The Tomb of the Cybermen ( TV story ) The Tomb of the Cybermen was the first story of season 5 of " Doctor Who " . It introduced the first Cyber - Controller and the Cybermat s . It is the earliest Second Doctor serial to survive in its entirety and , from its recovery in the early 1990s until the recovery of " The Enemy of the World " in 2013 , it was the only complete serial extant from season 5 . Synopsis . The TARDIS arrives on the planet Telos , where an Earth archaeological expedition led by Professor Parry is trying to uncover the lost tomb s of the Cybermen . With a lot of help from the Doctor , the archaeologists enter the tombs . There , one of the party , Klieg , reveals himself and his business partner , Kaftan , to be planning to revive the Cybermen . He wants to use their strength , allied with the intelligence of his own Brotherhood of Logicians , to create an invincible force for conquest . It transpires , however , that the tomb is actually a giant trap designed to lure human s suitable for conversion into Cybermen — a fate that almost befalls Kaftan ' s assistant Toberman . After fending off an attack by Cybermat s — small but dangerous cybernetic creatures — the Doctor destroys the Controller , defeats the revived Cybermen and reseals the tombs . Plot . Episode 1 . The Doctor ( now about 450 earth years old ) and Jamie show their new travelling companion Victoria Waterfield the interior of the TARDIS , though she scarcely believes it can travel through time and space . As the ship takes off from Skaro , the group ready for their next adventure . On the planet Telos , an archaeological expedition uses explosives to uncover the entrance to a city hidden in the side of a mountain . When a member of the expedition touches the huge metal doors , he is electrocuted . Immediately afterwards , the TARDIS lands nearby . The Doctor , Jamie and Victoria arrive on the scene . Captain Hopper , the expedition ' s pilot , holds them at gunpoint until the Doctor convinces them , through his ability to take control of the situation , that they had nothing to do with the death . John Viner , the assistant to expedition leader Parry , accuses the Doctor of being part of a rival expedition . Parry explains that they are here to find the remains of the Cybermen , who apparently died out centuries before . The expedition is funded by Miss Kaftan , who is accompanied by her giant manservant , Toberman , and her colleague , Eric Klieg . Now that he knows the Cybermen are involved , the Doctor decides to accompany the group . He uses a small device to unelectrify the doors and employs Toberman ' s great strength to haul them open . The Doctor warns the expedition to be careful but they march in , paying no heed to his warning . Entering the darkened inner chamber , they find a control panel with a series of levers and switches , large , hidden doors and a sealed hatch . Klieg and Kaftan conspire with each other , more concerned with their new friends than anything else . It is decided that Kaftan shall stay with Victoria , Klieg with the Doctor , and Toberman with Jamie . The Doctor opens the doors using the levers , which operate on symbolic logic . Klieg is resentful that the Doctor is able to deduce this instead of him . The hatch , however , remains sealed , so the members of the expedition split up and explore . Victoria , Viner and Kaftan come across a chamber with a sarcophagus - like box facing a projection device that was apparently used to revitalise the Cybermen . In another room , Jamie and Peter Haydon find a small silver caterpillar - like object on the floor . In the control room , the Doctor gives Klieg the clue he needs to reactivate the controls to restore power to the base . He tries to pretend that he doesn ' t want Klieg to activate the tomb , but when he does and the lab rumbles into life , the Doctor rushes away , keen to ensure his companions are safe . When Victoria curiously climbs into the sarcophagus , Kaftan operates the controls and seals Victoria in the sarcophagus . When Viner confronts her , she denies she did anything . Viner checks to see Victoria is still alive and when he discovers she is , he runs off to find the Doctor . Now the operating panel is operational , Haydon plays with the control panel in the room . A wall lights up with a hypnotic pattern that puts Jamie into a trance . Haydon is fascinated with the technology and has Jamie rerun it with him as the hypnotised subject . The Doctor shows up and frees Victoria . Klieg is frustrated that the lab is only partially working and seeks to discover how to get it up to full activation . The Doctor finds Jamie and Haydon experimenting and rushes to turn off the console . Before he can intervene , a Cyberman slides into view and a gun fires , hitting Haydon and killing him . Victoria screams . . . Episode 2 . The Cyberman slides out of sight again . Parry enters and demands to know what has happened . He refuses to believe Viner ' s panicked explanation of a Cyberman . The Doctor deduce s that the gun was at the back of the room . They mock up what Jamie did before , and his belief is born out . The gun was shooting a mock - up Cyberman , and Haydon got in the way . The Doctor speculates that it must have been a weapons testing range . Victoria finds the metal caterpillar , which the Doctor identifies as a cybermat . He advises her to leave it alone . Instead , she places it in her handbag . Toberman returns to Miss Kaftan and reports that " it is done " . Klieg confides to Kaftan that he is struggling to decode what he needs to do to get into the tomb . Kaftan assures him that logic will prevail and that time is no option . Parry and the group return . He calls the group together and decides to abandon the expedition and return to Earth . At this point , however , Hopper returns and angrily reveals that someone has sabotaged the rocket ship — no one will be leaving until he can effect repairs and no one will be allowed aboard the ship until his crew has done so . Viner freaks out again , not wanting to be left overnight . Klieg jumps on this delay to take advantage and explore the area . Shortly after he cracks the code ( with a little help from the Doctor ) , opening the door to the tomb . Everyone except Victoria and Kaftan are to go . Victoria protests , but the Doctor asks her to stay and keep an eye on Kaftan . She relents . Kaftan asks for Toberman to stay , but the Doctor pretends that he will stay if it were not for the protection of Toberman . Kaftan relents . Left alone , Kaftan places something in Victoria ' s drink . Klieg and his party find a vast chamber beneath , with a multistory structure containing cells of frozen Cybermen , entombed in suspended animation . Back in the control room , Victoria succumbs to the sleeping pill that Kaftan put in her coffee , and Kaftan shuts the hatch . The noise of the hatch snapping closed alerts the party in the tomb . Jamie and Viner explore to find their exit blocked . Viner returns , panicking . Klieg , in the meantime , has found a code on a console and speculates it must open the hatch . He activates more controls , and the ice begins to melt . Viner watches in shock and tries to turn the console back . Klieg shoots Viner and holds the rest at bay while they watch the Cybermen return to life . Back in the control room , Victoria has awoken . She finds the hatch closed and , when she questions Kaftan and attempts to put the hatch back in place , Kaftan pulls a gun on her . As Kaftan backs Victoria into a corner , the cybermat in Victoria ' s handbag revives and attacks Kaftan , rendering her unconscious , despite Victoria ' s warnings . Victoria grabs Kaftan ' s pistol and shoots the cybermat , but she doesn ' t know how to re - open the hatch . She leaves to find Hopper . Klieg reveals his real agenda . He and Kaftan belong to the Brotherhood of Logicians , who possess great intelligence but no power . He is certain the Cybermen will be grateful for their revival and ally themselves with him , providing that power . The Doctor confides to Jamie he expected Klieg was up to no good . The Cybermen break free from their membranes and file past the humans , ignoring them , and free their leader , the Cybercontroller , from his cell . When Klieg steps forward to take the credit for reviving them and suggesting their alliance , the Cybercontroller grabs and crushes his hand , forcing him to his knees and declaring , " You belong to us . You shall be like us . " Episode 3 . The Cybermen recognise the Doctor , whose involvement in prior invasion attempts is recorded in their computer records . The Doctor realises that the tombs were an elaborate trap . The Cybermen were waiting for beings intelligent enough to decipher the controls needed to free them . Captain Hopper and his compatriot Jim Callum return with Victoria . Kaftan awakes but pretends to be out cold . The Cybermen inform the expedition they will be converted into Cybermen in preparation for a new invasion of Earth , and Klieg will be the first . He seems pleased he is to be their leader but is worried about the process of adaptation . The Cybermen swarm the expedition . In the control room , Hopper and Jim Callum have figured out the electronics that will open the hatch . Kaftan pulls a gun on the trio and orders them to stop . Victoria provides a decoy , and Kaftan is disarmed . The tomb is opened . Hopper descends into the tomb . The expedition have been rounded up and told that , with the exception of Klieg , they will be frozen until ready for adaptation . Captain Hopper emerges from the hatch and uses smoke grenades to distract the Cybermen while the humans make their escape . They barely manage to scramble back to the control room and shut the hatch before the Cybermen can follow . As the Doctor emerges from the hatch , he is grabbed by a Cyberman . Victoria beats him off just as the tomb is closed , leaving the Cyberman inside beating at the metal hatch . They realise that Toberman and Klieg , however , are left behind . Toberman is brought to the Cyber Contoller , who says they will convert him for his power . Klieg sneaks up to the hatch and raps on the door . The party topside are reluctant to open the door but the Doctor convinces them that it is Klieg or Toberman due to the softness of the noise . They swiftly open the door long enough for Klieg to escape . Klieg and Kaftan are moved into the testing range to keep them out of mischief while the others decide on their next course of action . Captain Hopper goes back to the ship . Inside the tomb , the Cybermen prepare a fleet of Cybermats to infest the control room . Inside the testing room , Klieg pries a weapon out of the hands of the Cyberman target , an X - ray laser he calls a cyber - gun . Kaftan makes Klieg realise that with this gun he is able to control the Cybermen as well as the expedition . He agrees and says he will target the Doctor first , seeing him as a threat to him ruling over the Cybermen . Outside , the expedition is asleep with Victoria and the Doctor keeping guard . They discuss the merits and pitfalls of not being able to remember their family . Once Victoria is asleep , the group are threatened by cybermats . The Doctor manages to rig electrical cables from the control panel to create a magnetic field that disables the cybermats . As one threat is eliminated , Klieg and Kaftan step out , armed with the cyber - gun , which Klieg fires directly at the Doctor . Callum shouts a warning to the Doctor , but it seems to late . . . Episode 4 . Callum pushes the Doctor out of the way and takes the blast on his shoulder . Klieg tells the others that he can still negotiate with the Cybermen . Kaftan tells him not to kill the rest of the party as they will make good experimental fodder for the Cybermen . Klieg opens the hatch and calls for the Cybercontroller . The Cybercontroller sends the rest of the fleet back into their cell and emerges to the surface with Toberman , who is under Cyberman control . The Cybercontroller and Toberman are stopped at the door by Klieg wielding his weapon . The Cybercontroller moves slowly , as his energy is running low . Klieg says he will allow the Cybercontroller to revitalise itself in the sarcophagus for the return of Toberman and if the Cybermen help him conquer the Earth . The Cybercontroller agrees . Before he returns Toberman , he communes with him telepathically . As the Cybercontroller goes into the revitalisation room , Klieg forces the rest of the party in there too , only keeping Victoria hostage . The Cybercontroller runs out of energy before entering the sarcophagus . The Doctor helps him in with the intention of trapping him inside . However , once in the machine the revitilisation procedure kicks in remotely , and the Cybercontroller is too strong for Jamie ' s knots and it breaks out of the sarcophagus . Telepathically signalling Toberman , the latter reveals his true allegiances and knocks Klieg unconscious . The Cybercontroller , in turn , picks up Klieg ' s cyber - gun . Kaftan refuses to open the tomb for him and , as he goes to do it himself , she tries to shoot him . The Cybercontroller turns and shoots Kaftan dead . The death of his mistress , along with some persuasion from the Doctor , seems to shake Toberman out of his controlled state . Toberman struggles with the Cybercontroller and hurls it into a control panel , rendering it inactive . Before the Cybercontroller was destroyed it had summomed some of the rest of the fleet , which Jamie is forced into shooting . The Doctor wants to make sure the Cybermen are no longer a threat and goes back down into the tombs with Toberman , whom he convinces to revenge Kaftan ' s death . Klieg regains consciousness and sneaks down with the cybergun while the others tend to Callum . Once in the tomb , Toberman tries to destroy the equipment , but the Doctor wants to freeze them permanently . Klieg appears and forces the Doctor away from the controls , declaring that he will be the new Controller , and revives them again . Klieg sees the Doctor motioning to someone behind him and pulls a gun on the Doctor , calling for the figure to emerge . It is Jamie . Klieg intends to turn the three over to the Cybermen for spare parts . Captain Hopper returns to explain the ship has been fixed . He is shocked to hear that the Doctor has gone back down into the tomb . Klieg is pontificating on how he is going to rule the world but , even as he says this , a revived Cyberman throttles Klieg from behind and kills him . Toberman fights and kills this Cyberman as he tries to activate the rest of his fleet , and the Doctor freezes the other Cybermen , hopefully for good this time . The Doctor and Jamie return . The Doctor ushers the others out as he reprogrammed the computer and sets up a circuit to electrify the control panel and the doors , to prevent anyone from entering the city again . As he and Jamie do this , the Cybercontroller reactivates and lurches forward . The Doctor and Jamie manage to escape . Outside , the Doctor , Jamie , Hopper and Parry try to close the door with planks of wood so as to insulate themselves from the electric circuit . This proves impossible with the Cybercontroller pushing from the other side , so Toberman uses his bare hands to shut the doors , struggling with the Cybercontroller one last time . He succeeds , completing the circuit , and both he and the Cybercontroller are electrocuted and killed . Parry and Hopper return to their ship after saying good - bye to the Doctor and his companions . Jamie asks if this is truly the end of the Cybermen . The Doctor thinks so but can ' t predict anything No one notices a lone cybermat , moving along the ground outside the doors to the city . Home video and audio releases . DVD releases . Released as " Doctor Who : The Tomb of the Cybermen " , this was the first of the releases for 2002 . It marked the first photo montage cover art by Clayton Hickman , which replaced the generic photo cover art of earlier releases from this point on . Released : Notes : Contents : Notes : A special edition of " The Tomb of the Cybermen " DVD was released in Revisitations 3 boxset , released in 2012 . The other stories in the boxset set were " The Three Doctors " and " The Robots of Death " . Extras featured on the special edition include a new commentary , two new documentaries ( " Curse of the Cybermen ' s Tomb " and " Lost Giants " ) , a promo TV spot , a documentary on the VidFIRE treatment on the story and an extended version of the Cybermen documentary which was originally released in the 2009 new series Cybermen collection . For this release the story ' s original video look was restored via VidFIRE technology , something that wasn ' t done for the 2002 DVD release . Digital releases . This story is available : VHS releases . Released as " Doctor Who : The Tomb of the Cybermen " , the video was rushed to release after its recovery from Hong Kong at the end of 1991 . Released : Notes : The video includes a special video interview with director Morris Barry , speaking about its recent recovery .