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Doctor Who - The War Games [DVD] [1969] [UK Import]

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4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 493 ratings
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Language English
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. The War Games is one of the most significant stories in the history of Doctor Who. It presented its writers, Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke, with a unique set of challenges. For the first time, the Doctor was apparently involved in a significant historical event within living memory, namely the First World War. This serious and sensitive subject was treated with characteristic intelligence by the two scriptwriters. The War Games stands out as a powerful and mature anti-war story, its sympathies resting firmly with the common soldier, regardless of nationality. Of course, this wasn't the only issue Dicks and Hulke had to deal with. Production problems meant the serial had to last ten episodes. This was a long stretch even by the more leisurely-paced standards of sixties television. Moreover, the story needed to end with a lead-in to Doctor Who's new, earth-bound format of the early seventies. Their solution - the capture, trail and exile of the Doctor - brought to an end the first phase of the Doctor Who saga. For the time being at least, the Doctor's travelling days were over... Actors Patrick Troughton, Wendy Padbury, Frazer Hines, Edward Brayshaw, Philip Madoc, James Bree, Bernard Horsfall, Trevor Martin, Clyde Pollitt, Jane Sherwin, David Savile, Noel Coleman, Hubert Rees, Esmond Webb, Terence Bayler & Brian ForsterDirector David MaloneyCertificate PGYear 1966-1969Languages English

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.59 x 7.48 inches; 4.73 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002ATVD8W
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 493 ratings

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This Is A Very Serious Story
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This Is A Very Serious Story
A lot of people who have watched The War Games Movie, probably didn't understand what they were watching. This is very serious subject matter. We get to meet the First Master, known as the War Chief, staring Edward Brayshaw. There are certain people who are trying to deny him the title of being the First Master, however it is plain to see in both appearance and mannerism, that he really is the First Master. He is the template which every other Master that followed is based upon.
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Michael A. Nelson
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Doctor Who series that ends an era
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2024
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The end of the 60s, Pat Troughton's run as the Doctor, black and white, Jamie and Zoe, the Docior not having an origin. This series changed the show forever. Supposedly the creative team had to come up with this at the last minute when other stories fell through. 10 episodes making it the 3rd longest ever but somehow it flows well and you don't feel the length. The Tardis seems to land in France in World War I but so realize there's more going on. A huge plot involving multiple Earth time periods and hypnosis. A plot so big, the Doctor will have to call on his own people for the first time to help. So the last episode has the Doctor dealing with his people after the main story is over. A classic story, yes some padding, some over acting, some poor looking sets or props. But over all, a great idea and execution.
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Crazy Fox
5.0 out of 5 stars "All these evils I have fought, while you have done nothing but observe!"
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2009
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As the last Doctor Who story of the 1960's, "The War Games" seems to be encapsulating and then enlarging on all that was unique and wonderful about the series during its black & white decade, and it succeeds with flying colors. The story hits the ground running and draws the viewer in as it goes, disguising itself first as a good solid historical story for which the show was known but set in the midst of the First World War, then quietly introducing curiously anomalous elements leading the attentive observer to gradually assume that this is a pseudo-historical of a sort the show had innovated and developed, finally frustrating this expectation for something in a way even stranger yet--and much more sinister. Patrick Troughton's portrayal of the Doctor as clownishly bungling if only to disarm his opponents amuses here as always, but also serves to accentuate the bleak and grim fact that now for once the situation spins more out of his control with his every move, until his palpable panic when he's forced to involve his own people (the Time Lords, as revealed here for the first time) is positively electrifying. In the end, he is punished for saving the day, but not before articulating his reasons for doing so with classic eloquence indelibly defining this character forevermore.

At ten episodes long and in a pivotal position in the show's history, this rare masterpiece has so much that could be noted about it, and different things will stand out to different folks. Something that strikes me first is that here is a science fiction storyline that only the BBC could get away with without looking shoddy or half-baked; their experience and expertise in historical dramas, their attention to accurate detail in sets and costumes, allows "The War Games" to manage not just one realistically believable war zone but many, each one quite distinct. And the ragtag collection of renegades assembled from all different historical eras is a weird sight you'll only ever see in Doctor Who. Just as intriguing in a way is the story's attitude to war as a whole, touching on its horrors and absurdities in a responsible manner appropriate to the show's format and audience, generally taking a dim view of it but not in a gratingly preachy manner. On a different note, there is something clearly archetypal going on in the battle of wits between the Doctor and the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord who, like the Doctor, does "tend to get involved in things" but out of aggressive self-interest. Retrospectively speaking, it's hard not to see this one-off character as a prototype of the Master, but merely within the space of this story alone his rather bombastic mood swings nicely contrast with the smoothly calculating cruelty of the War Lord: a fine balance of complementary villainy, indeed.

Speaking of complementary pairs, Jamie with his brawn and Zoe with her brains really shine here as the Doctor's companions, and the chemistry and friendship between these three characters seems so natural that the nature of their separation at the end is all the more poignant. The bad guys are defeated, and yet the tale ends on a plaintive note of heartbreaking loss. Few shows have the guts to do this, and of those few can manage it with such a sure touch of subtlety. To be honest, Doctor Who itself has kind of dropped the ball on this score more than once, making it all the more precious that "The War Games" aims true and on target as it does. Still, it's odd that four incarnations later the Doctor was put on trial again on the same charges--perhaps Time Lord jurisprudence has no concept of double jeopardy?
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Jason A. Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars "No! No! No! No! No!"
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2009
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Everyone remembers the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) as the jolly, happy little fellow who always looked frazzled but never defeated. His character always managed to escape the angst that seemed to afflict, say, the Fifth and Ninth Doctors on a regular basis, or the Tenth Doctor in every series finale.

However, even 40 years later, the ordeal to which the Second Doctor is subjected in his swan song is kind of shocking. "The War Games" opens with an iconic image, of the Doctor and his loyal companions Jamie and Zoe (well-played by Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury) standing giggling in a mud puddle in the middle of No-Man's Land. By the end of that week's episode, far from giggling in the mud, they've been captured, escaped, captured, court-martialed, and sentenced to death. The World War I firing squad which the Doctor faces in the story's first cliffhanger is one of the grimmest fates his incarnation ever had to face. While "The War Games" has been accused of being slow and padded, Episode One at least is nearly perfect in its pacing and increasingly downbeat tone.

The writers (Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke, two of "Doctor Who"'s best scribes) slowly reveal the mystery over the course of the first several episodes. In the opening act we see an anachronistic TV screen behind British lines. In Episode Two we see the Doctor abruptly drive from France into Ancient Rome, and in Episode Three he's captured by an out-of-place TARDIS. In Episode Four the Doctor is terrified to recognize one of the aliens responsible for manipulating the war zones, and by Episode Six we learn that the both the Doctor and the War Chief are members of the same race -- the Time Lords. While it's inevitable that in a "Doctor Who" story of such length there are bound to be dull spots (here, Episodes Five and Six seem to be the most padded), overall the progression of "The War Games" is fast and unflinching.

In the final two episodes, the Docttor learns that he can only defeat the War Chief and his allies by calling on the Time Lords for help -- but in so doing the audience learns, for the first time in the show's then six-year history, that the Doctor has been on the run from the Time Lords, and that to call them is to invite his own arrest. The entirety of Episode Ten is devoted to the Doctor's capture and trial. The inexorable nature of the Doctor's fate mirrors the grim World War I sequences, and the imposition of the Doctor's sentence in the closing moments is both terrifying and poignant.

"The War Games" is treated to one of the best jobs the Restoration Team has done in their near-decade on the job. This 3-disc set features not only a pristine video restoration, but also an informative text commentary track and a very busy audio commentary booth. The bonus disc is full of documentaries: a lengthy making-of feature, a historical piece on the various wars encountered in the story (although oddly no American professor is interviewed about the American Civil War), and a retrospective look at the Doctor's first nine regenerations (featuring side-splitting observations by various show writers). We also get installments in the ongoing set of features about "Doctor Who" novelizations and comic strips.

Take your time with "The War Games" DVD. Overall this story is "Doctor Who" at the height of its power to both entertain and frighten, and after 40 years may be the "Who" story that has aged better than any other.
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JOHN MARK
5.0 out of 5 stars Dr who
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2024
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The best one he did
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Fabrizio Beccari
5.0 out of 5 stars Doctor Who in 10 puntate
Reviewed in Italy on March 4, 2019
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Bellissima edizione che in 3 DVD propone tutte le 10 puntate di questa avventura del Dottore.
E' l'ultima ad essere girata i bianco e nero. Ma sono gli speciali del terzo disco a fare davvero la differenza. Vivamente consigliato agli amanti del genere.
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Carine Boxho
5.0 out of 5 stars Doctor Who
Reviewed in France on August 17, 2017
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Une collection qui s'agrandit de plus en plus. Le prix était très raisonnable et j'ai pu continuer à remplir mon étagère pour un prix tout à fait raisonnable. Il m'en reste encore beaucoup à acheter.
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Dominic C
5.0 out of 5 stars First experience of second doctor...
Reviewed in Canada on July 24, 2013
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Given that I'd never seen him in action before, and hadn't had previous stories to become emotionally attached, this serial was all I needed to feel the tug when this regeneration of the doctor came to his conclusion at the end of this story. 10 episodes which didn't drag and felt nice and doctory. Excellent special features too.
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Chris Strong
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on July 9, 2018
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Great
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