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Episode: The War Games
Serial: Y
Number of Viewers: 6.3m
First Transmitted: 19/04/69
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Producer: Peter Bryant
Story by: Terrence Dicks and Malcolm Hulke
Director: David Maloney
Regular Cast
2nd Doctor: Patrick Troughton
Jamie: Fraser Hines
Zoe: Wendy Padbury
Cast
Jane Sherwin as Lady Jennifer Buckingham
John Livesey, Bernard Davies as German Soldiers
David Savile as Lieutenant Carstairs
Terence Bayler as Major Barrington
Brian Forster as Sergeant Willis
Noel Coleman as General Smythe
Hubert Rees as Captain Ransom
Esmond Webb as Sgt. Major Burns
Tony McEwan as Redcoat
Richard Steele as Commandant Gorton
Peter Stanton as Military Chauffeur
Pat Gorman as Military Policeman
David Valla as Lieut. Crane
Gregg Palmer as Lieut. Lucke
David Garfield as Von Weich
Edward Brayshaw as War Chief
Bill Hutchinson as Sgt. Thompson
Terry Adams as Corporal Riley
Leslie Schofield as Leroy
Vernon Dobtcheff as Scientist
Rudolph Walker as Harper
John Atterbury as Alien Guard
Michael Lynch as Spencer
Graham Weston as Russell
James Bree as Security Chief
Charles Pemberton as Alien Technician
David Troughton as Moor
Philip Madoc as War Lord
Peter Craze as Du Pont
Michael Napier-Brown as Arturo Villar
Stephen Hubay as Petrov
Bernard Horsfall as First Time Lord
Trevor Martin as Second Time Lord
Clyde Politt as Third Time Lord
Clare Jenkins as Tanya
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Story Synopsis
The TARDIS arrives on a planet where a race of known only as the Aliens have gathered soldiers from a number of different wars in Earths history, who have been brain washed and put in to battle.
The War Lord is assisted by a Security cheif and the War Cheif. The War Cheif is also a member of the Doctor's race, the timelords and quickly regonises him
They are using a form of craft known as SIDRATs, which are essensial to their task, but there are plans to double cross them
Whilst this is happening, the Doctor is assisted by a group of resistance fighters who have managed to shake off the alien's control.
Patrick Troughton's era as the Doctor ends here
Locations
South Downs, West Sussex
Westmeston Road, East Sussex
Sheepcote Tip, Brighton
Studios
Television Centre Studio 1, Television Centre Studio 4, Television Centre Studio 6, Television Centre Studio 8, Lime Grove Studio D, Ealing Television Film Studios
Notes
The story title and writer credits is interspersed with footage of gunfire and explosions.These credits use a different lettering to usual.No script editor is credited for the duration of the story.Episode Two includes clips from The Web of Fear 1 and Fury from the Deep 1, but not as flashbacks - they are incorporated into the narrative of the episode.This story marked the end of an era, with the departures of all three regulars and the explanation of the Doctor's origin; the Time Lords are first mentioned in Episode Six (by Vernon Dobtcheff) but the name was revealed in the Radio Times preview that accompanied Episode One.
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