We wanted to bring them back because they're wonderful! In the mix of stories that we were planning for this year it felt as if doing something very bold with a monster that hadn't been seen for a while would be really cool. Mark is an enormous fan of the Ice Warrior stories and came up with the idea. The sense of a monster of that scale and that size trapped in a really small, contained environment such as a submarine was a really brilliant story to be able to tell.

We've had a huge amount of fun going back to the traditional designs and recreating them, bringing the Ice Warriors back to life again. They were such a beautiful original design, and are genuinely really scary in terms of what they look like as they’re coming towards you in that armour.

The Ice Warriors will be returning tothis year, it was announced today.In an online report , the magazinesaid that the iconic monsters would be back on our TV screens in the third story of the second part of Series 7. Written by, the episode is set on a submarine.Executive producerwas quoted byas saying:The Martians have appeared in the show four times so far. They debuted in thestoryin 1967 and were last seen in 1974 in thestoryTalking about their design, Skinner said:is to be released on DVD on, but it is unknown as yet if the missing episodes two and three will be animated for it. It will, however, include the condensed reconstruction of both those episodes, which was on the 1998 VHS release.