The War Machines

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Story Code: BB / Season 3 UK Airdate: 25 Jun to 16 Jul 1966 Doctor: William Hartnell
First airings by location UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite Previous Story / Next Story
Telesnaps: the top three frames are part of the missing "attack on troops" cut by the NZ censors in 1968

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.)

Australia Apr 67 b/w
Barbados May 68 b/w
Zambia Sep 68 b/w
New Zealand Jun 69 b/w
Sierra Leone Aug 70 b/w
Singapore Feb 72 b/w
Nigeria Apr 73? b/w
  • The New Zealand government censors made a number of cuts to the episodes, including the removal of several minutes from episode three's attack on the troops in the warehouse. This missing footage was partially restored for the DVD by carefully dropping in alternative shots taken from the surviving material. John Cura's telesnaps taken off screen at the time of broadcast have preserved three frames from the still missing footage.
  • New Zealand sent its film prints of this serial to Singapore on 10 January 1972. The sale to Singapore was actually "back-catalogue", as they had already started screening Jon Pertwee stories by this time.
  • After screening the serial in February 1972, Singapore sent the prints to Nigeria.
  • An Australian print of part two was later found in the possession of an Australian film collector, and a copy was returned to the BBC in the late 1970s. This in effect became the first of the missing episodes to be recovered from overseas...
  • All four episodes were later recovered from Nigeria in 1984, these being the ones that had originated in New Zealand, and sent to Singapore. Singapore or Nigeria had made further censor cuts or timing edits to some of the episodes.
  • The prints still held by Sierra Leone were reportedly lost when the film storage facility was destroyed in 1999 during the 1991-2001 civil war.
  • See also Hartnell Junkings


Reissue

  • The newly-recovered serial was quickly made available to:
United States from Sep 85 b/w
Canada 1990s b/w
  • Apparently the regeneration sequence from Hartnell to Troughton was grafted onto the end of part four on some of the omnibus editions of the serial.
  • For the later DVD release, the films were restored by combining elements from the New Zealand / Singapore / Nigeria prints with a print of part two and censor clippings recovered from Australia.


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