The War Games (TV story)

Synopsis
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Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Patrick Troughton
 * Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines
 * Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury
 * Lady Jennifer Buckingham - Jane Sherwin
 * German Soldiers - John Livesey, Bernard Davies
 * Lieutenant Jeremy Carstairs - David Savile
 * Major Barrington - Terence Bayler
 * Sergeant Willis - Brian Forster
 * General Smythe - Noel Coleman
 * Captain Ransom - Hubert Rees
 * Sgt. Major Burns - Esmond Webb
 * Redcoat - Tony McEwan
 * Commandant Gorton - Richard Steele
 * Military Chauffeur - Peter Stanton
 * Military Policeman - Pat Gorman
 * Lieut. Crane - David Valla
 * Lieut. Lucke - Gregg Palmer
 * von Weich - David Garfield
 * War Chief - Edward Brayshaw
 * Sgt. Thompson - Bill Hutchinson
 * Corporal Riley - Terry Adams
 * Leroy - Leslie Schofield
 * Scientist - Vernon Dobtcheff
 * Harper - Rudolph Walker
 * Alien Guard - John Atterbury
 * Spencer - Michael Lynch
 * Russell - Graham Weston
 * Security Chief - James Bree
 * Alien Technician - Charles Pemberton
 * Moor - David Troughton
 * War Lord - Philip Madoc
 * Du Pont - Peter Craze
 * Arturo Villar - Michael Napier-Brown
 * Petrov - Stephen Hubay
 * First Time Lord - Bernard Horsfall
 * Second Time Lord - Trevor Martin
 * Third Time Lord - Clyde Pollitt
 * Tanya - Clare Jenkins

Crew

 * Assistant Floor Manager - Marion McDougall, Caroline Walmsley
 * Costumes - Nicholas Bullen
 * Designer - Roger Cheveley
 * Fight Arranger - Peter Diamond, Arthur Howell
 * Film Cameraman - Alan Jonas
 * Film Editor - Chris Hayden
 * Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
 * Make-Up - Sylvia James
 * Producer - Derrick Sherwin
 * Production Assistant - Edwina Verner
 * Script Editor - Terrance Dicks
 * Special Sounds - Brian Hodgson
 * Studio Lighting - Howard King
 * Studio Sound - John Staple
 * Theme Arrangement - Delia Derbyshire
 * Title Music - Ron Grainer
 * Visual Effects - Michealjohn Harris

Story Notes
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Ratings

 * Episode 1 - 5.5m viewers
 * Epsiode 2 - 6.3m viewers
 * Episode 3 - 5.1m viewers
 * Episode 4 - 5.7m viewers
 * Episode 5 - 5.1m viewers
 * Episode 6 - 4.2m viewers
 * Episode 7 - 4.9m viewers
 * Episode 8 - 3.5m viewers
 * Episode 9 - 4.1m viewers
 * Episode 10 - 5.0m viewers

Myths
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Location Filming
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors
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Continuity

 * The Doctor is put on trial for his deeds, as would happen once more in The Trial of a Time Lord.


 * The ending of the War Games leads into what some refer to as "Season 6B".


 * The War Chief reappears in Timewyrm: Exodus and Timewyrm: Revelation.

DVD, Video and Other Releases
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Target Novelisations
The War Games was novelised in 1979 as Doctor Who and the War Games.