William Hartnell - (The Doctor)

Jackie Lane - (Dodo)

Anneke Wills - (Polly)

Michael Craze - (Ben)

Alan Curtis - (Major Green)

John Harvey - (Professor Brett)

Sandra Bryant - (Kitty)

Ewan Proctor - (Flash)

William Mervyn - (Sir Charles Summer)

John Cater - (Professor Krimpton)

Ric Felgate - (American Journalist)

John Doye - (Interviewer)

Desmond Cullum-Jones - (Worker)

Roy Godfrey - (Tramp)

Michael Rathborne - (Taxi-driver)

Eddie Davis - (Worker)

John Rolfe - (Captain)

John Boyd-Brent - (Sergeant)

Frank Jarvis - (Corporal)

Robin Dawson - (Soldier)

Kenneth Kendall - (Television Newsreader)

George Cross - (The Minister)

Edward Colliver - (Garage Mechanic)

John Slavid - (Man in Telephone Box)

Dwight Whylie - (Radio Announcer)

Carl Conway - (US Correspondent)

Gerald Taylor - (The Voice of WOTAN & WOTAN operator)

London, 1966. The TARDIS materialises in the shadow of the newly-completed Post Office Tower in London and the Doctor senses a strange energy in the air. He instinctively knows that evil is at work nearby.

Posing as a scientist, the Doctor and his 'secretary' Dodo gain access to a suite at the top of the tower, and meet the driven Professor Brett. His life's work, the thinking computer WOTAN, is about to be linked up in a problem-solving network with many other machines around the world.

But the Doctor is concerned. How can WOTAN possibly know the meaning of the word TARDIS and about the Doctor's travels through time and space? What is the strange control that WOTAN can exert over humans via a mere telephone call? And what is the computer's link with the deadly robots being assembled in a Covent Garden warehouse? Soon, London will face an army of war machines, ruthlessly programmed to eliminate all who stand in their way...

Working Title:

The Computers.

Things to look for:

• The Doctor is reffered to as "Doctor Who". The WOTAN says "Doctor Who is required...".

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 4 Episodes Exist as 16mm telerecordings.

Bloopers:

• Coming Soon

- UK release June 1997. The War Machines  (BBCV cat.#6183)

Not yet released on DVD.

Not yet released on Audio.

- The War Machines, written by Ian Stuart Black, Published 1989 - [Target no.136]

- The War Machines, written by Ian Stuart Black, Published 1992 - [Target no.136]

**For further information on the Target Books, please visit On Target.