Audience Rating: To Be Announced
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014503244125
Format: PAL
Label: 2 Entertain Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: August 25, 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1966

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
A hugely enjoyable Doctor Who adventure from the very infancy of the show, The War Machines finds William Hartnell in charge of the Tardis, and naturally enough there's an impending crisis facing the Earth.

Set in the era in which the story was made, The War Machines sees the Doctor and Dodo heading off to the Post Office Tower, where they find out all about Professor Brett's new computer, WONTAN. And setting the scene for many science fiction films and television shows that would explore similar themes, WONTAN soon becomes a computer that believes machines should be in charge, and hence introduces the war machines of the story's title.

Really well realised, and making the most of the resources at its disposal, The War Machines is visually impressive, but also a well-constructed story. It clearly works within many of the television conventions of the time, but Hartnell was always a strong Doctor, and the story explores its themes confidently too. It's good to have it on disc. Backed up by a substantive extras list, with a healthy slice of archive material, The War Games is a welcome DVD release, and a very good story from the archives of Doctor Who. --Jon Foster




Rating: - Interesting but not that good
Generally this adventure has much to recommend it and does, indeed provide an interesting record of the time in which it was made. I came away glad to have watched it but not clear I would watch it again any time soon. Many things grated with me, in no particular order:

* WOTAN uses the name Doctor Who explicitly several times which I found grating

* The change of companions is abrupt and the story ends just as the new companions enter the TARDIS meaning you miss the ... Read More

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Rating: - HARTNELL'L FIX IT!


Doctor Who

The War Machines

Starring William Hartnell

* New BBC DVD Release * Latest Triumph of the Restoration Team *

4 Episode Adventure

Feature Length: 95 minutes.

First broadcast 25h June - 16th July, 1966.

Written by Ian Stuart Black, based on an idea by

Kit Pedler.



A marvellous romp through the Swinging Sixties with the original Doctor in all his grumpy, ... Read More

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Rating: - WOTAN to take over the world
Well after many months of waiting one of favourite William Hartnell stories has been released onto DVD.

This is without doubt a brilliant story which even today still has that same fear, of computers trying to take over humans and for them to rule mankind, its done in a very effective but simplistic way and so just becareful next time you answer your telephone

The departure of Dodo was rather sudden and i think not very well thought through,one minute she is recuperating, the next ... Read More

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Rating: - "I dig your fab gear!"
Hartnell's travels as the Doctor only rarely took him to contemporary Earth so it's the visual delight of seeing him out and about in 1960's London taking black cabs, admiring the newly finished Post Office Tower and strolling into nightclubs, that is the first and most immediate pleasure here. Surrounded by soldiers, assisting the establishment by fighting an invasion of robots, you could easily insert Jon Pertwee without it looking out of place. 1966's THE WAR MACHINES therefore provides a (somewhat shakey) ... Read More

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Rating: - doctor who comes down to earth
a doctor who story from 1966, featuring william hartnell as the first doctor. jackie lane as his companion dodo. and introducing two new companions, polly played by anneke wills and ben played by michael craze.

the story runs for four twenty five minute long episodes. all are in black and white. the picture quality can vary a bit from scene to scene but is generally very good and perfectly watchable.

in the mid 60's, with the post office tower having just been built in london, one doctor ... Read More

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