Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Doctor Who. The War Machines [videorecording] : the William Hartnell years 1963-1966 / British Broadcasting Corporation ; produced by Innes Lloyd ; written by Ian Stuart Black ; directed by Michael Ferguson.

Publisher, Date:

[England] : BBC Video ; [New York, NY] : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

The Tardis arrives in London in 1966, where the Doctor and Dodo visit the recently opened Post Office Tower. There, they discover a brilliant new problem-solving super computer called the Will Operating Thought ANalogue. But when WOTAN decides that it should rule the world, the Doctor is the only person who can stop its rampaging War Machines from destroying London.

Subjects:

Doctor Who (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Public buildings -- England -- London -- Drama.

Computers -- England -- London -- Drama.

Operating systems (Computers) -- Drama.

Action and adventure television programs.

Science fiction television programs.

Fantasy television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Television series.

Other Author:

Lloyd, Innes.

Black, Ian Stuart, 1915-1997.

Ferguson, Michael, 1937-2021

Hartnell, William, 1908-1975.

Lane, Jocelyn.

Wills, Anneke.

Craze, Michael, 1942-1998

Pedler, Kit.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

BBC Video (Firm)

BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Other Title:

War Machines.

Doctor Who. Story no. 27.

Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989)

Notes:

Title from container.

Based on the idea by Kit Pedler.

Originally broadcast on the BBC between June 25 and July 16, 1966.

Special features: Audio commentary by actor Anneke Wills and director Michael Ferguson; "Now and then" location featurette; Blue Peter clips featuring the new Post Office Tower and the War Machines; One foot in the past archive clip on Post Office Tower; "WOTAN assembly:" how the story was pieced back together from disparate sources for the DVD release; Easter egg; photo gallery; production note option; DVD-ROM features: Radio Times listings, War Machine design plan.

William Hartnell, Jackie Lane, Anneke Wills, Michael Craze.

DVD, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN:

1419874934

9781419874932

Publisher Number:

1000043356

3000018673

Other Number:

294861519

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

231308

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Doctor W

Medium:

[videorecording]