Saturday, 12 November 2016

The War Machines

(Series 3, Episodes 42-45)

Summary: London, 1966.  A computer named WOTAN wants to take over the world by controlling the minds of a few scientists up the BT Tower.  The military are called in but are hapless and ineffectual.  The Doctor defeats the computer’s tank-like robots by roping them off in a VIP area, picking up a cockernee sailor and a posh secretary in the process.  Meanwhile, Dodo disappears in episode two, never to be seen again.

Watch it because: Doctor Who does the swinging sixties.


Original Air Date: 25 June – 16 July 1966.
Doctor: William Hartnell.
Companions: Dodo Chaplet (Jackie Lane), Ben Jackson (Michael Craze) and Polly (Anneke Wills).
Writer: Ian Stuart Black.
Director: Michael Ferguson.
Producer: Innes Lloyd.

Available on DVD? Yes.

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