Quotes
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Dodo: London. Home. It's marvelous to be back. It seems ages since I left.The 1st Doctor: Oh, when you've seen the ages that I've see, you won't use that term quite so freely.
"Scotland Yard whipped off into time and space." ~ Dodo Chaplet
"Well, Miss Chaplet, I'll explain. This is perhaps not the biggest computer in the world, but it's certainly the most advanced. In fact it can handle scientific problems well outside the range of any other computer in existence. We are about to link this up with computers all over the world as a central intelligence. A sort of problem solver." ~ Professor Brett
"No one operates WOTAN. WOTAN operates itself. The computer is merely a brain which thinks logically without any political or private ends. It is pure thought. It makes calculations, it supplies only the truth. It has no imaginative powers." ~ Sir Charles Summer
Brett: I'm not joking. WOTAN has decided that the world cannot progress further with mankind running it.
Krimpton: Oh really? And what does WOTAN propose to do about it, take over from us?
Brett: From now on, we are to serve.
Krimpton: And if we choose not to, I suppose mankind will be eliminated.
Brett: If it is necessary.
"Don't call me Duchess." ~ Polly
Kitty: Have one on the house, Doctor. It isn't every day we get the over twenties in this place. Oh, I dig your fab gear.
The 1st Doctor: Fab gear.
"Doctor Who is required. Bring him here." ~ Wotan
"Top priority is to enlist Doctor Who. He has advanced knowledge which WOTAN needs. Doctor Who must be enlisted into our services tonight." ~ Professor Brett
"Don't be alarmed, Doctor. This is the method of establishing contact. Time is very short. Construction has already begun. You are needed." ~ Dodo Chaplet
The 1st Doctor: I'm rather worried about Polly. She appears to be missing, that child.
Ben: Oh, probably gone all snooty on us.
The 1st Doctor: No, I think it's far more serious than that.
"Polly, do you know what you're doing? Go and get the Doctor before it's too late." ~ Ben
"You tried to warn human authority of our work in this building. You are an enemy of mechanised evolution. Nothing must be allowed to prevent the machines taking over. They are the next stage in the growth of life force of Earth. All obstacles will be swept aside, including you." ~ Major Green
"Faster! All human beings who break down will be eliminated. There is no time for rest. You must follow the example of the machines." ~ Major Green
"She's in a warehouse. A warehouse in Covent Garden. And there's a machine, a killer machine. And if we don't stop it, it'll kill half London!" ~ Ben
"No, I think we should strike at what I believe to be the centre of this menace. WOTAN." ~ The First Doctor
Ben: They must've built these things all round London. If they've got Polly, Doctor, they could've transferred her to help at any one of their premises.
The 1st Doctor: My dear boy, if we worry about one person we shall never solve anything, shall we?
Ben: Looks such a kind old bloke, too, don't he?
Sergeant: He's got other things to think about, mate.
Ben: Yeah, I know, but this bird saved my life, see.
"Well, it will be like the crossing of two electrical currents. My machine has to face up to Brett's computer, WOTAN." ~ The First Doctor
"Her love? Oh, there's gratitude for you. Take her all the way around the world, through space and time, and then..." ~ The First Doctor
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Trivia
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The original idea behind The War Machines was devised by Doctor Who's scientific advisor Kit Pedler.
Gerald Taylor is credited as 'Machine Operator' for Episodes 2 and 3, as both 'Machine Operator' and 'The Voice of WOTAN' (separate on-screen captions) for Episode 4 and only as 'Machine Operator' in Radio Times for Episode 4. He also provided 'The Voice of WOTAN' for Episodes 1 and 2, but was uncredited for this on-screen.
WOTAN is given its own billing, '...and WOTAN', on the closing credits of Episodes 1 to 3 and in Radio Times; although billed in Radio Times for Episode 4, it is not credited on-screen. This is the only time in the series' history that a fictional creation receives a cast credit.
Although Polly was never given an on-screen surname, "Wright" was used in an audition piece for the character at the time. It has since been adopted into various spin-off novels.
This story is also the first time we hear Ben call Polly by the nickname "Dutchess".
WOTAN is pronounced with a soft V as VOTAN by many of the characters.
This is the Doctor's first return to 20th century London since a brief interlude at the end of "Bell of Doom".
The Doctor is particularly ruthless in this story, sending a War Machine to destroy WOTAN when he knows that Brett and Krimpton (and most likely Polly too) are with WOTAN, and are very likely to get killed (as Krimpton does). He does this despite the fact that all three are not acting for themselves, but are under WOTAN's control, so they have no choice about being there, nor any impulse to escape.
This is the only time during the First or Second Doctor's era when the TARDIS crew is completely replaced, leaving no continuing character other than the Doctor.
This is the story in which the Doctor is infamously referred to as "Doctor Who" by WOTAN. This is the only time on television that the Doctor is directly called this. WOTAN perhaps refers to the Doctor in this way due to not knowing who he is.
BBC newsreader Kenneth Kendall plays himself in episode 4, announcing the destruction of the first War Machine.
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Links (Watch @ DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
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