Artie Maitland step out. When the Doctor decides to stay a while to investigate strange insect creatures that are roaming the park, he soon discovers that these insects are really machines seeking to convert the life forms on Hedgewick's World into the newest generation of the ever-upgrading menace.
However, the theme park is empty, occupied only by a " punishment platoon" and a lone impresario with empty Cyberman shells as exhibits. The Eleventh Doctor takes his companion, Clara Oswald, and her wards, Angie and Artie, to the biggest amusement park in the galaxy, Hedgewick's World of Wonders. This episode also allowed actor Matt Smith to undertake a dual role as the Eleventh Doctor gained an evil Cyberman alter-ego, Mr Clever. He previously had done so in his previous incarnation with Sarah Jane's companions in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith when they asked to take a look inside the time machine. This episode also marks one of the few times on-screen that the Doctor has allowed children inside of the TARDIS, due to them being associated with one of his companions. Similar to the The Twin Dilemma with character Azmael, the Doctor had no regenerations left. Unknown to the viewers at the time, the Doctor's threat to purge Mr Clever from his body through regeneration was a lie. It also saw the Cybermen become much more efficient and deadly, being able to almost instantly adapt to weaknesses they also overcame their weakness to gold. The episode also saw the introduction of the " Cyberiad", the collective consciousness of all Cybermen.
Additionally, the Cybermen utilised a Cyber-Planner for the first time onscreen in the revived series, last seen in The Invasion. Likewise, the Cybermats evolved with their progenitors into a more compact form known as Cybermites.
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Not counting the ambiguous Cybus-like Cybermen from A Good Man Goes to War-onward, this episode also definitively reintroduced the original Cybermen of the Doctor's universe to television for the first time since the series restarted back in 2005, their last television appearance being Silver Nemesis 25 years prior. This adventure introduced a dramatic redesign of the Cyberman race that replaced the previous Cybus Industries design they had maintained since their return in Rise of the Cybermen, with these Cybermen employing a multitude of new abilities, including that of being able to convert species other than humans. Nightmare in Silver was the twelfth and penultimate episode of series 7 of Doctor Who.
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