Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

19/04/69

25.00

5.5

2

Episode Two

26/04/69

25.00

6.3

3

 Episode Three

03/05/69

24.30

5.1

4

Episode Four

10/05/69

23.40

5.7

5

Episode Five

17/05/69

24.30

5.1

6

Episode Six

24/05/69

22.53

4.2

7

Episode Seven

31/05/69

22.28

4.9

8

Episode Eight

07/06/69

24.37

3.5

9

Episode Nine

14/06/69

24.34

4.1

10

Episode Ten

21/06/69

24.23

5.0

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writers:

Director:

Six

Patrick Troughton

Derek Sherwin

Terrance Dicks

 Malcolm Hulke,

Terrance Dicks

David Maloney

 

 

  

Patrick Troughton - (The Doctor)

Farzer Hines - (Jamie)

Wendy Padbury - (Zoe)

 

  

Jane Sherwin - (Lady Jennifer Buckingham)

John Livesey, Bernard Davies - (German Soldiers)

David Savile - (Lieutenant Carstairs)

Terence Bayler - (Major Barrington)

Brian Forster - (Sergeant Willis)

Noel Coleman - (General Smythe)

Hubert Rees - (Captain Ransom)

Esmond Webb - (Sgt. Major Burns)

Tony McEwan - (Redcoat)

Richard Steele - (Commandant Gorton)

Peter Stanton - (Military Chauffeur)

Pat Gorman - (Military Policeman)

David Valla - (Lieut. Crane)

Gregg Palmer - (Lieut. Lucke)

David Garfield - (Von Weich)

Edward Brayshaw - (War Chief)

Bill Hutchinson - (Sgt. Thompson)

Terry Adams - (Corporal Riley)

Leslie Schofield - (Leroy)

Vernon Dobtcheff - (Scientist)

Rudolph Walker - (Harper)

John Atterbury - (Alien Guard)

Michael Lynch - (Spencer)

Graham Weston - (Russell)

James Bree - (Security Chief)

Charles Pemberton - (Alien Technician)

David Troughton - (Moor)

Philip Madoc - (War Lord)

Peter Craze - (Du Pont)

Michael Napier-Brown - (Arturo Villar)

Stephen Hubay - (Petrov)

Bernard Horsfall - (First Time Lord)

Trevor Martin - (Second Time Lord)

Clyde Politt - (Third Time Lord)

Clare Jenkins - (Tanya)

 

  

Inheriting the mantle of the Doctor from William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton confronted some of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, but for his last action-packed adventure he returns to Earth in the midst of time zones crossing wars in mankind's history. Going out in a blaze of glory Troughton faces capture not by Yeti or Cybermen or Ice Warriors, but by his own people... the omnipotent Time Lords!

 

When the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on Earth they find themselves caught up in the terrifying events of World War One, but new and unexpected horrors await them as the cross landscapes full of enemies and time zones confounded by centuries of wars. At the centre of the mystery stand the aliens who have kidnapped soldiers from different periods of Earth's history and brainwashed them into fighting each other.

 

When the Doctor learns the terrible purpose of the War Games he has one chance to defeat the aliens and end the Games... but to take it means risking recapture by his own people, the all-powerful Time Lords who are waiting to bring him to trial and who are capable of ending his very existence.

 

  

Working Title:

N/A

 

Things to look out for:

  • The first mention of the Doctors race: The Timelords.
  • Patrick Troughtons son David.
  • The regeneration of the 2nd Doctor into the 3rd.

Archive:

All 10 Episodes Exist.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

Click for larger image- The War Games, episodic format; PAL (BBC Video cat.#4310).

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

- The War Games by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1979 - [Target no.70]

- The War Games by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1990 - [Target no.70]

 

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