Vintage 1994 Doctor Who Complete Foil Card Set 🃏 Cards 1-7 BBC Licensed Cornerstone Davros

Want the Complete 1994 Doctor Who Foil Set? 🃏 The Complete 1994 Cornerstone Doctor Who Foil Set — All Seven Cards, Together

Size: 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" each card

Here's the full run of foil cards from Cornerstone Communications' 1994 Doctor Who series, officially licensed by the BBC: the three Daleks foils, the three Cybermen foils, and the Davros card that most "complete" sets are missing. Cards 1 through 6 were the shiny chase cards collectors hoped to pull from sealed packs of the base set; Davros, card 7, was never in a pack at all — it came only in Cornerstone's factory sets, the complete boxed sets. That's the whole reason a genuinely complete foil run like this one is worth having: pack luck could get you six of the seven, and the seventh had to come the other way.

🤖 Cards 1–3: The Daleks

The Daleks foils run from a lone Dalek gliding along a riverbank, to the classic shot of Daleks crossing Westminster Bridge with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament behind them, to a whole squad massed in a control room. Their backs are a tidy little history lesson: one credits the Operators of the Daleks, the actors who worked inside the casings — naming John Scott Martin, who played a Dalek fourteen times across all seven classic Doctors, arguably the most under-sung acting job in British television. Peter Hawkins and Roy Skelton get credit too, as the voices behind the creatures; years later, K9's own voice actor, John Leeson, took a turn voicing a Dalek himself. Another card honors Raymond P. Cusick, the designer who turned Terry Nation's idea into the enclosed "pepperpot" shape, built specifically so an operator could sit hidden inside with no legs or wheels showing. The third names Terry Nation, the writer who created the Daleks for only the second Doctor Who story ever made, at the end of 1963, and who later created Blake's 7.

⚙️ Cards 4–6: The Cybermen

The Cybermen foils show Cybermen descending the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, a squad on a bleak moonscape, and a lone Cyberman cradling its chest unit. The backs credit Dr. Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler, better known as Kit Pedler, the real surgeon and pathologist whose genuine unease about medicine stripping away a person's humanity — replacing organs with metal and plastic — became the seed of the Cybermen's cold logic; costume designer Sandra Reid, who built the very first Cybermen for 1966's "The Tenth Planet" and gave the helmet its trademark "handles"; and writer and story editor Gerry Davis, whose card is titled, with a completely straight face, "Cyberdad of the Cybermen." I love that they actually printed that. It's exactly the kind of earnest 1990s trading-card copy that makes a set like this fun to own.

🧬 Card 7: Davros, the Factory-Set Foil

Davros is the reason a genuinely complete set is worth chasing. His card shows him enthroned among his Daleks, and its back is a "Davros Times Three" checklist of his TV appearances and the three actors who've played him: Michael Wisher, who originated the role in 1975's "Genesis of the Daleks"; David Gooderson in 1979's "Destiny of the Daleks"; and Terry Molloy, who played him across three more stories in the 1980s and also voiced the Emperor Dalek. Because Cornerstone never put this card in a pack, a collector who only ever opened boosters back in 1994 could pull every Daleks and Cybermen foil there was and still come up one card short, forever.

🏭 Cornerstone and the BBC License

Every back carries the full licensing line: (c) 1994 Cornerstone Communications, Inc., Doctor Who diamond logo (c) BBC 1973, licensed by BBC Enterprises, with the Daleks credited to Terry Nation and the Cybermen to Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis.

📦 Condition

I hold nine of these complete sets, and condition runs a small range across them — most are crisp and pack-fresh with sharp corners, and a few, including the set photographed here, show a little light wear at a corner or edge and the occasional tiny speck in the foil. None have creases. The set in the photos is at the plain end of that range; if a fresher one matters to you, just ask before you order and I'll tell you honestly where it falls in the range. All nine are New Old Stock — never opened for play, never circulated.

👾 Why the Daleks Still Matter

The Daleks arrived at the end of 1963, in only the second Doctor Who serial ever broadcast, and the response was immediate — "Dalekmania" swept Britain and never really let go. Decades on, they're still the show's signature villains, and three of your seven cards are pieces of that exact origin story, credited on the cards themselves.

🎬 A Complete Set, the Way Cornerstone Meant It

This is all seven foils, numbered FOIL 1 through FOIL 7 on their backs, six pack inserts and the factory-set-only Davros, together and uncirculated. Nothing missing, nothing added — the shiny half of the 1994 Cornerstone Doctor Who program, complete.