Spare Parts

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Big Finish Productions audio play
Album cover
Spare Parts
Series Doctor Who
Release number 34
Featuring Fifth Doctor,
Nyssa
Writer Marc Platt
Director Gary Russell
Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner
Production code 6CE
Set between Primeval and
Creatures of Beauty
Release date July 2002

Spare Parts is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Contents

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On the planet Mondas, the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa discover the origins of the Cybermen, but as with the Daleks in Genesis of the Daleks, he dares not interfere with history by preventing their creation.

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  1. Spare Parts reveals how the Cybermen came to be, plus information about Gallifreyan physiology. It also reveals why Mondas had a propulsion system built on its surface (as mentioned in Attack of the Cybermen).
  2. In his introduction to Big Finish: The Inside Story, Russell T. Davies called this story (along with The Holy Terror) "some of the finest drama ever written for any genre, in any medium, anywhere".
  3. Doctor Who Magazine #368 confirmed that the two-part story Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel was inspired by this story, and that Marc Platt received a fee for the reused story elements; he was credited in the programme's end titles. However, writer Tom MacRae noted that his television story was not a simple rewrite of Spare Parts: "My story isn't the same — it's got a different setting, different themes, and different characters, cos once we started talking, the whole thing developed in a very different direction. But as Russell says, we wouldn't have started this whole line of thinking if he hadn't heard Spare Parts in the first place."

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Fifth Doctor audio dramas v  d  e 
The Sirens of Time | Phantasmagoria | The Land of the Dead | Red Dawn | Winter for the Adept
The Mutant Phase | Loups-Garoux | The Eye of the Scorpion | Primeval | Excelis Dawns | Spare Parts
The Church and the Crown | No Place Like Home | Nekromanteia | Creatures of Beauty | Omega | Zagreus
The Axis of Insanity | The Roof of the World | The Game | Three's a Crowd | The Council of Nicaea | Singularity
The Kingmaker | The Gathering | Circular Time | Renaissance of the Daleks
Doctor Who audio plays