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"Doctor Who"
The War Games: Episode 10 (1969)
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The ( First ) Trial Of A Time Lord, 20 September 2006
Author: ProfessorStahlman from United Kingdom
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So enamoured was I of Patrick Troughton's interpretation of the Doctor that I very nearly didn't watch the final part of 'The War Games'. If he died, I did not want to see it. Reason prevailed, though, and I did watch. It opens with the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe fleeing in the TARDIS from the scene of 'The War Games' adventure, materialising in various locations ( nice re-use of old footage from 'The Web Of Fear' and 'Fury From The Deep' ), but the Time Lords prove too powerful; the TARDIS is forced to land, and the Doctor put on trial. That booming voice - "Doctor, your travels are over!" - sent a chill up my spine. Here the Doctor is forced to justify his 'cosmic nomad' lifestyle. The 'War Lord' is on trial too; and the Time Lords bestow on him their harshest sentence imaginable - total non-existence. Jamie and Zoe's touching farewell, the monster flashbacks, the Doctor's attempts to remain rebellious even after the sentence has been passed - all add up to a magnificent conclusion to '60's 'Who'.
The end of several eras., 13 May 2008
Author: Paul Andrews (poolandrews@hotmail.com) from UK
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Doctor Who: The War Games: Episode Ten starts as the Timelords summon the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) as a witness in the trial of the War Lord (Philip Madoc) & his people over the war games. The Doctor has no choice but to agree & lands the TARDIS on his home planet. The War Lord implicates the Doctor in his people's plans & claims he helped them, a accusation the Doctor denies. After the trial of the War Lord the Doctor is himself put on trial accused of the most serious crime none interference of other planets & races which if found guilty the Doctor could lose his ability to travel through time & space...
Episode 44 from season 6 this Doctor Who adventure originally aired here in the UK during June 1969, directed by David Maloney & at last The War Games has come to an end. After four plus hours of The War Games it's over & I have to say although I didn't dislike any particular episode I don't think I would ever want to see The War Games ever again. I am sure any rabid die hard Doctor Who fan who goes to conventions in a Tom Baker scarf & have all the videos neatly arranged on their shelf in transmission order will give The War Games ten stars out of ten equally like anyone who hates Doctor Who (trust me, there's plenty of them about) will give it one star out of ten while I consider myself a fan of the show I don't blindly love every episode or every story & therefore always try to give a balanced & objective opinion. As an average kind of guy who likes Doctor Who but isn't absolutely obsessed with it I didn't really think The War Games was that great, virtually every episode had various character's captured, escaping & then trying not to get captured again. Here in Episode Ten both the War Lord & the Doctor are captured by the Timelords & put on trial so there's nothing new here apart from the setting which is where the main source of interest comes from. This is the first time in the series that viewers saw the Doctors home planet & his people although subsequent production teams changed things like a Timelord being able to live forever. The ending sees the Doctor exiled to Earth in order to set up the format for Jon Pertwee. I don't think The War Games has had enough story to justify ten whole episodes & I think the original plan to divide the episodes up into two different serials, one six part story & one four part story, would have yielded much better results. It's incredible when you think about the length of this story & the length of season six, with forty four separate episodes in seven stories when you compare it to the twenty sixth season when Doctor Who got cancelled in 1989 that had just four stories over a mere fourteen episodes there's a massive difference.
This episode uses brief clips from Episode One of Fury from the Deep (1968) which is the only footage from that episode in existence, Episode One of The Web of Fear (1968) & Episode One from The Wheel in Space (1968) all from season five. Several of the Troughton era monsters make short cameo appearances including a Yeti, a Dalek, a Cyberman & a Quark. Episode Ten of The War Games was taped on 12th June 1969 & broadcast nine days later which marked the end of several eras, The War Games was the last classic Doctor Who serial to be filmed entirely in black and white, this was the end of Patrick Troughton's regular tenure as the Doctor as well as popular companions Jamie & Zoe in a fairly forgettable farewell scene. However Troughton appeared in Doctor Who again in The Three Doctors (1972) during season ten, The Five Doctors (1983) 20th anniversary special & The Two Doctors (1985) during season twenty two. Fraser Hines also returned to the show on The Five Doctors & The Two Doctors with Wendy Padbury making her sole reappearance during The Five Doctors.
The War Games: Episode Ten is another case of people being captured & trying to escape, pretty much the same as the previous nine episodes apart from the setting. Across it's ten episodes I will give The War Games an above average six and a half stars which do take a fair amount of stamina & a high tolerance level to sit through.
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