Editing Cyberman (section)

==== Audio dramas ====
The Cybermen have appeared in several Big Finish audio plays battling the Doctor, the first of which was ''[[Sword of Orion]]'' (released on CD in 2001 and broadcast on [[BBC 7]] in 2005), where the [[Eighth Doctor]] deals with humans and androids engaged in a war who seek Cyber-technology to improve their sides. The 2002 play ''Spare Parts'' explored aspects of the Cybermen's origin, revealing that the design was ironically only perfected after their creator, Doctorman Allan, studied the biology of the Fifth Doctor and duplicated a third lobe to the Doctor's brain that controlled his body functions. They were the villains in the company's [[bbc.co.uk|BBCi]] webcast ''[[Real Time (Doctor Who)|Real Time]]'', which was released on purely audio in December 2002. The first instalment of a four-CD series titled ''[[List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish#Cyberman|Cyberman]]'', which does not feature the Doctor, was released in September 2005. ''Sword of Orion'' and the ''Cyberman'' series are set around the "Great Orion Cyber-Wars" of the 26th century, when androids rebelled against humanity in the Orion System and both human and android turned to the Cybermen to gain a military advantage. In ''Sword of Orion'', the Cybermen are still entombed on Telos and are mostly forgotten, setting it before ''Earthshock''; by the time of ''Cyberman'', Telos has been destroyed by an asteroid collision, placing that series after ''Attack of the Cybermen''.

The Cybermen appeared in a linked trilogy of plays entitled ''[[The Harvest (Doctor Who audio)|The Harvest]]'' (2004), ''[[The Reaping (Doctor Who audio)|The Reaping]]'' (2006) and ''[[The Gathering (Doctor Who audio)|The Gathering]]'' (2006), where small groups of Cybermen attempt to manipulate humans into setting up conversion factories on Earth. The [[Bernice Summerfield]] play ''[[The Crystal of Cantus]]'' features a former human colony turned into Cybermen, with [[Irving Braxiatel]] planning to use them as a private army. A Cyberman tomb also appeared in the Bernice Summerfield play ''Silver Lining'', which came free with ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #351. They appear in ''[[Human Resources (Doctor Who audio)|Human Resources]]'', which Big Finish produced for radio [[BBC 7]] and subsequently released on CD, and sees the Eighth Doctor averting a plan to take control of a new weapons system. The Sixth Doctor joins forces with the Second Doctor's companions Jamie and Zoe to deal with two different Cybermen assaults in ''[[Legend of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Last of the Cybermen]]''; ''Legend'' sees Zoe made into the new Mistress of the Land of Fiction, bringing in the Sixth Doctor and a fictional version of Jamie to stop the Cybermen conquering the Land, and ''Last'' depicts the Sixth swapping places with the Second just as the younger Doctor discovers a Cybermen plot to alter the outcome of the last battle of the Cyber-Wars. In the [[Fourth Doctor Adventures]] audio ''The Fate of Krelos''/''Return to Telos'', the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9 discover that the Cybermen planted nanobots on Jamie during their past trip to Telos that allow the Cybermen to infect K9 and subsequently use the TARDIS to take over the machinery of the planet Krelos, but the Doctor is able to use a robot drone to go back to his original trip to Telos and prevent Jamie being exposed to the nanites, undoing these events.

In March 2018, the Cybermen had their first encounter with the [[Third Doctor]] (this time played by Tim Treloar) in ''The Tyrants of Logic'', one of the stories in Volume 4 of Big Finish's ''The Third Doctor Adventures'' series.  In the story, the Doctor and companion [[Jo Grant]] ([[Katy Manning]]) arrive in the town of Port Anvil on the planet Burnt Salt. They come across a mysterious crate, which the Cybermen set about to reclaim as it contains the "Cyber Leveler," a type of tactician similar to the Cyber Controller. In the ensuing adventure, the Doctor is exposed to "Cyber Smoke," a poisonous gas that prepares a body for cyber conversion.  The Doctor is able to fight off the infection for a time, and develop a cure, which he then uses against the Cybermen, defeating them. The Cybermen battle the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith in the Audio Novel ''Scourge of the Cybermen''. David Banks reprised his role as the Cyber-Leader in ''Hour of the Cybermen'', against the Sixth Doctor and UNIT, and ''Conversion'', which served as a follow-up to ''Earthshock''.