The War Machines

027 – **The War Machines**
027 – The War Machines
Doctor Who serial
	A War Machine, having just been assembled.
Cast
	Doctor William Hartnell – First Doctor;
	Companions Jackie Lane – Dodo Chaplet; Anneke Wills – Polly; Michael Craze – Ben Jackson;
	Others Alan Curtis – Major Green; John Harvey – Professor Brett; Sandra Bryant – Kitty; Ewan Proctor – Flash (customer); William Mervyn – Sir Charles Summer; John Cater – Professor Krimpton; Ric Felgate – American Journalist; John Doye – Interviewer; Desmond Cullum-Jones – Worker; Roy Godfrey – Tramp; Michael Rathborne – Taxi Driver; Gerald Taylor – Machine Operator / Voice of WOTAN; Eddie Davis – Worker; John Rolfe – Captain; John Boyd-Brent – Sergeant; Frank Jarvis – Corporal; Robin Dawson – Soldier; Kenneth Kendall – Television Newsreader; George Cross – The Minister; Edward Colliver – Garage Mechanic; John Slavid – Man in Telephone Box; Dwight Whylie – Radio Announcer; Carl Conway – US Correspondent;
Production
Directed by	Michael Ferguson
Written by	Ian Stuart Black, from a story by Kit Pedler
Script editor	Gerry Davis
Produced by	Innes Lloyd
Music by	None
Production code	BB
Series	Season 3
Running time	4 episodes, 25 minutes each (material missing from parts 3–4)
First broadcast	25 June 1966
Last broadcast	16 July 1966
Chronology
← Preceded by; The Savages	Followed by →; The Smugglers

The War Machines is the tenth and final serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in 4 weekly parts from 25 June to 16 July 1966.

The serial is set in London in the 1960s, shortly after construction of the Post Office Tower was completed. In the serial, the time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and sailor Ben Jackson (Michael Craze) work together to stop the self-thinking computer WOTAN (voiced by Gerald Taylor) from invading London with the deadly War Machines controlled by WOTAN.

This serial marks the departure of Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet and the first appearance of Michael Craze and Anneke Wills as new companions Ben and Polly. It is the only known complete surviving serial to feature Anneke Wills and Michael Craze, and the final complete serial from the William Hartnell era.