Doctor Who (1996)

Dates of Original Broadcast: 12 May 1996
Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 85 mins
Format: colour
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PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Productions Canada for BBC Worldwide/MCA Television
Executive Producers: Alex Beaton, Philip Seagal
Executive Producer for the BBC: Jo Wright
Producer: Peter V. Ware
Co-Producer: Matthew Jacobs
Production Manager: Fran Rosati
Production Co-Ordinator: Sandra Palmer

SCRIPT
Script: Matthew Jacobs

DIRECTION
Director: Geoffrey Sax
1st Assistant Director: Patrice Leung
2nd Assistant Director: David Klohn

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Glen MacPherson
Film Cameraman: Glen MacPherson
Camera Operator: Randal Platt
1st Assistant Camera: Greg Fox
2nd Assistant Camera: Nick Watson
Gaffer: Andrew Davidson
Key Grip: Dave Gordon
Stills: Joe Lederer

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Patrick Lussier
Additional Editor: Daria Ellerman

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: John Debney, John Sponsler
Music: John Debney
Additional Music: John Sponsler, Louis Serbe

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Jacqueline Christianini
Sound Mixer: Gordon W. Anderson

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Joann Fowler
Hair: Julie McHaffie
Costume Designer: Jori Woodman

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Co-Ordinator: Gary Paller
Visual Effects Producer: Tony Dow
Visual Effects Supervisor: Eric Alba
Visual Effects: Northwest Imaging and FX
Visual Effects Co-Ordinator: Mariush Kushniruk

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Richard Hudolin, Fran Rosati
Art Director: Bridget McGuire
Set Decorator: Cynthia Lewis
Prop Master: Dan Sissons
Construction Co-Ordinator: Derick MacLeod
Head Painter: Barry Kootchin

OTHER CREW
Script Supervisor: Jessica Clothier
Head Accountant: Beverly Wiens
Transportation Co-Ordinator: Dennis Houser
Driver Captain: John Oliver
First Aid/Craft Service: Jim Rankin

LOCATIONS
Locations: Vancouver, Canada; San Fransisco
Location Manager: Ed Hesling

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinators: J.J. Makaro, Fred Perron

CASTING
Casting: Beth Hymson-Ayer
Vancouver Casting: Trish Robinson
Extras Casting: James Forsyth
UK Casting Consultants: John Hubbard, Ros Hubbard

CAST
Paul McGann (The Doctor)
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor)
Daphne Ashbrook (Dr Grace Holloway)
Eric Roberts (The Master/Bruce the paramedic)
Yee Jee Tso (Cheng Lee)
John Novak (Salinger)
Michael David Simms (Dr Swift)
Catherine Lough (Wheeler)
Delores Drake (Curtis)
William Sasso (Pete)
Jeremy Radick (Gareth)
Eliza Roberts (Miranda)
Bill Croft (motorcycle policeman)
Dave Hurtubise (Professor Wagg)
Joel Wirkkunen (Ted)
Dee Jay Jackson (security guard)
Gordon Tipple (the old Master - role cut from film, though he's still credited)
Mi-Jung Lee, Joanna Piros (news anchors)

PLOT SUMMARY

Transporting the remains of The Master, recently executed by the Daleks, back to Gallifrey, The Doctor detours to San Francisco on the eve of the Millennium and is gunned down in a gangland shootout. He dies at the hospital, but regenerates and sets out to stop The Master, who has also been reborn, from destroying the Earth using The Doctor's TARDIS.

McGann is fantstic, the sets are magnificent,the direction is moody and atmospheric, and McCoy gets a fitting farewell. But this much-vaunted revival was woefully underwritten and the plot is a standard runaround that seems to be about nothing in particular, with Roberts ruining every scene he appears in by hamming it up outrageously. It revitalised Who fandom, and undoubtedly helped to keep the show alive, but if we're really honest, this was a major disappointment.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video
DVD Distributor: BBC Video (BBCDVD1043)

USA
Television Distributor: Fox Network

UK
Rating: 12 (cut by 1 min 6 sec; cuts restored in 2001)

1996
May
12: Canada - television broadcast
14: USA - television broadcast
22: UK - video release
27: UK - television broadcast

July
7: Australia - television broadcast

2001
August
13: UK - DVD release (BBC Video (BBCDVD1043))

Doctor Who: The Movie - UK video title

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Doctor Who (1963 - 1989)

SEQUEL
Doctor Who (2005 - )

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.542-547
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 8 March, 2009