Vintage 1994 Doctor Who Cybermen Foil Trading Card 🤖 Card 6 of 6

Who Are the Cybermen? 🤖 Vintage 1994 Doctor Who Foil Trading Card, Card 6 of 6

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

Every monster needs a dad, and this card says the Cybermen had one: Gerry Davis. It's a 1994 Cornerstone foil with a lone early Cyberman standing in a cold, snowy landscape, chest unit and all, CYBERMEN! down the side and the Doctor Who diamond logo up top, CYBERDAD OF THE CYBERMEN across the back, marked FOIL 6. Every one I have is new old stock and never circulated.

✍️ Gerry Davis, story editor

Gerry Davis - the card gives his dates as 1927-1991 - was already a BBC story editor when he took the same job on Doctor Who, starting with The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve. He did some writing on several stories without a credit before his first on-screen writing credit, sharing it with Elwyn Jones on The Highlanders - the story that brought in Jamie.

Then, the card says, television history got made. Davis and producer Innes Lloyd went looking for a scientific advisor to take the show in a new direction, talked to a number of scientists, and then met Dr. Kit Pedler. Out of that partnership came what the card calls the second most popular monster in Doctor Who history - the Cybermen. Davis co-wrote Pedler's first two Cyber stories, The Tenth Planet and The Moonbase, and they shared the credit on The Tomb of the Cybermen, the one fans still call a landmark.

The partnership didn't stop at Doctor Who. In 1970 Davis and Pedler created Doomwatch, a BBC1 drama about scientists policing science gone wrong, which ran until 1972, and they wrote three novels together, Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater, Brainrack and The Dynostar Menace. Davis later worked in American film and TV, including The Final Countdown in 1980, and in 1989 he and Terry Nation, the Daleks' creator, even made a bid to take over Doctor Who and remake it for American audiences. He died in Venice, California in August 1991.

Down at the bottom: © 1994, Cornerstone Communications, Inc. Doctor Who Diamond Logo © BBC, 1973. Licensed by BBC Enterprises. Doctor Who is a trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation and is used under license. Cybermen © Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis, 1994.

📦 The last of the three

Cornerstone Communications published Doctor Who cards from 1994 through 1996, four series. Series 1 was 110 cards, ten to a pack, with six foil villain cards, three for the Daleks and three for the Cybermen, and a seventh, Davros, said to have come only in the factory set. FOIL 6 closes out the Cybermen: the scientist, the costumes and voices, and now the story editor.

🤖 About these

Put it with FOIL 4 and 5 and you've got the Cybermen run, or frame it small next to your Tomb of the Cybermen DVD. The supply is finite - nobody's printing 1994 Cornerstone foils again, and once these last uncirculated ones are gone, they'll be very difficult to acquire. Like everything I sell, they're kept in the dark at a steady 72°F, under 40% humidity.