Editing Time Lord (section)

==Creation==
In an audio commentary recorded for the 2009 DVD release of ''[[The War Games]]'' (1969), producer [[Derrick Sherwin]] mentioned how in a discussion with the serial's co-writer [[Terrance Dicks]] the previous day, Dicks was "absolutely certain" that Sherwin created the Time Lords for the serial, although Sherwin could not remember himself.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Derrick Sherwin|Sherwin, Derrick]]; [[Wendy Padbury|Padbury, Wendy]]; [[Frazer Hines|Hines, Frazer]]; [[Jane Sherwin|Sherwin, Jane]] |date=2009 |title=The War Games Episode Three commentary |type=DVD |publisher=[[BBC Worldwide]] |id=BBCDVD1800 }}</ref> Later in the commentary, Dicks recalled Sherwin telling him in the discussions with Dicks and Dicks' fellow co-writer [[Malcolm Hulke]] that because [[The Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor]] had always been established as being on the run from his own people, that if he has to appeal to them, the Doctor would be in trouble.<ref name="war games dvd">{{cite AV media |people=[[Derrick Sherwin|Sherwin, Derrick]]; [[Terrance Dicks|Dicks, Terrance]]; [[Philip Madoc|Madoc, Philip]]; [[Graham Weston|Weston, Graham]] |date=2009 |title=The War Games Episode Nine commentary |type=DVD |publisher=[[BBC Worldwide]] |id=BBCDVD1800 }}</ref> In a 2016 interview with ''The Essential Doctor Who'' magazine, Dicks mentioned how when Sherwin and he were discussing ''The War Games'' one day, Sherwin said, "He belongs to this mysterious race called the Time Lords, doesn't he?" with "everything" ultimately coming from that discussion.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Dicks |first1=Terrance |author-link=Terrance Dicks |last2=Wright |first2=Mark |date=March 2016 |title=Creation Theories |magazine=The Essential Doctor Who |location=Tunbridge Wells |publisher=[[Panini Comics|Panini UK Ltd]] |issue=7: ''The Time Lords'' |page=24 }}</ref> In ''The War Games'' DVD commentary, Sherwin mentioned that he recalled hearing about the Time Lords at the beginning of the series, but as no one else remembered this, it "might have come out of [his] dreams".<ref name="war games dvd"/>

Elaborating on this genesis in a 2014 interview in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', Sherwin said of ''The War Games'', "It was a case of what shall we do, how can we end this? Let's go back to the beginning and say [the Doctor] was a Time Lord, a renegade Time Lord, a pain in the arse for the other Time Lords who stole his [[TARDIS]] and buggered off around the universe. So if he's going to be called to book let's bring in the Time Lords."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Sherwin |first1=Derrick |author-link=Derrick Sherwin |last2=Adams |first2=Matt |date=December 2014 |title=Down to Earth |magazine=[[Doctor Who Magazine]] |location=Tunbridge Wells |publisher=[[Panini Comics|Panini UK Ltd]] |issue=479 |page=58 }}</ref>