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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 byGraeme Harper
Written byTom MacRae
Script editorHelen Raynor
Produced byPhil Collinson
Executive producer(s)Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Music byMurray Gold
Production code2.6
SeriesSeries 2
Running time2nd of 2-part story, 45 minutes
First broadcast20 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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