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| Official BBC VHS release art by Alister Pearson. |
The Patrick Troughton era comes to a weighty, landmark-exciting yet also seminally bittersweet and moving close, as the Second Doctor and his companions find themselves immersed in a created conflict of war by galactic invaders on a shrouded alien world, who are using human Earth soldiers as potential cannon fodder for their own future plans. It's a diverse battlefield and threat that soon proves too much for one Time Lord to handle on his own, however, as the Doctor's future destiny comes into question with the arriving 'help' of his powerful home planet allies...
I remember first watching The War Games on Australian copies VHS back in 1987 and, as a 17-year old, found it too long at ten episodes. But over the years, especially via the story's first UK sell-through tape release in the 90's, I started to re-appraise it for the classic it truly is.
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