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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]] | 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 Issue 255]] - Article: ''27 up?''</ref> | ||
Ideas that Platt had included the use of hippies, a more mystical bent to the Ice Warriors, and a mind-controlled biker gang with helmets resembling that of the Warrior's. Due to [[John Nathan-Turner]] wanting to use the [[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 Issue 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 that of the Warrior's. Due to [[John Nathan-Turner]] wanting to use the [[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 Issue 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]]''. | 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]]''. | ||
==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||
*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 [[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"/> | *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]]''. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
