Director: Michael E Briant Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe Broadcast: 19 April – 10 May 1975
For the subterranean sequences on planet Solos in 1972’s The Mutants, director Christopher Barry had taken his crew to Chislehurst Caves in Kent, filming there for three days in February that year. But for the underground environs of Voga, the planet of gold, in Revenge of the Cybermen, director Michael E Briant required a greater variety of settings and was keen to use the different chambers at Wookey Hole Caves near Wells in Somerset (detailed on Briant’s crew map, below right). Here he would shoot various action sequences depicting the involvement of the Doctor (Tom Baker), Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) in a civil war between opposing ‘Hawk’ and ‘Dove’ factions of the indigenous Vogans, as well as their battle against Cybermen determined to destroy the planet.