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I do say Paul I hope this version is released on dvd, and also perhaps they could later do Tomb of the Cybermen like they have done with this story and the first Dalek serial which I have on dvd.

At least there was one good Doctor Who episode this Christmas. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Congratulations Paul I love your channel I’m 63 and love reminiscing on your videos 😀👍

Happy Christmas Paul thank you for all your great videos throughout the year have a great day 😀😀👍👍

For me, the positives: Suspension of disbelief where it felt like an early 70s story visually. The hint of Nu-Who regeneration audio when the War Chief's body is being moved off-screen. Mixing footage of some scenes over the audio of another to aid exposition and save time. The re-colourisation of clips of Quarks, Ice Warriors, Yetis, Cybermen and Daleks. The regeneration - not perfect but since I've seen the clip online long before it was appropriated for this project, it looked better than I remember. The UNIT-era confusing the TARDIS' dating circuits. The end Credits - Pertwee style. The could-have been better bits: The break-neck pace was almost relentless with some footage feeling like it was sped-up compared to the original. Too many musical queues to hammer in the potential link between War Chief and The Master - just the one will do! The inclusion of Peter and Jodie as next incarnation options - love them to bits but they're the next regeneration cycle, so it felt somewhat out of place - perhaps John Hurt as the one who's too old? (RIP sir!)

Loved the new version. Gorgeous to look at and with an incredible pace you’d scarce have expected from what has inevitably been a bloated story despite its quality. The War Chief revisionism was my favourite element, and makes perfect sense in my head canon, but I’m sure there’s many more already shrieking with horror at yet another piece of revisionism; and one easily ignored by the new audience for whom this cutdown colourisation was surely meant for.

I see no reason to have edited it down to 90min. The complete 10 part story is just fine as it was. As for color, when I have purchased the other animated shows they have come in color and B/W. I have only watched the B/W version.

I was extremely impressed with the new regeneration. Wow!

It was good except for the modern effects. The worst part was using the 2005 doctors near the end. This was just cringe of the highest order.

Nothing but admiration for work gone into it. But I felt I was watching a VHS tape in fast forward. I don't remember much of it, except for the fine performances from the War Lord and War Chief. Probably would have better over two 90 minute episodes? The new music again killed the tension, except for the early 70's Master's theme during the Doctor and War Chief meeting.

I simply loved it, thanks to all those who worked on it

The regeneration was a fan film who was approach by the BBC to include it into the War Games as he did a great job considering he didn’t have the tools and the budget behind him and is more plausible that what was originally given, Well done to fan for his efforts.

You'd be irritated if you were Rudolph Walker wouldn't you!

The new incidental score was jarring and it relentlessly whined on and on over the dialogue - so much that it became muffled and indecipherable. The whistle-stop fast cutting killed all pathos and suspense that was so much part of the original. The mistakes they made in the colourised version of 'The Daleks' have obviously not been learned in this one.

I always have thought of the first 2 doctors stories as having lots of padding possibly a 1/3rd or extreme a 1/2 and after watching war games i think it would be better as 120mins rather than 90. It was still jarring, but I think they got away with it. The new footage looks too modern....should have been dirtied a little to look like spearhead 1970 rather than 2024. Again, all my opinion, but as said.....just about got away with it imho. Excelsior

Well I enjoyed it. It was a pleasure to see my favourite TARDIS team in colour and whilst I don’t agree with all the changes I’m not bothered, my DVD is still on my shelf. I wouldn’t want to see complete originals colourised-that would be disrespectful to the glory of black’n white 😁

I have watched the first part so far. The exterior view of the alien base looks amazing, so that was recreated, I liked it. I recognised the exterior shots of Cuckmere haven in Sussex. Anyway it was all beautifully re coloured

So true, I agree with most of your thoughts other than I found the regeneration choice amusing and the new regeneration footage awesome. I think considering the ambition this was probably as good as we were going to get. Like the only other classic who colourisation as ambitious would be remaking the Dalek's Master Plan, in my opinion. Nice to hear your thoughts.

It's official, the War Chief IS the Master. Despite what the co writer of the story, the late Terrance Dicks is on record as saying, that he wasn't.

Totally agree with you. Loved the master references but especially the Roger Delgado musical motif. Also, was that a bit of "regeneration" music I heard on the last shot with the war chief's body?

A fun curio, but I still prefer the original. I remember my friend and I making our way through this epic over two evenings on VHS 🙂

Negatives: The CGI of the War Lords' base looked ridiculous and was laughably bad. Music - loved the subtlety of Dudley Simpson's original score but this was too much; over the top and in places worked against the actors' lines. The CGI/AI closeup shot of Jon Pertwee's face post regeneration should have been left out. The shots of him talking in the chair after this CGI/AI shot were great and were enough. The images of Capaldi, Tennant etc.. when picking a new face didn't work for me. Perhaps rough pencil drawn images of the actors would have been better, akin to the original images. I wish a montage of Season 7 (by far my favourite season) had been included to showcase the forthcoming S7 Blu Ray release. Positives: I thought the edit (to my surprise) was good, managing to condense well over 4 hours down to 1.5 hours. The biggest positive, though, is Patrick Troughton. He just shines through, as always; what a wonderful doctor.

I'm sure the footage with Pertwee is Pertwee as he did a fan film of the regeneration before he died.

I thought it was an absolutely dreadful parody of an all time classic story. The colouring was off, I could still see patches of black and white like on some of the early Pertwee stories. The music was obnoxious and ruined most of the dialogue. The cgi looked like it was from the 90s and the pace and atmosphere was completely gone. They say they are trying to retell these stories for a modern audience. But the “modern audience” watch Netflix and binge hour after hour of long format series, so why is a 4 hour doctor Who story such struggle to get through? I don’t think it’s got anything to do with revamping old stories for the modern audience, it’s just Russel T Davies and his massive ego not being content with just ruining nu who so he has to go back and ruin the old show by reinventing it in his own image. It’s almost like saying the original production is rubbish. Classics are classics, stop meddling with them.

I think the regeneration was "borrowed" from a fan project, so be kind! I think it would have worked better if film-ised a bit, and I wish the "suggested faces" weren't publicity shots of Capaldi, Tennant, etc, it looks a bit tacky. I wouldn't have mind if they'd used the same sort of effect they used in Rogue. Feels like budget may have been limited.

It was great.

Sorry, I thought this was an absolute mess. It's basically a glorified "official" fanedit, that has no concerns for telling a coherent, well paced story. I mean, the jump cuts were terrible, laughable really. My wife, who had never seen the story before, but does like Who a lot, just turned to me and said this is dreadful, can we just watch the original? Thankfully, yes...yes we can. The only positive for me was the picture quality looked great for the most part...but that was it.

As you mentioned, Paul : Guy N. Smith and another is James Herbert with his Rats novels :)

Whilst I admired the programme’s ambition, and it is always good to see Patrick and Co, some of the editing was jarring and reminiscent of a clips show.

A well balanced and fair review. It was fine for me. I just view it as an alternate way to watch The War Games the same way I can watch the 2 Cushing films in place of The Daleks or Dalek invasion of Earth if I feel in the mood.

I really enjoyed seeing this Doctor's episode in colour ,so crisp and beautifully done wow ! I'm in my late 50's now and when I was a kid would try and imagine thie era in colour ,and would be thrilled enough to come across a colour still photo ....no complaints from me ! The music hinting at a Master origin story arch, I loved ...it made perfect sense when listening to the dialogue between him and the doctor .I was impressed with the regeneration scene ,for a modern audience its more satisfying.... The inner kid in me was left thirsty for more ...thank you to everyone who made an old Dr Who fan feel like a young one again ....best Christmas present (trust me on that !) 😂

I absolutely loved it, watched with my 20 year old son, it held his interest. I like how it implies the war chief is the Master. I'll be getting this on dvd . I enjoyed this better than the Daleks.

IMO the colourisation is impressive. Some of the filmed sequences could do with "sharpening up" a bit, and the audio needs some work to make it sound less muffled. However, it's an extremely good effort. I hope they do more.

I agree about the Music also The inclusion of the other doctors as illustrations similar to before would have been better and less jarring, and I wish some of the new scenes had of made them look abit more grainy to fit in with the time period but other than that i really enjoyed it

After the abomination of The Daleks I didn’t bother pre-ordering this. RTD butchered it unforgivably. I just can’t put myself through the pain again. I’ve no issue with them being colourized but leave them preserved without the retconned alterations, edits, modernized special effects and music.

As with “The Daleks” the music let it down for me, I just felt I was watching a montage sequence like those bits in “Confidential” whenever they were illustrating some moments from the classic era to music except this went on for 90 minutes! Less would definitely have been more IMO. It wasn’t a total disaster, i liked the regen epilogue, the colourisation was better than the last effort and the story held together quite well considering nearly 2/3 of it was chopped. An interesting curio but I’ll be sticking to the original for future rewatches. Oh and the “Master” retcon, meh, but again the music was far too OTT, subtle it wasn’t, they should have just kept it to that little motif from Dudley’s original theme when the Doctor and War Chief have their little chat and left it there.

I recorded it. I saw the regeneration at the end. From the bit I saw, I thought it was God-awful. Colourised stories often are. The colourisation looked poor on my 4K TV, and there was a serious mismatch in picture quality between the original colourised footage, and the regeneration scene. The regeneration scene was clearly done by a fan of New Who, as Troughton had the usual stupid flames coming from his extremities. Then they tacked-on a bit of Spearhead. And they used the Pertwee end credits on a Troughton story. Awful, awful, awful. And most of the story went on the cutting room floor! Why bother with this butchered technicolour rubbish, when we have the 10 original episodes, in glorious Black-&-White-O-Vision?

Gave up watching after 10 mins like the other colorized edit, I found the alterations head ache inducing and unwatchable, imagine if all current shows were edited like this, they aren't, there is always a brief reaction to dialogue, they don't cut away the instant a sentence ends right into another characters in another scene, you'd get lost

Though compared to Diehard, it's got more in common with the Liam Nielson film called the commuter, which, and it's only my opinion, is a more exciting take on the concept. It's a few years old now but we'll worth a review. Have a lovely Christmas to you and anyone who read my comment.

I remember kids at school, probably too young to watch, were happily traumatized (!) by this, especially the initially fox attack on the car. I remember Brenda Bruce's plotline really gave me the creeps too. I watched it all recently and yes, it got to me all over again! Terrific review!

There's no rabies in Western Europe now. Dogs and cats can go there on pet passport scheme where they get vaccinated for it before they leave.

The edited butchered version no thanks. I've got the full 3 episodes uncut at 50 minutes each.

I bought copy of Mad Death more recently no extra but that's BBC for you.

The Furies by Keith Roberts, is good s fi book. Its about man sized bees attacking humans after nuclear weapons test goesi wrong. It's dated but I enjoyed it.

TV drama is totally different from the book.

Until Theads this was the most scariest tv drama I'd seen on TV.

What about ultimate one Threads?

Ooooooo get you with the flashy title sequence! I think you should include a rabid dog or two!

*Apologies for the over-editing on this video!! Hope it's not too distracting!*

Congratulations. Having just watched your video on Network's demise I just realised how many of their releases I have. Ghost Squad, The Power Game, Gideon's Way, Strange Report (maybe time for a review?), The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and UFO. Nearly every time I bought one TPTV started showing it.