David Banks

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His television roles include EastEnders and Brookside and also he was the Cyberleader in the science fiction series Doctor Who in several of the later episodes featuring the cybermen: Earthshock (1982), The Five Doctors (1983), Attack of the Cybermen (1986) and Silver Nemesis (1988). He also appeared for two performances as the Doctor in the stage play Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure (1989) replacing Jon Pertwee who had fallen ill. EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera which was first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ... Brookside was a soap opera based in Liverpool, which was introduced with the new British television channel, Channel 4. ... The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... Earthshock is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from March 8 to March 16, 1982. ... The Five Doctors was a special movie-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced in celebration of the programmes twentieth anniversary. ... Attack of the Cybermen is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts from January 5 - January 12, 1985. ... Silver Nemesis is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in the UK in three weekly parts from November 23 (the series 25th anniversary) to December 7, 1988. ... Advertisement for the play during the time Jon Pertwee starred as the Doctor. ... John Devon Roland Pertwee (July 7, 1919–May 20, 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, was a British actor. ...

He wrote Iceberg for the Virgin Missing Adventures range of Doctor Who spin-off novels, which featured the Cybermen. In 1988 he wrote a biographical work Doctor Who - Cybermen. He adapted the book into four audio cassettes which he narrated, Origins of the Cybermen (1989, released on CD in 2004), The Early Cybermen (1989), The Cyber Nomads (1990) and The Ultimate Cybermen (1990). An iceberg (a partial loan translation, possibly to Dutch ijsberg, cognate to German Eisberg) is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. ... The Virgin Missing Adventures (often referred to simply as MAs in fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ...

External links

• David Banks at the Internet Movie Database