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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: The War Games
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:01:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On 26/12/2024 12:38, Blueshirt wrote:
>The Doctor wrote:
>
>> In article <vkf2i5$20br7$3@dont-email.me>,
>> The True Doctor  <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>> > On 24/12/2024 10:43, John Hall wrote:
>> >> Last night the BBC showed "The War Games", the final story
>> >> of the second Doctor's tenure which was originally
>> >> broadcast in 1969 (I think). It was on BBC 4, if you are in
>> >> the UK but missed it. 
>> >> In its original form it had run to as many as ten episodes,
>> >> but they had cut it down to 90 minutes, so must have left
>> >> out an awful lot. That probably explains why it felt
>> >> confusing and disjointed in places, but I still enjoyed it.
>> >> (I suppose it's also possible that one or two of the
>> >> original episodes might not have survived, which would have
>> >> contributed to the disjointedness.) They also had colorised
>> >> it, and that was very well done.
>> > 
>> > All of the original episodes survive. 
>> >
>> > [Snip]
>> 
>> I just stick to the old 10 parter!
>
>When was the last time you sat through all ten episodes of "The
>War Games" Dave? An approximate year will do...

Don't know about Dave, I did it in October - I'm on a slow run-through of
 every TV episode (my twice weekly commute involves 4 90 minute train
 journeys, so I get through about 12-16 episodes a week). On 6th January,
 I'll resume my marathon and finish The Mutants, and will probably pause to
 look at this cutdown War Games before facing the horror that is The Time
 Monster.

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There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish
 sometimes.