March 20th, 2025
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Doctor Who The War Games in Colour Steelbook
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk, www.zavvi.com and www.rarewaves.com
Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), following him and his companions Zoe and Jamie as they land in a battlefield that appears to be a World War I military zone-but all is not as it seems. They soon discover that soldiers from different historical periods have been abducted and are being manipulated in a cruel game. As they work to uncover the mystery behind the War Lord and his twisted experiments, the Doctor faces one of his most difficult challenges.
For the first time, these original episodes have been meticulously colourised and enhanced with updated visual effects edited into a new, feature-length experience. This particular release includes the extended 96-minute version, with updated sound and a new score, this version of The War Games offers both fans and newcomers even more ways to watch the much-loved classic story. In addition, the episode will also feature the Second Doctor’s never-before-seen regeneration into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee), alongside recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast. This release also includes the original ten episodes in black & white as they were first broadcast, all special features from the previous release, plus brand new special features including;
- Audio commentary – Russell T Davies, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Benjamin Cook, Rich Tipple and Mark Ayres,
- Model Shots featurette,
- Model-Making featurette,
- Chris Hayden Interview with Radio Free Skaro,
- Full Newly Discovered 16mm Film Footage,
- “The War Games in Colour” Trailer,
- Easter Egg: “What a stupid fool YOU are”,
- Colour Palettes,
- Concept Art,
- Photo Gallery
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rich
March 22nd, 2025 - 8:45pmWhat was the recovered footage?
Fred
March 22nd, 2025 - 2:37pmI suspect that cover belongs in the “seemed like a good idea at the time” box. I see what they were trying to do. But it looks like a holiday brochure. The regular cover is much nicer, but I’m not sure I have enough reason to get this anyway. It was alright, better than The Daleks in Colour for sure, but I’d still rather watch the original, and will do so on the DVD or on the Collection Blu-ray when they get around to doing that one.
DPHill
March 20th, 2025 - 10:27pmI wonder if we will get the pdfs and if the discs will be new ones instead of reprints? The menus being exactly the same for Daleks felt a little cheeky, and no booklet neither – but we will get everything when the collection comes along
Gordon
March 20th, 2025 - 11:42pmI’m not expecting new discs outside of the in colour disc. Like the daleks in colour one. It’s 4 discs after all.
War Chief Master
March 20th, 2025 - 8:26pmLooking forward to this!!
James
March 20th, 2025 - 7:59pmWhats the extra 6 minutes?
Amypondfan
March 20th, 2025 - 8:53pmSix minutes of colourised footage from the original episodes that didn’t get used in the cut.
Pete X
March 20th, 2025 - 9:31pmProbably material from episodes 6 to 8 to explain who the characters (Russell, Villar, etc) are who, in the broadcast version, suddenly turn up in the central base to be processed by the Doctor without much indication of who they are or why they are important.
We are still getting proportionally less of War Games than we did of the Daleks.
Gareth Pugh
March 21st, 2025 - 1:46pmAccording to Ben Cook (who edited this) on Twitter / X yesterday, at least some of the restored 6 minutes includes where the Doctor demonstrates the Sonic on the revolver in the army dug-out.