"EVEN MORE OF ME!" I wasn't kidding when I said I'm relying on you folks watching to let me know what the concensus is for 'Real Time'. Please let me know in the comments below and also hit the "like" button to appease the almighty algorithm!

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Oh my God, the Colin Baker clip from the Five-ish Doctor's was used perfectly in this.

2:25 Why is everybody running away? I'd love to spend a whole day with the adorable human teddy bear that is Colin Baker.

That was a well placed clip from The Five(ish) Doctor's Reboot, normal people probably wouldn't get it, but they have stupid earth brains so you know.

For the proper Big Finish release, there are some extra scenes not shown here that set up the team being sent to Chronos & how they got the Doctor involved. The reason he's wearing a blue suit here is because Evelyn wanted to see him in a morning suit & he thought she meant 'mourning', with blue being a colour of mourning on planets like Necros, he wore a blue suit. In fact, that's where he & Evelyn enter the story; by returning to the TARDIS after a funeral.

Man, the cyber-wars continuity is one of the most confusing things ever

Holy shit that face at 5:29 Six can look truly terrifying when he’s pissed off

I wish Ancension of the Cybermen and the Haunting and the Timeless Children was the sequel trilogy to Real Time

Spare Parts was my first ever Doctor Who audio story and I love it to bits

I love Evelyn, she is the perfect companion for audios like Real Time and Jubilee, as she has enough empathy to sympathise with the monsters but is also experienced enough to be able to see through their ploys, the way she basically gains the respect of the Dalek in Jubilee is a testament to how strong a character she is. Maggie Stables was amazing and her portrayal of Evelyn is brilliant.

Next Time: The origins of the Cybermen that was meant to be a Peter Davidson story, But at least it's all in audio form, Time to bring out some Spear Parts!

If we ever get a "Wilderness Years" blu ray boxset, maybe they'll include the webcasts, the audio adaptations of the stage plays as well as the TV Movie.

For me and my friends, when this web cast first came out it was super exciting. At the time web casts in general were a novelty in their own right. To have a new Doctor Who story with the Cybermen on the BBC was a boon. Being an animation done in earnest with an adult tone just felt special to us. It was a lovely 'secret' known about only by us 'real' fans. We loved it!

Fun fact about Death Comes To Time: there was a character in it called the minister of time and when the BBC were interested in commissioning a new Doctor Who series Matthew Graham tried to pitch a revival featuring this character.

I quite enjoyed "Real Time" at the, er, time, and was gutted that there was no sequel. It was a great prologue to a potential epic.

I'm not surprised you are reviewing Spare Parts as it VERY good Cyberman story.

Even more of me! Gotta love The Five(ish) Doctors reboot.

I love Real Time. It's a fun Cybermen story and I love the atmosphere. I think the Cyber Controller twist is great. It's a shame we never got a sequel.

God, this takes me back to watching it using dialup internet. Ah memories. And yes Evelyn is a great foil for the Sixth Doctor. Also I'm hoping for The Reaping/The Gathering.

Next time on Cybercember: The (First) Genesis of the Cybermen

OK I just listened/watched real time and that conversion scene... was bloody terrifying even without the visuals 😳

You span that wheel until you got Spare Parts, didn't you?

A story that ends on a cliffhanger, Gee now where have I heard that before?

I watched this on the old Classic Doctor Who website on my PSP and it ran it at a about half a frame. Watched Screm Of Shalka that way too, ah to be young.

I'd never seen this before so watched it before the review. I actually found it quite enjoyable. The exposition at the start was quite off-putting but it became less prominent about halfway through and I found myself really interested in the lore as well as really appreciating some proper Cyberman body horror. The twist about Evelyn was honestly a jaw-dropping moment, I really wish we'd got the follow up to this episode.

The reason why Six is dressed in blue was because of the limitations of the early internet. It would have been tricky to try and follow the different patterns of colors so to make it easier he’s dressed in all blue. Kind of wish that he was all black like how Collin wanted him to look originally.

If I were ever to cosplay the Sixth Doctor, I would either go with this blue coat or his regular outfit plus the blue cloak from Revelation of the Daleks. So that's one cool takeaway from this. But, yeah, I didn't even bother finishing Real Time because nothing really grabbed my attention.

Also Spiral Scratch was 6th Doctor regeneration story before Big Finish did their own with The Brink of Death

Funny thing about this, I own this on CD, And yet I haven't listened to it.

I first listened to the big Finish CD version which has scenes deleted from the webcast version at the beginning of the story the doctor and Evelyn have been to a funeral and Evelyn that blue suits the doctor

this is an EXCELLENT....review. Also a story I was unaware of...will be seeking it out. Trying to think what other Cybergems you will uncover before the 2006 new series return.

Spare Parts! Yes! Haha! And they called me mad for suggesting it would turn up!

Every time I see Colin Baker, he slides up in my ranking of the Doctor's incarnations.

Fun fact, the partly converted cyberdrone of Torchwood's "Cyberwoman" was entirely based on this artwork. Chibnall thought this was a massive mistake and I agree with him.

I remember when this came out along with Paul McGann's Shada and Scream of Shalka in the wilderness years of Dr Who. Doctor Who fans were used to slow story pacing anyway. It was just exciting to have any new who as it seemed impossible. As we had no internet bandwidth, it was hard enough work to get this downloaded to enjoy in those days over dial-up. I recall this came out weekly. So 10 mins a week (even if exposition) was a big deal. Everyone is so used to having all of Doctor Who of any era on tap today. Back then getting your hands on a VHS (let alone first DVD was only in 2000) , Big Finish and books, etc was hard slog to find here in Australia in a shop, more good luck to come across. Being a Doctor Who fan was not something you publicised here. If Silver Nemesis was the last Cybermen you saw, in 2002, this was exciting to know somebody still cared enough to make it. I remember the paradox cliff hanger being whooa. The evolution of Cybermen design here was cool. The graphics/visuals stuck in the mind at the time and the memory cheats. I remember thinking whoa if only they could make this for real on-screen.

I would love a cyberman design like this in the show itself

Big Finish needs to finish this story. That cliffhanger is too great!

OK I know that it's very unlikely to happen, But I hope in Cybercember William would cover Hour of the Cybermen, I'm not saying that he will mind you, It's just a hopeful thought.

Fuck KZfaq for strategically placing an ad just before the end of the beautiful scene when Evelyn is talking to the Cyber Controller. No KZfaq, I won't buy premium!

Will you be doing the cyberman series I’ve listen to parts 1 and 2 and their pretty enjoyable

I remember watching some of this, but I think the ultra gory conversions freaked out my tiny mind at the time, so I didn't finish it. So strange that such a game-changing twist happened in this story, and said twist seemingly being the main reason for the story to exist, only to be utterly ignored afterwards.

That cliffhanger is fantastic

"What's the deal with professor Goddard?" The Mr Tardis/Seinfeld crossover we never knew we wanted...

I know I'm kind of late, but you asked how other fans felt about it. I personally love this and is one of my favorite pieces of doctor who media. I love when the cybermen are portrayed in a very dark way, which this does very well. The cliffhanger ending doesn't really feel that bad, it feels like a sort of interpretive ending than a cliffhanger ending to me. I found the monologues of history to be very interesting, as we learn more about the cyber wars which I find to be a very interesting topic.

Okay, now I'm interested.

This story should be animated like Scream of the Shalka

I wish they would do a follow up in the Companion Chronicles range or something to complete the story.

I really quite liked Real Time, I watched it when it was released (Dad had really good broadband)

Does anyone know where I can find the Shada webcast? I've been trying to find it for a while. Great video btw ( I know I'm a bit late.)

Any chance of seeing something on The Dark Dimension? Those cybermen designs looked so promising...

Would this benefit from a rework and new animation? I'd give it another go.

I wish we saw more of the Cybermen using their former emotions to manipulate people

Really a big finish cyberman audio was it going to be anything else?

Will next year be Mastercember or Sontarcember?

*manifests a review of the reaping

Well, I’ve never watched the webcast, but I do have the big finish CD, which may have more details, because it does explain why he’s wearing the blue coat. And frankly, it’s quite hilarious. So, it’s been a few years since I’ve heard it, but I thought it was a pretty cool story...

Real Time was an interesting experiment but it's been nearly decade since I last watched it.

I actually liked Real Time when it came out; I liked the gross body horror and the sinister cybermen. Yes, Who was as rare as hen's teeth at the time. I'm glad you explained the ending however as I don't think I cottoned to that at the time. Timey Wimeyness goes over my head a lot of the time. Of course you're doing Spare Parts- you really can not avoid it. A most excellent adventure...

I guess I'm listening to Spare Parts for the first time ever tonight...

The one with 6th Doctor and Evelyn against demonic Cybermen

I can’t remember but is spare parts the 5th doctor one? (Probably like a dozen of those tho) Only story I can really remember is the one where the cybermen invade the land of fiction

2:30 where's that clip from??? Looks funny

I've tried to watch this and Death Comes to Time but the animation is just so limited that I can't manage it. I think the massive info dumps and pacing issues compound the problem too. That said, I love Colin's blue suit, I love those new Cybermen designs and I think Evelyn is a worthy companion.

Ooooo the Spare Parts hype is real 😁

Where is the clip from 2:25 from?

I didn't know that a Canadian company tried to make a Doctor Who animated series in the early 2000s... sounds like a great idea why the hell didn't it get the green light ???

I thought it was alright, I'm not sure about the canonicity though.

Six and Evelyn are good and telling a story in real time was novel, but the story itself is lackluster and the supporting cast are basically cardboard cut-outs. Real Time is the poor sibling sitting between the flawed by very imaginative DCTT and solid execution of the Paul McGann Shada webcast.

I quite like it, flawed yes, but enjoyable enough

Please do spare parts

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I think if you didn’t do Spare Parts there might be uproar. 😄

I know you just wanted to review Spare Parts, the spinning wheel is a diversion.

Ahh Stuart Lee

You say bad animation was a thing of the past. But I'm afraid i couldn't have liked the tv dalek's animation if you payed me really very little story and it never went anywhere.

I could really enjoy the dynamic between the doctor and evelyn, especially at the start of this adventure. They're obviously such a great pair but I disliked the tone of this story. It's just personal taste but I don't like the edgy stuff and towards the end it was gory and gruesome. Also I disliked the Cybermen design and didn't understand how it made them different from the others. I can't recall the story very well but after every adventure I watch, I give the story a rating and write down some of my thoughts on a google doc. These are basically those thoughts regurgitated. My rating was a 5/10 and I'm usually very positive with my ratings but I am also biased against edgier stories.

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Do some big finish

I'd like to point out that "webcast" should only be used in referance to the way it was released - such as "television" for stories released on televsion, "webcast" is for stories released on the internet. So it's use for in the title of this video is kinda pointless, as one wouldn't refer to another story as "Doctor Who: Closing Time *Tele-Vision*". Hope this helps.