The War Machines

027 – The War Machines
Doctor Who serial
A War Machine, having just been assembled.
Cast
Doctor William Hartnell – First Doctor
Companions Jackie Lane – Dodo Chaplet Anneke Wills – Polly Michael Craze – Ben Jackson
Others John Harvey – Professor Brett John Cater – Professor Krimpton William Mervyn – Sir Charles Summer Alan Curtis – Major Green Sandra Bryant – Kitty Ewan Proctor – Flash (customer) George Cross – The Minister Kenneth Kendall – Himself Ric Felgate, Carl Conway – American Journalists John Doye – Interviewer Dwight Whylie – Radio Announcer Desmond Cullum-Jones, Eddie Davis – Workers Roy Godfrey – Tramp Michael Rathborne – Taxi Driver Edward Colliver – Mechanic John Rolfe, John Boyd-Brent, Frank Jarvis, Robin Dawson – Soldiers John Slavid – Man in Telephone Box Gerald Taylor – Machine Operator / Voice of WOTAN
Production
Directed by	Michael Ferguson
Written by	Ian Stuart Black, from a story by Kit Pedler
Script editor	Gerry Davis
Produced by	Innes Lloyd
Music by	Stock music
Production code	BB
Series	Season 3
Running time	4 episodes, 25 minutes each (material missing from parts 3–4)
First broadcast	25 June 1966 (1966-06-25)
Last broadcast	16 July 1966 (1966-07-16)
Chronology
← Preceded by The Savages Followed by → The Smugglers
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The War Machines is the tenth and final serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in 4 weekly parts from 25 June to 16 July 1966.

The serial is set in London in the 1960s,^[a] shortly after construction of the Post Office Tower was completed. In the serial, the time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and sailor Ben Jackson (Michael Craze) work together to stop the self-thinking computer WOTAN (voiced by Gerald Taylor) from invading London with the deadly War Machines controlled by WOTAN.

This serial marks the departure of Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet and also the first appearance of Michael Craze and Anneke Wills as new companions Ben and Polly. It is also the only known complete serial to feature Anneke Wills and Michael Craze, and the final complete serial from the William Hartnell era.
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