Deimos (audio story)

Deimos was the fifth release of the fourth series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary
Millions of years ago, the noble Ice Warriors fled to Deimos, moon of Mars, hoping to sit out the radioactive death throes of their home planet. When the TARDIS lands on Deimos, the Doctor discovers that the Warriors' ancient catacombs are now a popular stop for space tourists.

But the Martian dynasties are more than history, and the Warriors are far from extinct. It's not for nothing that 'Deimos' is the ancient word for 'dread'…

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Tamsin Drew - Niky Wardley
 * Professor Boston Schooner - David Warner
 * Gregson Grenville - Nicky Henson
 * Margaret - Susan Brown
 * Temperance Finch / Mrs Grenville - Tracy Ann Oberman
 * Harold - Nick Wilton
 * The Ice Warriors / Security Leader - Nicholas Briggs
 * Pilot - Jack Brown

Continuity

 * The Ice Lord Izdaal was the greatest Ice Warrior who ever lived in Martian society. His studies determined that Mars' atmosphere was no longer capable of keeping out radiation from space. This would eventually kill them all. He told the government that their turmoil was not over and with the evidence of sickening children, he declared that their world was no longer sustainable. He was ignored by his people. Lord Izdaal made the ultimate sacrifice. To prove himself right, he elected to step outside and face the Red Dawn, knowing he would die. His death led to his people coming to the same conclusion and they worked to survive, slowly becoming a conqueror race that took what they wanted from others. (AUDIO: Red Dawn)
 * During his second incarnation, the Doctor encountered the Ice Warriors for the first time on the Brittanicus Base during the Ice Age of the 34th century in the company of Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield. (TV: The Ice Warriors)
 * The Doctor tells Tamsin that he witnessed the destruction of Mars' atmosphere million of years earlier. (AUDIO: The Judgement of Isskar)
 * Harold recalls seeing a documentary on the History Channel which stated that the last of the Ice Warriors were killed when their invasion fleet spiraled into the Sun in the late 21st century. The Doctor tells Tamsin, Professor Schooner and Grenville Gregson that he witnessed that event as well. (TV: The Seeds of Death)
 * Grenville refers to the "hippie holiday camp" on Phobos. The Doctor and Lucie Miller previously visited Lunar Park in 2589. (AUDIO: Phobos)
 * Earlier in his eighth incarnation, the Doctor and his former companion Charley Pollard arrived in New York City on 30 October 1938 and were therefore present for Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, which thousands of people all across the United States mistook for a news broadcast about an actual Martian invasion of Earth, similar to the reconquest of their ancestral home planet of Mars attempted by the Ice Warriors on this occasion. The hysteria surrounding the broadcast was used as a cover for a failed attempt by the Laiderplacker, whose ship had crash-landed in Brooklyn the previous month, to conquer Earth. (AUDIO: Invaders from Mars)