History Recap / DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors

* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: Penley versus Clent.

* [[AnIcePerson An Iccced Reptile]]: The Ice Warriors.

* MissingEpisode: Unlike most of Patrick Troughton's earlier stories, this one is largely intact, with only episodes two and three (of six) missing. Until the return of "The Enemy of the World" and "The Web of Fear", it was the only story from Troughton's first two seasons that was anywhere near being complete, with the exception of "The Tomb of the Cybermen". In August 2013, the serial was released on DVD for the first time, with the missing episodes restored using animation.

* MissingEpisode: Unlike most of Patrick Troughton's earlier stories, this one is largely intact, with only episodes two and three (of six) missing. Until the return of "The Enemy of the World" and "The Web of Fear", it's was the only story from Troughton's first two seasons that was anywhere near being complete, with the exception of "The Tomb of the Cybermen". In August 2013, the serial was released on DVD for the first time, with the missing episodes restored using animation.

* MissingEpisode: Unlike most of Patrick Troughton's earlier stories, this one is largely intact, with only episodes two and three (of six) missing. It's fared better than any other from Troughton's first two seasons, with the exception of "Tomb of the Cybermen". In August 2013, the serial was released on DVD for the first time, with the missing episodes restored using animation.

* PantyShot: A member of the female base crew's short uniform (Jamie wants to see Victoria in one, which more or less happens [with a ladder-climbing scene] in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion}} The Invasion]]) doesn't quite cover for having to get up after a sonic blast that hits the base.

* PantyShot: A member of the female base crew's short uniform (Jamie wants to see Victoria in one, which more or less happens (with a ladder-climbing scene) in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion}} The Invasion]]) doesn't quite cover for having to get up after a sonic blast that hits the base.

* MissingEpisode: Unlike most of Patrick Troughton's earlier stories, this one is largely intact, with only episodes two and three (of six) missing. It's fared better than any other from Troughton's first two seasons, with the exception of "Tomb of the Cybermen".

The Ice Warriors would recur several more times and had been planned for a story with the Sixth Doctor before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was cancelled again. They most recently reappeared in the Eleventh Doctor episode ''"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E08ColdWar Cold War]]"''.

The Ice Warriors would recur several more times and had been planned for a story with the Sixth Doctor before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was cancelled again they most recently reappeared in the Eleventh Doctor episode ''"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E08ColdWar Cold War]]"''.

The Ice Warriors would recur several more times and had been planned for a story with the Sixth Doctor before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was cancelled again they most recently reappeared in the Eleventh Doctor episode "'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E08ColdWar Cold War]]'''".

The Ice Warriors would recur several more times and had been planned for a story with the Sixth Doctor before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was canceled again.

[[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xvisn_tardismedia_the-ice-warriors Watch episodes one, four, five and six here.]]

* MissingEpisode: Unlike most of Patrick Troughton's stories, this one is largely intact, with episodes two and three (of six) missing. It's fared better than any other from Troughton's first two seasons, with the exception of "Tomb of the Cybermen".

* MissingEpisode

The villains of''The Ice Warriors'', the titular Ice Warriors, would recur several more times and had been planned for a story with the Sixth Doctor before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was canceled again.

''The Ice Warriors'' makes up the third in a little trilogy of Second Doctor classics, following ''Tomb of the Cybermen'' and ''The Abominable Snowmen''. Its villains, the titular Ice Warriors, would recur several more times and had been planned for a story with the Sixth Doctor before cancellation put paid to that. And the Seventh, before it was canceled again. They should probably stop doing that.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Clent cannot bring himself to disagree with the computer, not until the end is it that the loyalist Penley decides they have to take a chance. Slightly less glaring is the Warriors' xenophobic ruthlessness.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Ice Warriors would be a repeat threat for the Doctor and humanity after this encounter.

The Ice Warrior thaws and wakes up, stating its name is Varga and it was the commander of a ship from "the Red Planet" which crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. Now that his own planet is dead, Varga plans to conquer earth with the help of his similarly-frozen comrades.

The base scientists meanwhile realise that if the ioniser beam hits the alien ship, the engines could explode and kill them all - but the Doctor persuades them it's worth the risk as not doing so could doom the entire Earth. Luckily for all concerned (except the Ice Warriors), there's only a relatively small explosion - killing all the Ice Warriors and destroying the ship and also conveniently stopping the flow of the glaciers for a while.

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--> ''He's got a printed circuit where his heart should be.''

* VerbalTic: Sorta. The hissing.
* Main/YouFailBiologyForever: This troper was ''astonished'' to learn from the Doctor and Clent that removing all the plants from the Earth would cause a decrease in carbon dioxide levels and a subsequent catastrophic global ''cooling,'' since in reality [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis#The_Calvin_Cycle photosynthesis uses CO2 up]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#Greenhouse_gases deforestation has been linked to an overall increase in average global temperature]].
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