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Are you kidding me? Yes, at 10×25 minutes War games is long, even for the period, but it is also a well paced and cohesive story as it is.
You can probably shave 5 mins of each episode to lose the title sequence, credits, and overlapping cliffhangers — but that still leaves more than twice the 1½ hour playing time they edited it down to.
I understand the BBC could only reasonably colourise so many minutes, but why then pick a story that arguably in its most basic form is longer than they can pull off?
They did heavy edits of some classic stories prior the the last season hence released, yeah? Did you check any of those out? I did not.
The Tales of the TARDIS ones? Yeah, I watched them, like, once. I prefer the full length (or even extended) versions, and I don't think the brief, new segments added more than a bit of nostalgia.
I also think they were edited more lightly than the big colourised event versions of Daleks and War games? I guess the difference lies in the cost of colourisation being measurable in minutes of runtime.