Doctor Who - Audio Details

Ares One: NASA's first manned mission to the dead planet Mars. But is Mars as dead as it seems?

While the NASA team investigate an 'anomaly' on the planet's surface, the Doctor and Peri find themselves inside a strange alien building. What is its purpose? And what is frozen inside the blocks of ice that guard the doorways? If the Doctor has a sense of deja-vu, it's because he's about to meet some old adversaries, as well as some new ones...

"Yes, of course you can do an Ice Warrior story," Gary Russell (Producer/Director) said.  I suggested a NASA mission to Mars, and we both wanted the Mars mission done 'properly.'  Then Gary mentioned some other things he wanted.  Could I keep the Doctor and Peri separate to ensure Peri got a strong storyline?  And could I include a part for a teenage girl?  And maybe a sonic tank?  And it's called Red Dawn.

Perhaps more than any other fictional medium performed drama is a collaborative art.  You will hear the contributions of the actors, the composer and the editor.  You'll find that they've done an outstanding job of bringing the story to dramatic life.  But although we writers are quick to accept praise for a good story, it is worth remembering that the collaborative process often starts before the first words are ever committed to paper and continues right through production.

Justin Richards, January 2000