‘Doctor Who’ revisited: ‘The TV Movie’ (1996)

Today marks exactly 20 years since Paul McGann made his Doctor Who debut as the Eighth Doctor on UK screens in ‘The TV Movie’. The Doctor finds himself in San Francisco in 1999 whilst transporting the remains of the Master, now deceased, back to Gallifrey. But when the Master’s essence escapes and the Doctor is badly … >

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‘Doctor Who’ TV Movie ‘needed different story’, admits director

The director of the Doctor Who TV Movie has revealed that he was “disappointed that [the show] wasn’t picked up” for a full series in America following the its broadcast in 1996. Introducing Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, the TV Movie was a co-production between America’s Fox Network, Universal and the BBC. Despite strong … >

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Geoffrey Sax (‘Christopher And His Kind’) interview

Directed by Geoffrey Sax (Doctor Who: ‘The Movie’, Stormbreaker), BBC Two’s new one-off drama Christopher And His Kind stars Matt Smith (Doctor Who) and explores novelist Christopher Isherwood’s formative years in 1930s Berlin in the run-up to the Second World War.

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