Doctor Who (1996 film)
Dr. Holloway is able to connect the last power circuit in the console room, sending the TARDIS into a time-holding pattern just moments after the turn of midnight, staving off destruction of the Earth.The production documentation only referred to the project as Doctor Who. The Doctor is chained above the Eye, his eyes forced open so as to allow the Master to take his remaining regenerations.
Tipple is still credited as The Old Master , though in the final edit his appearance is very brief, stationary, and mute. The scenes where Chang Lee s friends are fired upon was cut because of the gun violence (particularly in light of the Dunblane massacre which took place three months before).
Among early thoughts were Michael Crawford, Tim Curry, Eric Idle, Billy Connolly, Trevor Eve, Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay, and Jonathan Pryce. Paul McGann was first considered around the time of these auditions, but did not formally audition for the part until later. Anthony Head would later work on a number of Doctor Who-related projects — including audio dramas, narrating Doctor Who Confidential, and guest-starring in the 2006 episode School Reunion — as would Tim McInnerny in the 2008 story Planet of the Ood . The movie was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the first time any Doctor Who story had been filmed in North America (although the 1985 Sixth Doctor story The Two Doctors was originally planned for New Orleans).
While the Master begins the process of transferring the Doctor s remaining regenerations to him, Dr. When Dr.
His last wish is for his remains to be returned to Gallifrey by his archenemy, the Doctor, currently in his seventh regeneration form. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS and sets the ship back on her original course. Producer Philip Segal had been trying for some years to launch a new American-produced series of Doctor Who, but the Fox Network — the only American network that showed any interest — was only prepared to commit to a single telemovie.
Holloway takes the Doctor back to her home, where the Doctor recovers the memories of his previous life. The advertisements also used a different arrangement of the Doctor Who theme music than that heard in the film. The movie received disappointing US ratings (partly due to the popularity of the programmes it was up against, partly because of poor marketing by the Fox Network, and partly because of unfamiliarity with the British series amongst a mainstream American TV audience).
Not all were interested in the project, or available for the intended filming dates. Casting sessions took place in March 1994; actors who actually auditioned for the role include Liam Cunningham, Mark McGann, Robert Lindsay, Tim McInnerny, Nathaniel Parker, Peter Woodward, John Sessions, Anthony Head, and Tony Slattery. Holloway to travel with her in the TARDIS, but she politely refuses, and also leaves.
The ooze enters the TARDIS controls and forces an emergency landing in Chinatown in San Francisco, California on the eve of the 21st Century. The Master arrives soon afterwards and subjects Lee to mind-control, forcing him to believe the Doctor is evil, and to open the Eye of Harmony through his human retinal pattern.
As Lee departs after returning the rest of the Doctor s possessions, the Doctor warns him not to be in San Francisco next year during New Year s Eve. This marked the first time that footage from the original BBC series had been shown on a major American network.
Holloway as she leaves the hospital, and convinces her that he is the same man she operated on earlier. The Eighth Doctor Adventures series ran until 2005 when it was discontinued. In 1997, the novel was also released as an audio book, read by Paul McGann.
Holloway declares the Doctor dead, and his body placed into a morgue; Lee is given the Doctor s possessions, including the TARDIS key, and he runs off. See: Doctor Who story title controversy Upon translation into French, this film was renamed Le Seigneur du Temps ( The Lord of Time ). TVM is the production code used in the BBC s online episode guide.
However, before the Doctor can route power to the TARDIS, the Master is able to use the bile on Dr. Holloway to open the Eye, though this breaks his control of her.
The most common fan usage appears to refer to it as the television movie , the TVM , or variations thereof. On the way to the Institute, they are stopped by the Master and Lee, as the Doctor does not yet recognize the Master s new form.
The surgeons find, through X-rays, that the Doctor has two hearts, and they call Dr. The series was later relaunched on the BBC in 2005. Although the film was primarily produced by different hands from the 1963-89 series, and intended for an American audience, the producers chose to produce not a reimagining or reboot of the series (examples of such proposals can be found in Jean-Marc Lofficier s book The Nth Doctor (Virgin Publishing, 1997)), but rather a continuation of the original narrative.
It is also the last novelisation of a televised story to date. Basing the adaptation on an early draft of the script, Russell adjusted some details to make it more consistent with the original series, and the novelisation also contains elements that were cut from the shooting script for timing reasons. The canonicity of the novelisation, like all spin-off fiction, is unclear. The novelisation was the first Doctor Who novel published by BBC Books. The Master then uses his control of Dr.
Big Finish Productions uses the code 8A, and numbers its subsequent Eighth Doctor stories correspondingly. The movie debuted on the Edmonton, Alberta CITV-TV station on 12 May, two days prior to its Fox Network broadcast. Commercials on the Fox network advertising the film used special effects footage from the 1986 story The Trial of a Time Lord, although this footage was not used in the movie. Meanwhile, the ooze, which had stowed away on the ambulance, attacks and takes over the body of the ambulance driver, Bruce.
The sequence of the TARDIS flying through the time vortex was briefly reused in the opening of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death, as the Master observes Rowan Atkinson s Doctor. Instead of designing a new Doctor Who logo for this film, it was decided instead to use a modified version of the logo used during the early part of the Jon Pertwee era of the original series (1970-1973). Meanwhile, Lee has returned to the TARDIS with the key, and enters the time machine.
The UK broadcast was also edited for broadcast in a pre-Watershed timeslot. Holloway s wrist with a strange bile-like fluid. At the Institute, the Doctor and Dr.
The book was actually published prior to the conclusion of Virgin Books contract for publishing original Doctor Who fiction, so the next release by BBC Books did not occur for about a year when the Eighth Doctor Adventures series began with The Eight Doctors. Holloway manage to collect the integrated circuit chip with the atomic clock mechanism by subterfuge, and make their way back to the TARDIS.
The action causes the Eye to close, and time to revert back to a few moments before midnight, bringing both Dr. As the Doctor steps from the TARDIS to find his bearings, he is accidentally shot by a gang who are chasing down Chang Lee, a Chinese-American.
Grace Holloway, a cardiologist. Ultimately Debney did in fact use Grainer s music for the theme, although Grainer goes uncredited. There is some disagreement over exactly what the movie should be called.
Dr. This is also the only time the Seventh Doctor was seen using a sonic screwdriver. Writer Matthew Jacobs s father, Anthony Jacobs, played the role of Doc Holliday in the 1966 First Doctor serial The Gunfighters; the young Matthew visited the studio during production. The opening pre-credits sequence went through a number of modifications, with several different voice-overs recorded.
However, when the Master reveals his eyes, the Doctor and Dr. Despite a ratings success in the United Kingdom, the film did not fare well on American television, and no new series was purchased.
At one stage the voice-over was to be made by the old Master, played by Gordon Tipple; in the end this was not used. Once there, the Doctor is able to install the chip and close the eye, but discovers that that Eye has been open far too long, and that they must revert time to before the Eye was opened to prevent the destruction of the Earth.
She initially assumes the x-ray image is a double exposure, but as she starts to operate with a cardiac probe, the Doctor wakes up, tells her that he needs a beryllium atomic clock, and then falls into a seizure, eventually flatlining. Lee calls for an ambulance, and the Doctor is rushed to a nearby hospital.
Holloway and Lee back to life. As the three recover, they find the world is safe. When Bruce s wife questions his odd behaviour, she is killed, with Bruce now revealing himself to be the Master. Late in the night, the Doctor regenerates into a new body, and manages to escape from the morgue, donning parts of costumes intended for the New Year s Party later that night.
It was the first novelisation of a televised Doctor Who story to not be published by Target Books (or related companies) since Doctor Who and the Crusaders in 1965. Holloway disbelieves the Doctor initially, but when he demonstrates that the nature of reality is already changing by walking through her bay windows without breaking them, she agrees to help, and helps him identify the unveiling of a atomic clock at the San Francisco Institute of Technological Advancement and Research.
It was intended as a back door pilot for a new American-produced Doctor Who TV series, and introduced Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in his only television appearance. During the trip back to Gallifrey in his TARDIS, the vessel shakes, causing the box containing the Master s remains to shatter and allowing a sentient ooze to escape from it.
The operating room scene was also extensively cut, in particular the seventh Doctor s dying scream. The television movie won the 1996 Saturn Award for Best Television Presentation. The movie was scheduled to be released on home video in the United Kingdom several weeks before broadcast to capitalize on the interest in the series returning. The Doctor then offers Dr.
The sonic screwdriver was blurred in post-production to conceal the error. When the Doctor awakes, he tries to break Lee of the Master s spell on him, but to no avail; however, when the Master lies to Lee in order to get him to open the Eye again, Lee refuses, causing the Master to break his neck.
It was hoped that, were the telemovie successful, Fox might be persuaded to reconsider a series; however, the telemovie s ratings performance in America was not strong enough to hold Fox s interest. The production budget for the movie (as revealed in the book Doctor Who: Regeneration) was US$5 million, with the Fox Network spending $2.5 million, BBC Television contributing $300,000, and the remaining $2.2 million split between BBC Worldwide and Universal Television. Miranda, the wife of Bruce, is played by Eric Roberts real-life wife, Eliza Roberts. The producers of the television movie compiled several lists of actors to consider for the part of the Doctor. The Doctor is fully aware of the Eye s opening, and tries to keep his own eyes shut to prevent the Master from seeing through his eyes, as that would allow the Master to take over his body.
This reading was later included on the 2004 MP3 CD Tales from the TARDIS Volume Two. . It is, to date, the only Doctor Who production to be entirely mounted outside of the UK (whereas all previous episodes shot on foreign soil included at least some studio taping in the UK). In the 2005 Doctor Who Confidential episode Weird Science , Sylvester McCoy reveals that during the sequence where he locks the casket with his sonic screwdriver, he held the tool pointing the wrong way around (although in the original series, it is seen being used both ways).
The production was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, to date the only episode of Doctor Who filmed in Canada. The Master is put on trial on the planet Skaro, and sentenced to extermination by the Daleks. The DVD release is labelled Doctor Who: The Movie.
Doctor Who is a television movie based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Dr.
This logo, being the final form from the classic series , is to this day used by the BBC for most Doctor Who merchandise relating to the first eight Doctors. John Debney was commissioned to write the score for this film, and intended to replace Ron Grainer s original theme with a new composition. Segal suggested the unofficial title Enemy Within as an alternative at Manopticon 5, apparently after being repeatedly asked what the actual title for the movie was.
Holloway s wrist to control her, and forces her to knock out the Doctor. Developed as a co-production amongst Universal Television, BBC Television, BBC Worldwide, and the Fox Network, the 1996 television film premiered on 12 May 1996 on CITV in Edmonton, Alberta — fifteen days before the BBC One showing, and two days before its broadcast on Fox in the US. The film was the first attempt to revive Doctor Who, following its cancellation in 1989.
However there has been no home entertainment release of any form in North America owing to complicated licensing. Music from the movie was released on a promotional CD in 1997. The television movie was novelised by Gary Russell and published by BBC Books in May 1996. However, when shown on BBC One in the United Kingdom on Monday 27 May at 8.30pm, thirteen days after its American broadcast, it received over 9 million viewers in the UK alone (the highest drama ratings in Britain for the whole week). Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee died a few days after the US broadcast of the film, and the UK broadcast included an epitaph to the actor.
Holloway that if they do not shut the Eye before midnight, the entire planet may be sucked into it, and that to close it, he needs an atomic clock. Holloway tries to return to help the Doctor, she is thrown over a balcony and killed by the Master, but her interference has given the Doctor enough time to push the Master into the Eye itself, apparently killing him.
The Doctor also warns Dr. Holloway quickly escape, but not before the Master is able to shoot Dr.
However, the British Board of Film Classification required the video release to have the same edits as the broadcast version, and so the release was delayed to a week prior to its debut broadcast on BBC One. Hundreds of fans queued in London at midnight in order to buy a copy at the earliest possible moment, however overall sales were impacted by the now-imminent broadcast. The unedited version was released on DVD in the UK in 2001, and was re-released in 2007 with an alternate cover sleeve (but with no change in content) as part of a series of classic series re-releases aimed at attracting fans of the revived series to the older shows. Both the edited and unedited versions have also been released in countries such as Australia and New Zealand.
Had the original pre-titles voice-over been used, it would have been unclear what incarnation of the Doctor Sylvester McCoy portrays in the movie (as he is simply credited as The Old Doctor ). The novelisation was released as a standalone work and is not considered part of this series.
He follows Dr. Only the rewritten narration (as read by Paul McGann) makes his number of regenerations clear.
