The Ice Warriors

039 – The Ice Warriors
Doctor Who serial
Victoria is pursued through the ice by the Ice Warrior Turoc.
Cast
Doctor Patrick Troughton (Second Doctor)
Companions Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Others Peter Barkworth — Clent Peter Sallis — Penley Wendy Gifford — Miss Garrett Angus Lennie — Storr Peter Diamond — Davis George Waring — Arden Malcolm Taylor — Walters Roy Skelton — Voice of the Computer Bernard Bresslaw — Varga Roger Jones — Zondal Sonny Caldinez — Turoc Michael Attwell — Isbur Tony Harwood — Rintan
Production
Directed by	Derek Martinus
Written by	Brian Hayles
Script editor	Peter Bryant
Produced by	Innes Lloyd
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	Dudley Simpson
Production code	OO
Series	Season 5
Length	6 episodes, 25 minutes each
Episode(s) missing	2 episodes (2 and 3)
Date started	11 November 1967
Date ended	16 December 1967
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Abominable Snowmen The Enemy of the World
List of Doctor Who serials

Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors

Author	Brian Hayles
Cover artist	Chris Achilleos
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	33
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	18 March 1976
ISBN

The Ice Warriors is the partly missing third serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 11 November to 16 December 1967. This serial marked the debut of the Ice Warriors. It is the third now-incomplete Doctor Who serial to be released with full-length animated reconstructions of its two missing episodes.

In the distant future at Brittanicus Base, senior control technician Jan Garrett and her staff struggle to control an ioniser they are using to slow the progress of glaciers rolling over Britain. Leader Clent is convinced they can avert a new Ice Age, but the group knows they are only a few hours away from being forced to abandon the base. Tensions rise when Penley, a maverick scientist who has defected from the team, is mentioned. The remaining senior scientist, Arden, is on the glacier searching for archaeological finds, where he discovers an armoured man within a block of ice. Arden and his colleagues dig the ice man from the glacier. Two scavengers observe their actions: the anti-technology Storr and Penley, who live in the tundra. When one of Arden’s team is killed in an avalanche, the other two head back to base with the ice man. Storr too is injured in the avalanche.

The TARDIS arrives outside the base. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria go inside, where the Doctor helps with the Ioniser. Arden and Walters reach the base with their prize, and Arden sets up a device to melt the ice around the man. The Doctor examines the frozen man, and they determine that the "ice warrior" is an alien being. An emergency meeting distracts the staff; no one notices that the ice block has melted, with the creature showing signs of life. The creature becomes mobile, knocks Jamie unconscious, and takes Victoria hostage.