Game of Hitler and Churchill

The Game of Hitler and Churchill was a Game enacted by the Players.

In 1899, a Player attempted to assassinate the young Winston Churchill during the Boer War, but the assassin was forced to retreat when the Sixth Doctor spotted him. When Churchill was taken to a prison, another Player provided Churchill with the necessary papers and disguise necessary for him to escape, while the Doctor and Peri were able to retrieve the TARDIS and depart. (PROSE: Players)

On 18 November 1915, Winston Churchill had arrived in France for military duty on the Western Front of the First World War. After an attempted ambush was thwarted by the Second Doctor, Lieutenant Jeremy Carstairs and Lady Jennifer Buckingham, the four found themselves in a large house, where the Count and Countess of the Players attempted to send Churchill to Germany as a political prisoner. The Doctor let himself be captured by the Players to allow Churchill, Carstairs and Buckingham to escape in their plane. The Doctor's parting warning stuck with Churchill: "Your country needs you, now and in years to come!" (PROSE: Players)

Years later, in 1936, the Players again attempted to target Churchill, but Tom Dekker- now employed as security by the visiting Sixth Doctor- was able to kill the assassin. The Doctor's investigation revealed that the Players were manipulating events so that Edward VIII would dismiss the government and form a new one more sympathetic to Hitler's policies so that he could marry his mistress Wallis Simpson. Churchill and others were able to expose this scheme and force Edward to go along with his originally declared plan of abdication or he would be tried for treason. (PROSE: Players)

Had the Players succeeded in disgracing or killing Churchill in their Game, Britain would have been left open to German invasion in 1940. (PROSE: World Game)