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** This is the second episode straight to possibly make reference to a previous Doctor's nickname -- Grandfather last week, and the Professor in this episode.

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** This is the second episode straight to possibly make reference to a previous Doctor's nickname -- Grandfather [[Characters/DoctorWhoFirstDoctor Grandfather]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten last week, week]], and the Professor [[Characters/DoctorWhoSeventhDoctor Professor]] in this episode.
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* MythologyGag: The Doctor and his companion being MistakenForSpies was something that happened many, many times over the course of the Classic series.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Eleventh Doctor Era'''\\
'''Series 7:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E4ThePowerOfThree 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen CS]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten 7]] | '''8''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E9Hide 9]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTARDIS 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver 12]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor 13]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut <<< Series 6]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor 2013 Specials >>>]]''']]-]]]
!Cold War




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->Written by Creator/MarkGatiss\\
Directed by Douglas Mackinnon\\
'''Air date:''' 13 April 2013



Written by Creator/MarkGatiss, and [[TheBusCameBack the first television appearance of the Ice Warriors since 1974's]] "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E4TheMonsterOfPeladon The Monster of Peladon]]".

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Written by Creator/MarkGatiss, and [[TheBusCameBack the The first television appearance of the Ice Warriors since 1974's]] "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E4TheMonsterOfPeladon The Monster of Peladon]]".
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[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Cold_War#:~:text=Academic%20Gordon%20H.,the%20West%20had%20already%20begun. Second Cold War]] has a specific meaning. This story definitely takes place in the first Cold War.


The Doctor and Clara land on a damaged Soviet nuclear submarine [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar at the height of the Second Cold War, in 1983]] (instead of, as they were aiming for, UsefulNotes/LasVegas), as it spirals out of control into the ocean depths. They immediately get captured while the TARDIS vworps off without them, leaving them stranded in a submarine that's (a) slowly filling up with water and (b) home to a massive chunk of excavated ice with an [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors Ice Warrior]] stuck inside it. The Doctor decides to cut straight to the point and explains that he's a time traveller. He confronts the Ice Warrior as gently as possible, and learns that his name is Skaldak -- the greatest war hero in Martian history. Unfortunately, one of the crew electrocutes Skaldak out of sheer terror, and the Doctor realises that to the Ice Warriors, this can only be seen as a provocation into interstellar war.

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The Doctor and Clara land on a damaged Soviet nuclear submarine [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar at the height of the Second Cold War, in 1983]] (instead of, as they were aiming for, UsefulNotes/LasVegas), as it spirals out of control into the ocean depths. They immediately get captured while the TARDIS vworps off without them, leaving them stranded in a submarine that's (a) slowly filling up with water and (b) home to a massive chunk of excavated ice with an [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors Ice Warrior]] stuck inside it. The Doctor decides to cut straight to the point and explains that he's a time traveller. He confronts the Ice Warrior as gently as possible, and learns that his name is Skaldak -- the greatest war hero in Martian history. Unfortunately, one of the crew electrocutes Skaldak out of sheer terror, and the Doctor realises that to the Ice Warriors, this can only be seen as a provocation into interstellar war.
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* CoolOldGuy: Professor Grisenko is being genuinely nice to Clara, and even saves her life. Also, he has great taste in music; who doesn't enjoy [[Music/DuranDuran "Hungry Like the Wolf"]]?

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* CoolOldGuy: Professor Grisenko is being genuinely nice to Clara, and even saves her life. Also, he has great taste in music; who doesn't enjoy [[Music/DuranDuran "Hungry Like the Wolf"]]?
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* BaitAndSwitch: At one point, the Professor asks Clara what happens in the future. Clara can't tell him, because of [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Gray's Sports Almanac]] [[ForWantOfANail circumstances]]. He starts pressuring her until he says he just wants to know if Ultravox break up.[[note]]Their most recent album at the time the episode takes place was 1982's ''Music/{{Quartet}}'', and they actually would split up in 1988, after releasing [[Music/{{Lament}} two more]] [[Music/UVox albums]] and firing their drummer. This was later followed by two failed attempts at new lineups by violinist/keyboardist Billy Currie in the 1990s before the '80s lineup regrouped in 2008; they would break up for good in 2017. So yes, then no, then yes again, then no again, then yes again. And they had in fact just released an album when this epsiode aired![[/note]]

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* BaitAndSwitch: At one point, the Professor asks Clara what happens in the future. Clara can't tell him, because of [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Gray's Sports Almanac]] [[ForWantOfANail circumstances]]. He starts pressuring her until he says he just wants to know if Ultravox break up.[[note]]Their most recent album at the time the episode takes place was 1982's ''Music/{{Quartet}}'', and they actually would split up in 1988, after releasing [[Music/{{Lament}} two more]] [[Music/UVox albums]] and firing their drummer. This was later followed by two failed attempts at new lineups by violinist/keyboardist Billy Currie in the 1990s before the '80s lineup regrouped in 2008; they would break up for good in 2017. So yes, then no, then yes again, then no again, then yes again. And they had in fact just released an album when the year before this epsiode aired![[/note]]

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