The War Games
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| Story Code: ZZ / Season 6 | UK Airdate: 19 Apr to 21 Jun 1969 | Doctor: Patrick Troughton |
| First airings by location | UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite | Previous Story / Next Story |
This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)
| Hong Kong | Mar 71 | b/w |
| Australia | May 71 | b/w |
| Singapore | Jul 71 | b/w |
| Gibraltar | Sep 72 | b/w |
| Zambia | Apr 76 | b/w |
- This is the second of only two instances in which Australia is not the first to screen a Troughton story. (See also The Space Pirates.)
- Hong Kong presumably sent its films to Singapore soon after transmission, as that was the fate of the RTV prints of The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear.
- The ABC in Australia returned its prints to the BBC on 4 June 1975.
- The ex-Australian prints may have been sent to Zambia.
- 16mm b/w prints of episodes 1 and 2 were found in Taiwan in 2013. It is believed to have been part of a package acquired for free by the AFRTS /American Armed Forces Network in the mid-1970s, however no airdates have been found. It's possible the screening had been "blocked" in 1976 -- see the profile on Armed Forces Network for more.
- See also the Troughton Junkings page.
Reissue
- The serial was reissued by the BBC in 1985, and sold for the first time to:
| United States | from Feb 86 | b/w |
| Canada | 1990s | b/w |
| New Zealand | Sep 00 | b/w |
- For the US screenings, The War Games was also edited into a two-part omnibus "movie" edition - with episodes one to five featured as "Part One", and episodes six to ten as "Part Two".
