BBC Doctor Who Blog - The Return of the Ice Warriors!
The BBC Doctor Who Blog has an excellent write up to prepare you for this weekend&amp;#8217;s episode, Cold War:


The Doctor&rsquo;s next adventure is called&nbsp;Cold War&nbsp;and it explodes onto screens tomorrow (Saturday). The TARDIS lands on a damaged Russian Submarine in 1983 as it spirals out of control, plunging into the ocean depths. An alien creature is loose on board, having escaped from a block of Arctic ice. With tempers flaring and a cargo of nuclear weapons on board, it&rsquo;s not just the crew but the whole of humanity at stake!&nbsp; The episode is written by Mark Gatiss (The Unquiet Dead,&nbsp;Night Terrors) so we&rsquo;re assured of scares, great moments of humour and some unexpected twists&hellip; All that, plus the return of the Ice Warriors makes this an umissable episode!
The fearsome Martians made their debut in the&nbsp;Second Doctor&nbsp;adventure&nbsp;The Ice Warriors&nbsp;and were an instant hit, returning about a year later in&nbsp;The Seeds of Death. These two stories established&nbsp;the Ice Warriors&nbsp;as a proud but cruel race, ruthless and relentless when pursuing their goal, which in both instances had been the planet Earth.
But interestingly, when they next crossed the Time Lord&rsquo;s path in&nbsp;the Third Doctor&nbsp;adventure&nbsp;The Curse of Pel