Doctor Who Fans: Which Doctor Who episode has the Time War in it?

Question

I keep hearing in the new Dr Who about the Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks...which episode in the old series has the Time War in it?

Answer 1

The answer to your question is NONE!

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Answer 2

There isn't one. The last episode in the old series "Survival" featured the Master and Cheetah people and the Time War was yet to happen. The TV movie with the 8th Doctor did not feature it either. It happened some time between the 1996 TV movie and the 2005 episode "Rose".
The Time War began with the episode "Genesis Of The Daleks" where the 4th Doctor is sent by the Time Lords to stop the creation of the Daleks. This however only set the ball rolling and it would not be for a very long time until the war itself began.
The main reason why the Time War was not made (according to Dalek voice actor and Doctor Who writer Nicholas Briggs) was that the events of the Time War would not translate to TV or radio well at all and would last for at least one series of episodes. This discussed this on the recent Doctor Who series for BBC Radio 7 and basically the show would have consisted of lots of shouting "launch temporal torpedoes" and "chronoton blast cannons ready to fire".
A novel has been hinted at... but nothing has come about yet. I personally doubt any Time War based story will be made available for at least another 2 or 3 years.

Answer 3

The Time Wars aren't featured in any previous Dr Who episodes.It was a background story put in by Wiilam Russell to the story in Season#1 - "Dalek".It was to explain how the sole Dalek survived & fell through a wormhole & ended up on Earth in the lab.
William Russell said he wanted to give some more personal background of the Doctor into the stories.So new fans of the new series would have an idea who he was & where he came from.

Answer 4

None of the events of any Time War has ever been shown, some fans believe the "Last of the Great Time Wars" was the reason the the eighth doctor had to regenerate into the ninth. But who (pardon the pun) knows.

It is also assumed that there have been a few "time wars" as the last one apparently killed all of the time lords apart from one but that war is known as the last of the time wars.

Just for reference there is believed to be 2 types of time war. One type where the war is carried out throughout time in different places across centuries or milena and the other where time is used more as a weapon using time loops and paradoxes to kill off opponents sometimes before they even come into existence.

Answer 5

Yep, everyone is right, it's not covered, but I would also like to correct the assumption that Paul McGann was the Doctor in the Time War; it could've been Sylvester McCoy, inbetween Survival and The Movie. Although this is unlikely, as there is no reference to it made in the Movie, just thought I'd let you know... Oh, and may I also add, nowhere does it say that ONLY Time Lords and Daleks were in the Time War, they're just the only ones we know to have been in it.

Answer 6

None of them - Its an invention of Russel T. Davis to provide some additional background for the new series. Apparently there's some more detail about it in one of the Eighth Doctor novels though. I'm not certain which one.

I wouldn't be surprised if it comes up at some point in the Doctor Who radio series on BBC7 which features Paul Mcgann as the Eighth Doctor.

Answer 7

i did no longer cry, yet i presumed "40 two" replaced right into a great episode. It perhaps wasn't the very better of the final sequence, yet i could genuinely place it among my favourites, and It replaced into properly as much as the very intense accepted of the final sequence over all. It had a great experience of suspense each and each of how by and a great technology fiction thought at it fairly is center. in spite of this, with director Graeme Harper (who earlier directed "The Caves of Androzani" and "Revelation of the Daleks") on the helm, it could desire to rarely fail. It certainly jogged my memory a great sort of episodes 3 and four of the Fourth well being practitioner tale "Planet of Evil". The episode that did carry a tear to my eye replaced into "The kinfolk of Blood", fantastically the ending. for the reason that My grandfather fought in WW1 and my father fought in WW2, i assume that may not spectacular nevertheless.

Answer 8

The Time War is an event referred to on several occasions in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, beginning from its revival in 2005. The conflict was between the Time Lords and the Daleks and resulted in their mutual destruction. Although the programme has yet to show any of the events of the Time War on screen, some fans have speculated that the war was responsible for the Eighth Doctor's regeneration into the Ninth. The Doctor also referred to this conflict as "the last great Time War," implying that there had been others. The last great Time War should not be confused with the War against the Enemy that features in several of the spin-off novels in the Eighth Doctor Adventures series.

The term Time War can also be applied to at least two types of time-spanning conflicts in the Doctor Who universe. The first type of time war is where the two sides are fighting the war across different points in history, separated by centuries or millennia. The second type of time war is where Time itself is used as a weapon, with pre-emptive strikes, time loops, temporal paradoxes and the reversal of historical events. The last great Time War appears to be of the latter variety.

It is implied in the various spin-off media that there have been several previous Time Wars, but that all traces of them have been removed from history. One such war is mentioned in the 1995 Virgin New Adventures novel Sky Pirates! by Dave Stone. Lasting thirty thousand years, it is fought between the Doctor's people, the Time Lords, and other races that are developing time travel. The Time Lords destroy one such race, the Charon, before they even exist. This war takes place a generation after the time of Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society.

is first alluded to in the first episode of the 2005 series, Rose. There, the Ninth Doctor explains to his companion, Rose Tyler, that the reason behind the Nestene Consciousness' invasion of Earth was because its food planets were destroyed in "the war". Later in the episode, the Doctor states that he fought in the war, but he was unable to save the Nestenes' planet.

In the following episode, The End of the World, set five billion years in the future, Jabe of the Forest of Cheem expresses amazement that the Doctor, a Time Lord, still existed, implying that the war had consequences up and down history. At the end of that episode, the Doctor confesses to Rose that the war had destroyed his home planet (finally named in the revived series as Gallifrey in the 2006 Christmas special, The Runaway Bride), leaving him the only surviving Time Lord.

In the third episode, The Unquiet Dead, the Doctor encounters the ghostly Gelth, aliens from another dimension whose bodies had been destroyed by the war. The Gelth say that the war was unseen by "lower species" but devastating to the "higher" ones.

In Dalek, the sixth episode, it is revealed that the Time Lords' adversaries in the war were the Daleks. What actually started the war was not stated, but executive producer Russell T. Davies commented in an episode of the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential that the origins of the war dated back to the 1975 serial Genesis of the Daleks, where the Time Lords send the Fourth Doctor into the past in an attempt to avert the Daleks' creation or affect their development to make them less aggressive.

Further details of the War are sketchy; in Doomsday, the Tenth Doctor mentions that he fought on the front lines and was present at the Fall of Arcadia. In any case, at the war's end, the Doctor was responsible for the destruction of the Dalek fleet, an action that also destroyed the Time Lords and Gallifrey. Although at least the single Dalek in Dalek had survived, the Doctor dismisses the possibility that other Time Lords may have survived as well, saying that he would have sensed it if they had.

The destruction of the Time Lords creates a vacuum that may have left history itself more vulnerable to change. In The Unquiet Dead, the Doctor tells Rose that time is in flux and history can change instantly — a more fluid definition to that which had been seen in earlier stories, which had implied that history was either immutable (The Aztecs) or capable of being changed only by very powerful beings (Remembrance of the Daleks).

The most dramatic demonstration of this was in Father's Day, when Rose creates a paradox by crossing her own timestream to save her father's life just before his destined death in a traffic accident. This summons the terrifying Reapers, who descended to sterilise the "wound" in time by devouring everything in sight. The Doctor states that if the Time Lords were still around, they could have prevented or repaired the paradox. The consequences of creating a paradox are also why the Doctor cannot go back in time and save the Time Lords. Indeed, such actions may have directly contributed to their near-extinction: "They're all gone," the Ninth Doctor laments, "And now I'm going the same way."

Although the Doctor believes himself to be the last survivor of the Time War, in The Parting of the Ways he discovers that, in addition to the lone Dalek in Dalek, the Dalek Emperor itself had also survived, and had built a new Dalek race. Whether this means that other Time Lords may have survived as well is unclear. The apparent destruction of the Emperor and his fleet at the conclusion of the 2005 series by a time vortex-augmented Rose Tyler is accompanied by her declaration that "the Time War ends."

In the 2006 series episode School Reunion, while being tempted by the power of the Skasis Paradigm which would give him the ability to reorder the universe, the Doctor muses that he can "stop the war". In Rise of the Cybermen, the Doctor notes that when the Time Lords were around, travel between parallel universes was less difficult, but with their demise, the paths between worlds are closed. In The Satan Pit, the Beast says that he recognises the Doctor as "the killer of his own kind".

In Doomsday, it is revealed that a group of Daleks from the elite Cult of Skaro fled into the Void between dimensions and survived the original end of the Time War, taking with them the Genesis Ark, a Time Lord prison ship containing millions of Daleks. The new Dalek army released from the Ark is eventually sucked back into the Void due to the actions of the Doctor, but the black Dalek named Sec manages an "emergency temporal shift" and escapes to parts unknown.

In The Runaway Bride, the Doctor mentions that "way back in history the fledgling empires went to war", in explaining how his people, the Time Lords wiped out the Racnoss during the Dark Times. Hiding from the war, the Racnoss came to the space which would later be Earth, serving as the Earth's core planetesimal. This may or may not refer to an event in the Time War.

Answer 9

the war games with patrick troughton 1969,featured different sections of time,& was controlled by the war chief & the war lord.it was destroyed by the time lords,but was revisited in the five doctors story.

Answer 10

None, it happened after the old series ended, and before the new series started!

Answer 11

It wasn't featured in any of the old series, I think it may be covered in the books though.

It is something that happened after the old series and the new series.