This Week in Doctor WhoThis Week in Doctor Who

This Week in United Kingdom


See broadcasts for UKTV GoldThe War Machines: Omnibus
(incorporating: Episode 1 / Episode 2 / Episode 3 / Episode 4)

Last updated 02 January 2017
The War Machines: Omnibus
Broadcast: Saturday 13th November 1999
~12:30am GMT < > « »
UKTV Gold (adverts during broadcast)
Google
Featuring: William Hartnell, Michael Craze, Jackie Lane, Anneke Wills, John Cater, Alan Curtis, John Harvey, William Mervyn

In London in 1966, the Doctor and Dodo visit the new Post Office Tower and are introduced to the super computer, WOTAN.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide

Broadcast notes:

(original TWIDW report missing for this episode)
Broadcast Source: TWiDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 12th November 1999:
UK Gold
http://www.sceneone.co.uk/s1/tv/listings
Late Fri 12:45-2:20AM GMT The War Machines movie
The final surviving 1st Doctor story, and the first story that fully took place in the same year that the story was broadcast in. The Doctor and Dodo investigate a super computer recently installed in the Post Office Tower. It seems that the computer wants to hook up with all the other computers on Earth, sort of a world wide web. Of course, such a thing could never happen in real life.
Sun 9:20-11:15AM GMT Castrovalva movie
UK Gold makes a second attempt at airing the 5th Doctor's first story.

UK Gold Classic
http://www.sceneone.co.uk/s1/tv/listings
Sun 6-7:55PM GMT Warriors' Gate? movie
The only consistency I have seen in the various versions of the UK Gold November schedules that have appeared over the last month is that they all think that this story is airing in this slot.