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|ext=|lead='''''The War Games''''' was a [[1969 (releases)|1969]] [[serial]] which significantly changed ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It was the first story which named the Doctor's people as "[[Time Lord]]s", and the first to ever depict his [[Gallifrey|home planet]].  It was also the first to show that the Doctor was genuinely a [[renegade Time Lord|renegade]], liable to the criminal courts on his home world.  But it was also full of "lasts".  It was the final serial in black and white, and the swan song for the [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Zoe Heriot]].  In fact, it was the only story prior to [[The End of Time (TV story)|David Tennant's finalé]] which involved the departure of the entire cast of regulars.  It was the last serial for several years in which [[the TARDIS]] was fully functional and under the Doctor's control, as one of the consequences of the story was that the Doctor be [[exile on Earth|exiled on Earth]] thereafter.  However, because the serial did not end with a clear [[regeneration]], or actually seeing the Doctor be forced to go to [[Earth]], a narrative gap was created between it and [[Spearhead from Space|the next televised story]].  There are therefore many [[Second Doctor]] stories which take place after the Doctor's sentencing in this story, but before its execution.  One of the biggest contributions to ''Doctor Who'' lore caused by ''The War Games'' is thus the so-called "[[Season 6b]]". }}

| 6 = {{feature|title=Planet of Giants (TV story)|image=Exclusive First Look - Making Planet of Giants - Doctor Who - BBC|ext=|lead='''''Planet of Giants''''' was a [[First Doctor]] [[serial]] which had a long and interesting gestation. Its basic conceit — that of miniaturising [[the Doctor]] and his [[companion]]s — was to have been the very first story in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' history, but the technical challenge was too great for that earliest of production crews. It was therefore rejected by [[producer]] [[Verity Lambert]], but [[script editor]] [[David Whitaker]] continued to push the topic.  By its third writer, the "miniaturisation idea" had become intertwined with an important, pro-evironment message.  The script that emerged was based on the non-fiction book, ''Silent Spring'', and therefore contained an obvious warning against the environmental dangers of pesticide.}}   

| 8 = {{feature|title=Planet of the Dead (TV story)|image=The Doctor calls UNIT for help - Doctor Who - BBC|ext=|lead='''''Planet of the Dead''''' was the first of the  [[2009 Specials (Doctor Who)|2009 specials]] that ended [[David Tennant]]'s tenure as [[the Doctor]]. It teamed the [[Tenth Doctor]] up with an aristocratic thief named Lady [[Christina De Souza]] for a one-off adventure that also heavily involved [[UNIT]]. Behind the scenes, it was important for a number of innovations, as it was the first episode to be filmed in HD, and the first to involve [[location filming]] in the [[Middle East]]. As of 2013, it was the ''only'' ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Easter]] special.}}

| 9 = {{feature|title=Playback (terminology)|image=PlaybackExampleTheArk|lead='''Playback''' was a television production technique in which pre-recorded material was literally played into a scene, rather than being added as a post-production effect. It was universally used in the [[1960s]] as the method by which actors were seen on view screens. As seen in the picture at the left, [[William Hartnell]] was pre-recorded separately, then projected live into the scene with the actors in the foreground. Though antiquated, the technique was used even into the [[1980s]], most notably for the [[title sequence]]. The quality of the opening titles for the 1963 version of ''Doctor Who'' was never high, because it was never a first-generation copy of the titles. Instead, they were played live into the recording of the first scene of many episodes, causing actors to have to time their first lines to the final notes of the studio-audible [[Doctor Who theme|''Doctor Who'' theme]].}}