An icy Patrick Troughton adventure is thawed out and given new life on DVD thanks to some animation of lost episodes. It’s the first appearance of a frozen menace that would fade away until reappearing in the current season of Doctor Who. The Tardis arrives on Earth at the time of a new ice age and the Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Jamie (Frazier Hines), and Victoria (Deborah Watling) make their way into a base where scientists commanded by Leader Clent (Peter Barkworth) are using an ionizer device to combat the advance of a glacier. A giant humanoid creature, termed an Ice Warrior by Arden (George Waring), one of the scientists, has been found buried in the glacier nearby.
- 9/11/2013
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
By Gary Young
Doctor Who - The Ice Warriors (Rrp £20.42, released August 26, 2013)
With the Doctor Who publicity juggernaut grinding remorselessly towards the 50th anniversary celebrations, the programme's past is being highlighted like never before.
The latest classic story to be dusted off and lovingly restored is the Patrick Troughton epic The Ice Warriors.
With two episodes missing from the BBC archives, previous releases have always been unsatisfying - but the sterling work of the Doctor Who restoration team in animating the missing segments to the surrounding soundtrack result in an effect similar to replacing a missing tooth in a much-loved smile.
Patrick Troughton has always been the Doctor's Doctor - all subsequent actors who have taken on the role seem to fall over themselves to praise his performance.
Following the irascible anti-hero first Doctor William Hartnell, Troughton set the template of the kindly, gentle but morally-driven Time Lord - and...
Doctor Who - The Ice Warriors (Rrp £20.42, released August 26, 2013)
With the Doctor Who publicity juggernaut grinding remorselessly towards the 50th anniversary celebrations, the programme's past is being highlighted like never before.
The latest classic story to be dusted off and lovingly restored is the Patrick Troughton epic The Ice Warriors.
With two episodes missing from the BBC archives, previous releases have always been unsatisfying - but the sterling work of the Doctor Who restoration team in animating the missing segments to the surrounding soundtrack result in an effect similar to replacing a missing tooth in a much-loved smile.
Patrick Troughton has always been the Doctor's Doctor - all subsequent actors who have taken on the role seem to fall over themselves to praise his performance.
Following the irascible anti-hero first Doctor William Hartnell, Troughton set the template of the kindly, gentle but morally-driven Time Lord - and...
- 8/25/2013
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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