Downtime (home video)

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Downtime is an 1995 film produced by Reeltime Pictures. An independent spin-off of Doctor Who, the film features several characters from the Whoniverse, but not the Doctor as Reeltime did not have a licence from the BBC to use the character. The film picks up with several of the Doctor's companions in the mid-1990s. The film was directed by long-time Doctor Who director Christopher Barry.

Synopsis

The Brigadier and Sarah Jane Smith investigate New World University, a sinister school run by none other than Victoria Waterfield and a gateway to Earth by the Great Intelligence which has taken over her.

Plot

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Cast

Production crew

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References

  • Kate Lethbridge Stewart is from Alistair Lethbridge Stewart's first marriage to Fiona.

Story notes

Myths

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Filming Locations

  • University of East Anglia, Norwich

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • The year this story is set is 1995, however the events of The Web of Fear are said to have taken place 25 years ago, making the date 1970.

Continuity

DVD and Video releases

  • This story was released on video in 2nd September 1995.

Novelisation

See Downtime (novel)

Downtime is one of only two independent spin-off productions (the other being Shakedown) to be adapted as a novel. Screenwriter Marc Platt adapted his story for an entry in the Virgin Missing Adventures line of books, and the work is notable for being the only MA release not to feature The Doctor.

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