Ice Time (unproduced TV story)

Ice Time was a story that was to have been a part of Season 27, had Doctor Who continued to be produced beyond Survival, written by Marc Platt.

This was to have been Ace's final story with the program. The story was to have been a four part story featuring two rival factions of Ice Warriors battling in 1960s London. The setting at first was to have been a terraformed Mars however Andrew Cartmel requested it be changed to 1960s London.

This story was to have lead directly in the next story; Crime of the Century.

Legacy

• Ace's departure was to have been that the Doctor wished to enrole her in the Prydon Academy on Gallifrey to become a Time Lord. Ideas like this turn up in WC: Death Comes to Time.

• In NA: Set Piece the Doctor mentions to Ace that he considered taking her to Gallifrey to learn to become a Time Lord.

• There was to have been a 'hippy character' living in a canal boat, both the setting and a character such as this appear in Marc Platt's RP: Downtime.

• Ice Time was also to have introduced Sam Tollinger a 'former underworld' style of character who lived in an old country house and would have been a friend of the Doctor's and also a 'home base' where the Doctor would return to when he visited Earth. This general idea is repeated in the BBC Wales revival of the series with the Powell Estate, Jackie Tyler and Mickey Smith.

External Links

• The Hidden Planet - The Sylvester McCoy Era