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Story #027: The War Machines

Released On: January 06, 2009
Region: 1
Production Company: BBC Video
Description:
London, 1966. The TARDIS materialises in the shadow of the newly-completed Post Office Tower, and the Doctor senses a strange energy in the air. He instinctively knows that evil is at work nearby. Posing as a scientist, the Doctor and his 'secretary' Dodo gain access to a suite at the top of the tower and meet the driven Professor Brett. His life's work, the thinking computer WOTAN, is about to be linked up in a problem-solving network with many other machines around the world.

But the Doctor is concerned. How can WOTAN possibly know the meaning of the word 'TARDIS' and about the Doctor's travels through time and space? What is the strange control that WOTAN can exert over humans via a mere telephone call? Andwhat is the computer's link with the deadly robots being assembled in Covent Garden warehouse?
Features:
Number of Discs: 1
Number of Episodes: 4
Running Time: 95 mins
Video: Full Frame (1.33:1)
Audio: Unknown
Subtitles: None/Unknown

* Audio Commentary: Anneke Wills ("Polly") and Director Michael Ferguson
* "Now & Then" Featurette: Revisits the London locations used in the story, to compare them as they are now, with how they were back in 1966
* Blue Peter Segments: A compilation of related articles from the popular children's magazine show: Valerie Singleton shows new stamps of the Post Office Tower; Christopher Trace goes to visit the tower and shows viewers how to build a model of it; a War Machine visits the Blue Peter studio; Schoolchildren bring in a Dalek they built at school
* One Foot in the Past Segment: Politician and ex-Postmaster General Tony Benn investigates the history of the Post Office Tower, and is allowed up to the now-defunct revolving restaurant and onto the roof, in this extract from the BBC2 show
* "WOTAN Assembly" Featurette: Explains how the story was pieced back together from disparate sources for the DVD release, after falling victim to overseas censorship in the '60s
* Photo Gallery
* Coming Soon trailer
* DVD-ROM: Radio Times Billings PDF. "War Machine" Design Drawings PDF
* Subtitle Production Notes
* Easter Egg




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