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In the sixth episode of the ten-part story "The War Games," the Doctor (Patrick Troughton), his companions Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury), and the Resistance fighters try to escape from Alien Control, the entity responsible for restaging the Earth's most famous battles on a faraway planet. But even after eluding the Control's clutches, the "good guys" aren't quite out of the woods, as they figuratively stare down the barrel of a new and deadly weapon. Written by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, "The War Games, Episode 6" first aired on May 24, 1969.