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== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
* [[Gary Gillatt]] created the Nightshade video covers which appear on Jeremiah O'Kane shelves.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/nightshade/notes.shtml#one |title=Author's Notes - Introduction |accessdate= |accessmonthday= |accessyear= |author=Mark Gatiss |date of source=23 January 2008 |website name=Doctor Who - Classic Series - Ebooks |publisher=BBC  |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080123045721/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/nightshade/notes.shtml |archivedate=23 January 2008 |quote=A year or so later when I was making The Zero Imperative with Bill Baggs, Gary Gillett mocked up some videos that can just be made out on Jon Pertwee's shelves.}}</ref>
* [[Gary Gillatt]] created the Nightshade video covers which appear on Jeremiah O'Kane shelves.<ref>
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[[Category:Stories set in London]]{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/nightshade/notes.shtml#one |title=Author's Notes - Introduction |accessdate= |accessmonthday= |accessyear= |author=Mark Gatiss |date of source=23 January 2008 |website name=Doctor Who - Classic Series - Ebooks |publisher=BBC  |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080123045721/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/nightshade/notes.shtml |archivedate=23 January 2008 |quote=A year or so later when I was making The Zero Imperative with Bill Baggs, Gary Gillett mocked up some videos that can just be made out on Jon Pertwee's shelves.}}</ref>
* This film is the debut of the [[Preternatural Research Bureau]] (PROBE) and the return of [[Caroline John]] as [[Liz Shaw]], a character last seen on television in [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'' in 1970 (discounting a psychic projection of Shaw played by John that appeared in 1983's ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'').
* This film is the debut of the [[Preternatural Research Bureau]] (PROBE) and the return of [[Caroline John]] as [[Liz Shaw]], a character last seen on television in [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'' in 1970 (discounting a psychic projection of Shaw played by John that appeared in 1983's ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'').
* Several cast members previous portrayed (other) roles in ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Jon Pertwee ([[Third Doctor]] who acted alongside Caroline John); Colin Baker ([[Sixth Doctor]]); Sylvester McCoy ([[Seventh Doctor]]); Sophie Aldred ([[Ace]]); Louise Jameson ([[Leela]]); and Peter Davison ([[Fifth Doctor]]). Any actor to formerly play the Doctor plays ''a'' doctor in the film.
* Several cast members previous portrayed (other) roles in ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Jon Pertwee ([[Third Doctor]] who acted alongside Caroline John); Colin Baker ([[Sixth Doctor]]); Sylvester McCoy ([[Seventh Doctor]]); Sophie Aldred ([[Ace]]); Louise Jameson ([[Leela]]); and Peter Davison ([[Fifth Doctor]]). Any actor to formerly play the Doctor plays ''a'' doctor in the film.
* Simon Messingham also wrote: [[PROSE]]: ''[[Strange England]]'' [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face-Eater]]'', ''[[The Infinity Race]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'' and ''[[The Indestructible Man]]''.
* Simon Messingham also wrote: [[PROSE]]: ''[[Strange England]]'' [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face-Eater]]'', ''[[The Infinity Race]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'' and ''[[The Indestructible Man]]''.
* This is the first of four films featuring the PROBE organisation. It pre-dates ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' as the first ongoing spin-off of the ''Doctor Who'' universe.
* This is the first of four films featuring the PROBE organisation. It pre-dates ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' as the first ongoing spin-off of the ''Doctor Who'' universe.
*This story marks the first time that Pertwee, Aldred, Jameson and Davison have played more than one character in the ''Doctor Who'' universe. It is not the first time for Baker and McCoy, however: Baker played [[Maxil]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' and McCoy briefly played the Sixth Doctor in [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]''. Pertwee, Baker, McCoy and Davison had previously reunited in BBV's 1993 film''[[wikipedia:The Airzone Solution|The Airzone Solution]],''which as it is set outside of the Doctor Who universe this Wiki does not cover. Davison would appear as a different character in the second and fourth ''P.R.O.B.E. ''films,''[[The Devil of Winterborne]]''and''[[Ghosts of Winterborne]],''whilst Aldred would go on to portray a number of different characters in BBV and[[Reeltime Pictures|Reeltimefilms]] throughout the decade''.''Interestingly this is not the last time Baker, McCoy and Davison would play different characters set within the Doctor Who universe, as they reunited again in[[AUDIO]]:''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''.
*This story marks the first time that Pertwee, Aldred, Jameson and Davison have played more than one character in the ''Doctor Who'' universe. It is not the first time for Baker and McCoy, however: Baker played [[Maxil]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' and McCoy briefly played the Sixth Doctor in [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]''. Pertwee, Baker, McCoy and Davison had previously reunited in BBV's 1993 film ''[[wikipedia:The Airzone Solution|The Airzone Solution]], ''which, as it is set outside of the Doctor Who universe, this Wiki does not cover. Davison would appear as a different character in the second and fourth ''P.R.O.B.E. ''films, ''[[The Devil of Winterborne]] ''and ''[[Ghosts of Winterborne]], ''whilst Aldred would go on to portray a number of different characters for BBV and [[Reeltime Pictures|Reeltimefilms]] throughout the decade''. ''Interestingly, this is not the last time Baker, McCoy and Davison would play different characters set within the Doctor Who universe, as they reunited again in [[AUDIO]]:''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''.


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The Zero Imperative (home video) was the first BBV Productions video-released film to feature Caroline John reprising her role as Elizabeth Shaw. This was also the first story to feature PROBE – the Preternatural Research Bureau which would feature in the four BBV Productions PROBE films.

Synopsis

Former UNIT luminary Liz Shaw and her assistant Lou Bayliss are investigating a series of bizarre murders, all committed near a soon-to-be-closed psychiatric hospital.

When the hospital is unexpectedly reprieved by rich industrialist Peter Russell, events seem to move out of Liz's control. Are the incumbent director of the clinic, Doctor Dove and his predecessor, Doctor O'Kane, harbouring the killer? What is the centuries-old horror hidden in the grounds?

And what exactly is the secret of room zero?

Plot

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Cast

Production crew

References

  • Among the items on Jeremiah O'Kane's shelves are the videos Nightshade, Nightshade 2 and Nightshade and the Imps, serials or (more likely) movie adaptations in the Nightshade series which originally starred Edmund Trevithick.
  • While discussing the group similar to PROBE she was once a part of, Liz sees a picture of The Brigadier on a wall and begins drawing on it with makeup.

Story notes

Myths

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Filming Locations

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

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Continuity

DVD, video, and Other releases

First released direct-to-video in 1994, it was reissued on DVD in 2012 and is available to purchase from independent retailer Galaxy 4.

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. Mark Gatiss (23 January 2008). Author's Notes - Introduction. Doctor Who - Classic Series - Ebooks. BBC. Archived from the original on 23 January 2008. “A year or so later when I was making The Zero Imperative with Bill Baggs, Gary Gillett mocked up some videos that can just be made out on Jon Pertwee's shelves.”
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