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

Crew

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Worldbuilding

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Story notes

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. Though the Master made his official debut in Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)"], played by the aforementioned Delgado, a number of sources over the years have conflated the character with the renegade Time Lord played here by Edward Brayshaw.
  • The War Chief's regenerative process audibly begins shortly after he is shot dead by the War Lords.
  • The exterior of the Capitol of Gallifrey, as seen in Heaven Sent [+]Loading...["Heaven Sent (TV story)"] and Gallifrey War Room [+]Loading...["Gallifrey War Room (webcast)"], 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.
  • When the Court brings up the Doctor's interest in Earth, a hologram of the planet appears much like that which was used by Rassilon in The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"].
  • 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, adapted from a fan video originally uploaded to YouTube by Jacob Booth, using 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 is seated. Flashbacks going back to The Power of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Power of the Daleks (TV story)"] appear as the Doctor reflects on his life before completing his fiery regeneration. 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 [+]Loading...["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 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 Devious [+]Loading...["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.
  • The plastic meteors used by the Nestene Consciousness in Spearhead from Space [+]Loading...["Spearhead from Space (TV story)"] are seen landing on Earth.

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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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