Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors (1967)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 11 November 1967 - 16 December 1967
Number of Episodes: 6
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script: Brian Hayles
Story Editor: Peter Bryant

DIRECTION
Director: Derek Martinus

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Sam Neeter
Film Camera: Brian Langley

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Michael Lockey

MUSIC
Theme Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Theme Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
Vocals: Joanne Brown

SOUND
Studio Sound: Bryan Forgham
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Martin Baugh

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Bernard Wilkie, Ron Oates

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Jeremy Davies

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Snowy Lidiard-White
Assistant Floor Manager: Quentin Annis

CAST
Episode One
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett)
Peter Barkworth (Clent)
George Waring (Arden)
Malcolm Taylor (Walters)
Peter Diamond (Davis)
Angus Lennie (Stor)
Peter Sallis (Penley)
Bernard Bresslaw (Varga, the Ice Warrior)
Roy Skelton (voice of computer)

Episode Two
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett)
Peter Barkworth (Clent)
George Waring (Arden)
Angus Lennie (Stor)
Peter Sallis (Penley)
Bernard Bresslaw (Varga, the Ice Warrior)
Roy Skelton (voice of computer)

Episode Three
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett)
Peter Barkworth (Clent)
George Waring (Arden)
Angus Lennie (Stor)
Peter Sallis (Penley)
Bernard Bresslaw (Varga, the leader)
Roger Jones (Zondal)
Sonny Caldinez (Turoc)
Tony Harwood (Rintan)
Michael Attwell (Isbur)

Episode Four
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett)
Peter Barkworth (Clent)
Angus Lennie (Stor)
Peter Sallis (Penley)
Bernard Bresslaw (Varga, the leader)
Roger Jones (Zondal)
Sonny Caldinez (Turoc)
Tony Harwood (Rintan)
Michael Attwell (Isbur)

Episode Five
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett)
Peter Barkworth (Clent)
Malcolm Taylor (Walters)
Peter Sallis (Penley)
Roy Skelton (voice of computer)
Bernard Bresslaw (Varga, the leader)
Roger Jones (Zondal)
Tony Harwood (Rintan)
Michael Attwell (Isbur)

Episode Six
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett)
Peter Barkworth (Clent)
Malcolm Taylor (Walters)
Peter Sallis (Penley)
Bernard Bresslaw (Varga, the leader)
Roger Jones (Zondal)
Tony Harwood (Rintan)
Michael Attwell (Isbur)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Monique Bryant, Alec Coleman, Kathy Fitzgibbon, Stan Hogan, Ann Jarvis (operators in control
room - uncredited)
Gary Dean, Frankie Dunn, James Holbrook, Donald Sinclair (technicians - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Arriving on a future Earth during a new ice age, the crew of the TARDIS find their way to a research base where scientists are trying to halt the relentless march of a glacier with an ioniser. They've found a giant humanoid creature, dubbed an Ice Warrior, frozen in the ice which, once revived, turns out to be the Martain Varga whose mission to Earth crashlanded centuries before. Varga revives his fellow crewmen and sets about making plans to conquer the Earth.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1967
September
25: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
26: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
27: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
28: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
29: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B

October
2: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B
21: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
28: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK

November
4: UK - studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
11: UK - Episode One television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
18: UK - Episode Two television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK
25: UK - Episode Three television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at BBC Lime Grove D, London, UK

December
2: UK - Episode Four television broadcast (on BBC1)
9: UK - Episode Five television broadcast (on BBC1)
16: UK - Episode Six television broadcast (on BBC1)

SEQUEL
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death (1969)

SEE ALSO
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon (1972)
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon (1974)

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.110-116
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.135-139
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens; time travel; martians; ice; ice ages; alien invasions; scientists

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009