August 5th, 2013
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Doctor Who The Ice Warriors DVD
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
Starring: Patrick Troughton
RRP: £20.42
Release date: 26 August 2013
In the distant future, Earth faces a new Ice Age. While a dedicated team of scientists struggle to keep the approaching glaciers at bay, a startling discovery is made deep beneath the ice… an alien warrior frozen for a millennia.
When the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive, they soon discover Earth is under threat from the Ice Warriors – a fearsome warrior race intent on capturing the planet for themselves.
A classic Second Doctor adventure, The Ice Warriors has finally been completed with two beautifully animated episodes created by the Doctor Who restoration team.
Additional content includes…
- Animated episodes two and three
- Commentary (Episodes One, Four, Five and Six) with Frasier Hines (James), Deborah Watling (Victoria), Sonny Caldinez (Turoc), Jeremy Davies (Designer) and Pat Heigham (Grams Operator)
- Commentary (Episode Two) archive recordings or readings by Brian Hayles (writer), Derek Martinus (Director), Martin Baugh (Costume Designer), Bernard Bresslaw (Varga), Peter Barkworth (Clent), Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett) and Sylvia James (makeup supervisor).
- Commentary (Episode Three) with Patrick Troughton’s son Michael.
- Cold Fusion
- Beneath The Ice
- VMS Links
- Blue Peter Design-A-Monster
- Doctor Who Stories – Frazer Mines (Part Two) Subtitle
- Production Notes
- Photo Gallery
- Animated Original Trailer
- Coming Soon Trailer
- Radio Times Listings
- Digitally Remastered Picture and Sound Quality
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josh smith
June 30th, 2013 - 7:16pmbooboo why did you take down the region 2 cover?
booboo
June 30th, 2013 - 7:17pmbecause it was not the final artwork and its changed
josh smith
June 30th, 2013 - 7:18pmoh when we get the new one could you possibly put both up so we can see the changes?
Harry Judd
June 30th, 2013 - 6:35pmi have seen Episode two today and it’s very good i went to a event in Brum UK
The Flying Shark
June 30th, 2013 - 6:46pmDo you mean the animated version or the real thing has been found? Anyway, what happened at this event?
Harry Judd
June 30th, 2013 - 7:08pmanimated one. it was who event there was the cast of A Good Man Goes To War, Gary Russell and Catherine Tate. it was a autograph event and they were showing Episode 2 of The Ice Warriors
JD95
June 22nd, 2013 - 1:07pmHey Everyone 🙂
Just want to see if I am the only person who thinks that the covers for some of the recent dvd releases including this one and others such as Mind of Evil and Greatest Show in the Galaxy are too cartoony and should be more like off the top of my head Planet of the Spiders using real images? I know it is a superficial detail but i’m disapointed with a lot of them. Any thoughts? 🙂
76 Totters Lane
June 22nd, 2013 - 1:29pmI agree with you. I definitely prefer the older covers.
JD95
June 22nd, 2013 - 11:25pmI’m glad i’m not the only one, they must have changed artists if so I don’t know why.
celestial toymaker
June 23rd, 2013 - 9:23pmwe know that this is going to be the definite cover art so they might as well take the TBC off
The TARDIS
August 2nd, 2013 - 9:05pmThey’re using the same artist as they have done since 2011. And I really like the covers, but it’s just a matter of opinion.
bradllles
May 16th, 2013 - 2:01pmi think the ice warriors is going to be amasing since we have yet another pactrick throughton animated film however this time we have diffrent compions and a diffrent enmey in fact the best creature of all time the 1967 ice warrior weve only just seen the newer vison on tele from matt smiths sesison but now we have someting complaily diffrent the ice warriors the very first film now the could bring out the ice years with a big box set of all the ice warrior films now thats going to be cool 😆
Connor
May 13th, 2013 - 6:51amWhen is the green death special edition dvd cover coming out? I so cant wait for the release its a great story and i dont have the standered release! Please leave a comment below or a link thanks.
Johnny
May 13th, 2013 - 8:34amThe cover image has not been oficially released yet.
Just have a little patience and you will see if when it’s ready.
Anonymous
April 17th, 2013 - 9:15pmwhat is the max number of animated epiosde the animates can get out of the budget?
Anonymous
April 17th, 2013 - 9:53pmif the budget can make only three epiosodes The Daleks masterplan can be done by the following
volume 1:episodes 1-3
volume 2:episodes 4-6
volume 3:episodes 7-9
volume 4:episodes 10-12
Some bloke
April 18th, 2013 - 3:01pmI’m sorry anonymous but NO FANS want to see the daleks masterplan split into 4 parts. What is it with people thinking that it will be a good idea splitting daleks master plan and wheel in space into more than one release, just to get the animated episodes. It would be awful having to wait several months just to buy the next 3 episodes of daleks masterplan after the other. I say a big NO NO!
Gordon
April 18th, 2013 - 11:09pmCurrently the limit is 2
Some bloke
April 19th, 2013 - 11:18amhey gordon, what happens when all of the stories with only 2 missing episodes, are animated and released? Will they move onto three episodes, or will that just be the end of the classic range?
Anonymous
April 19th, 2013 - 12:50pmso in that case 2 being the max then if the bbc can commision the dalkes matser plan
what they can do is make two epiosde at a time and them store them till there all done (maybe a year or two)them release it
Gordon
April 19th, 2013 - 3:59pmthat won’t help as the budget is currently limited to 2 episodes per release. I think the range will probably stop next year when all stories that only have 2 eps missing have been done. All depends on if the cost of animations have dropped that they can afford 3 eps per release
Anonymous
April 19th, 2013 - 9:23pmfair enough
Anonymous
April 19th, 2013 - 9:25pmi would of thought the BBC would put more money in the animation budget in shed of the re-releases
Gordon
April 19th, 2013 - 11:10pmEach story gets its own budget depending on how well its expected to sell and the budgets for special editions doesn’t effect the budget for animated stories. The problem is with animation is its still expensive and the DVDs only sell a certain number of copies. The cost of doing a 3 episode animation is just too expensive and Bbcww would make a loss
Anonymous
April 20th, 2013 - 9:08pmbut the daleks master plan is one of the stories all fan want to see so the BBC want lose money there losing money on the re-releases
Gordon
April 21st, 2013 - 2:36pmBut the DVDs only sell a certain number of copies.some as low as 20k copies. if sales were higher they could get a larger budget. They would need to sellat least 4 times the amount of a strong seller to make masterplan affordable. the special editions are cheaper to produce and are much easier to see a return on. The fact that they continue to make them and haven’t stopped would suggest to me that bbc ww are happy enough with sales and arent losing money on them.
Anonymous
April 22nd, 2013 - 7:02pmso if we cant look forward to masterpaln being release stories can we look forward to?
Gordon
April 22nd, 2013 - 11:20pmBeyond the aniversary id say moonbase(if it doesnt appear this year)Underwater menace and hopefully crusade with possible special editions to fill the animation waiting time inbtween.Unless sales vastly increase or animation costs signifitly drop(both are unlikely in my opinion) i can see the range stop after that.Its going to be difficult for the range to keep going without new releases.Mind you they could always go for an even more basic and cheaper style (possibly even in a drawing style) which an idea dan hall has mentioned as a possibility
Anonymous
April 23rd, 2013 - 4:30pmfor two animation eps
The Crusade
The Underwater Menace
The Moonbase
for 3 animation eps
Galaxy 4
The Celestial Toymaker
for 4 animation eps
The Myth Makers
The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve
The Savages
The Smugglers
The Highlanders
The Macra Terror
The Faceless Ones
The Wheel in Space
if the BBC put a double buget into the animation them 4 missing epiosde can be done
Gordon
April 23rd, 2013 - 6:20pmSales arent high enough for bbc worldwide to double the budget per release. With the current number of sales the dvds get the budget can barely stretch to 2 let alone 3 or 4.They just dont sell enough copies to warrent upping the budget.I dont think people realise how expensive animation is. The 2 eps of reign cost 12k plus add restoration costs extras commentaries legal clearance manufacturing bbfc clearance etc it runs to about 20k. For them to break even they need about 60k and that is the norm for a high classic seller.
Anonymous
April 17th, 2013 - 6:08pmI think they could have made the cover look better
Connor
April 17th, 2013 - 7:38amDid anyone here of the monster box sets! The monster in the series are:
Daleks
Cybermen
Davros
Silurians
Sontatans
Its going to be like the davros collection! Its going to be awsome i cant wate im most excited for the Cybermen one! Its coming out in july so very soon!
booboo
April 17th, 2013 - 7:43amYes i saw those but£6.99
I do wish they wouldn’t put this stuff up for order when you have no idea what it is
Lachie
April 15th, 2013 - 1:42amIs it known as to whether Dan Hall (i think is the man in charge of the DVD’s) is taking into really taking into consideration stories like Moonbase, Crusade and Underwater Menace for animation? also they aren’t going to be called The Moonbase Special Edition are they? i don’t think it really sits well like that.
Connor
April 17th, 2013 - 12:47amI think the DVD releases for 2014 will be special editions and animations. I think the animated releases will be:
The Moonbase
The Underwater menace
The Crusade
And i think the special edition releases will be:
The Dalek invasion of Earth
Earthshock
The Mind Robber
Ghostlight
Curse of fenric
Horror of fang rock
Leisure hive
Thats my thoughts on the 2014 dvd releases whats yours?
Lachie
April 17th, 2013 - 2:00amGood List 🙂 i would go with that, i don’t buy the Sixth or Seventh Doctors so i wouldn’t know the state of those releases in their relevance to being Special Editions however two releases i would like even though they don’t need them would be “Earth-Shock” and “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”. the 2004 releases onwards now are pretty good Special Edition wise in that they really don’t need them and i think there great releases! like the “Horror of Fang Rock” and “The Leisure Hive” 😀
Lachie
April 17th, 2013 - 2:06amAnd for the list of animation releases, with “The Crusade” that will ‘complete’ the second season of William Hartnell which is really good. Although they could always not bother with that release since there is so much material having been made already in Lost in Time. “The Underwater Menace” is a given of course once Episode 2 has been sorted out although it could be released like Galaxy 4 as an extra i doubt it. And “The Moonbase” as far as i can tell is likely the first of the three and has already sort have been announced.
bradllles
April 18th, 2013 - 10:28amthat sound awsum however my opion on this is wether they bring out the enter pactick throughton first seris wether they bring it in an animation i dont care because its cool as well but one this that me and my sister wants to see is THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN ,THE WHEEL IN SPACE and mabe GALAXY 4 and THE CERESTRIAL TOYMAKER HA lol
LEWIS
April 14th, 2013 - 3:34pmHey guys MasterKasterborous says/knows (I presume)some guy called Ian Levine is trying to ANIMATE THE DALEKS MASTER PLAN.
drjakeyoung
April 14th, 2013 - 4:00pmwe know, he has been planning this for a couple of years now, but he wont let anyone in the public see it, just his privet friends.
MasterKasterborous
April 14th, 2013 - 4:14pmI don’t know Ian (though I’ve met him a couple of times) but he has done tones of projects for Who and was greatly responsible for the return of many missing episodes. Most his projects are private but he has offered them to the BBC to use. They have so far been rejected. His only official recon in the Planet of Giants extended edition found on the DVD of that story.
Esterath
April 14th, 2013 - 5:38pmI saw it on YouTube. Didn’t like it much.
purpugilliam247
April 14th, 2013 - 11:20amthe art work is epic
LEWIS
April 14th, 2013 - 3:24pmI know BUT personaly I think they could make it a lot better but if they decide to keep it that way that is stil cool
josh smith
April 14th, 2013 - 3:24pmyes i think if they get rid of the ripple that goese into te doctor who it would be better
LEWIS
April 14th, 2013 - 9:09amI wish they would animate the power of the daleks the evil of the daleks the savages the myth makers the celestrial toymaker fury from the deep the highlanders the under water menace the faceles ones the enemy of the world mission to the unknown the daleks master plan the web of fear the abominable snowmen the wheel in space the space piarates the smuglers galaxy 4 the crusade the massacre of st bartholemews eve the macra terror
josh smith
April 14th, 2013 - 9:15ambasically all he episodes lol
WFK DVD Collector 13
April 15th, 2013 - 5:13pmBest idea for the DVD range ever!!! 🙂
Connor
April 14th, 2013 - 1:14amI heated someone on the Internet is making a dalek master plan animation! If so why would he make the dalek master plan in animation instead of releasing something that has less to animate. It needs 9 episodes animated out 12 since only 3 episodes survive. What I would do with 9 episodes of animation is 3 animation episodes for galaxy 4 or celestial toy maker and 5 episodes for the web of fear and 1 episode for mission to the unknown! What ones would you guys chose? And also they animated the mission to the unknown but the bbc didn’t want it!
Connor
April 14th, 2013 - 1:19amI was lucky to see the animation and it was brilliant but then the BBC took it off YouTube! Does that mean that they are going to release it? If so I want it in its own DVD case not a special feature on a DVD! So what’s you guys thoughts on this and do you think there going to release on DVD? I would buy it though it probably would not sell on its own and would need to be released in a box set! Though the animation was great I wouldn’t be surprised if the BBC is planing to release this DVD soon!
MasterKasterborous
April 14th, 2013 - 10:22amIt’s still there you know…
I quite like the style of animation and with a few tweaks I think it would be fit for DVD release. Ian Levine is also animating The Daleks’ Master Plan as it’s something that the BBC would never do and also because it’s his all time favourite story.
Gordon
April 14th, 2013 - 11:25amIan Levine’s mission to the unknown is ok for freebie but its not something I’d think about paying. Apparently Dan hall hated it (according to ian) so I doubt it will be released officially. The problem with mission is there is not enough footage to warrent its
Own release and there isn’t any stories left they could pair it with. Also masterplan and mission are pretty much interconnected and you really need both.
Unless the costs of animations drop enormously I can’t see masterplan get animated any time soon
Connor
April 15th, 2013 - 2:17pmThe Green Death dvd cover hasn’t been released yet? I hope this dvd cover will be released soon and be a good dvd cover and the old release cover was awesome! The special features will be good and the Death to the Doctor episode in it will be awesome feature in the DVD! Plus this DVD will be 2 disc and better picture quality. It will be $25 in Australia! Cant wait for the DVD trailer and this will be the best special edition release this year!
eddy
April 13th, 2013 - 6:50pmgenral scaldac rules!!!!!
McGann is The Doctor
April 13th, 2013 - 6:15pmGreat cover but oh dear, the outline at the base is pink.
Green would have been more appropriate given that the ice warriors weapons donot emmit pink.
Nicholas
April 13th, 2013 - 3:49pmI hope this is the cover. It looks great! I would buy this on release but my quest to buy all Doctor Who Classic DVD’s is starting with the 4th Doctor. Oh well, I’m sure I could break the rules, I love this story.
Lachie
April 13th, 2013 - 11:10pmhaha trust me once you start with the 4th Doctor you just don’t stop, i started collecting his only about 5 months ago and considering the amount of DVD’s he has (42 with Zygons!) and it’s pretty amazing how i only have 4 left with one of them being Zygons of course. 😀
The Greater Intelligence
April 14th, 2013 - 3:21amI started collecting just in 2012’s December with ‘Survival’ and since then have 27 individual stories with 5 boxsets. If Doctor Who wasn’t so fantastic, it could be considered to a deadly parasite, lodging itself into peoples’ minds and forcing them to let it grow. Kind of reminds me of Audry II from ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’.
drjakeyoung
April 13th, 2013 - 2:22pmbooboo, can you update the interactive DVD list as the ice warriors DVD is still black
booboo
April 13th, 2013 - 2:23pmonly when the finished cover is released
drjakeyoung
April 13th, 2013 - 1:24pmwhat i don’t understand with the DVD episodes that have animations, for a special feature, why can’t they have the surviving clips from the lost in time box set for that episode? like the reign of terror and the invasion (and now ice warriors) why don’t they have the surviving clips as special features?
josh smith
April 13th, 2013 - 1:30pmbecause it would make lost in time worth-less
drjakeyoung
April 13th, 2013 - 1:36pmit is already starting becoming redundant anyway, it does not include all surviving clips as some where discovered after the release, they are starting to animate the episodes on there (maybe not all but the majority could be) plus it is almost 10 years old so i don’t see why they couldn’t spear 2 minutes of clips for each animated episode as extra’s.
Anonymous
April 13th, 2013 - 4:11pmThe clips recovered just after Lost in Time was released were included on the Genesis of the Daleks DVD.
As for why there are no clips included on these DVDs, the answer simply is that they can’t include things that don’t exist. None of these three stories have footage from their missing episodes and The Ice Warriors is the only one with telesnaps (which are included).
Indeed out of all the stories up for consideration only The Tenth Planet and The Underwater Menace have footage.
drjakeyoung
April 13th, 2013 - 4:25pmreign of terror does have surviving footage for episode 4/5, it is on lost in time. My point was that they could just release the surviving footage onto the individual release.
Anonymous
April 13th, 2013 - 7:31pmIt appears there is, but there is only about twenty seconds of it. You’d not be able to make a reconstruction, so your only option would be to pick the clips out of Lost in Time which would take a while (as they’d need to be re-evaluated by BBFC and the likes) and in the end it would probablly be more hastle than it is worth.
To keep it in budget you’d either need to release the whole lot again or just leave it for those who get the original set.
MasterKasterborous
April 14th, 2013 - 12:57amActually the Reign of Terror clips (along with the linking VHS material) were just forgotten for inclusion according to Steve Roberts. I’m sure in future they will be included. The Invasion/The Ice Warriors have no surviving footage from their missing episodes.
drjakeyoung
April 14th, 2013 - 1:01pmi think they could just have released the clips as Easter eggs!
MasterKasterborous
April 14th, 2013 - 1:14pmAs I said it wasn’t purposefully excluded and they will most likely be included on future releases.
booboo
April 14th, 2013 - 1:15pmyour printer is probably re – sizing it to fit the page – there should be a setting somewhere to choose original
drjakeyoung
April 14th, 2013 - 4:03pmlol, booboo, you replied to the wrong comment 🙂
booboo
April 14th, 2013 - 4:07pmthere are so many i get lost
drjakeyoung
April 14th, 2013 - 4:08pm🙂 haha lol
drjakeyoung
April 13th, 2013 - 1:17pmgordon, anymore info on dr who DVDS as of yet?
josh smith
April 13th, 2013 - 11:44ammind of evil art work is fantastic omg i love it to bits much better than this
Gordon
April 13th, 2013 - 12:57pmYou must be one of the first person to actually prefer the mind of evil cover to the ice warriors. People have not been very positive towards the mind of evil cover.
josh smith
April 13th, 2013 - 1:05pmwell i like all the 3rd doctors cover there not 1 i hate i even like the original spearhead from space one
Riversong4257
April 13th, 2013 - 11:25amWhoa, that looks amazing. Cant wait till its realeased. 🙂
Auton101
April 13th, 2013 - 11:23amThe artwork for this is great, they should use it for the actual front cover. I can’t wait for this to come out.
josh smith
April 13th, 2013 - 11:45amno they should make it like the mind of evil cover
JD95
April 13th, 2013 - 3:03pmThey aren’t going to change either of the covers even though it says TBC, the only reason they would is if something out of the blue happens. Like the designer pulls his work.
LEWIS
April 13th, 2013 - 5:29pmYou are right
Ben Roberts
April 15th, 2013 - 1:28pmI spoke to Lee Binding on twitter (the man responsible for the cover art) and he said The Ice Warriors is not complete, but the Mind of Evil is…
LEWIS
April 13th, 2013 - 9:15amI have no idia
LEWIS
April 13th, 2013 - 9:14amJust found out you cannot pre order this or the monbase
josh smith
April 13th, 2013 - 9:13amno! i want to see mind of evil artwork first booboo when will that art work be released?
booboo
April 13th, 2013 - 9:50amyou will see it when BBC worldwide is ready to show you
drjakeyoung
April 13th, 2013 - 11:30amyou can already see the region 1 artwork below
josh smith
April 13th, 2013 - 11:41ami cant wait to see mind of evil 🙂 hope its like inferno special
LEWIS
April 14th, 2013 - 3:36pmSo do I
LEWIS
April 13th, 2013 - 9:10amAs soon as it is in stock on amazon I am either gonna pre order this or buy it
Doom Dalek
April 13th, 2013 - 8:50ambeen looking 4word to this 4ever!!!!!!!!!!!! can’t wait
drjakeyoung
April 12th, 2013 - 11:29pmgordon, is the spearhead from space blu ray available to pre order from BBC shop?
Gordon
April 12th, 2013 - 11:41pmCant see it. Sure it will be up soon
Connor
April 12th, 2013 - 11:02pmLooks awesome! Best cover yet!
Connor
April 12th, 2013 - 11:24pmThe ice warriors dvd looks brilliant! The special features look amazing and the cover art is brilliant! The animation pictures for this story look amazing! This story is my favourite ice warrior story and the ice warriors costumes look great, the ice warriors are one of my favorite monsters and they return in series 7 part 2 episode cold war! Deffently buying this release!
Connor
April 12th, 2013 - 11:31pmMind of evil cover art looks ok! Though it could of done being red! When does this website release the image here? Though i love the mind of evil and its creepy and scary and violent to the point where i think in region 4 its going to be rated M! I do think though it does look good with purple though like most fans i prefer red or orange. I cant wate to see the special features!
Lachie
April 12th, 2013 - 10:33pmWhy would the Ice Warriors cover (even though its TBC i know.) be shown off now or unveiled, isn’t this release going to be far back in august? i know it would be pretty impossible to release it a couple of weeks after “Cold War” on Sunday (<- in Australia) because of Animation but does this mean that they have finished covers for The Green Death and Spearhead from Space Blu-Ray? l'm just not sure why this cover has been shown in region 2 even when Mind of Evil is only in region 1 right now and we haven't seen the 2 releases before this one.
Lachie
April 12th, 2013 - 10:37pmalso l’m not complaining, getting to see this cover is amazing! just wondering why if theirs some sort of reason behind why we’re seeing the now. Could it be possible for them to move this release to an earlier time slot like July for example or June? because we can see this cover now’ or has this happened before with news in the dvd range around 2012 and 2011.
Gordon
April 12th, 2013 - 11:52pmThe cover and info was revealed to coincide with their return to tv id guess
Gordon
April 13th, 2013 - 12:00amAnimation is still being worked on so i doubt it could be moved forward. Even if finished tommorow it would still would need about 3 to 4 months to get legal clearance/bbfc clearance/quality control clearance/manufacturing etc
Lachie
April 13th, 2013 - 6:16amthat makes sense, when should we be expecting covers for Spearhead on Blu-Ray and The Green Death then, sometime after The Visitation Special Edition no doubt.