Tomb of the Cybermen is great fun and about as scary as the Cybermen ever got; it's definitely one of the stories that stands up best to repeat viewing. Though the portrayal of the one black guy as a hulking simpleton (albeit an ultimately heroic one) is kind of jarring, and part of the fun is laughing at the rocket pilot's fakey American accent.

The thing I find fascinating about Tomb, though, is the way the Doctor behaves: even more than usual, he keeps driving everyone around him straight into trouble apparently for no reason other than to satisfy his own curiosity. It's as if he can't help himself. "To open that door and let out all the scary Cybermen, which you definitely shouldn't do, flip that lever and that lever and that one and then push this large red candy-like button here. ...But if I were you, I wouldn't do it! Here, let me give you a hand!"