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The Ice Warriors are a fictional extraterrestrial race of reptilian-like humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. They were originally created by Brian Hayles, first appearing in the 1967 serial The Ice Warriors where they encountered the Second Doctor and his companions Jamie and Victoria. In Doctor Who, the Ice Warriors originated on Mars, which within the series narrative is a dying world. Their early appearances depict the Ice Warriors as attempting to conquer the Earth and escape their planet as early as Earth’s Ice Age. A frozen group are discovered by an Earth scientific team who dub them ‘Ice Warriors’ in their first appearance. Despite this not being the name of their species, an Ice Lord later refers to his soldiers as Ice Warriors in the 1974 serial The Monster of Peladon. Although originally appearing as villains, subsequent appearances have depicted Ice Warriors that have eschewed violence and even ally themselves with the Doctor.

Serials were planned for both 1986 and 1990 that were to have featured the Ice Warriors; Mission to Magnus featuring the Sixth Doctor and the villain Sil, and Ice Time featuring the Seventh Doctor. In both instances the series was placed on a hiatus and the serials scrapped, however Mission to Magnus was novelised by Target and adapted as an audio by Big Finish, with Ice Time being revised and released as the audio Thin Ice. They have also featured in flashback and cameo appearances, in addition to appearing frequently in spin-off media such as novels and audio releases. The Ice Warriors returned to the series in the 2013 episode "Cold War".

The fourth season of Doctor Who had ended with The Evil of the Daleks, a serial intended to retire the Daleks from the series due to their creator Terry Nation aiming to produce a spin-off in America. The production office was keen to find new recurring monsters to be used instead of the retired Daleks and alongside the popular Cybermen. Brian Hayles was approached to create a suitable monster that could be used as a new recurring antagonist for the Doctor, drawing from both newspaper reports of a baby mammoth being found in 1900 in the Siberian ice and his interest in Mars to create his monster. James Chapman suggests that director Derek Martinus drew from the Christian Nyby film The Thing from Another World in realising Hayles' scripts, particularly the concept of an alien frozen in ice near an isolated science base.

Hayles had envisioned the Ice Warriors as being cybernetic creatures but designer Martin Baugh, fearing comparisons to the established Cybermen, instead designed costumes with vaguely reptilian features. The Ice Warriors, first appearing in 1967’s The Ice Warriors, were seen as a success and were brought back in 1969 for a second serial. Peter Bryant, the producer of Doctor Who by 1969, also felt that a second appearance might better justify the expensive Ice Warrior costumes employed in their debut serial.

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