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This was to have been [[Ace]]'s final story with the program.  
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 Warrior]]s 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.  <ref name="DWM 255 27 Up">[[DWM Issue 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]] however [[Andrew Cartmel]] requested it be changed to [[1960s]] London.  <ref name="DWM 255 27 Up">[[DWM Issue 255]] - Article: ''27 up?''</ref>
This story would have also introduced Sam Tollinger, a friend of the Doctor's who would reappear in several stories.


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


==Legacy==
==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]]''.
*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]]''.


*In [[NA]]: ''[[Set Piece]]'' the Doctor mentions 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 appear in Marc Platt's [[RP]]: ''[[Downtime]]''.  
*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]]''.  
*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]].


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