"Age of Steel" redirects here. Not to be confused with Steel Age of the Late Iron Age.
2006 Doctor Who episode
172b – "The Age of Steel"
Doctor Who episode
Cast
Doctor
David Tennant – Tenth Doctor
Companions
Billie Piper – Rose Tyler
Noel Clarke – Mickey Smith / Rickey
Others
Camille Coduri – Jackie Tyler
Shaun Dingwall – Pete Tyler
Roger Lloyd-Pack – John Lumic
Andrew Hayden-Smith – Jake Simmonds
Helen Griffin – Mrs Moore
Colin Spaull – Mr Crane
Duncan Duff – Newsreader
Paul Kasey – Cyber-Leader
Nicholas Briggs – Cyber-Voice
Production
Directed by
Graeme Harper
Written by
Tom MacRae
Script editor
Helen Raynor
Produced by
Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s)
Russell T Davies Julie Gardner
Music by
Murray Gold
Production code
2.6
Series
Series 2
Running time
2nd of 2-part story, 45 minutes
First broadcast
20 May 2006 (2006-05-20)
Chronology
← Preceded by "Rise of the Cybermen"
Followed by → "The Idiot's Lantern"
List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)
"The Age of Steel" is the sixth episode of the second series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 20 May 2006 and is the second part of a two-part story. The first part, "Rise of the Cybermen", was broadcast on 13 May.
The episode is set in London in a parallel universe. In the episode, the businessman John Lumic (Roger Lloyd-Pack) has overthrown Great Britain's government and taken over London. A human resistance movement seeks to stop Lumic's plan to convert humanity into Cybermen by destroying Lumic's transmitter controlling London's population.
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