Downtime (Doctor Who)
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| Directed by | Christopher Barry | ||||
| Written by | Marc Platt | ||||
| Produced by |
Keith Barnfather Ian Levine Paul Cuthbert-Brown Andrew Beech |
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| Length | 1 episode, 70 mins. | ||||
| Originally broadcast | 2 September 1995 (release date) | ||||
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| Downtime - Original Soundtrack Recording | |
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| Soundtrack album by Ian Levine, Nigel Stock, and Erwin Keiles | |
| Released | December 1995 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Label | Silva Screen |
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| Author | Marc Platt |
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| Series |
Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures |
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Release number
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18 |
| Subject | Featuring: Victoria Waterfield Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart Sarah Jane Smith |
| Set in | Period between Fury from the Deep and Battlefield (main story); The Web of Fear and Twilight of the Gods (Second Doctor cameo);The Five Doctors and Island of Death (Third Doctor cameo) |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
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Publication date
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January 1996 |
| Pages | 263 |
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| Preceded by | Lords of the Storm |
| Followed by | The Man in the Velvet Mask |
Downtime is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-video and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures. It is a sequel to the Second Doctor serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear.
Downtime stars Nicholas Courtney, Deborah Watling, Jack Watling and Elisabeth Sladen reprising their roles as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Victoria Waterfield, Professor Edward Travers and Sarah Jane Smith, respectively. It introduces the character of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.
Sometime after Victoria had parted company with the Doctor on 20th century Earth (Fury from the Deep), she is lured back to the Detsen Monastery in Tibet (The Abominable Snowmen) by a dream telling her she'll find her late father there. Instead, she finds the Great Intelligence, which still possessed the mind of Professor Travers (The Web of Fear).
15 years later, Victoria is the vice chancellor of New World University. New World is an institution that claims to offer spiritual guidance to distraught youth. In reality, New World is the headquarters for the Intelligence's new plan to conquer the world by infecting all of the computers. Both the administration and students await the coming of a "new world" that will be heralded by the chancellor, the Intelligence-possessed Travers.
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