Doctor Who (1996) (TV)

Director:

Geoffrey Sax

Writer:

Matthew Jacobs (written by)

Release Date:

14 May 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

He's Back... And It's About Time

Plot:

The newly-regenerated Doctor takes on the Master on the turn of the millennium, 31 December 1999.

Plot Keywords:

Regeneration | Telephone Box | Time Travel | Death Of Hero | Doctor Who

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Paul McGann	...	The Doctor
Eric Roberts	...	The Master / Bruce
Daphne Ashbrook	...	Dr. Grace Holloway
Sylvester McCoy	...	The Doctor
Yee Jee Tso	...	Chang Lee
John Novak	...	Salinger
Michael David Simms	...	Swift
Catherine Lough Haggquist	...	Wheeler (as Catherine Lough)
Dolores Drake	...	Curtis
Will Sasso	...	Pete (as William Sasko)
Jeremy Radick	...	Gareth
Eliza Roberts	...	Miranda
Bill Croft	...	Motorcycle Policeman
David Hurtubise	...	Professor Wagg
Joel Wirkkunen	...	Ted

Also Known As:

Doctor Who: Enemy Within (UK) (informal title)
Doctor Who: The Movie (UK) (DVD title)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA | UK | Canada

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Ireland:12 | Australia:M | UK:12

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Universal TV

Trivia:

While speaking at a Doctor Who convention in 2004, producer Philip David Segal mentioned that the TARDIS set used for this film has mysteriously disappeared from storage.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The entire ambulance/hospital sequence is a symphony of errors: A bystander would not be permitted to ride in the back of the ambulance, nor would his (or anybody's) consent be required to provide care to an unconscious patient with life-threatening injuries. Nobody was performing the routine care and monitoring that medics would have performed. An external EKG, and not an internal probe, would be used to assess the heart's electrical activity. The Doctor was not intubated, as he would have been for surgery. The cardiologist would have doffed her gown and put scrubs on over her underwear in the locker room, then scrubbed for surgery, rather than scrubbing first then being stuffed into scrubs over a ball gown.

Quotes:

[first lines]
The Doctor: [voiceover] It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy the Master was finally put on trial. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil crimes was read... and sentence passed. Then he made his last and I thought somewhat curious request. He demanded that I, the Doctor, a rival Timelord, should take his remains back to our home planet; Gallifrey
The Doctor: [pause]
The Doctor: It was a request they should never have granted...
The Doctor: [Cue the opening credits]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Doctor Who Confidential: The Eleventh Doctor (#4.15)" (2009)

My Doctor

growing up as a child in the 90's i along with many others were deprived from there own doctor unlike our parents and grand parents my only contact with WHO was watching old video tapes of Pertwee and Baker, thought i loved and appreciate them i felt i was missing out. and then along came Paul Mcgann and his doctor. sure he only did one TV movie, but to me as a 8 year old child i was gripped.

lets not fool ourselves here, it wasn't no where near perfect,looking back on it now, but to me Mcgann was everything i thought the doctor should be, funny, charismatic, intelligent, demeaning and to me it was an awful shame a series for his doctor did not come along, but since 1997 i brought all his doctors audio tapes, graphic novels and even a poster.

Eric Roberts was passable as the master, sure he wasn't Robert Dalgado or Anthoney Ainley but he was passable as a one off. Grace wasn't actually a bad assistant and i didn't find her irritating, she kept the doctor on his toes which i did like.

The Tardis interior i found outstanding, it was very Victorian which went spot on with Mcgann and Mccoy to some extent who along with Mcgann is a very under rated doctor.

overall i must say that even thought its not the best story ever told i really enjoyed it, Paul Mcgann will always be my doctor no matter who plays the character in the future(Tennant has nothing on Mcgann)