Doctor Who - The Ice Warriors Review

Doctor Who:
The Ice Warriors
By Brian Hayles

“Don't you understand? They're ruthless killers and they'll stop at nothing. Now please, listen to me. There's no time to lose.”

The TARDIS lands, more likes crashes, near Brittanicus Base.  Brittanicus Base is on an island near Great Britain and its job is to keep the glacier at bay by using the ioniser.  In the future Earth is facing a second ice age and bases using ionisers are what they have to try and keep the ice away to survive.  The Doctor Jamie and Victoria have stumbled upon the base in time to help them out with a problem with the ionizer.  By doing this The Doctor has gained the trust of Clent who is in charge of the base. 

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Doctor Who - The Ice Warriors DVD Review

by Ken Parker

This DVD was released in the UK in August and September in the US and includes 4 of the 6 episodes of this 1967 Doctor Who story. The remaining 2 'missing' episodes were restored using the original soundtrack recording and newly commissioned animation. It is the first story to feature the Ice Warriors, who would return to the series 5 more times to date.

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DVD Contents and Pics For Doctor Who "The Ice Warriors"

DoctorWho.TV the official Doctor Who website for all things classic Who has released the DVD details for the upcoming release The Ice Warriors.  Plus they have released a couple more pictures from the animated portion of the story.  It will be released in the UK on August 2, 2013.  No word on a North American release date yet.
Source: http://www.doctorwho.tv/

Disc 1

• 6x 25 mins approx monochrome episodes with mono audio.
• Commentary - Episodes 1, 4, 5, 6 with actors Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling and Sonny Caldinez, designer Jeremy Davies and grams operator Pat Heigham, moderated by Toby Hadoke.
• Commentary - Episode 2 commentary made up of original archive recordings or readings of text written by Brian Hayles, Derek Martinus, Martin Baugh, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Barkworth, Wendy Gifford and Sylvia James.
• Commentary - Episode 3 commentary by Patrick Troughton’s son, Michael.
• Programme subtitles.
• Subtitle Production Notes.

Disc 2

• Cold Fusion (dur. 24’ 31”) – Cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With actors Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling and Sonny Caldinez, designer Jeremy Davies and James Bresslaw, son of the late actor Bernard Bresslaw.
• Beneath the Ice (dur. 10’ 31” ) - A look behind the scenes of the animated Ice Warrior episodes. Producers Chris Chapman and Niel Bushnell, together with animation director Chris Chatterton from Qurios lift the lid on the process used to bring Varga and his Warriors back to life.
• VHS Links (dur. 19’ 19” ) – the introduction to the story and linking material covering the two missing episodes, as used on the VHS release of the story in 1998. Includes the BBC Video “Adjust your tracking control” caption for a true sense of nostalgia!
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• Blue Peter Design-a-Monster (dur. 10’ 04”) – the competition launch and subsequent winners of the 1967 Design-a-Monster competition, which ran during the transmission of The Ice Warriors.
• Doctor Who Stories – Frazer Hines part two (dur. 13’ 48”) - the second part of this interview with Frazer Hines shot in 2004 for The Story of Doctor Who looks at his later appearances in the series.
• Photo Gallery (dur. 3’ 53”) - production, design and publicity photos from the story.
• Coming Soon (dur. 1 min approx.) - a trailer for a forthcoming DVD release.
• Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format.
• Programme subtitles.
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Doctor Who The Ice Warriors Missing Episodes 2 and 3 To Be Animated

DoctorWho.TV which is the official Doctor Who website has announced that the missing two episodes of The Ice Warriors will indeed be animated.  It was announced before that it would be like the VHS release with audio and telesnaps.  This is good news and I am happy they will be animating episodes 2 and 3 of The Ice Warriors and look forward to the release of this DVD later this year.  Here is a quote from Dan Hall who is in charge of the making of the DVD and who works for and is the Managing Director of Pup Ltd Media Consultancy.

“We’ve been discussing the various ways Qurios could reconstruct these episodes for over three years.  So it’s really, really satisfying to finally see them animated. Qurios have a great track record in excellent and innovative animations”.

This is good news for all fans of Doctor Who and the classic era and hopefully we get more animated stories to go along with this years releases of The Reign of Terror, The Tenth Planet and The Ice Warriors. Enjoy a video from the upcoming release below.


Source: doctorwho.tv