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|name            = Ice Time
|adapted into    = Thin Ice (audio story)
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|image          = Ice Time.jpg
|series          = [[Season 27]]
|series          = [[Season 27]]
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|doctor          = [[Seventh Doctor]]
|doctor          = Seventh Doctor
|companions      = [[Ace]], Sam Tollinger
|companions      = [[Ace]], Sam Tollinger
|enemy          = [[Ice Warrior]]s
|enemy          = [[Ice Warrior]]s
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|writer          = [[Marc Platt]]
|writer          = [[Marc Platt]]
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|format          = Unproduced TV story
|format          = Unproduced TV story
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'''Ice Time, '''written by [[Marc Platt]], was a story that would have been a part of Season 27, had ''[[Doctor Who]]'' continued to be produced beyond ''[[Survival]]''.
'''''Ice Time''''', written by [[Marc Platt]], was a story that would have been a part of Season 27, had ''[[Doctor Who]]'' continued to be produced beyond ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''.


This was to have been [[Ace]]'s final story with the program.  
This was to have been [[Ace]]'s final story with the programme. The story was to have been a four part story featuring two rival factions of [[Ice Warrior]]s battling in [[1960s]] [[London]]. The setting at first was to have been a terraformed [[Mars]], but [[Andrew Cartmel]] requested it be changed to [[1960s]] London.<ref name="DWM 255 27 Up">[[DWM 255]] - Article: ''27 up?''</ref>
The story was to have been a four part story featuring two rival factions of [[Ice Warrior]]s battling in [[1960s]] [[London]]. The setting at first was to have been a terraformed [[Mars]], but [[Andrew Cartmel]] requested it be changed to [[1960s]] London. <ref name="DWM 255 27 Up">[[DWM 255]] - Article: ''27 up?''</ref>


[[File:Ice Time1.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor meets an [[Ice Warrior]]. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Endgame (documentary)|Doctor Who: Endgame]]'')]]
Ideas that Platt had proposed included the use of hippies, a more mystical bent to the Ice Warriors, and a mind-controlled biker gang with helmets resembling those of the Warriors'. Due to [[John Nathan-Turner]] wanting to use the [http://www.the-dungeons.co.uk/london/en/index.htm London Dungeon] tourist attraction as a location, it was going to revealed that one of the exhibitions there was an Ice Warrior's armour. <ref>[[DWM 306]]</ref>
Ideas that Platt had proposed included the use of hippies, a more mystical bent to the Ice Warriors, and a mind-controlled biker gang with helmets resembling those of the Warriors'. Due to [[John Nathan-Turner]] wanting to use the [http://www.the-dungeons.co.uk/london/en/index.htm London Dungeon] tourist attraction as a location, it was going to revealed that one of the exhibitions there was an Ice Warrior's armour. <ref>[[DWM 306]]</ref>


This story would have also introduced Sam Tollinger, a friend of the Doctor's who would reappear in several stories, and through him lead directly in the next story; ''[[Crime of the Century (unproduced TV story)|Crime of the Century]]''.
This story would have also introduced Sam Tollinger, a friend of the Doctor's who would reappear in several stories, and through him lead directly in the next story, ''[[Crime of the Century (unproduced TV story)|Crime of the Century]]''.


== Legacy ==
== Legacy ==
* The reason for Ace's departure was to have been that the Doctor wished to enrol her in the [[Prydon Academy]] on [[Gallifrey]] to become a [[Time Lord]]. Ideas like this turn up in [[WC]]: ''[[Death Comes to Time]]''.
* The reason for Ace's departure was to have been that the Doctor wished to enrol her in the [[Prydonian Academy]] on [[Gallifrey]] to become a [[Time Lord]]. Ideas like this appeared in ''[[Death Comes to Time (webcast)|Death Comes to Time]]''.
 
* In ''[[Set Piece (novel)|Set Piece]]'', the Doctor mentioned to Ace that he considered taking her to Gallifrey to learn to become a Time Lord.
* 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<ref name="DWM 255 27 Up" />. Both the setting and a character such as this appeared in Marc Platt's ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]''.
 
* The lost story was later adapted into the [[Big Finish Productions]] story ''[[Thin Ice (audio story)|Thin Ice]]''.
* There was to have been a 'hippy character' living in a canal boat<ref name="DWM 255 27 Up"/>. Both the setting and a character such as this appear in Marc Platt's [[RP]]: ''[[Downtime]]''.
 
* The concepts behind this story would later be remade by Marc Platt in [[The Lost Stories]] story [[Thin Ice]].


== External links ==
== External links ==
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== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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