Doctor Who
Paese d'origine: UK USA
Location del set: San Francisco, California, USA Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Versioni alternative: - An alternate version of this movie exists, with the following cuts: - The caption "Based on the original series broadcast by the BBC" is removed, although no footage is edited. - Chang Lee's gang firing at the departing car. - Chang Lee's two friends being shot. - The third and fourth gunmen aiming at Chang Lee. - The gunmen firing at the TARDIS. - The operating scene is heavily edited with many cuts of Grace and her attempts to retrieve the probe from the Doctor's body. - Chang Lee's neck snapping. - This edited version was shown on TV and released on video in the UK, and is the only version available there. - The 'uncut' version has since been broadcast by the BBC in the UK, during a night of Dr who programmes on BBC 2 in november 1999.
Genere: Sci-Fi
Lingue: English
Plot: The Doctor, an alien time traveller from the planet Gallifrey, is transporting the remains of his nemesis, the Master back to their homeworld. However the Master is not as dead as the Doctor thinks. The Master's essence escapes and sabotages the TARDIS, the Doctor's time machine causing it to crashland in San Franscisco on December 30th 1999. The Doctor requires a beryllium atomic clock to repair the TARDIS, but is shot as he leaves the Ship. Taken to hospital, the Doctor's seventh regeneration is triggered by a medic, confused by his alien metabolism, while the Master takes over a paramedics body. He needs a Time Lord's body to survive - the Doctors'. Newly regenerated the Doctor must fight to save his own eighth body, and the world when the Master sabotages the TARDIS power-source. By midnight on December 31st 1999, the Earth will be pulled through this power-source, a mini-black hole, and only the Doctor can stop if only he can remember who he is... While transporting the remains of The Master, an evil time lord, the 7th Doctor suffers a tardis malfunction and ends up in San Francisco in 1999. The Master escapes and assumes a bodily form, the Doctor is reincarnated as #8, and -- with the help of an attractive heart surgeon he must locate and defeat The Master before the deadline of the turn of the millennium, at midnight, December 31.
Visti censura internazionale: Australia:M UK:12
Date di uscita internazionali:
| Australia:7 July 1996 |
| Canada:12 May 1996 |
| New Zealand:30 October 1996 |
| UK:27 May 1996 |
| USA:14 May 1996 |
| CAM:Clairmont Cameras |
| Dolby |
| 85 |
| USA:95 |
Cast & Credits
distribuzione cinematografica nazionale:
bbc (british broadcasting corporation)
universal tv
produzione cinematografica: 20th century fox television
produttore cinematografico: beaton alex (i) ware peter v. segal philip wright jo (i)
regista: sax geoffrey
attore: mcgann paul roberts eric ashbrook daphne mccoy sylvester tso yee jee novak john simms michael david lough catherine drake dolores sasso william radick jeremy roberts eliza croft bill hurtubise david wirkkunen joel jackson dee jay tipple gordon lee mi jung piros joanna
direttore della fotografia: macpherson glen
scenografia: hudolin richard
montaggio: lussier patrick (i)
compositori: febre louis grainer ron sponsler john debney john
sceneggiatori e soggettisti: jacobs matthew
costumi: woodman jori
effetti speciali ottici: northwest imaging & fx
troupe varia: newman sydney stark patrick clothier jessica lederer joseph robinson trish stecko robert (i)
produzione cinematografica: 20th century fox television
produttore cinematografico: beaton alex (i) ware peter v. segal philip wright jo (i)
regista: sax geoffrey
attore: mcgann paul roberts eric ashbrook daphne mccoy sylvester tso yee jee novak john simms michael david lough catherine drake dolores sasso william radick jeremy roberts eliza croft bill hurtubise david wirkkunen joel jackson dee jay tipple gordon lee mi jung piros joanna
direttore della fotografia: macpherson glen
scenografia: hudolin richard
montaggio: lussier patrick (i)
compositori: febre louis grainer ron sponsler john debney john
sceneggiatori e soggettisti: jacobs matthew
costumi: woodman jori
effetti speciali ottici: northwest imaging & fx
troupe varia: newman sydney stark patrick clothier jessica lederer joseph robinson trish stecko robert (i)


