Classic Doctor Who: The 10 Timey-Wimiest Episodes
5. The War Games (1969)
At the
conclusion of his era, the Second Doctor had this epic adventure which
introduced his own people--the all-powerful Time Lords, from whom he is a
fugitive.
The Time Lords’ mastery of the fourth dimension seems absolute—they slow down and freeze time at will, they easily remove or return people to any point in time that they wish, and they take away the Doctor’s ability to travel through time without any effort. And in a final moment of defeat for the Doctor, they put him on trial for his disregard of their rules against interference, and exile him to a single time period, forcing a regeneration in the process.
Though both the Doctor and the Daleks had been seen time traveling by this point, never before had the series introduced a race that was so adept with temporal manipulation that their power over the rest of the universe seemed absolute.