The War Machines ending...

[Tomalak]

Best line in The Highlanders - "You're just a stupid peasant!"

 

[Rarewolf]

I think original companions Ian and Barbara were supposed to cameo for the walk past, but it couldn't be arranged. RTD would have found a way!

 

[ClayinCA]

Actually, if it was Patrick Troughton, it would sort of make sense. In the Troughton story "The Faceless Ones," it's mentioned that the Doctor's gotten Ben and Polly back to London on the same day that they first started traveling with him. So the Second and First Doctors are both in London on that date...

 

[Phillip Culley]

I think original companions Ian and Barbara were supposed to cameo for the walk past, but it couldn't be arranged. RTD would have found a way!

Nope - it was planned Ian and Barbara would appear at the end of The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve; in Dodo's first scene

Actually, if it was Patrick Troughton, it would sort of make sense. In the Troughton story "The Faceless Ones," it's mentioned that the Doctor's gotten Ben and Polly back to London on the same day that they first started traveling with him. So the Second and First Doctors are both in London on that date...

Plus the Daleks were around for the beginning of The Evil of the Daleks, so explaining why the Doctor got his 'tingling feeling'

 

[ClayinCA]

^^ Ooh yeah, good point, I hadn't thought about that. These days, that would have all been planned out in advance, of course. But retconning is such fun....

 

[diankra]

^^ Ooh yeah, good point, I hadn't thought about that. These days, that would have all been planned out in advance, of course. But retconning is such fun....

And one retcon you get to do as a result is to do with the dates - when they were making War Machines, they were probably assuming it was set a few years into the future, to judge by which days of the week the stated dates fall on. Someone worked out the candidates but I'd have to look them up - I think it might have been 1968 and 1973 )or even 1962), but basically 1966 doesn't fit with the Saturday the whatever of July that's mentioned as C-Day in the dialogue).


BTW: that last day of War Machines is probably the day that's got the most serials set on it - War Machines 4, Faceless Ones 6 and Evil 1. The closest other candidate being 28th February 1981 - Logopolis 1 and Four to Doomsday, and possibly the last episode of Keeper of Traken.

 

[ClayinCA]

Wouldn't Castrovalva 1 take place on the same day as Logopolis, too?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, but it was just a continuation of Logopolis. The War Machines was 8 serials prior to The Faceless Ones.

 

[Davros]

Yeah, I've always hated how Dodo was quietly dismissed from behind the scenes without a proper goodbye. I'm especially miffed because I liked Dodo a lot.

Then you might not like her fate in the Doctor Who Killed Kennedy novel.