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| Doctor Who serial | |||
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| Directed by | David Maloney | ||
| Written by | Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke | ||
| Script editor | Terrance Dicks (uncredited) | ||
| Produced by | Derrick Sherwin | ||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||
| Music by | Dudley Simpson | ||
| Production code | ZZ | ||
| Series | Season 6 | ||
| Running time | 10 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
| First broadcast | 19 April 1969 | ||
| Last broadcast | 21 June 1969 | ||
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The War Games is the seventh and final serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from 19 April to 21 June 1969.
In the serial, an unnamed alien race led by the War Lord (Philip Madoc) kidnap and brainwash soldiers from wars throughout Earth's history to fight in war games on another planet as part of the aliens' plot to conquer the galaxy. The time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companions Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury) form a resistance army to stop this plot and to return the kidnapped soldiers home.
The War Games was the last regular appearance of Troughton as the Doctor and the last serial to be recorded in black and white. It also marks the last regular appearances of Padbury and Hines as companions Zoe and Jamie, and the first appearances of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords, and their home planet, Gallifrey. The latter was not named until The Time Warrior (1973).