The Ice Warriors
“Cold Soldiers Never Die –
They Just Melt Away”, “The Spice Warriors”, “Through the Looking Glacier”
“The One with the Obviously
False Eco Message” (The USA), “Bernard Breslaw Attacks Tokyo” (Japan),
“The One with the Men from Venus” (Mars)
Doctor Who and his two young
friends stop the Ice Warriors from making the world all chilly even though
it would’ve meant more people wearing mittens.
*** - It works on some levels
but not on others. The same is true for it not working on some levels but
working on others.
“Let’s save all the good stuff
for parts 2 and 3 so those future bastards will be cross and grumpy” (the
director before shooting commenced)
"He's got a printed circuit
where his pants should be"
Peter Sallis went on to play
Wallace in the series ‘Edward and Mrs Simpson’
The Rolling Stones once
dedicated a performance of ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ to Penley. They would go
on to blame a bad reaction to hay fever medication.
The idea to create a big, dumb
monster came to the writer when he saw a group of American tourists in
Trafalgar Square.
Anita Rodick acknowledged the
big part Dr Who played in her becoming an environmentalist. So next time
to get peppermint bath salts for Christmas when you actually wanted a
mountain bike, blame Brian Hayles.
It is entirely believable that
someone who had never met the species before could correctly guess their
name and, equally, that a race of warriors from an icy planet would decide
to call themselves Ice Warriors.
The Marmsbury Melting said
part one of this story was ‘tricky to understand but basically
comprehensible’ but said that part five ‘left us feeling as if our
favourite uncle had been put down’.
Si Hunt
"I was walking through Bendaton's least
ugly park when I heard a unwashed gentleman giving an improvised lecture
about ecology. Primed with factual data from both the televised and
pre-televised scripts for Story OO I took a break from my perambulations
to listen to him. "If we don't like do something the world will be flooded
and nine tenths of the population will die" he shouted, "and that would be
like a really bad thing". "Don't be pathetically stupid" I heckled, "I've
met enough people in my time to know that losing nine tenths of them would
be no bad thing. We ten percent who remain will build a far more sensible
society." He looked at me with a blank look which, under different
circumstances, would've looked like contempt. "How do you know you would
survive?" he asked me feebly. "Because I have the tallest house in
Bendaton" I replied, "and if a flood came I would simply go upstairs and
wait while everyone else drowned." He didn't have a chance to respond to
my unanswerable point as the small crowd began throwing things at him.
Most of them struck me in the face but some of them fell quite near him. I
was so offended by his wishy washy liberal nonsense that I resolved to
start smoking a pipe just to add more pollutants to the air. Sadly I came
over extremely queer after a single puff and fainted all over my dinner."
 
 
 
 
The Tim Burton style reimagination of the serial
Australian tackles atmospheric damage
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