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Infotext: Because “The War Games” takes place in so many different environments, it called for careful sound design. Take the time to listen and you’ll notice how each setting has its own distinctive background sound: the crump of the First World War guns, the crickets in the American barn, the insistent electronic chumbling of the War Room. Here the oscillating chirrup of the landing bay slowly gives way to the low hum of the travel machine.

Infotext: In the past few episodes, the authors have been laying down clues about the aliens’ travel machines. We keep being reminded of how similar they are to the Doctor’s Tardis. The machines are bigger inside than out, and they travel by dematerialising. To our eyes the control mechanisms may look nothing like the familiar hexagonal Tardis console, but the Doctor has just said that the two system designs are only “slightly different”. And now we learn that the machines’ interior dimensions can be manipulated. Many 1969 viewers would have remembered what happened in “The Wheel in Space” when the Tardis malfunctioned: the spacious control room vanished, replaced by the cramped interior of an ordinary police box.

OSGOOD: Look, if you push 10,000 volts through this lash-up you’ll blow it anyway! BRIGADIER: Just do as you’re told, Sergeant. The Doctor knows what he’s doing. (to the Doctor) Do you know what you’re doing? DOCTOR: My dear chap, I can’t wait to find out.

BRIGADIER: I want to talk to him. What? Oh, all right then, wake up Miss Grant. I see. And I suppose she didn't leave a number either? I suppose it wouldn't do any good to ask for Captain Yates or Sergeant Benton? My helicopter? Where to?

NARRATOR: For some, the UNIT dating question is merely “Why did Captain Yates never get to take Jo Grant out on the town?” For others, it’s the single most controversial question in the whole history of Doctor Who.

Infotext: Christopher Barry asked the villagers to boo the Master as he goes, but the children liked him so much that they wanted to cheer instead.