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Doctor Who - Spare Parts
- Narrated by: Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
On a dark, frozen planet where no planet should be, in a doomed city with a sky of stone, the last denizens of Earth's long-lost twin will pay any price to survive, even if the laser scalpels cost them their love and hate and humanity.
And in the mat-infested streets, around teatime, the Doctor and Nyssa unearth a black market in secondhand body parts and run the gauntlet of augmented police and their augmented horses. And just between the tramstop and the picturehouse, their worst suspicions are confirmed: the Cybermen have only just begun, and the Doctor will be, just as he always has been, their saviour....
Written by Marc Platt and directed by Gary Russell.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-05-21
Brilliant!
Simply one of the best Doctor Who episodes ever written! Very enjoyable! It's simply amazing!
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- ScottishGeekPlays
- 20-07-20
An amazing story
My first Doctor Who audio story and it was amazing, I really really enjoyed it. It was dark gritty and so much more substance to it than I would have thought.
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- Louise Sabrina Wade
- 01-09-16
Worth a listen, but not at this price.
Where does Doctor Who - Spare Parts rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I would say it's one of my favourites. It was one of the first Big Finish audios I listened too, so I might be a little biased, but I loved it then, and I still love it now.
What did you like best about this story?
I like how it takes what we know about the Cybermen and adds a lot more to them in regards to where they came from. It's kind of like Genesis Of The Daleks, but with the Cybermen, and with more involvement with the people affected.
Have you listened to any of Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton ’s other performances? How does this one compare?
It's nice to go back to a lot of Big Finish's stuff because the Doctor/Companion dynamic gets expanded, even though it doesn't have all the elements as the on-screen stuff. I think that this audio was a big influence on my love of Big Finish, so I would say that this one is a must listen.
Any additional comments?
I would have to point out that you probably shouldn't get this here. It's marked at £19.24 or 1 credit, so the cheapest you could get it is about £7 (unless you got a credit deal). All of Big Finish's first 50 releases, including this, are marled as only £2.99 to download because they have been out of print for quite some time. I really think that every Doctor Who fan should listen to this, but get it from Big Finish. It is a lot cheaper, and it means that all the money will go to them to make more audios. You will also get to check out some of their other releases whilst there, most of which are amazing.
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- Callum Taylor
- 13-10-21
Technophobia Incarnate.
A wondorous tale regarding the origins of the Cybermen, the fall of Mondasian culture, and the true horrors committed during the earliest creation of the Cybermen.
This story never fails to give me chills, the cruelty of these ruthless creatures, the Doctor's inquisitive, yet fearful mannerisms upon their landing, it all meshes together to create a true Doctor Who Horror Story.
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- Finlay
- 03-08-16
This will disgust, chill and terrify. Brilliantly.
What made the experience of listening to Doctor Who - Spare Parts the most enjoyable?
The sheer quality of the way the premise has been handled is fantastic. The original idea put forward in The Tenth Planet is dissected in this story and all of its dark horror laid out for all to see (or hear, whichever). The emotional and psychological implications that are brought to bear would be difficult to handle in any medium but in this case have been brilliantly shown, creating a harrowing story which will not leave your memory quickly.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Doctor Who - Spare Parts?
The mask coming off. If I say anymore spoilers will ruin it for everyone else.
What about Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton ’s performance did you like?
Peter Davison brilliantly plays the paragon of justice and hope that the fifth doctor is, in this situation almost tortured by the moral questions rearing their heads. Sarah Sutton gets short shrift despite being great, Nyssa would seem to be sadly consigned to a bit of a support and facilitator for the rest of the cast. Which in actual fact is rubbish, her performance of the character and the character itself are simply overshadowed by the other, more extreme events in the plot.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes it was, because I did.
Any additional comments?
Don't listen to this in the dark, or late at night, it's warm and sunny right now and I'm genuinely getting chills 30 minutes after having listened to it.
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- Jaye Garrett
- 06-10-23
A Chilling Cyber-Legend
The Committee/Cyber-Planner's voice chill me more about Zheng's. Nyssa.😁 The family scene move me.
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- P of Merseyside
- 02-09-24
A great origin story
So the cybermen design was a little bit to do with the doctor. With his influence on the Daleks as well perhaps the Doctor is the real menace. This was a really good and enjoyable adventure. Really like the story just a shame that it was not made into a screen version in this format. It would have rivalled genesis of the daleks as the greatest ever story
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- D.L
- 30-12-19
great cyberman story
a great cybermen story which takes place on their home planet Mondas with the fifth Doctor and Nyssa. great drama and acting that tells the origins of the Cybermen. highly recommended for Doctor who fans.
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- Tom Smithurst
- 24-08-21
A harrowing story befitting of such a gruesome concept
Great performances by Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton, and the rest of the cast – I couldn’t knock the acting in this story.
The story was clever and appropriately horrifying but I feel like it was ended pretty abruptly. Nevertheless, a fitting entry in the timeline of the Cybermen.
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- Chris Zoah
- 27-03-22
It's not the destination, it's the journey...
Mondas. As soon as you hear that word you know what's inevitable for the people of that doomed planet. It's like arriving in Pompeii before the volcano, or the Titanic before the iceberg.
While the Daleks got themselves a definitive on-screen origin story 12 years after we saw them first, the absence of such an on-screen story for the Cybermen mean that the off-screen mythology of these creatures has had to fill in the gaps. Contributing to that rich mythology, this story is incredibly strong and shows how the last known city on Mondas took the initiative to save their planet. It contrasts the identifiable, relatable nuances of everyday human existence with the cold, ruthless logic of survival at any cost. Like the best Cybermen stories - of which this certainly joins the ranks - it serves a reminder that the Cybermen are a perversion of humanity, both in body and mind and that the line between human and a cyberman can be blurred either through our choice of thoughts and actions or the unfortunate, incomplete conversion process.
Equally fantastic and disturbing.
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