Spare Parts (audio story)

Publisher's summary
"I'm not even sure they are people by the end. They’re just so many tinned left-overs..."

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, round about tea-time, the Doctor and Nyssa unearth a black market in second-hand body parts and run the gauntlet of augmented police and their augmented horses.

And just between the tramstop and the picturehouse, the Doctor's worst suspicions are confirmed: the Cybermen have only just begun, and the Doctor will be, just as he always has been, their saviour...

Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * Yvonne Hartley - Kathryn Guck
 * Dad - Paul Copley
 * Thomas Dodd - Derren Nesbitt
 * Sisterman Constant - Pamela Binns
 * Frank Hartley - Jim Hartley
 * Mrs Ginsberg - Ann Jenkins
 * Doctorman Allan - Sally Knyvette
 * Zheng - Nicholas Briggs

Continuity

 * This story takes place at the Cybermen's beginnings, as many of its events lead to DW: The Tenth Planet.
 * Commander Zheng would later return for a cameo appearance in The Reaping four years later.

Timeline

 * Spare Parts occurs after ST: The Eternity Contract
 * Spare Parts occurs before ST: Confabula