OO. The Ice Warriors

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

180. One                           11.11.67   5.10pm - 5.35pm   6.7M/68th/52%
181. Two                           18.11.67   5.25pm - 5.50pm   7.1M/71st/52%
182. Three                         25.11.67   5.25pm - 5.50pm   7.4M/64th/51%
183. Four                          02.12.67   5.25pm - 5.50pm   7.3M/63rd/51%
184. Five                          09.12.67   5.25pm - 5.50pm   8.0M/44th/50%
185. Six                           16.12.67   5.25pm - 5.50pm   7.5M/58th/51%

LEADER CLENT: Peter Barkworth; SENIOR CONTROL TECHNICIAN JAN GARRETT: Wendy Gifford; ELRIC PENLEY: Peter Sallis; COMMANDER VARGA: Bernard Bresslaw; STOR : Angus Lennie (1-4); CHIEF SCIENTIST ARDEN: George Waring (1-3); SECURITY SERGEANT WALTERS: Malcolm Taylor (1,5,6); COMPUTER VOICE: Roy Skelton (1-2,5); DAVIS: Peter Diamond (1); ZONDAL: Roger Jones (3-6); RINTAN: Tony Harwood (3-6); ISBUR: Michael Attwell (3-6); TUROC: Sonny Caldinez (3-4). UNCREDITED: OPERATORS IN CONTROL ROOM: Monique Bryant, Alec Coleman, Kathy Fitzgibbon, Stan Hogan, Ann Jarvis; TECHNICIANS: Gary Dean, Frankie Dunn, James Holbrook, Donald Sinclair

STORY:

The TARDIS materialises on Earth during the second ice age. At the Britannicus Base, like bases around the world, a computer and and ioniser device are used to keep the ice flows at bay.

A giant creature has been discovered buried in the ice, termed an Ice Warrior by one of the scientists, and it is brought into the base. It thaws, and the creature reveals itself to be Varga, commander of a Martian spacecraft that landed on Earth centuries ago and was entombed in the ice.

More Ice Warriors are revived. With Mars now dead they plan to take over Earth, and with Earth in the grip of a second ice age the conditions are perfect for colonisation.

The ioniser cannot be used for fear of exploding the Ice Warrior's ships engines. The computer, to which the base are dependent, can offer no advice in the situation. One of the scientists who suports the Doctor decides to risk using the ioniser. and the resulting explosion is only minor, only destroying the Ice Warriors and their ship, and keeping the ice at bay.

STUDIOS: Lime Grove Studio D, Ealing Television Film Studios

NOTES: The story title, writer credit and episode number (with no episode prefix) are brought up over a sequence of ice crystals, accompanied by incidental music, the vocals for which are by Joanne Brown

NOVELISATION: The Ice Warriors Brian Hayles

VIDEO: The Ice Warriors