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Iceberg was the seventh story of Season 34 of Doctor Who. It was written by David Banks, directed by Nicholas Briggs and featured Michael French as the Doctor and Rakie Ayola as Janet Wells.
Synopsis
In 2018 the world is about to be overwhelmed by a disaster that might destroy human civilisation: the inversion of the Earth's magnetic field. Deep in an Antarctic base, the FLIPback team is frantically devising a system to reverse the change in polarity.
Above them, the SS Elysium carries its jet-set passengers on the ultimate cruise. Onboard is Ruby Duvall, a journalist sent to record the FLIPback moment. Instead, she finds a man called the Doctor, who is locked out of the strange green box he says is merely a part of his time machine. And she finds old enemies of the Doctor: silver giants at work beneath the ice.
Plot
Part 1
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Part 2
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Cast
- The Doctor - Michael French
- Janet Wells - Rakie Ayola
- Ruby Duvall - Christine Stephan-Daly
- General Pamela Cutler - Lauren Holly
- Cyber-Controller - Michael Kilgarrif
- Cybermen - Tony Kirke, David Miller
- Joe Adler - Peter-Hugo Daly
- Jude Black - Maria Bello
- Gary Venning - Mark Aiken
- Bono Brooks - Peter Bowles
- Whitehead - Peter Ferdinando
- Ben - Tony Way
- Dave Hilliard - David Duchovny
- Diana Milton - Jennifer Esposito
- Leslie Laughland - Laura Dos Santos
- Michael Brack - Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Nike Palmer - Noriko Aida
- Philip Duvall - Simon Russell Beale
- Lord Stanley Straker - Stefan Dennis
- Captain Trench - Tony Osoba
Crew
Memorable Quotes
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Background Information
Development
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Pre-Production
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Production
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Post-Production
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Reaction
- Official BARB ratings: 8.82m for Part One and 9m for Part Two.
- In 2014, Doctor Who: Magazine ran a poll consisting of every broadcast Doctor Who story at the time, and "Iceberg" was voted 292nd out of 323 stories.
Story Notes
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Continuity
- Upon waking up, the Doctor mistakes Ruby for Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart.
- The FLIPback device is meant to aid the deteriorating environment of Earth, which is approaching the point of no return in the (early) 21st century.
- Ruby learned of the Cybermen from Isobel Watkins, whose photographs of them were subsequently derided as fakes in the official cover-up.
- The Doctor vaguely remembers materialising at a cricket match and associates the memory with the Daleks but cannot remember why.