The Doctor calls WOTAN - Doctor Who - The War Machines - BBC

The Doctor's call to the Post Office Tower is re-routed to WOTAN with devasting consequences. Is he too about to become the next to fall under WOTAN's mind-controlling spell. Classic clip from the 1966 four-part story 'The War Machines' starring William Hartnell as the Doctor. Watch more videos on the new Classic Doctor Who KZbin channel here: / bbcclassicdoctorwho and get the latest Classic Doctor Who news at / classicdw
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[@waltonsimons12]

2:17 THE DOCTOR: Stay where you are, my dear! DODO: [has staring contest with door]

[@Da1Dez]

The noise the WOTAN computer makes when its doing the mind control on the Doctor is one of the most creepiest sounds I've heard on the show!

[@azurerainbow4637]

It's good that the the Doctor not being human was able to resist the mind-controlling spell of the super computer WOTAN and fight against that crazy machine.

[@martinwood744]

@@killiankeane7259 Another acronym. From Wotan (Will Operated Thought Analogue) to Boss (Biomorphic Systems Supervisor). Now Someone tell me what the smeg Xoannon (from The Face Of Evil) stands for.

[@martinwood744]

@@killiankeane7259 Whoops! Biomorphic Organic Systems Supervisor. You know, just if you care that is.

[@rjjcms1]

Wotan being another name for Woden.

[@Lythgoemania]

Love this story. Very underrated.

[@steffanalun8055]

I cant get over how nice everyone is in the comments for 60s Dr Who clips. So refreshing!

[@leobe2104]

The bad thing is that there's also a lot of ppl who can't acceot the fact that things change over time and whine about how they don't like the modern seasons.

[@Tedybear315]

@@leobe2104 The complaints are from those that see the core of the show being turned on it's end upside down to appease the "All inclusive" bunch. They had a winning formula and decided to start twisting it into a bastardization of the original material.

[@azurerainbow4637]

The War Machines is 1 of the 17 Doctor Who stories from William Hartnell‘s era that had been seen in re-runs on PBS.

[@PizzaTimeFanatic]

The black and white era is so charming to me now that I have watched all of it.

[@matthewhunter3972]

Fun Fact the late great Michael Pickwood who designed the TARDIS'S amongst other sets his father played Sir Charles Summer in The War Machines he said on A Christmas Carol's Doctor Who Confidential

[@ponchoman49]

This was a very important story foreshadowing things to come. Hartnell was quite good and effortlessly carried this story along despite being on his way out as the Dr

[@azurerainbow4637]

Too bad that Dodo will never know that the Doctor isn't human. That's why he didn't get hypnotized by WOTAN over the phone.

[@themirrorsofmymind]

*Not one of his best stories but William Hartnell absolutely blows the roof off in this whole sequence!* THE DOCTOR: "It was as if something enormous and terrific was trying to absorb me! Ridiculous, isn't it child? I was just like an electric shock!" DODO: "So, you received no instruction..." THE DOCTOR: "From *whom*, my dear?" [later] THE DOCTOR: "Stay where you are, my dear! There's a new and deadly danger facing us... Yes, and it's coming from Prof. Brett's office!" POLLY: "From MY office! I don't understand." THE DOCTOR: "None of us do... Yet."

[@TheBermudaMan]

+themirrorsofmymind Yeah, I have to admit I purchased the DVD because of this scene alone. The story itself is sort of rubbish, but the way Mr. Hartnell transitions from a doddering old man to being completely in command of the situation is one of my all-time favorite First Doctor moments.

[@matthwe3468]

Well regardless of wither it's good or bad Hartnell shines particularly in this scene.

[@oscarl.ramirez7355]

Classic Who from the One who set the tone for what was to follow.

[@themirrorsofmymind]

@@TheBermudaManI had no clue that anyone replied to this comment! My _KZbin_ notifications just stopped for a long time and I only discovered missed replies and likes because I went looking for a particular video again.

[@AnthonyP73]

No incidental music, just a compelling scene full of gravitas.

[@frippp66]

i love Hartnell - plays it like Shakespeare

[@azurerainbow4637]

The Doctor didn‘t expect Dodn to be mind controlled by WOTAN,nor did he expect her not to say good-bye to him in person after he defeated that super computer.

[@julietfischer5056]

That is THE unsatisfying companion departure of the series. Most companions get better send-offs: they jump ship because the TARDIS is at the correct time/place; find a place where they are useful; die, or find another way home. They don't walk out of a scene and are never heard from again except for a note. They could have had Dodo just miss the TARDIS leaving. It would have been better. Not dramatic, but better.

[@emptyspotlight]

0:35 kind of wish I had something like that for telemarketers and scammers that keep calling me

[@pressureworks]

Contact an app maker!

[@busywl69]

hope doctor who returns to form soon! miss the sci-fi and long form episodes.

[@mr.barcode3186]

I direly hope for that too (although you probably know that by now, don't you?).

[@darkwillalex]

Hartnell being Pertwee before Pertwee

[@themirrorsofmymind]

THE GREAT ONE: _"Is that fear I can sense in your mind? You are not accustomed to feeling fear, are you?! _You are very wise to fear me!"*_

[@OwenDWF]

@TimelordTVRevolution Damn right. This is one of my fave Hartnell stories. He shines right the way through all 4 episodes =]

[@CharlesFiddler]

When he stands up to them it is a powerful moment.

[@stephenhall6595]

Hartnell the original, lequend.

[@oliverfletcher1939]

Stephen Hall legend*

[@MondySpartan]

The original you might say.

[@LordJackingtonIV]

Watched this recently. Am up to "10th Planet" now.

[@julietfischer5056]

By now, you know that One was quite the sassmaster.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

0:31-0:40 The reason they allowed most Radiophonic Workshop employees to work in there for only 3 months.

[@davidthedeaf]

Hypnosis was the groovy thing to cure all and enlighten the mind in the 60s and 70s. However the truth is it isn’t always a good idea…

[@derekweberpharmd]

I'm such a fan of doctor who.

[@stevenmcnicoll5060]

Hartnell could sell coals to Newcastle. He’s just brilliant.

[@pressureworks]

There's Danger, and then there's Deadly Danger. Yes yes yes Yes!

[@fjccommish]

Glass of water for the Doctor.

[@bradbobhayhurst8604]

Dodo looks Tatiana Maslany in this...

[@digipeeper]

Ironic thing is this is Ben and Polly’s first ever story and it would be the last of Hartnell’s surviving episodes to be both aired in reruns and sold on home media.

[@jampox101]

This must have influenced Terminator. A Highly intelligent computer AI Which decides the fate of the Human race almost instantly and creates robots to take over the world as well as using possessed humans to infiltrate.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

It's possible, JamPox101. But I don't know if James Cameron ever watched Doctor Who.

[@miloboerg5490]

A more likely contender would be the computer from the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project. Sorry for necro'ing your post.

[@martinrobo123]

JamPox101 The Terminator was based on a short story that was used on a Twilight Zone episode.

[@azurerainbow4637]

It was good that a highly intelligent computer couldn't control The Doctor because of him being an alien from another world.

[@julietfischer5056]

Cameron admits he used concepts from a couple of Harlan Ellison short stories. In any case, the computer that takes over the world was an old one even then.

[@azurerainbow4637]

Strange that Dodo didn't ask the Doctor who he really is after he didn't fall under the hypnotic effect of WOTAN.

[@azurerainbow4637]

It's odd that The Doctor didn't encounter Ian Chesterton & Barbara Wright in London during the WOTAN adventure,though they stopped traveling with him after they manged to get back to their own time on Earth.

[@Trev359]

London's a big place. I don't think it was that likely and he didn't really have time to go and seek them out.

[@bugander9802]

And were arrested and received a life sentence for the abduction and mysterious disappearance of Susan Foreman three years earlier

[@julietfischer5056]

Not to mention that it would strain the suspension of disbelief to the breaking point.

[@julietfischer5056]

Oh, you can bet that a later incarnation of the Doctor managed to fix up all that. Take advantage of the Dalek's activities around Coal Hill School to drop a letter into a file folder, followed by a later one calling in some favors. Suddenly, Susan Foreman and her grandfather are in another country, and the teachers were briefly incommunicado because Official Secrets Act. And nobody can really gainsay it because they were distracted by the post-Dalek cleanup.

[@cameronjosephvideos5942]

I live within a few miles of most of my old friends and I rarely just run into them. London is far bigger than that and Ian and Barbara were probably working up at the school.

[@sunsetta9496]

Brilliant!!!

[@matthewhunter3972]

The last Story of Jackie Lane as Dodo she is the only surviving Companion of the Doctor not to be in Big Finish Audios, Dodo is as dead as a Dodo😉

[@SuperWolsey]

If the Katarina recast (plus Sadie Miller and Daisy Ashford taking up their mothers' respective legendary roles, Elliot Chapman's brief stint as Ben, and the AAISAT cast) is anything to go by, one for Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet won't be far behind

[@zuditaka]

Isn't WOTAN the internet of today with Artificial Intelligence that may not be a good servant to us? 🤖

[@pedrovaldez8335]

The grandfather of ChatGPT...

[@josephgodbout5687]

I want to see the whole shebang.

[@JushiRocketYushi]

10/10 sfx ngl

[@generalgrievous67]

And it is quite sad that if this character was made in the future he could have been developed a LOT better and not in a 60's way. Still he was awesome :D

[@finnsempire5671]

Myself: please Hartnell don’t call me when I am built my Tardis William Hartnell : grandson I know that you are trying to appreciate me but this is extreme😊

[@borusa32]

Its a great story although the war machines are a bit lame and Jackie Lane vanishes in an unseemly rush.

[@WennBoq]

You spell his name wrong.

[@ewaf88]

At least they acted with credibility unlike the dreadful Jodie Whittaker.

[@Kryojenix]

Jodie's great, but aspects of the production need to become more coherent.

[@JamifyYT]

Why mention 13 in a clip where the doctor has NEVER regenerated yet? The original (you may say) is 2000+ years away from becoming Jodie lol

[@pressureworks]

She's just playing a female version of David Tenant.

[@ewaf88]

@@pressureworks Yes indeed and so it transpired. Actually when she had better scripts she wasn't that bad - I was a little harsh on her when I made my original post .

[@pressureworks]

@@ewaf88 that's alright, dear boy, yes yes yes yes