- ISBN13: 0883929088461
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Description
The TARDIS arrives on a planet where a race known only as the Aliens have gathered soldiers from a number of different wars in history, brainwashed them and put them to battle. Their aim is to form an invincible army from the survivors and use this to take over the galaxy.Amazon.com
Patrick Troughton’s tenure as the Second Doctor comes to an end with this epic 10-part Doctor Who serial from 1969, which finds him at crossed swords with both a diabolical race of ali… More >>
December 11th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
This film, in black and white, has the viewer spellbound until the ending credits. Made for a special audience, this movie creates the atmosphere you love in a movie. Having won tons of awards, the depiction of the chosen subject matter reaches not only the intended audience, but the mass population. This is a special order movie mainly because the general population chose to ignore it when it came out. Now the movie is hard to find, but I urge you, get this one. You won’t be disappointed.
Rating: 3 / 5
December 11th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
It was with a lot of anticipation that
I sat down to re-watch this classic Troughton
finale; it had been at least 10 years since I
had seen it and I had fond memories. I think
those fond memories were justified to an extent,
but perhaps more so because I was, back then, fairly
new to Troughton’s Doctor and I was grooving on the
relative newness of him. He does rock as a Doctor.
Since then I’ve picked up the occasional Troughton
episode with mixed results. “Mind Robber” remains an
easy favorite. But you know what KILLED many an episode
of his? That lame excuse for a companion, Jamie! Man,
what a wimp, what a cosmic accident. I could write
three pages on why he was such a poor Who companion.
Anyway, its gotten to the point where I just can’t stand to
see his face. Zoey, on the other hand, was very cool.
I liked the companions better when they had a little bit
of know-how; let’s face it, if you are a several-hundreds
year old Time Lord, you don’t want to be crowded by mamby-
pamby louts (like Jamie) who are good for a whole lot of
nothing. Did Jamie alone account for this episode’s failures?
Hardly. We love a good long Who-yarn, but this was indeed a
bit too long (for what it was). The acting overall was sub-par, but
mostly by too many extras.
The bad guys (who often used monocles to get their human
soldiers to stay in line) speak in an inhuman and monotone
voice that, after several hours, is retrospectively seen to have “not” been a good idea – as a result, the badies are
so one-dimensional that one easily
looses interest in them and their cause, convoluted as it is
(Daleks can get away with those voices; watching this I felt
like they wanted to ‘remind’ people about the Doctor’s “other” nazi-like enemies.) Is this worth seeing? Abosolutely! Its just a shame they didn’t tighten the bolts while chopping the excess.
Obviously, the Doctor hit his stride with the Pertwee era; Pertwee had EXCELLENT companions, beginning with the awesome Ms. Shaw, etc. Long live WHO!!!
Rating: 3 / 5
December 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
This DVD of the War Games should look fantastic as for the FIRST TIME the org neg film masters made from the org quad 625 line video tapes (that were erased in the 1970’s by the BBC) are used for the transfer, see the Dr Who restoration page for info on this and other classic Dr Who restorations and upcoming releases : [...]
Rating: 5 / 5
December 11th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Over 4 hours long! Ok assuming you have a greater than average attention span, you probably will be able to sit through this…epic? The War Games does involve various accounts of different wars such as the Hundred Years War, the American Civil War, and the Great World War, to name a few. The problem lies in the writing. Episodes 4-8 are riddled with superfluously trite discourse that adds nothing to the story. I literally fell asleep during episode 6 or 7 and woke up an episode and a half later without missing any of the story. None. The War Games could have easily been 4 episodes (6 max) without losing any of the meat. Now you might think I’m being unfair, but I really don’t think so. I’m trying to save you money and 4+ hours of your time. If you want a good Patrick Troughton video buy The Tomb of the CYBERMEN, it is awesome! Now there are some very memorable moments to the War Games and this is ashame because the rest of it…well…isn’t. The last hour is exceptionally good and answers many questions regarding the past, present, and future of Dr. Who, and as a result you may want to suffer through the rest of it. Lastly, I also want to express my deep disappointment and regret that the BBC has trashed all but a handful of Troughton ’s tenure as The Doctor. What a shame, and a waste. jkband@gateway.net
Rating: 2 / 5
December 11th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
This is a good story. An alien race (which look like humans) is planning to conquer the galaxy militarily with the help of the best of the earth’s soldiers as weaned from the greatest wars in our history. They procure the help of a renegade Time Lord who brings all these soldiers together into different war zones on a planet that looks like earth, but isn’t. The Doctor and companions end up in the middle of it, trying to help a burgeoning resistance movement defeat the plan. It drags on too long, though. The Doctor is captured and recaptured and recaptured and it gets a bit redundant and boring. And unbelievable. How many times in one person (or Time Lord’s) life can he escape death? The Doctor does it so often here (including twice being saved from a firing squad), that it becomes a bit unrealistic. The BBC’s continual pandering to feminism is a bit aggravating, too; Zoe knows more about war than Jamie, who is a professional soldier, does and such is obviously contrived just for “equality’s” sake. Realism again is not served. It’s Patrick Troughton’s final show, however, and we do learn quite a bit about the background of the Doctor and his people. No actors really shine; Troughton dominates, as usual. If you are a Doctor Who fan you’ve got to have this; but chances are that, since “The War Games” lasts nearly 4 hours total, you won’t be coming back to it time after time.
Rating: 4 / 5