Other Appearances
Mars has also made appearances in the various Doctor Who spin-off media. The canonicity of these stories is open to interpretation.
In many Doctor Who stories Mars has been terraformed for human habitation, though The Dying Days by Lance Parkin states this process is unnecessary as Mars can indeed support human life. The Dying Days, set in 1997, tells of a takeover of the United Kingdom by the Argyre Clan of Ice Warriors, whose nests on Mars are in turn destroyed by humans. The invasion was beaten back with the help of the Eighth Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Bernice Summerfield.
The Fifth Doctor travelled to Mars in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Red Dawn.
The Seventh Doctor visited Mars in the Virgin New Adventures novel GodEngine by Craig Hinton, set in the 22nd century just prior to the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
Bernice Summerfield adventured on Mars during the 26th century in the novel Beige Planet Mars by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham.
The Fourth Doctor and Leela visited a similarly terraformed Mars in the short story Crimson Dawn by Tim Robbins, published in the Virgin Books anthology Decalog 2: Lost Property.
The Ninth Doctor visited the planet, which had been turned into a holiday resort, in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The Cruel Sea (DWM #359-362), written by Rob Shearman.
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