Talk:The War Games (TV story)

Time loop
If the war worlds in a time loop woudlnt they be repeating the advense of this story 4 ever

Season 6B
The Story Notes section says that "there is fan speculation that after The War Games, the Second Doctor was recruited by the CIA (Celestial Intervention Agency) and sent on missions," refferring to Season 6B. The Continuity section states as fact that "the ending of the War Games leads into what some refer to as 'Season 6B'." Does season 6B exist outside of fan speculation. If it does, than the reference to it being a fan theory should be deleted. If it is just speculation, than the statement that this definetly leads into 6B should be deleted.Icecreamdif 18:10, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

England 1917
The setting infobox includes "England, 1917", but I don't think we ever saw the real planet Earth, just recreations. Even if we did see Earth, wouldn't we have been seeing Belgium or France, given the trenches and German lines? Tbug talk to me 23:56, April 16, 2012 (UTC)

Reverted edits
I have reverted the edits made by user:41.133.47.166 to this page and Magnus, the War Chief and the Master. Several months ago this user tried to make his point on several talk pages, but failed to provide convincing evidence per this wiki's rules. I reverted the edits and suggested he try the forums; as he did not do so, I've reverted his edits again. Shambala108 ☎  16:20, January 29, 2014 (UTC)

Uncredited crew
Removed uncredited crew until a reliable source can be found for them. -- Tybort (talk page) 11:48, September 4, 2015 (UTC)


 * Assistant Floor Manager - Marion McDougall, Caroline Walmsley
 * Fight Arranger - Arthur Howell
 * Production Assistant - Edwina Verner
 * Script Editor - Terrance Dicks
 * Theme Arrangement - Delia Derbyshire

David Troughton
"David Troughton, the son of Patrick Troughton, appeared in his final serial, which in turn, was David's first appearance in the series."

I'm not sure what this sentence is trying to say. It certainly wasn't David's first appearance, that was in The Enemy of the World. 165.225.80.59talk to me 15:06, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

Archive Status
"..it was the longest Doctor Who story to survive the purging of the BBC's videotape archive..""

Not really true, the videotapes, which never were in an archive, were wiped in the seventies. What we have now are the telerecordings made for overseas sale, like all but a handful of the surviving sixties episodes. 165.225.80.59talk to me 15:10, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

Not A Myth
"Doctor Who was under serious threat of being cancelled at the end of this season. (Although this is Terrance Dicks's recollection, it has been denied by both Peter Bryant and Derrick Sherwin and is not borne out by contemporary evidence, although the viewership numbers were considerably lower than they would be at the time of the original series' cancellation in 1989. The series would, however, face the threat of cancellation at the end of the following season.)"

Jeremy Bentham wrote an in depth article covering this, for the season 6 special of An Adventure In Space & Time (Page S6-09). Many options were considered as a Doctor Who replacement, including a Jules Verne style adventure series, and a resurrection of Quatermass (the latter vetoed by Kneale). Finally, they decided to keep Doctor Who but make it a lot more like Quatermass in style.165.225.80.225talk to me 10:32, December 20, 2017 (UTC)

Two guards. One tells the truth, the other only lies...
> Ironically, episode eight, the least-watched Doctor Who episode of all time up until 1989, was also arguably the most important episode in the show's history, as it was the one in which the Doctor is first described as being a fugitive from his people, the Time Lords.

> This was the lowest rated story in the show's history until after the 1986 hiatus. (Despite the exceptionally poor ratings for episode eight, the story was never the lowest rated overall. That distinction fell to The Smugglers, which had the lowest average rating of any story prior to The Mysterious Planet. It was, however, the lowest rated of Patrick Troughton's stories.)

Both of these statements appear in this article.

Also;

> The four faces proposed to the Doctor for his change of appearance were drawn by the story's designer Roger Cheveley. The script of the episode confirms, as the episode's dialogue indicates, that five faces are proposed to him. The one deemed "too young" by the Doctor is not shown. None of the faces shown resemble the actual Third Doctor, as Jon Pertwee was not cast in the role until production of this serial had concluded

> The scene where the Doctor argues with the Time Lords was filmed approximately three weeks after Jon Pertwee had been contracted to take over from Patrick Troughton, but the scene where the Doctor's exile sequence (the ending of episode 10) begins was filmed several weeks earlier when the next actor to play the Doctor was still under negotiation so no complete transformation was seen.

And;

> Though the regeneration itself is not shown, this is the longest regeneration story in the series, with a total run time of four hours and ten minutes across ten episodes.

> no ‘regeneration stories’ category, I assume because of Season 6B
 * Is there a question here? Because Tardis:Discussion policy is clear on how these talk pages are to be used. Shambala108 ☎  01:20, April 27, 2020 (UTC)

Here’s a question for you; these statements contradict each other?NightmareofEden ☎  01:33, April 27, 2020 (UTC)
 * Each pair of statements is contradictory, yeah. This will require some serious fact-checking. 01:39, April 27, 2020 (UTC)
 * Yup. Thanks for pointing these out NightmareofEden. I'll try to unpuzzle them but would welcome help. – N8  ( ☎ / 👁️ ) 02:21, April 27, 2020 (UTC)

"first time a companion left in the final episode of a season"
The article makes reference to the fact that this is the first time a Doctor or companion exited in the concluding episode of a season. While this is true for Doctors, does Dodo's exit in the War Machines not count? I guess she didn't appear in Episode 4 but still technically exited in the final story and her exit wasn't revealed until the end of Episode 4.