Doctor Who the Movie is a strange animal. Having been absent from TV screens and so many false starts, Doctor Who retruned as a one off co-production between the BBC and Fox, but produced by Universal Television. This was hoped to have spawned a new televison series and it could have been ... Read review
Made to re-launch television's most famous time traveller,Doctor Who: The Movieis an ... more
expensive feature-length episode which attempts to continue the classic series and work as a stand-alone film. Transporting the remains of the Master, Sylvester McCoy'...
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expensive feature-length episode which attempts to continue the classic series and work as a stand-alone film. Transporting the remains of the Master, Sylvester McCoy'...
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New Years Eve 1999. Earth is about to run out of time... Returning home to Gallifrey with ... more
the remains of his arch enemy, the Master, the TARDIS is forced off course, plunging the Doctor into the middle of a street gang's gun battle in downtown San Fran...
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Made to re-launch television's most famous time traveller,Doctor Who: The Movieis an ... more
expensive feature-length episode which attempts to continue the classic series and work as a stand-alone film. Transporting the remains of the Master, Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor is diverted to San Francisco in 1999. Regenerating in the form of Paul McGann, the Doctor gains a new companion in heart surgeon Dr Grace Holloway (Daphne Ashbrook) and must stop the Master from destroying the world. All of which might have been fine, had not the most eccentrically British of programmes been almost entirely assimilated by the requirements of American network broadcasting. Matthew Jacobs' screenplay is literally nonsense, dependent on arbitrary, unexplained events while introducing numerous elements that contradict establishedDoctor Whomythology. The Tardis is re-imagined as a bizarre pre-Raphaelite/Gothic folly, while the Doctor, now half-human, becomes romantically involved with his lady companion. From the West Coast setting to metallic CGI morphing, from the look of Eric Roberts as the Master to a motorcycle/truck freeway chase, director Geoffrey Sax borrows freely from James Cameron'sTerminator 2: Judgment Day(1991).Doctor Whofans should feel relieved this travesty was not successful enough to lead to lead to a series, though McGann himself does have the potential to make a fine Doctor. This is the slightly more violent US TV edit, rather than the cut version previously released on video.On the DVD: There are two BBC trailers and a Fox promo "introducing the Doctor" to American audiences. The interview section features Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook, director Geoffrey Sax and executive producer Philip Segal, twice. The main interviews are on-set promotional sound-bites. However, Segal's second interview was filmed in 2001 and finds him spending 10 minutes explaining why the programme turned out as it did, and coming very close to apologising for it. He also offers a two-minute tour of the new Tardis set. Alongside a gallery of 50 promotional stills is a four-minute compilation of behind-the-scenes "making of" footage. There are alternative versions of two scenes, though the "Puccini!" scene is so short as to be pointless. As usual withDoctor WhoDVDs there are optional production subtitles and these offer a wealth of background information. Four songs used in the film are available as separate audio tracks, and John Debney's musical score can be listened to in isolation. Finally there is a commentary track by Geoffrey Sax, which contains some interesting material but does tend to state the obvious a lot. The sound is very strong stereo and the 4:3 picture is excellent with only the slightest grain. --Gary S Dalkin
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Advantages: Paul McGanns excellent 9th Doctor Disadvantages: poor scripting a sloppy conclusion
Doctor Who the Movie is a strange animal. Having been absent from TV screens and so many false starts, Doctor Who retruned as a one off co-production between the BBC and Fox, but produced by Universal Television. This was hoped to have spawned a new televison series and it could have been promising. With so many cooks this could be an unmitigated diaster. Considering some of the plot drafts that were considered during its gestation ( a talking TARDIS, ... ...ther Doctor has human in was the lesser of the evils. With a British Director, Writer and Executive Producer the Brits certainly had a large stake in it.
Much too much was made of the kiss at the time which is entirely in keeping with Paul McGanns Doctor.. The pace moves quite fast through out though is far from flawed. Paul McGann is consitantly the strongest element of the production and its a shame this would be his only on screen outing. ... more
Doctor Who the Movie is a strange animal. Having been absent from TV screens and so many false starts, Doctor Who retruned as a one off co-production between the BBC and Fox, but produced by Universal Television. This was hoped to have spawned a new televison series and it could have been promising. With so many cooks this could be an unmitigated diaster. Considering some of the plot drafts that were considered during its gestation ( a talking TARDIS, The Master being the Doctors brother etc) the revalation that ther Doctor has human in was the lesser of the evils. With a British Director, Writer and Executive Producer the Brits certainly had a large stake in it. Much too much was made of the kiss at the time which is entirely in keeping with Paul McGanns Doctor.. The pace moves quite fast through out though is far from flawed. Paul McGann is consitantly the strongest element of the production and its a shame this would be his only on screen outing. We would have to wait for the Big Finish audios to see (or hear rather) more from the 9th Doctor. Daphney Ashbrook was very good as Grace and proved that the companion did more than scream and climb cliff is mini skirts and heels. For once Eric Roberts cheesy acting suited a very arch Master who practically chewed the scenery in parts. The ending though is a complete cop out and looks like sloppy scripting. There are some intresting additonal material, especaially the walk round the frankly georgous TARDIS set. Just such a shame we never got to see more of as the details level is fantastic. The commentary recorded several years after transmission, by Geoffrey Sax is reflective as well as informative. Along with a photo gallery, isolated music tracks and behind the sceans footage, this meets the consistantly high standard that the Doctor Who DVD's have.
In San Francisco, a time-traveller is on the verge of death and Doctor Grace Holloway must try to save Doctor Who's life from being exchanged for the other's on the stroke of midnight 1999 - the start of the new Millenium.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO; SONY DADC
Release date
13/08/2001
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
BBCDVD 1043
Barcode
5014503104320
Languages
Main Language
English
Hearing Impaired Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Interviews, Behind The Scenes, Alternate Versions Of Scenes, Photo Gallery
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Dolby Digital Stereo
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital Stereo English
DVD Description
In this 1996 DOCTOR WHO TV movie, the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) is returning to Gallifrey with the remains of the Master when the TARDIS malfunctions and lands in San Francisco on the eve of the new millennium. Events lead to the Doctor's eighth incarnation (Paul McGann) facing off against the not-so-dead Master, now in physical form (Eric Roberts). The understandably confused Doctor, fortunately, is aided by an attractive surgeon (Daphne Ashbrook).
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