| Downtime | |
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| Production | |
| Writer | Marc Platt |
| Director | Christopher Barry |
| Producer | Keith Barnfather Ian Levine Paul Cuthbert-Brown Andrew Beech |
| Length | 1 episode, 70 mins. Marc Platt (born 1953 is a British writer He is most known for his work with the BBC Science fiction Television Christopher Barry is a well-established British television director who was well known for his work on the Science fiction series Doctor Who. Ian Levine is an English Songwriter, producer, and DJ. He is also a well-known (and often controversial fan of the long-running television Andrew Beech, born in 1959 is a freelance Producer for 2entertain and BBC Worldwide |
| Originally broadcast | 2 September 1995 (release date) |
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Downtime is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Science fiction first appeared on Television during the Golden age of science fiction, first in Britain (UK and then in the United States Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. It was released direct-to-video and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures. Reeltime Pictures is a British multimedia film and video production company founded in 1984 by Keith Barnfather. It is a sequel to the Second Doctor serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear. The Second Doctor is the name given to the second incarnation of the Fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running The Abominable Snowmen is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired The Web of Fear is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six
Downtime stars Nicholas Courtney, Deborah Watling, Jack Watling and Elisabeth Sladen reprising their roles as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Victoria Waterfield, Professor Travers and Sarah Jane Smith, respectively. Nicholas Courtney (born William Nicholas Stone Courtney on 16 December 1929) is a British Television Actor, most famous Deborah Watling (born 2 January 1948, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire) is a British actress best known for her role as Victoria Jack Watling ( 13 January, 1923 in Chingford, Essex – 22 May, 2001 in Chelmsford) was a British Elisabeth Sladen (born 1 February 1948, Liverpool) is an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (sometimes Victoria Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who Professor Edward Travers, played by Jack Watling, is a fictional Anthropologist and Explorer who appears in two serials of the BBC Sarah Jane Smith is a Fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British BBC Television science fiction series
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Synopsis
Twenty years after trying to take over the world, the Great Intelligence is back once more. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, now retired, and Sarah Jane Smith have to stop it, but this time without the Doctor's help. The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also features in Victoria Waterfield and Professor Travers have also returned, but whose side are they really on?
Plot
Some while after Victoria had parted company with the Doctor on Earth in the 20th century (at the end of Fury from the Deep), she is lured back to the Detsen Monastery in Tibet (from The Abominable Snowmen by a dream telling her she will be reunited with her late father there. Fury from the Deep is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six Definitions of Tibet See also Definitions of Tibet Name In English The English word Tibet, like the word for Tibet in most European Instead, she found that she had been contacted by the Great Intelligence, which still possessed the mind of Professor Travers (last seen in The Web of Fear).
Nearly twenty years later, in the present day, Victoria is now the vice chancellor of New World University. New World is a school that claims to offer spiritual guidance to distraught youth. In reality, however, New World is the center of operations for the Intelligence's plan to conquer the Earth by infecting the global network of computers. Both the administration and students await the coming of a “new world” that will be heralded by the arrival of the chancellor, the Intelligence-possessed Travers.
Victoria's motives are well-meaning but misguided, having been manipulated with a promise of the "light of truth". The students themselves have been brainwashed through their computer courses and are slaves of the Intelligence. Outsiders refer to them as "chillys".
The Intelligence needs a final missing Locus to attain its goal. It believes it is in the possession of the Brigadier, but it is actually with his daughter Kate and grandson Gordon on their narrowboat. A narrowboat or narrow boat is a Boat of a distinctive design made to fit the narrow Canals of England and Wales.
New World attempts to gather information on the Brigadier by requesting an investigation by Sarah Jane Smith. Sarah lies about her knowledge of the Brigadier and later warns both him and UNIT. UNIT ( U nited N ations I ntelligence T askforce later the UN ified I ntelligence T askforce is a fictional military The Intelligence then arranges a meeting between the Brigadier and a corrupt UNIT captain named Cavendish.
Throughout the story the Brigadier is aided by a New World student named Daniel Hinton, a former student of his from the Brendon School. Mawdryn Undead is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast The Intelligence's conditioning failed on Hinton, though at times he is still under its influence and at one point becomes a Yeti. The Yeti of the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called He can communicate with the Brigadier through the bardo or astral plane. This is an article on a Buddhist concept For other meanings of the word Bardo, see Bardo (disambiguation The Tibetan word Bardo This article is about a plane of existence In the context of Unicode, Astral characters consist of planes above the Basic Multilingual Plane.
Trivia
- The university campus scenes of the video version were shot on location at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The University of East Anglia is a campus-based University located in Norwich, England, and founded in 1963 History Roman The Romans had their regional capital at Venta Icenorum on the river to the south which is near modern-day Caistor St Edmund Then DWB editor Anthony Brown, who'd attended UEA, suggested the location after another had fallen through, as the distinctive Ziggurat-shaped student residences Norfolk and Suffolk Terrace echoed pyramid motifs in the script and previous Yeti stories.
- Ironically, production of some external scenes had to be rescheduled thanks to unseasonal Spring snow storms - ironically, as snow was conspicuous absent from the first Yeti story, The Abominable Snowmen.
- The later Reeltime production Daemos Rising followed up on some of the elements of this story.
- Daniel Hinton is named after Craig Hinton, the Doctor Who fan and novelist. Craig Paul Alexander Hinton ( May 7 1964 &ndash December 3 2006) was a British writer best known for his work on various spin-offs
See also
Other creator-authorized Doctor Who spin-offs include:
Novelisation
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| Downtime | |
| Series | Virgin Missing Adventures |
| Release number | 18 |
| Featuring | Victoria Waterfield Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart Sarah-Jane Smith |
| Writer | Marc Platt |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-426-20462-X |
| Set between | Fury from the Deep and Battlefield |
| Number of pages | 263 |
| Release date | January 1996 |
| Preceded by | 'Lords of the Storm' |
| Followed by | 'The Man in the Velvet Mask' |
In 1996 a novelisation of Downtime by Marc Platt was published by Virgin Publishing as part of their Missing Adventures line. Wartime is the title of a short Science fiction film produced Direct-to-video in 1987 by Reeltime Pictures. Shakedown Return of the Sontarans is a film spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The Virgin Missing Adventures (often referred to simply as MA s in fandom were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction Victoria Waterfield is a fictional character played by Deborah Watling in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (sometimes Sarah Jane Smith is a Fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British BBC Television science fiction series Marc Platt (born 1953 is a British writer He is most known for his work with the BBC Science fiction Television Virgin Books is a United Kingdom book Publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Enterprises, the company originally Fury from the Deep is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six Battlefield is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four Lords of the Storm is an original novel written by David A McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction television series The Man in the Velvet Mask is an original novel written by Daniel O'Mahony and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Marc Platt (born 1953 is a British writer He is most known for his work with the BBC Science fiction Television Virgin Books is a United Kingdom book Publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Enterprises, the company originally The Virgin Missing Adventures (often referred to simply as MA s in fandom were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction It expands greatly on the original story and features many differences in plot. It is the only Missing Adventure not to centre on the Doctor, although the Second Doctor makes a cameo at the start of the novel, and the Third Doctor makes a cameo at the end. The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also features in The Second Doctor is the name given to the second incarnation of the Fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running The Third Doctor is the name given to the third incarnation of the Fictional character known as the Doctor; seen on screen in the long-running It is one of only two non-BBC, Doctor Who-related productions to be novelized. The other was Shakedown which was published as part of the Virgin New Adventures line of books. Shakedown Return of the Sontarans is a film spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Virgin New Adventures ( NA s were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series
The novelisation included an 8-page photo insert of behind-the-scenes images taken from the film production.
External links
- Downtime at the Internet Movie Database
- Downtime at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
Reviews
- Downtime reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
Novelisation
Novelisation Reviews
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