Silver Nemesis is the third
serial of the
25th season of the British
science fiction television series
Doctor Who. It was first broadcast in the UK in three weekly parts from 23 November 1988 (the 25th anniversary) to 7 December 1988. Featuring
Sylvester McCoy as the
seventh incarnation of the Doctor,
Silver Nemesis reflected an attempt at a darker turn for
Doctor Who storylines, with the intention being to suggest that the Doctor was not merely a wanderer in time and space, but far more significant. It is the last appearance of the
Cybermen in the original run of
Doctor Who.