The First Doctor encounters a new and terrifying threat - the Cybermen, in a new edition of a Doctor Who classic
Gerry Davis was an experienced television writer when he came to
Doctor Who as Script Editor in 1966. Wanting to explore stories
rooted more closely in real science, Davis contacted Dr Kit Pedler.
The resulting collaboration resulted in several notable Doctor Who
scripts, and in particular the creation of the Cybermen. Gerry
Davis returned to Doctor Who in 1975 and novelised several of his
and Pedler's Doctor Who stories for Target books. Gerry Davis died
in 1991.
Christopher ('Kit') Pedler was a medical researcher, and head of
the Electron Microscopy Department at the University of London when
he was recommended to Script Editor Gerry Davis as someone who
might be useful as an adviser to Doctor Who. Davis presented Pedler
with hypothetical, fictional problems and asked to extrapolate what
would happen, the answer to which formed the basis of Doctor Who
stories. Pedler told Davis that as a doctor his greatest phobia was
a time when spare part surgery had reached the stage where it was
commonplace. There would come a point where it was impossible to
tell how much of the original human being remained... From this
fear was created the Cybermen. Kit Pedler died in 1981.
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