TEXT: THE WHEEL IN SPACE by DAVID WHITAKER from a story by KIT PEDLER first broadcast - 18th May 1968 running time - 25mins 32secs [SCENE_BREAK] 1. CABIN (The two hypnotized men turn to their new masters.) CYBERMAN 1: You will take us to the Wheel. CYBERMAN 2: Obey. Inside the Wheel you will help us. You will obey. (LALEHAM and VALLANCE nod in agreement.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. DOCTOR'S ROOM (ZOE has got JARVIS and GEMMA and they have been listening to the Doctor as he explains about the Cybermen and shows them the Cybermat.) JARVIS: And what's all that supposed to mean? DOCTOR: The Cybermen are threatening this space Wheel. JARVIS: Cybermen!? Where did you dream up a name like that. (ZOE, ever wanting to be useful, pitches in.) ZOE: The study of a... a system. Control and communication in animals and devices such as Cybernetic machines. JARVIS: (Talking to Zoe.) What are you talking about? ZOE: Cybernetics. JARVIS: (Snaps.) I know all there is to know about Cybernetics. I don't need a lecture from you. DOCTOR: But the Cybermen exist. You've got to believe me, you've got to! JARVIS: What, on the evidence of one faked-up X-ray shot? ZOE: It is not faked-up. I took it myself Controller. (This takes the sting out of JARVIS.) JARVIS: Well... what are these Cybermen then? DOCTOR: They were once men, human beings, like yourself, from the planet Mondas. But now they're more robot then man. JARVIS: You mean half and half? DOCTOR: Oh no, more than that. Their entire body are mechanical and their brains have been treated neurosurgically to remove all human emotion. All sense of pain. They're ruthless inhuman killers! (J
SUMMARY:
The Cybermen instruct their human slaves to smuggle them onto the Wheel while the Doctor attempts to convince Bennett of the threat they pose.