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'''''The War Games in Colour''''' was a colourised 90-minute re-cut and updated edition of ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', the seventh serial of [[Season 6 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 6]] of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]''.
'''''The War Games in Colour''''' was a colourised 90-minute re-cut and updated [[omnibus]] edition of ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', the seventh and final serial of [[Season 6 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 6]] of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'', and the last one to be broadcast in monochrome black and white.
 
== Synopsis ==
[[Second Doctor|The Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] land in what appears to be [[No Man's Land]] during [[World War I]]. They soon discover that they are not on Earth, and uncover a conspiracy by the [[War Lord]]s to conquer the galaxy, using conditioned [[human]]s stolen from Earth's history as their soldiers. The Doctor soon realises that he can't return the human victims to their own times himself, and resorts to sending for his own people, the [[Time Lord]]s, for aid.
 
== Plot ==
''to be added''
 
== Cast ==
* [[Second Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Patrick Troughton]]
* [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] - [[Frazer Hines]]
* [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]] - [[Wendy Padbury]]
* [[Jeremy Carstairs|Lieutenant Carstairs]] - [[David Savile]]
* Lady [[Jennifer Buckingham|Jennifer]] - [[Jane Sherwin]]
* [[The War Lord]] - [[Philip Madoc]]
* [[The War Chief]] - [[Edward Brayshaw]]
* [[Security Chief (The War Games)|The Security Chief]] - [[James Bree]]
* [[Scientist (The War Games)|The Scientist]] - [[Vernon Dobtcheff]]
* General [[Smythe (The War Games)|Smythe]] - [[Noel Coleman]]
* [[von Weich]] - [[David Garfield]]
* Major [[Barrington]] - [[Terence Bayler]]
* Commandant [[Gorton]] - [[Richard Steele (actor)|Richard Steele]]
* Captain [[Ransom (The War Games)|Ransom]] - [[Hubert Rees]]
* Sergeant Major [[Burns (The War Games)|Burns]] - [[Esmond Webb]]
* Sergeant [[Willis (The War Games)|Willis]] - [[Brian Forster]]
* [[Military chauffeur (The War Games)|Military Chauffeur]] - [[Peter Stanton]]
* [[German soldier (The War Games, episode 1)|German Soldier]] - [[John Livesey]]
* [[Redcoat (The War Games)|Redcoat]] - [[Tony McEwan]]
* [[Harper (The War Games)|Harper]] - [[Rudolph Walker]]
* [[Leroy]] - [[Leslie Schofield]]
* Captain [[Russell (The War Games)|Russell]] - [[Graham Weston]]
* [[Arturo Villar]] - [[Michael Napier-Brown]]
* [[Alien guard (The War Games)|Alien Guard]] - [[John Atterbury]]
* [[Alien technician (The War Games)|Alien Technician]] - [[Charles Pemberton]]
* [[First Time Lord (The War Games)|First Time Lord]] - [[Bernard Horsfall]]
* [[Adelphi|Second Time Lord]] - [[Trevor Martin]]
* [[Socra|Third Time Lord]] - [[Clyde Pollitt]]
* [[Tanya Lernov|Tanya]] - [[Clare Jenkins]]
* BBC Announcer - [[Peter Walters]]
* [[The Doctor]] - [[Jon Pertwee]]
 
== Crew ==
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== Worldbuilding ==
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== Story notes ==
* The story was opened by the [[Whoniverse ident|''Whoniverse'' ident]].
 
=== Deviations from the original serial ===
* Incidental music associated with [[the Master]], specifically the [[Saxon Master]] played by [[John Simm]] and [[the Master (Terror of the Autons)|the Master]] played by [[Roger Delgado]], accompanies the appearance of the War Chief. Though the Master made his official debut in {{cs|Terror of the Autons (TV story)}}, played by the aforementioned Delgado, a number of sources over the years have [[The War Chief#Connection with the Master|conflated the character]] with the [[renegade Time Lord]] played here by [[Edward Brayshaw]].
* The War Chief's [[Fall of the War Chief|regenerative process]] audibly begins shortly after he is shot dead by the War Lords.
* The exterior of the [[Capitol]] of [[Gallifrey]], as seen in {{cs|Heaven Sent (TV story)}} and {{cs|Gallifrey War Room (webcast)}}, appears when the Doctor is returned to Gallifrey.
* The sequence in which the Doctor presents the [[evil]]s he has fought to the Time Lords through a [[Thought Channel]] now features, in addition to the specially filmed footage from the original serial, archive footage from earlier serials in which they featured. This includes footage of [[Victoria Waterfield]] as well as [[Ben Jackson]] and [[Polly Wright]], thus representing all of the Second Doctor's televised [[companion]]s.
* When the [[Court (The War Games)|Court]] brings up the Doctor's interest in [[Earth]], a [[hologram]] of the [[planet]] appears much like that which was used by [[Rassilon (The End of Time)|Rassilon]] in {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}.
* During [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|the Doctor's trial]], the sketches of potential new appearances which the Court offers to the Doctor are replaced with the images of future [[incarnation]]s of the Doctor, namely the [[Twelfth Doctor]], who the Doctor deems "too old", the [[Tenth Doctor]], who the Doctor deems "too thin", the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], who the Doctor deems "too young", and the [[Eleventh Doctor]], who the Doctor deems "[will not] do at all". The Doctor's reference to a potential face being "too fat" is omitted.
* While only the many various rooms of the [[War Lord base]] was shown in the original, the colourised version occasionally cuts to a building exterior, which was created with VFX for the new version of the story.
* Perhaps the most notable deviation, one which was teased in promotional material prior to broadcast, was the complete [[Second Doctor's regeneration]] into the [[Third Doctor]], adapted from a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7hO8Zx4ATs fan video] originally uploaded to [[YouTube]] by [[Jacob Booth]], using archive footage of [[Patrick Troughton]] and [[Jon Pertwee]]. The [[The Disciplinary|original sequence]] in which the Second Doctor appears to spin and fade away is seemingly [[retcon]]ned as merely the process of transporting him from the [[Courtroom (The War Games)|courtroom]] to the [[TARDIS control room (An Unearthly Child)|TARDIS control room]] where he is seated. [[Flashback (narrative)|Flashback]]s going back to {{cs|The Power of the Daleks (TV story)}} appear as the Doctor begins to regenerate, evoking the [[Fourth Doctor's regeneration]] in [[TV]]: {{Cs|Logopolis (TV story)}}. The Doctor is sitting in a chair as he completes his [[The Explosion|fiery regeneration]]. The Third Doctor quickly finds that the TARDIS is on course to [[Oxley Woods]] on [[Earth]] in [[UNIT dating controversy|either 1970 or 1980]]. Finally, archive footage from {{cs|Spearhead from Space (TV story)}} sees the Doctor stumble out of the TARDIS before passing out, leading directly into that serial. Whilst numerous stories had taken advantage of Pertwee's absence from ''The War Games'' to establish a [[season 6B|timeframe]] in which the regeneration was delayed for some considerable time, the indication here is that the regeneration follows the trial with no interruption.
** The Second Doctor completing his regeneration whilst seated notably defies the norm of both the classic series, in which the Doctor would regenerate whilst lying down, and the new series, in which the Doctor has regenerated whilst standing up. In this regard, it matches the sequence in the fanfilm {{cs|Devious (home video)}}, in which [[Tony Garner]]'s "Second-and-a-Half Doctor" completes the regeneration into the Third Doctor played by Jon Pertwee, who filmed the sequence in [[1995 (releases)|1995]].
** Several of the labels created for [[TV]]: {{Cs|An Adventure in Space and Time (TV story)}} appear on the [[TARDIS console (An Unearthly Child)|TARDIS console]], including "[[Gamma]]" and the [[Fault Locator]]. The label which was a tribute to [[Bernard Wilkie]], seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|Twice Upon a Time (TV story)}} as the [[Bernard Wilkie function]], is replaced with a new label denoting the controls as the [[Temporal Regulator]].
** The [[Yearometer]] shows the TARDIS moving through several years as it falls to Earth. In order, these years are [[2143]], [[2207]], [[2272]], [[2337]], [[2402]], [[2467]], [[2424]], [[2381]], [[2337]], [[2294]], [[2251]], [[2208]], [[2165]], [[2121]], [[2078]], [[2035]], [[1992]], [[1949]], [[1906]], [[1862]], [[1819]], [[1776]], [[1733]], [[1690]], [[1646]], [[1603]], [[1560]], [[1586]], [[1612]], [[1637]], [[1663]], [[1689]], [[1715]], [[1740]], [[1766]], [[1792]], [[1818]], [[1843]], [[1869]], [[1895]], [[1921]], [[1947]], [[1972]], [[1998]], [[2024]], [[2050]], [[2075]], [[2101]], [[2127]], [[2153]], [[2178]], [[2204]], [[2230]], [[2256]], [[2281]], [[2307]], [[2333]], [[2296]], [[2259]], [[2222]], [[2180]], [[2140s|214-]], [[2110s|211-]], [[21st century|20--]], and [[20th century|19--]].
** When the TARDIS displays that the Doctor is simultaneously in [[1970]] and [[1980]], wording on the Yearometer says the spatial location is the [[Oxley Woods]], [[UK]], [[Earth]] and the section for the "temporal location" displays "-----ERROR----- [[83-NYRDWAM-6F]]".
* The [[plastic]] [[Meteorite|meteors]] used by the [[Nestene Consciousness]] in {{cs|Spearhead from Space (TV story)}} are seen landing on [[Earth]].
 
=== Ratings ===
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=== Filming locations ===
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=== Production errors ===
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== Continuity ==
* The appearances which the Time Lords offer to the Second Doctor are the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the [[Tenth Doctor]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. In {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)}}, the Time Lords of the [[Last Great Time War]] demonstrated the ability to use [[the Matrix]] to project events from the Doctor's [[future]], then thought to be only theoretical.
 
== Home video releases ==
=== DVD and Blu-ray releases ===
''to be added''
 
=== Digital releases ===
Following its television premiere, ''The War Games in Colour'' was added to [[BBC iPlayer]]'s ''[[Whoniverse (BBC iPlayer)|Whoniverse]]'' catalog of ''Doctor Who'' content.
 
== External links ==
 
== Footnotes ==
=== Notes ===
{{Notelist}}
 
=== References ===
{{Reflist}}
 
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The War Games in Colour was a colourised 90-minute re-cut and updated omnibus edition of The War Games, the seventh and final serial of season 6 of Doctor Who, and the last one to be broadcast in monochrome black and white.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe land in what appears to be No Man's Land during World War I. They soon discover that they are not on Earth, and uncover a conspiracy by the War Lords to conquer the galaxy, using conditioned humans stolen from Earth's history as their soldiers. The Doctor soon realises that he can't return the human victims to their own times himself, and resorts to sending for his own people, the Time Lords, for aid.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Deviations from the original serial[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

DVD and Blu-ray releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Digital releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Following its television premiere, The War Games in Colour was added to BBC iPlayer's Whoniverse catalog of Doctor Who content.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

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