Its 1966, and Londons brand new Post Office Tower looms over the Doctor and Dodo as they step from the TARDIS. When the Doctor meets Professor Brett, creator of a new, superintelligent computer called WOTAN, he is intrigued to hear of a plan to link all the major computers around the world.But there is more to WOTAN than meets the eye: it secretly believes humans to be inferior to machines, and already has a number of Post Office Tower staff under hypnotic power. WOTAN is planning the widespread construction of War Machines, large armoured computers bent on taking over the world!
Story Order
- Story 27 from Doctor Who
- Story 10 of 10 from Season 3
Episodes
Saturday
25th June 1966
5:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)
The Doctor and Dodo visit the new Post Office Tower and are introduced to the super computer, WOTAN.
Saturday
2nd July 1966
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)
WOTAN has ordered its human subjects to construct deadly war machines in secret locations.
Saturday
9th July 1966
5:35PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)
The Doctor comes face-to-face with the unstoppable might of the War Machines.
Saturday
16th July 1966
5:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)
The Doctor hatches a dangerous plan to capture a War Machine and turn WOTAN's creations against it.
Credits
- Dr. WhoWilliam Hartnell
- DodoJackie Lane
- Major GreenAlan Curtis
- Professor BrettJohn Harvey
- PollyAnneke Wills
- KittySandra Bryant
- BenMichael Craze
- FlashEwan Proctor
- Sir Charles SummerWilliam Mervyn
- Professor KrimptonJohn Cater
- American JournalistRic Felgate
- InterviewerJohn Doye
- WorkerDesmond Cullum-Jones
- TrampRoy Godfrey
- Taxi DriverMichael Rathborne
- Machine OperatorGerald Taylor
- WorkerEddie Davis
- CaptainJohn Rolfe
- SergeantJohn Boyd-Brent
- CorporalFrank Jarvis
- SoldierRobin Dawson
- Television NewsreaderKenneth Kendall
- The MinisterGeorge Cross
- Garage MechanicEdward Colliver
- Man in telephone boxJohn Slavid
- Radio AnnouncerDwight Whylie
- US CorrespondentCarl Conway
- The voice of WOTANGerald Taylor