The War Games in Colour (TV story)
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The War Games in Colour was a colourised 90-minute re-cut and updated edition of The War Games, the seventh serial of season 6 of Doctor Who.
Synopsis
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Plot
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Cast
- Dr. Who - Patrick Troughton
- Jamie - Frazer Hines
- Zoe - Wendy Padbury
- Lady Jennifer - Jane Sherwin
- German Soldier - John Livesey
- 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
- German Soldier - Bernard Davies
- 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
- Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee
Crew
Worldbuilding
Story notes
- The broadcast on BBC Four was opened by the Whoniverse ident.
Deviations from the original serial
- Incidental music associated with the Master, specifically the Saxon Master played by John Simm and the Master played by Roger Delgado, accompanies the appearance of the War Chief.
- The War Chief's regenerative process audibly begins shortly after he shot dead by the War Lords.
- The exterior of the Capitol of Gallifrey, as seen in The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"], appears when the Doctor is returned to Gallifrey.
- The sequence in which the Doctor presents the evils 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 companions.
- During the Doctor's trial, the sketches of potential new appearances which the Court offers to the Doctor are replaced with the images of future incarnations 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.
- 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, accomplished with archive footage of Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee. The original sequence in which the Second Doctor appears to spin and fade away is seemingly retconned as merely the process of transporting him from the courtroom to the TARDIS control room, where he completes his fiery regeneration whilst seated. The Third Doctor quickly finds that the TARDIS is on course to Oxley Woods on Earth in either 1970 or 1980. Finally, archive footage from Spearhead from Space sees the Doctor stumble out of the TARDIS before passing out, leading directly into that serial.
Ratings
Filming locations
Production errors
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
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Home video releases
DVD and Blu-ray releases
Digital releases
Following its television premiere, The War Games in Colour was added to BBC iPlayer's Whoniverse catalog of Doctor Who content.
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Footnotes
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