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An ASIS member for 20 years, Watson has served the Central Ohio Chapter in many capacities, including chair and chapter assembly representative. She was on the Local Arrangements Committee for the 1982 and 1993 Annual Meetings which were held in Columbus. On the national level, she has served on several ASIS committees (Budget & Finance, Conferences & Meetings, Awards & Honors, Membership, Publications) and is currently chair of the Leadership Committee. She is a member of SIG/Scientific and Technical Information Systems (STI).
"We must . . . be sure SIGs and chapters are organized to meet members' needs into the next century: that SIGs are responsive to our quickly changing information/ technology environment and that Chapters are providing stimulation and opportunities for the broad array of ASIS interests." - Judy Watson
Candy Schwartz
Candy Schwartz , professor at Simmons College, Boston, holds a bachelor's degree and an MLS degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Her teaching areas concern organization and access (cataloguing, classification, indexing, database management, records management and website design). Candy is co-editor of Library and Information Science Research and has published one book (Records Management and the Library), numerous articles and reviews and 20 Years of SIG/CON.
A member of ASIS since 1974, Candy has served on the ASIS Board of Directors and many ASIS committees, as well as being active in both local and national chapter activities. In addition, she managed the SIG sessions for the 1987 and 1991 Annual Meetings, is editing the Proceedings for the 1997 Annual Meeting and has organized and spoken at many ASIS events locally and nationally (including SIG/CON presentations). In 1994 she received the Outstanding Information Science Teacher of the Year award.
"Using our resources effectively can help [us] . . . be the society [for] knowledge managers, intranet webmasters, librarians, educators, students, researchers, service providers, policy setters and others who appreciate exchanging ideas within a diverse and stimulating community." - Candy Schwartz
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Stuart A. Sutton
Stuart A. Sutton is associate professor and director of the masters of library science degree program in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Prior to assuming his current duties, he was director of the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. He received his MLIS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies where he also served as visiting assistant professor. He is a member of the California Bar and received his JD from Golden Gate University School of Law and his LLM in copyright from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been an active member of ASIS since 1990.
"[T]he domain of thinking and practice in information work is growing fast and there is a need within the Society to reach further and harder to meet the demands of that growth." - Stuart A. Sutton
Myke Gluck
Myke Gluck is currently an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is the Director of FSU's Usability Center and also has an appointment in the Department of Geography. Myke has been an active member of ASIS for almost a decade serving as SIG
Cabinet Deputy Director (two terms), SIG officer (IAE and VIS), student chapter advisor, member of several award juries, committee member and on special task forces. He is also an active member of the Florida Chapter. He has been a frequent presenter at ASIS national and local chapter meetings discussing his research on the use of geographical information and the role of usability analysis in the design of information services and products. He also serves on the JASIS editorial board.
"[W]ith the rapid changes in information technology, standards, policy, education and commerce significantly affecting all ASIS members, we. . . must continually review and renew our goals and objectives to succeed in our mission to become the world's foremost information society." - Myke Gluck
Pat Molholt
Pat Molholt is assistant vice president and associate dean for scholarly resources at Columbia Health Sciences where her responsibilities include the Health Sciences Library, the Center for Academic Information Technology and the Center for Curriculum Evaluation and Faculty Support. This mix of responsibilities is tied together by the intertwining of technology and information. She is a recent Ph.D. graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a research area of knowledge structuring. Her current activities include strategic planning for tele-medicine and the development of an electronic curriculum for the schools of medicine and dentistry.
Pat got hooked on ASIS after giving the keynote address at the 1988 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting on Artificial Intelligence. She joined ASIS immediately after that meeting and has participated in a variety of ways since then. She was secretary/treasurer of the Upstate New York Chapter in 1992, chair of the ISI Doctoral Dissertation Jury in 1992 and chair of the Research Committee in 1992. In 1994 she chaired the Technical Program Committee for the Mid-Year Meeting on the theme Navigating the Networks. She is a member of several editorial boards and boards of visitors.
". . . I owe the society for the intellectual stimulation it has provided to me, as well as for the professional contacts it continues to afford. My objective is to assure that those attributes are available for others to enjoy beyond 2000.ö - Pat Molholt
Ray Larson
Ray Larson specializes in the design and performance evaluation of information systems and the evaluation of user interaction with those systems. His background includes work as a programmer/analyst with the University of California (UC) Division of Library Automation where he was involved in the design, development and performance evaluation of the UC public access online union catalog (MELVYL). He was also a faculty investigator on the Sequoia 2000 project, where he was involved in the design and evaluation of a very-large-scale, network-based, information system to support the information needs of scientists studying global change.
Larson has been an active participant in ASIS since joining the society as a student in 1978. He has served as chair of SIGs/Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Education (ED), on the SIG Cabinet Steering Committee and as Faculty Advisor to the Bay Area Student Chapter of ASIS. He is also serving as the Technical Program Chair for the 1998 Annual Meeting. He was the 1992 winner of the ASIS Best JASIS Paper Award.
"The importance of information in professions, in scholarship and research, and in daily life, the explosive growth of the international information industry, and the developing information infrastructure have created major new challenges and opportunities for ASIS.ö - Ray Larson
LACASIS is holding its annual fall workshop in September. This yearÆs
event is entitled Expedition 2000: Scouting the Millennium. More
information is posted on the LACASIS home page:
News from ASIS Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Group/Library Automation and Networks (LAN) is now
distributing its newsletter primarily as an electronic publication.
Following a survey conducted late last year, the SIG officers determined
that only a very few members could not receive an electronic newsletter.
So, beginning with the April issue, SIG/LAN members can access the
newsletter at the SIG/LAN home page:
Members without electronic access will receive paper copies.
News about ASIS Members
Wilda B. Newman, information resources manager in the administrative
services department of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins
University, has been selected as a fellow of the Special Libraries
Association. Fellows are honored for their contributions to the profession
and are called upon to advise the associationÆs Board of Directors and to
alert the membership to issues and trends warranting action.
Charles Beard, senior director of information resources and technology at the State University of West Georgia, has been named chair of the 1999 national conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Yvonne Davis has accepted a new position as market analyst in the competitive intelligence division of CINERGY Corporation of Cincinnati.
Joseph Busch, Getty Information Institute; Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois; Ed Fox, Virginia Tech; Michael Lesk, Bellcore; and Michael Neuman, Georgetown University, were among the participants in a recent roundtable of researchers and executives from the arts, humanities and computing and communications communities. The session was convened by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, the Coalition for Networked Information, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage and the Two Ravens Institute.
Richard P. Hulser, consultant, Digital Library Global Education Industry, IBM Corporation, has been elected Division Cabinet chair-elect of the Special Libraries Association.
Betty J. Turock, professor of library and information studies at Rutgers University, has received the universityÆs Presidential Award for Distinguished Service in recognition of her ōextraordinary service to the library profession and the advancement of democratic principles of communications.ö
Stephen Hirtle, associate professor and chair of Information Science and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh, is leading a team of researchers in an effort to design navigational maps and other tools for the Internet that will allow people who are surfing pages and creating links on the Web to go back and find information without getting lost.
Forrest ōWoodyö Horton, Jr., management consultant based in Washington, DC, will participate in the opening general session at the upcoming ARMA conference in Chicago. The session, billed as a ōpower panel discussion,ö is entitled The Future of Information Management and will focus on ways information managers can help shape their destinies.
Lawrence Dowler, associate librarian of Harvard College, is the editor of the new MIT Press book, Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning and Research.
Laurie Stackpole, chief librarian with the Ruth H. Hooker Research Library, Naval Research Laboratory, is the recipient of the Information Today Award for Innovations in Technology, an honor given to a person who uses innovative methods to forward the purpose and mission of the profession of information management and special librarianship.
Douglas Engelbart, 1996 recipient of an ASIS Special Award for long-term contributions to the advancement of information science and technology, is the winner of the 1997 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. Engelbart, who heads the Bootstrap Institute, is the inventor of the computer mouse and dozens of other devices and techniques that make computers and networks easier to use. The Lemelson-MIT prize is the largest awarded exclusively to U.S. inventors and scientific innovators.
Valerie Florance, IAIMS coordinator and director of the Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester Medical Center, won the Ida and George Eliot Prize of the Medical Library Association for her article, ōEducating Physicians to Use the Digital Library,ö which appeared in Academic Medicine.
The late Paul Evan Peters, founding director of the Coalition for Networked Information, was the posthumous winner of the LITA/Gaylord Award for 1997, citing him for his ōvision, creativity, intellect and optimism about the relationship of technology, information and users, his ability to forge coalitions, and dedication to the principles of equal access to information.ö
Barbara Ford, professor and director of University Library Services, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jose-Marie Griffiths, chief information officer and executive director of information technology, University of Michigan; and John Richardson, OCLC Visiting Scholar from the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, were among the speakers and panelists at the five-day OCLC Institute, Information Technology Trends for the Global Library Community. Martin Dillon is executive director of the institute.
P. Bryan Heidorn, assistant professor, University of Illinois, is the
co-editor of Digital Image Access & Retrieval, a book resulting from the
33rd Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing held at the
University of Illinois. Among the contributors to the volume are Howard
Besser, visiting associate professor at the University of California at
Berkeley; Jennifer Trant, consultant, Archives and Museum Informatics; and
Lois F. Lunin, consultant.
News from ASIS Institutional Members
The Indiana University School of Library and Information Science and the
School of Continuing Studies will offer courses via distance learning
technologies leading to two kinds of certification: public library
certification and school library/media and information technology
certification. Beginning in the fall of 1997, courses will be delivered on
most IU campuses and in Evansville on the Virtual Indiana Classroom (VIC)
Network and the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS).


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China's Shanghai Index, down almost 1 percent, has fallen to a three-year low. No obvious catalyst, but the Chinese economic slowdown is clearly affecting stocks.
What's going to turn the Chinese stock market around?
1) More top-line and bottom-line growth, but it's going in the other direction. According to Citi, top-line growth for China's largest companies — the 143 companies in the China MSCI — in the second quarter of 2012 was 10.7 percent year-over-year, half the growth of a year earlier. Chinese companies have too much capacity and need more financing.
2) A global demand recovery. That, too, is going in the other direction.
The New York Times ran a front-page article noting that Chinese factories were piling up large inventories of unsold goods. The story implied that government officials were hiding the weak data.
It noted, for example, that the agency in charge of releasing data on car registrations has simply stopped releasing the data. The government has not released information on the number of empty apartments since 2008. Problem solved!
3) More stimulus, ah, that always works, but how much stimulus is the Chinese government is really capable of providing? This week, Tianjin and Chongqing each announced investments in local industries (autos, electronics). Large investments, about $240 billion each. The problem, as the Financial Times and others have pointed out, is that there are no details on these plans and they apparently are estimates of how much local officials believe they can attract from outside (read: foreign and private) investors. They're not actually spending the money themselves.
The problem: Local Chinese governments are broke. They have very high debt levels from the massive 2008 stimulus plan. Local governments made money by selling land at ridiculously inflated prices to developers, but the central government has put curbs on ownership of second and third homes in an effort to curb real estate inflation. It's been successful, but now there's far less land to sell. (Read More: China Rescues Tiny Firm, Shows Debt Crisis Building.)
And tax receipts (local governments get some money by taxing smaller companies) are also down.
And what about the national government? Everyone has been waiting for the People's Bank of China to cut rates or the reserve requirement ratio. It will undoubtedly do a bit of both. But cutting rates significantly and loosening the restrictions on real estate investment (that is the big bazooka) will just ignite another round of hot money inflows, just like 2008.
Get the point? The reason there is no rally in China is because the expectations are still very low.
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Philip wrote:somehow i think they got it right
And somehow I'd like a few more specifics before I accept their conclusions.
As for ABX, it's a useful tool, but you can only use it to prove that a particular codec is transparent to you.
Finally, I really didn't intend to start a stale analog vs. digital vs. compressed digital argument. Digital audio technology has come a long way in the past few years, and I'm delighted that at least some DJs are working with better and better source material.


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- You may wish to consult
Doctor Who (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
Doctor Who was a made-for-TV movie based on the original series. It was written by Matthew Jacobs, directed by Geoffrey Sax and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Daphne Ashbrook as Grace Holloway, Yee Jee Tso as Chang Lee and Eric Roberts as the Master.
It was the final chronological appearance of Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and introduced Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor.
Eleven years later in the story Last of the Time Lords, the Doctor states Time Lords can always recognise each other. However, as this story shows, it's not possible if a Time Lord has stolen a non-Gallifreyan body to inhabit.
It was made as an attempt to relaunch and continue the Doctor Who television franchise in the UK and abroad. With no on-screen title other than Doctor Who, home video releases of the film from BBC Video are marketed under the title Doctor Who: The Movie. The movie featured Sylvester McCoy's final chronological appearance as the Seventh Doctor and his regeneration. A large period of time is implied to have passed since Survival, as the Seventh Doctor has parted with his companion Ace, is visibly older, is dressed differently and is travelling alone.
This story marked the return of the the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, for the first time in fourteen years since 1982's The Visitation.
This would be the last televised story of Doctor Who until 2005's Rose, leaving a nine year gap. Even though the movie failed to get Doctor Who renewed as a television series, the series was kept alive through comics, novels and audio stories of the Eighth Doctor's adventures.
As of October 2018[update], this remains the earliest story where all its credited cast members are still living.
The film was co-produced by the BBC and Fox networks. Filmed in Canada, the telemovie introduced McGann as the Eighth Doctor and was his only on-screen performance in the role for 17 years until TV: The Night of the Doctor in 2013. The telemovie won a Saturn Award in 1996 for best television presentation.
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The Doctor, nearing the end of his seventh life, is charged with transporting the remains of his fellow Time Lord, the Master, back to their home planet. Despite his precautions, his old enemy is not only not dead, but is out for revenge. Creating a timing malfunction in the TARDIS, and bringing the Doctor to San Francisco in 1999, the Master escapes and puts his plans into motion. The Doctor must find a beryllium atomic clock and stop the Master, but after being shot down by members of a street gang, how will he succeed?
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As part of a treaty between the Time Lords and the Daleks, Time Lord criminal the Master has been placed on trial on Skaro, and is sentenced to extermination for his life of evil. As part of a last, and somewhat curious, request, the Master asked that his old rival the Doctor, now late in his seventh incarnation, escort his ashes back to Gallifrey for proper burial. "It was a request they should have never granted." The Doctor narrates that Time Lords have thirteen lives, but the Master had already used up all his own. However, rules never mattered much to the Master, as he always found a way around them and kept on living. So, even though the Master was dead, the Doctor knew he couldn't trust him.
Fishing a sonic screwdriver out of a tool box, the Doctor locks the urn containing the Master's ashes inside another box. The Doctor smiles, glad to have added a precaution. Narrating again, the Doctor claims he had learnt, by the end of his seventh life, that he could not help but be too careful. After returning to the main control room, the Seventh Doctor sets the TARDIS coordinates for Gallifrey in the Rassilon Era.
Confident that nothing can go wrong now that he's ensured the Master's remains are safely sealed, the Doctor decides to relax on the trip back. Sitting in a recliner, the Doctor enjoys a cup of tea and resumes reading H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, whilst eating a bowl of jelly babies. At the same time, he has "In a Dream" playing on his gramophone.
Nearby, the casket containing the Master's ashes shakes violently. The record begins skipping on the word "time", but the Doctor fixes it, remaining unaware of the situation. The shaking grows worse, causing the record to start skipping worse. The casket breaks open. The Doctor's cup of tea crashes to the ground and the record skips to stop. Realising that he's trying to be told something, the Doctor immediately becomes suspicious of the Master.
A snake-like creature emerges from the box and, unseen by the Doctor, slithers into the TARDIS console. The resulting effect of the console malfunctioning as sparks fly out finally rouses the Doctor: leaving his chair, he rushes to fix it, but is unsuccessful; a critical timing malfunction forces him to make an emergency landing. Concerned that the Master may have had a hand in this, the Doctor quickly returns to where he left the ashes, only to see the box cracked open. The Doctor, shocked, stares at it with a worried expression.
The TARDIS exits the Time Vortex, heading to Earth.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco on December 30th 1999, two local Chinese-American gangs are having a shoot-out, reducing one to just Chang Lee. When the other gangsters prepare to fire on him, the TARDIS materialisation wind picks up and it appears in front of Lee. The gang fruitlessly fire at the TARDIS, emptying their guns. While they reload, the Doctor exits the TARDIS to find his bearings only to be shot by the gangsters, who quickly flee. Lee runs to the Doctor's side. The Doctor tries to warn Lee about the Master, who has slipped through the TARDIS keyhole. However, Lee doesn't turn around in time to see him. The Doctor falls unconscious and Lee quickly runs to get an ambulance and accompanies the Doctor to Walker General Hospital. Unseen, the Master stows away in the ambulance.
At the hospital, a surgeon removes the bullets, but the Doctor's two hearts cause confusion for the medical team. They assume he is fibrillating and that the X-rays showing his two hearts is a double exposure. A cardiologist, Dr. Grace Holloway, is summoned from her visit to the opera, and attempts to stabilise the Doctor's heartbeat. Regaining consciousness, from pre-op sedation by music from "Madame Butterfly" opera, just as she is about to begin the operation, the Doctor tries to prevent it by explaining his non-terrestrial origins and tells Grace that he needs a beryllium atomic clock. Salinger implies that they can't wait any longer to begin the operation, and Grace has the anesthesiologist administer the anaesthetic. However, the Doctor fights the sedation and awakes from it twice, deliriously telling the people in the operating room, "Timing malfunction. The Master, he's out there! He's out there... I've got to stop...him..." The medical team think this is just incoherent babble brought on by the anaesthesia, and attempt to put him to sleep again.
Once the Doctor falls asleep, they insert an endotracheal (breathing) tube in his throat and start their operation to stabilise his heart beat. The Doctor's anatomy confuses Grace, who believes his unusually fast heartbeat is an unwanted and life-threatening fibrillation. She decides to do exploratory surgery to fix it. She gets lost in his right side, which holds a second heart, knowing that she should be in the right side of his body, the surgical team identify his second-heart blood veins as the left side of the heart (the normal human heart parts). Grace attempts to move the microscopic probe in her plan B and accidentally damages his unfamiliar circulatory system with the probe, causing the Doctor's sedated body to have a massive seizure. She is unable to get the probe out when it snaps off inside one of his vital heart vessels, mortally wounding him. The medical team shock his body in attempt to restart his heart. The Doctor's body starts to spasm violently, and he wakes from the anaesthetic one more time, forced into consciousness by the incredible pain he is now feeling. He lets out a final, horribly agonised scream, and collapses on the operating table. The medical team fail to revive the Doctor and they pronounce him dead. Grace takes off her surgical glasses and cap and runs out of the room upset. Wheeler covers the body with the Doctor's surgical drapes.
When Grace tries to comfort Lee with the death of the Doctor, she realises he doesn't know him. Lee runs off with the Doctor's possessions, as Grace cannot run after him in her opera dress. The Doctor is wheeled into the morgue for dissection the next day, with the morgue attendant, Pete, making spa jokes at the dead body.
Around the same time, the Master has hitched a ride to the home of one of the ambulance workers, Bruce, by hiding in his jacket. Bruce snores with his wife, Miranda, in agony; she wraps a pillow around her head to block the sound. The Master slithers up to Bruce, quickly shoving himself down the man's throat. Suffocated, Bruce dies; the Master then gains control of the man's body. Unknowing of this, Miranda assumes Bruce simply stopped snoring and sleeps.
Later that night, as Pete, on night-shift at the morgue, watches the 1931 film version of Frankenstein, the Doctor comes back to life and, at last, regenerates into his eighth body. His old face twists and warps into the features of a brand new, younger man, followed by a release of dense, foggy breath from his mouth. Surprised and slightly disoriented, he springs up from the gurney and begins banging on the door, attracting Pete's attention. When Pete arrives to see what is the source of the sound, the new Doctor knocks the metal door off its hinges. He is clad in just a shroud, a sight mirrored by the image in the movie. Pete faints in shock while the Doctor stumbles into a deserted wing of the hospital. He walks into a room where he sees himself in broken pieces of mirror. Confused by his new face he falls to his knees and cries out, "Who am I?"
The next morning, the Doctor, after going through numerous hospital lockers, steals the Wild Bill Hickok costume that Pete's co-worker, Ted, intended to wear to the hospital's New Year's Eve costume party. He leaves the costume's gun belt behind though, seeing no use for it. Meanwhile, Chang Lee goes through the Doctor's possessions, finding his sonic screwdriver, pocket watch, jelly babies, a yo-yo, and TARDIS key.
Elsewhere, Miranda awakes to find, unbeknownst to her, the Master staring out the window. As the Master talks to himself about Bruce's body not lasting long and his need to find the Doctor. Happy to see he has a sense of humour and no longer snores, she asks him to come back to bed. The Master turns around, shocking her with the cat-like eyes he acquired on Cheetah World. Miranda attempts to scream in horror, but is grabbed by the neck by the Master, who shushes her. After a moment, he breaks her neck and begins thinking about stealing the Doctor's lives.
At the hospital, the Doctor, still struggling with severe disorientation, hangs out in the hospital reception where he happens to recognise Grace (who has quit her hospital job after an argument with the hospital administrator over covering up the surgery), and follows her to her car, asking for help as he believes she knows who he is. Grace tells the Doctor to leave her alone, convinced he is crazy. She screams when she finds the Doctor in her car in agony. But he removes the source of his pain, the surgical probe which Grace had left in him the previous night, the sight convinces her that this strange man is in fact her supposedly dead patient. She then drives off with the Doctor, at his request, to prevent the hospital staff from killing him again.
"Bruce" goes to the hospital, where he learns that the Doctor died during surgery and that his body is missing and Lee has taken his possessions. Grace takes the Doctor to her house, where she discovers that her boyfriend has left her and taken some of her furniture to boot. She listens to the Doctor's hearts, and takes a sample of his blood, while the Doctor's spotty memory begins to return with anecdotes about Puccini and Leonardo da Vinci. He also explains that he has thirteen lives, going on to say Grace became a doctor because of her childish dream to hold back death; according to the Doctor, she'll do great things.
Elsewhere, Chang Lee uses the TARDIS key to enter the TARDIS. There he encounters the Master, who entered before him. The Master hypnotises Lee into giving him the Doctor's possessions by staring at him with his inhuman eyes. Searching through the bag, the Master demands to know where the Doctor is. Lee says that the items he stole are his now, and that the Doctor is dead. With a snarl, the Master informs Lee that the Doctor is not dead and that he will die unless he finds him. Wondering what he'll get out of assisting the Master, Lee is told he'll get to live. Elsewhere, Grace has given the Doctor a pair of shoes left behind by her boyfriend, letting him keep them; her attempts to examine the Doctor's blood fail. They decide to take a walk, hoping to jog his memory, during which the Doctor happily remembers seeing a wonderful meteor storm on Gallifrey with his father during his initial incarnation. He then joyously announces that his new shoes fit perfectly and runs off happy.
Rummaging through some of the drawers, the Master withdraws some red pouches, going on to say the TARDIS and the Doctor's body were stolen from him. Lee once more says the Doctor died. The Master explains it's half true; that body, the body of the Seventh Doctor, died, but the Doctor regenerated into a new one. He goes on to lie that the Doctor used seven of his lives to commit terrible deeds as well-known villains in Earth history, claiming Genghis Khan was one incarnation of the Doctor. He then gives Lee the pouches, which contain $5,000,000 in gold dust, as payment for his help, promising a full billion once he gets "his" body back. The Master takes Lee to the Cloister Room, where he uses Lee's human eyes to open the Eye of Harmony, the TARDIS' power source. In the meantime, the Doctor regains his memories. In a fit of enthusiasm, the Doctor announces, "I am the Doctor!" and kisses Grace, who asks him to kiss her again. In the Cloister Room, the Master sees a series of images: the Seventh Doctor, the newly regenerated Eighth Doctor, and a human retina. The latter causes him to announce, "The Doctor is half-human."
The Doctor becomes aware that the Master has opened the Eye of Harmony as he holds Grace; at the same time, the Master and Lee see her through the Doctor's vision. However, the Doctor shuts his eyes, preventing nothing more than audio to come through the Eye's projection. The Doctor explains the Master's plan: he hopes to force the Doctor to look into the Eye of Harmony, which will destroy his soul and allow the Master to take over his body. The Master says the Doctor is lying again; however, Lee is worried Grace might believe him. At the same time, the Doctor asks Grace to help him find a beryllium atomic clock. However, Grace runs back to her house; the Doctor opens his again, but the visual doesn't return to the Eye. The Doctor tries talking to Grace, but she calls him insane and phones for an ambulance to take the Doctor to a mental institution.
To prove that the Eye is open and changing the physical structure of the planet, the Doctor presses against one of the windows, making it bend; he walks through it and into Grace's house. The Doctor explains that at midnight, the entire Earth will be sucked through it unless he can close it in time. Collapsing in shock, Grace asks for two ambulances over the phone. Hearing this, the Master decides to use the identity of his stolen body to commandeer an ambulance, with Lee. The Doctor weighs himself on a scale as Grace's television reports strange weather occurring around the world, which has been caused by the Eye's opening. The Doctor is even more shocked to see he has lost twenty pounds in just the same amount of minutes. Watching a news report, the Doctor hears that a beryllium atomic clock is being unveiled at ITAR. When the ambulance arrives, the EMT is the Master, and the unseen driver is Chang Lee; the Doctor doesn't see Lee or know it's the Master. The Doctor asks to be taken to ITAR. Grace is still sceptical, but indicates for the driver to play along.
As they are being driven, the Doctor questions Grace as to why she didn't tell him she had access to an atomic clock. Still playing along, Grace says she was more worried about what would happen to the Earth if the Eye isn't shut. Their conversation changes subject, in which the Doctor explains he met Sigmund Freud and Madame Curie. However, Lee slams on the brakes at a traffic jam, making the ambulance shake, causing the sunglasses the Master had been using to hide his inhuman eyes to fall off; the Doctor recognises him. Putting his glasses back on, the Master has them pulled back off by the Doctor, who gets out of the way of a burning viscous substance spat by his foe; it lands on Grace's wrist. The Doctor temporarily blinds him with a fire extinguisher, while they flee. They flee into the blocked traffic as Lee cleans the foam off the Master.
A policeman tells them to go back to their vehicles, but the Doctor instead offers him a Jelly baby; sceptical about the sweet, the officer eats it. Grace explains that the Doctor is British to explain his odd habits just as he takes the officer's gun and points it at himself; he demands the officer hand over his motorcycle. The Doctor turns his attention to Grace, who he tells that he cannot make her dream to hold back death last forever, but he can make it come true tonight. Believing the Doctor, Grace takes the gun and shoots the radio, preventing the officer from calling for backup. They take the keys and drive off, leaving the gun behind. At the same time, the Master reminds Lee that they are in an ambulance, which can go past traffic jams if the sirens are on; Lee complies and takes a shortcut to ITAR. The Doctor and Grace arrive shortly after, finding the empty ambulance; the Master and Lee are already inside, waiting for them.
Grace, a board member of ITAR, gets herself and the Doctor inside the party; while looking around for a way to reach the clock, the Doctor explains that time travel is possible and that Time Lords who run out of regenerations, like the Master, are desperate in the fight for survival. She also gives him the alias "Dr Bowman" while introducing him to Professor Wagg, creator of the clock. As the Doctor tells Professor Wagg "a secret" ("I'm half-human, on my mother's side"), he surreptitiously removes Wagg's security pass. Grace and the Doctor steal a small component from the clock, which he needs to repair the TARDIS. They spot the Master and Chang Lee in the crowd, which prompts them to head for the exit. They then find guards that the Master subdued by using the same substance; they are frozen in place, covered in goo. The Doctor activates the fire alarm to "liven things up" as he and Grace make their escape by lowering themselves from the roof with a fire hose.
They flee on the motorcycle, being chased by police and arrive at the TARDIS, where the Doctor remembers that he keeps a spare key in the cubbyhole above the letter "P" in "Police box." One police motorcycle enters the TARDIS and moments later flees in shock. They enter the TARDIS, where the Cloister Bell is ringing. The Doctor is able to close the Eye of Harmony; however, a quick temporal scan confirms that the Eye has been open too long, and the Earth is still in danger. The only solution is to take the TARDIS back to a time before the Eye was opened — but since the Eye was open so long, the TARDIS now has no power. The Doctor attempts to jump-start the TARDIS by drawing energy directly from the Eye. While working under the console, the Doctor wonders why Grace is not helping as he instructed her to give him his Neutron Ram, looking up to see her eyes have turned black; Grace has been taken over by the Master's will. Grace knocks the Doctor out with a Magnetic Clamp just as the Master and Lee enter the TARDIS.
The Doctor awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney in the Cloister Room. Chang Lee and the possessed Grace chain the Doctor to a balcony, under the supervision of the Master (who has decided to "dress for the occasion" in Gallifreyan robes). Lee explains he'll be rich once once the Master gets his body back. However, the Doctor tells him the Master neglected to mention Earth would be destroyed, making his payment pointless. Per the Doctor's slight manipulation, the Master inadvertently contradicts his earlier lies to Lee by claiming to have used all his lives. Lee now believes the Doctor and refuses to help the Master.
Rather than waste more time by hypnotising Lee again, the Master snaps his neck. The Doctor comments that only Grace is left to open the Eye, but her eyes are not human. The Master taunts the Doctor and removes his influence on Grace as he kisses her, then forces her to look into the Eye. As the Master begins to absorb the Doctor's life energy, the Doctor implores Grace to return to the console room and jump-start the TARDIS.
Several disasters happen all around the Earth as lightning and heavy winds surround the TARDIS; Grace enters the control room as sparks fly out of the console. In the Cloister Room, the Master begins hearing the Doctor's memories and feeling his life force come into him, even briefly taking on his form several times. As the Earth celebrates the approaching new year, Grace manages to start the TARDIS one second before midnight, having remembered the Doctor told her piloting a TARDIS is like setting an alarm clock. The TARDIS enters a temporal orbit, something she needs the Doctor to explain. She returns to the Cloister Room and frees the Doctor, but the Master attacks them both. He throws her off the balcony, killing her. The Doctor and the Master struggle over the open Eye, and the Master falls in; the Doctor attempts to save him, but the Master rejects his hand and is sucked into the Eye.
The TARDIS slips back in time before midnight. Energy travels from the Eye to the bodies of Grace and Chang Lee, reviving them, and the Eye closes. Amused by how sentimental his TARDIS is, the Doctor asks Grace how it felt to hold back death. He then congratulates them, as they've been somewhere he's never been (yet). Grace tells him there's nothing to be afraid of, but wonders if they've gone back far enough. The Doctor tells her that they have or he's talking to a bunch of ghosts, and he doesn't believe in them.
They return to the console room where, through a high-tech dome, the Doctor shows them alien galaxies and his home planet. Lee questions where the Master is just as a grumbling is heard from the TARDIS; "Indigestion," the Doctor remarks. Deciding where to leave them, the Doctor asks if they wish to be deposited back on the 29th of December. While Grace would rather not live through the day again, Lee knows he won't survive it; instead, the Doctor takes them to exactly the first minute of 2000 in a city park.
The Doctor allows Lee to keep the bags of gold dust the Master originally bribed him with, and tells him not to be in San Francisco next Christmas; in exchange, Lee gives back the bag with the belongings of the Seventh Doctor in them. The Doctor asks Grace to travel with him, but she refuses and asks if the Doctor will stay with her. However, both know he won't and they kiss. Grace thanks the Doctor, but he retorts "No, thank you, doctor."
The Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, off to a new adventure. Conducting maintenance on the new part inside the console with his newly recovered sonic screwdriver, the Doctor asks his beloved time machine where it will be they're going this time (as he has no reason to go back to Gallifrey now). He settles back in his armchair in the TARDIS control room to continue reading H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine. The gramophone record that he is listening to suddenly starts skipping (again). As the TARDIS continues on its flight, all the Doctor says is, "Oh no, not again."
Cast Edit
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- 'The Old Doctor' - Sylvester McCoy
- Bruce/The Master - Eric Roberts
- Grace Holloway - Daphne Ashbrook
- Chang Lee - Yee Jee Tso
- Salinger - John Novak
- Dr. Swift - Michael David Simms
- Wheeler - Catherine Lough
- Curtis - Dolores Drake
- Pete - Will Sasso
- Gareth - Jeremy Radick
- Miranda - Eliza Roberts
- Motorcycle policeman - Bill Croft
- Professor Wagg - Dave Hurtubise
- Ted - Joel Wirkunnen
- Security Guard - Dee Jay Jackson
- The Old Master - Gordon Tipple
Uncredited cast Edit
- Dalek - Geoffrey Sax (DCOM: Doctor Who)
Crew Edit
|Executive Producers Alex Beaton, Philip Segal and Jo Wright
|General production staff
Script department
Camera and lighting department
|Art department
Costume department
|Make-up and prosthetics
General post-production staff
Special and visual effects
|Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
Production Edit
Earliest form Edit
After the show had first aired in the United States, American companies had worked hard to purchase the rights for an American version. In the early '80s, when The Walt Disney Company were on their spending sprees, they attempted to buy the rights to the show, meaning the entire franchise would belong to Disney, not just an American version of the show.
Steven Spielberg was their only choice to run the office. Spielberg was more than willing to do it, as he felt that Disney was the only American studio who could do such an amazing British show justice. He lost interest when he was told that the show would be released under their Touchstone Television banner; he felt that such an imaginative show needs to be released under their Disney banner.
British expatriate Philip Segal had been working since 1989 to forge a co-production deal between an American company and the BBC to make a new Doctor Who series even before the programme's twenty-sixth and final season, broadcast that year. At that time, Segal was working with Columbia Pictures, but little had come of his efforts by the time he left for a two-year stint at ABC. Subsequently, Segal went to work for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. Shortly thereafter he resumed his efforts to acquire the rights to Doctor Who.
By June 1992, he was joined by Peter Wagg, producer of the eclectic science-fiction series Max Headroom. There were several parties involved in the Doctor Who discussions: Amblin and the BBC, of course, but also Amblin's parent company, Universal Pictures, and the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Enterprises, which would shortly become BBC Worldwide. With each organisation trying to safeguard its own interests, negotiations stretched into 1993, and then 1994.
Despite the many difficulties the complex situation presented, on 13 January 1994, an agreement was reached. Philip Segal was, for all intents and purposes, Doctor Who's newest producer. The race was on to get a series ready to be pitched to the American networks in time for the Fall 1994 season, essentially giving Segal and Wagg less than two months.
One of Segal's first instructions from his superiors at Universal was to use a studio writer for the project, specifically John Leekley. Segal was hesitant, preferring to go outside Universal; former Doctor Who script editor Terrance Dicks was amongst the candidates he considered. However, aware that any fight with Universal would waste precious development time, Segal agreed to bring Leekley aboard.
As a TV series Edit
With designer Richard Lewis, Segal and Leekley prepared an expensive and extensive series bible, The Chronicles Of Doctor Who?, to introduce Doctor Who in general, and the proposed new series in particular. Segal had envisioned this version as largely divorced from the original BBC series — although the basic concepts of Doctor Who were adhered to, the programme's mythos would be completely rewritten. The bible was written from the perspective of Cardinal Barusa (a misspelling of Borusa, a character who had first appeared in Season Fourteen's The Deadly Assassin).
It introduced the Doctor and the Master, half-brothers and sons of the lost Time Lord explorer Ulysses, Borusa's son. When the evil Master becomes President of the Time Lords upon Borusa's death, the Doctor flees Gallifrey in a rickety old TARDIS to find Ulysses. Borusa's spirit becomes enmeshed in the TARDIS, enabling Borusa to advise his grandson. The Doctor takes the TARDIS to "the Blue Planet" to search for Ulysses, the native world of the Doctor's mother.
They soon searched for the man to play the Doctor. Many people were considered and auditioned, including Rowan Atkinson, Derek Jacobi, and Jim Carrey.
It was under this script that Paul McGann later would audition. His brother Mark would as well.
A third producer joined the Doctor Who team in March, much to the surprise and, at the time, the dismay of Segal. This was Jo Wright, assigned by the BBC to represent their interests. Around the end of March, Doctor Who was offered to the four American networks. NBC and ABC were completely uninterested. CBS president Peter Tortorici tentatively offered Segal a two-hour pilot and six one-hour episodes (presumably to serve as mid-season replacement series), but this was retracted by network head Howard Stringer in mid-May.
That left Fox, at the time still the youngest American network. Led by head of series Robert Greenblatt, Fox was interested in Doctor Who, but was only willing to commit to a two-hour movie with the possibility of a second. It appeared Segal's dreams of producing a new Doctor Who series were fast disappearing. Despite this, he agreed to an offer made by Doctor Who historian Jean-Marc Lofficier and his wife Randy to become unofficial consultants on the project.
The Lofficiers would advise the production team on continuity and act as liaisons with the fan community. On 28 June, Fox indicated they were interested in having the initial movie serve as a "backdoor pilot"; if ratings were good, the property might shift from their Movie of the Week department to the series department.[source needed]
At the suggestion of Trevor Walton, Fox's vice president in charge of movies, Segal and Wagg met with Matthew Jacobs, who had written for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. (Jacobs was the son of Anthony Jacobs, who had played Doc Holliday in The Gunfighters, and had been present on the set.) The selection was approved by the other interested parties and Jacobs set to work on 5th May. Unlike the DeLaurentis iteration, it was decided to essentially discard all the work done to date, with Jacobs starting afresh on an entirely new script. Only the idea of the Doctor having a human mother would be retained.
By 19th May, Jacobs had composed a storyline; unlike the earlier Leekley and DeLaurentis versions, this continued from the end of the original series, starting by introducing Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor. The Doctor arrives on modern-day Earth in either San Francisco or New Orleans.
However, the dying Master has transmogrified himself into a shape-shifting slick of DNA, and attacks the Doctor, mortally wounding him. The Doctor's body is found by a street kid named Jack. Jack brings the Doctor to the hospital, where he is operated on unsuccessfully by Dr Kelly Grace (an obvious play on the name of actress Grace Kelly). In the morgue, the Doctor regenerates; meanwhile, the Master acquires a temporary human host body. Jack has gained access to the TARDIS using gloves he has pilfered from the Doctor's body. The Master raises Jack's father from the dead and through him uses Jack to take over the TARDIS.
As Halloween approaches, the Master uses the TARDIS to unleash an army of the dead. With Kelly's help, the Doctor returns to the TARDIS and draws himself, the Master, Kelly, Jack and the dead into another dimension. He defeats the Master, returns Jack to Earth and leaves with Kelly.
Various changes were made by the time of the next draft, on June 27th. The date was shifted to the days leading up to New Year's Eve instead of Halloween, and San Francisco was specified as the location. After regenerating, the Doctor sees a vision of his mother. Jack uses the TARDIS key instead of a pair of gloves to enter the time machine. In addition to Jack's father, Kelly is also confronted by someone from her past, and an earlier suggestion made by Jacobs that Jack be killed only to be brought back to life via the power of the TARDIS was included. Kelly also reluctantly remained behind at the end of this version.
A movie is formed Edit
Through mid-September, Leekley's script made the rounds of all the various organisations which had to approve it (Amblin, BBC Television, BBC Enterprises, the Fox network and Universal). Ironically, the death knell was sounded by Segal's own boss, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was concerned that Leekley's script veered too closely to his own Indiana Jones franchise, and on 26th September asked Segal to start again with a new writer. This meant that principal photography would be delayed until at least February 1995.
The BBC, particularly BBC1 Controller and longtime Doctor Who supporter Alan Yentob and Tony Greenwood of BBC Enterprises were still enthusiastic about Doctor Who and around the start of October, at the instigation of Universal, Segal met with veteran writer/producer Robert deLaurentis. DeLaurentis agreed to put together a new story proposal, using Leekley's script as a starting point but wanted to accentuate its "fun" aspects.
On 7 October, DeLaurentis delivered a new draft of the storyline. This time, in the process of meeting Lizzie in World War II London, the Doctor also discovers that his father (no longer named Ulysses) was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. They travel forward to the United States in 1994, where the Doctor is reunited with his father. The Master lures the Doctor, his father and Lizzie to Skaro for a final confrontation. There, the Doctor destroys the Master's time-travelling warship, though the Master himself escapes with his Daleks. Other minor alterations included Castellan being renamed Casteloan (though this would subsequently be changed back), and giving Lizzie a bulldog companion named Winston, who stays with the Doctor at the story's conclusion.
At this stage some of the key crew positions started to be filled, most notably British director Geoffrey Sax, whose work included episodes of Bergerac and Lovejoy. Because the movie would be filmed in British Columbia, Canadian regulations meant that most of the rest of the crew would come from the country. This included production designer Richard Hudolin, whose major task was a redesign of the TARDIS console room. Segal wanted to invoke the Jules Verne feel of the wooden version of the set used during Season Fourteen, but on a much grander scale.
Construction on the TARDIS sets began very early on, during September, before the project had even been officially green-lit. Around the start of October, Fox announced Doctor Who would air in mid-May 1996. May was one of three key "sweeps" periods for the American networks (the others falling in November and February), when ratings performance determines advertising rates for the next quarter. Consequently, expectations for Doctor Who would be fairly high.
The next step was to cast the major roles. Sylvester McCoy had already agreed to appear, fulfilling a promise he had made to himself in 1989 to hand off the role of the Doctor to a successor in proper fashion. Jo Wright, in fact, had wanted Fourth Doctor Tom Baker to appear instead, but Segal was adamant that the telefilm continues from where the original series had left off.
Segal also briefly considered the idea of including a role for Sophie Aldred as Ace, the Seventh Doctor's final companion. This, however, was quickly vetoed by the BBC. Segal did decide to give the Seventh Doctor a new wardrobe, having long disliked the umbrella and the question-mark pullover which were hallmarks of the original outfit. McCoy, similarly, had detested the pullover. Costume designer Jori Woodman composed a new costume which echoed the earlier version but was much more refined; to Segal's delight, McCoy brought with him the hat he had worn throughout his time in Doctor Who.
With production just weeks away, Jacobs was working on fashioning his script into a finished form. The BBC was much more receptive to his November draft, but passed it along to an in-house script editor, Craig Dickson, for comment. From this came the decision to eliminate the Millennium Star concept, with the Master's focus now simply to take over the Doctor's body.
Jacobs' newest draft was ready by 29th December, and this was fundamentally the version which was recorded. Other small changes eventually made included changing Grace's surname from Wilson to Holloway; eliminating the Bill And Ted reference (which the BBC felt was out-of-date) by renaming the former Pete; having the Master break Bruce's wife's neck instead of shooting her; and excising a scene where the Master callously kills a hospital patient who resembles the Seventh Doctor. Much of Chang Lee's background had also been lost to timing issues by this stage, with all references to Sam and Jimmy Lee being dropped.
As 1996 dawned, numerous difficulties still remained to be overcome. Geoffrey Sax had originally been promised a luxurious thirty-day shoot, but Beaton subsequently curtailed this to twenty-five days to save money. Then Segal discovered that the BBC did not actually own the rights to the familiar Doctor Who theme music; this rested with Warner/Chappel Music, who wanted to charge a hefty fee for its use. Universal balked at this, but finally Segal convinced the BBC to pick up the cost. The new theme arrangement would be composed by John Sponsler and John Debney. Segal had not realised that McGann had recently cut his hair severely for another production until McGann arrived in Vancouver for a photo shoot on 7th January; this meant that hair stylist Julie McHaffire had to hastily put together a wig.
Filming begins Edit
Location filming began on 15 January and was interlaced with the studio work which started on the 31st. Sites around Vancouver were used, including a disused wing of the BC Children's Hospital, the Plaza of Nations and several street exteriors; no filming was actually carried out in San Francisco; for establishing shots, stock footage was employed. The studio itself was located in nearby Burnaby.
Some difficulty arose when Roberts found the wardrobe created for him by Woodman, which was largely in keeping with the Master's outfits from the original series, was too restrictive. He was also uncomfortable with the serpentine contact lenses he was supposed to wear and with the prosthetics which would have depicted his body's gradual disintegration over the course of the movie.
The result was that the effect of Bruce's body wearing out was essentially lost and it was decided to instead dress Roberts in dark sunglasses and a leather jacket for most of the film, unfortunately turning the Master into a silhouette of the Terminator from the two Arnold Schwarzenegger motion pictures. Elements of the Master's original costume would still be visible in the Time Lord outfit he wears in the later stages of the movie.
Several other issues had to be confronted as the shoot went on. Some problems were found with the script such as the question of how the Master has gotten into the TARDIS when he first encounters Chang Lee, which had to be simply ignored. The final battle between the Doctor and the Master had been only briefly sketched and had to be quickly fleshed out for filming.
Sax had hoped to have all the Doctors appear in the Eye of Harmony, but could not get clearance on the images in time. Ultimately, the production went four days over schedule; even then some sequences were greatly simplified to save time, such as Chang Lee's death scene. Filming for Doctor Who was completed on 21 February.
Post-production saw trims to the material, such as the loss of the scene where the Master confronts the security guards who are later found "slimed". The Dalek voices were originally in keeping with the original series, but were changed over concerns they weren't audible enough. (Later, in 2013, Sax would say that he wished he had employed Nicholas Briggs for the Dalek voices, and that he would consider employing Briggs for future home video releases.) A new introductory voiceover by Paul McGann was written on 2 April to replace earlier dialogue by the Master (voiced by Gordon Tipple) and the Daleks. The BBC expressed concerns the Master's snake form was too comical, but little could be done about it at this stage. Segal lent a rough cut of the movie to Los Angeles-based fan Shaun Lyon, organiser of the Gallifrey One conventions and editor of the Outpost Gallifrey website, to get his opinion. It was Lyon who caught several errors in the movie, most notably a reference to the Doctor having twelve lives. This was amended to the correct number, thirteen.
Segal also had to deal with various claims for credit from individuals who had worked on earlier stages of the project. Despite the protests of Fox and Universal, Segal won agreement for John and Ros Hubbard to be credited, as they had indeed been the first to bring McGann to his attention. John Leekley's case for a producer's credit was rejected, however, because virtually nothing remained of his work.
Meanwhile, the various cost overruns on recording, casting and even the theme music, all to the tune of roughly US$170,000, was creating animosity between the coproduction partners, souring the relationships before the would-be back-door pilot had even aired.
After filming, the cast were never called again. Most of the props were put in storage, including the main TARDIS console piece. The console was later saved from destruction by Doctor Who fan Paul J. Salamoff, who reconstructed the column and currently lets fans and ex-actors alike visit it freely. Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso are three people to have been known to visit.
References Edit
Foods and beverages Edit
- In the TARDIS the Seventh Doctor has a bowl of jelly babies, together with a cup of tea and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.
- When Gareth asks for what's in the Eighth Doctor's hand, the Doctor presents him with a jelly baby. He earlier offered jelly babies to a policeman, and had jelly babies amongst his possessions claimed at the hospital by Chang.
- Grace takes a glass of champagne at Professor Wagg's party.
Gallifrey Edit
- "Rassilon Era" appears on the TARDIS' console and screen.
- The Seal of Rassilon is featured extensively throughout the TARDIS.
- Carvings of Rassilon's head are used extensively in the Cloister Room.
- The Master uses the Eye of Harmony to spy on the Eighth Doctor and in an attempt to transfer his lives.
- It also nearly destroys the Earth due to gravitational distortion.
Individuals Edit
- The Master, the Eighth Doctor and Grace name-drop throughout this story by referring to Marie Curie ("does she kiss as good as me?"), Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Puccini and Genghis Khan. (The Master also corrects Grace's grammar to "as well as you".)
- Grace obviously likes Madame Butterfly, and the Doctor has met its composer.
- The Seventh Doctor's x-ray reveals the presence of two hearts.
- Both the Master and the Eighth Doctor state that the Doctor is half-human ("on my mother's side").
- The Doctor remembers to have watched a meteor storm with his father during his first incarnation.
The Doctor Edit
- The Seventh Doctor regenerates into the Eighth Doctor.
Technology Edit
- The Eighth Doctor wishes he had his sonic screwdriver with him, which at this point is in Chang's possession.
- The Eighth Doctor also asks Grace for the neutron ram.
- The Eighth Doctor describes the chameleon circuit to Grace as a cloaking device, but he admits he likes the TARDIS as a police box.
- Grace uses opera glasses.
The Doctor's TARDIS Edit
- The odd-shaped TARDIS key, used by the Third and Fourth Doctors, appears. The Yale lock opening seen on the door slides away to reveal a keyhole underneath, which this key fits.
- There is a small cubbyhole in the P in Police in the sign above the doors, in which the Doctor keeps a spare key.
- The Eighth Doctor states that his TARDIS is "a Type 40 TARDIS, able to take you to any planet in the universe, and to any point in that planet's existence."
Story notes Edit
- This was the debut performance for Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. His first line in the role, given as narration, was: "It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy the Master was finally put on trial."
- This was also the debut performance for Eric Roberts as the Master. His first line in the role was, "I must find the Doctor. This body won't last long."
- The telefilm features a redesigned console room with a library and Gothic architecture. Although this attracted criticism from some fans, in TV: Time Crash, it would be established that the console room design can be changed like a desktop theme. The Tom Baker era previously also established that the TARDIS has more than one console room (TV: The Masque of Mandragora, et al.) and that the interior can be reconfigured (TV: Logopolis). TV: The Eleventh Hour would later establish that the TARDIS herself can design a new control room while undergoing internal repairs, while TV: The Doctor's Wife revealed that all the past console rooms - including, presumably, this one - continue to exist within the TARDIS archive.
- The Rassilon carvings were based on Richard Mathews' likeness (In-Vision #108: The TV Movie).
- For The Nth Doctor, the tele-movie producer Philip Segal approves of the subtitle Enemy Within to help distinguish it from the unproduced movies also named "Doctor Who". However, this name was never used in any official capacity, at any stage of production. The story's title is now and was always Doctor Who.
- British-born television producer Philip Segal had a longtime ambition to produce Doctor Who. While working at various American production companies, including Steven Spielberg's Amblin, he attempted to develop a Doctor Who series or film. Eventually he arranged a co-production between Universal Pictures and the BBC. The script went through several different forms, including some which would have taken place on Gallifrey or during World War II.
- The eventual script by Matthew Jacobs continued from the BBC series, including a substantial role for Sylvester McCoy, the previous player of the role of the Doctor.
- Doctor Who: Regeneration details the development of this story (and many of the previous attempts).
- For the international release (i.e., everywhere outside of the UK), the opening sequence within the TARDIS has the caption "Based on the series originally broadcast on the BBC". It is standard practice for American productions to give screen credit to a series/character creator, so this title card is used in lieu of crediting Sydney Newman or any of the others involved in the creation of the original series. Contrary to later practice, Terry Nation does not receive screen credit for the Daleks, who are referenced and heard but not seen. Further in line with American practice is the billing of the main cast in the opening sequence, a custom that would be reappropriated for the 2005 revival series after opening billings were adopted by British television.
- This is the only Doctor Who story on which Ron Grainer receives no on-screen credit for his composition of the Doctor Who theme.
- At the time of broadcast/release, there was significant controversy over the Doctor kissing Grace, as this was the first overtly romantic scene involving the Doctor. Daphne Ashbrook recalled in The Doctors Revisited - The Eighth Doctor how this severely hampered her intentions of flying to Britain for a convention. The later revival series, however, would incorporate more of these elements.
- Promotional advertisements for the telefilm shown on the Fox network incorporated footage from the opening sequence of the first episode of The Trial of a Time Lord - specifically the TARDIS being drawn into the giant space station - even though this footage does not appear anywhere in the telefilm. The arrangement of the Doctor Who theme heard during these ads doesn't correspond with the Debney arrangement heard in the film, either.
- Neither Paul McGann nor Sylvester McCoy are actually credited on screen next to any character name. However the press kit for the film gives the official credits as being as "The Doctor" and "The Old Doctor" respectively — and these are also the credits given in Radio Times. Although not used on screen, this is the last time the lead character is credited as "The Doctor" until the 2006 season, as the 2005 revival reverts to the old "Doctor Who" credit line.
- The version of 1931's Frankenstein excerpted here is not the current restored version, but the earlier censored print that was commonly circulated on TV prior to the 1980s; this is evident from the fact Dr. Frankenstein's dialogue, "Now I know what it feels like to be God", is not heard in the scene shown during the regeneration sequence. However, this portion of the film is still visible, just not audible.
- Sylvester McCoy has in recent years been critical of aspects of this film, telling the premiere episode of Doctor Who Confidential that the film should not have featured him, but should have started with Paul McGann's Doctor and saved the story of how the regeneration occurred for an episode of the resulting series, if one had been commissioned. This scenario eventually happened with the Eighth Doctor in the revived series, whose regeneration was not seen until 2013 - eight years after the Ninth Doctor's debut.
- This is the first televised Doctor Who to feature original narration (one of the characters addressing the audience in voice-over) since TV: The Deadly Assassin. In this instance, the Eighth Doctor sets the scene during the pre-credits sequence and immediately thereafter. This device would be used in the BBC Wales series in the following episodes: Father's Day, Army of Ghosts, The Family of Blood, Forest of the Dead, The End of Time, Cold Blood, A Town Called Mercy, and The Power of Three.
- It was originally intended that the opening narration would be by the Old Master, requesting that the Doctor transport his remains back to Gallifrey. Although Gordon Tipple recorded this voice-over, it was never used in the final version of the TV Movie. Tipple retained an on-screen credit despite no longer having any lines. According to DWM 497, it is Tipple's eyes that are featured in close-up during the opening credits.
- Radio Times credits Bill Croft (Motorcycle Policeman) as "Motorcycle Cop", Dee Jay Jackson (Security Guard) as "Security Man", and Joanna Piros (News Anchor) as "Co-anchor".
- According to press coverage at the time, the redesigned TARDIS console room set — clearly intended to have been an ongoing "standing set" in a series — cost $1 million to build.
- This is only one of two Doctor Who stories shot entirely on film, the other being TV: Spearhead from Space.
- Additionally, this is the only Doctor Who story to be entirely shot on 35mm film.
- The original script called for Bruce's body to start visibly decaying after the Master's possession; this was later dropped when the prosthetics caused Eric Roberts severe skin irritation. The only remaining aspect of this subplot is during the hospital sequence when Bruce removes a fingernail.
- In the original script, the Doctor's father was referenced and named "Ulysses", a plot element later taken up in some of Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, most notably PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles.
- When the Eighth Doctor says he has thirteen lives, the actor in actual fact says "twelve". In an issue of Doctor Who Magazine, [which?] it is revealed that Paul McGann had to redub the line to say thirteen rather than the incorrect twelve after it was realised the count was wrong.
- When Chang Lee has to sign the Seventh Doctor's medical form of release so the surgeons are permitted to operate on him, he does not know the Doctor's real name. Thinking up a fake identity, he pens out "John Smith." This is a subtle reference to the Doctor's long-used alias, first given to his second incarnation by Jamie McCrimmon in TV: The Wheel in Space.
- Fox originally aired the movie in a standard two-hour (120-minute) timeslot, meaning it aired with approximately 35 minutes worth of commercial interruptions. As a result, it is sometimes erroneously listed as the longest single "episode" in Doctor Who history, but that title is still held by the 90-minute TV: The Five Doctors.
- Because it was the only full-length TV story featuring the Eighth Doctor, the Doctor Who telemovie was rebroadcast on 31 August 2013 on BBC America alongside the special The Doctors Revisited - The Eighth Doctor. It also aired in the United Kingdom later in the year on 3 November, along with the Revisited special.
- This is, to date, the only story in the Doctor Who franchise to be primarily produced by an American company (the later Torchwood arc, Miracle Day would still be co-produced by the BBC).
- Due to FOX's stringent protection over original characters & content, they have repeatedly[source needed] prohibited the characters of Grace Holloway, Eric Roberts's portrayal of the Master, and Chang Lee (among others) from reappearing in the revival series.[source needed] Thus, this story marks their only appearances in the series proper (however a photograph of Grace is included among those of other companions in TV: The Day of the Doctor, though only a portion of the photo is visible on screen (it is next to that of the Brigadier). As of 2018, Big Finish Productions has been unable to obtain the audio drama rights to Grace and Chang Lee (though the actors have performed other roles for the company). There appears to be no prohibition on Grace appearing in comics form, however, as she appeared several times in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip and was featured in IDW's Prisoners of Time comic miniseries.
- This story features the only instance of the Doctor regenerating outside the TARDIS in which he does so without any external assistance.
- The tools from the Doctor's toolbag are visibly based on the TARDIS Tool Kit from REF: The Doctor Who Technical Manual using the moog drone clamp, pen torch, laser, neutron ram, magnetic clamp, master drone clamp and stalog gyro.
Ratings Edit
Awards Edit
- At the 1997 Saturn Awards ceremony, Doctor Who took home a statuette for "Best Single Genre Television Presentation", and Paul McGann was nominated in the category of "Best Genre TV Actor".
Filming locations Edit
- The story was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 15 January to 21 February 1996. This was the first Doctor Who production mounted completely outside of the UK, and the last to be mounted in a major way outside Europe until the production of Planet of the Dead in the Middle East in 2009.
- Ogden Avenue (No 1998), Vancouver, Canada
- Plaza of Nations, Vancouver, Canada
- East Georgia Street (No 218, rear), Vancouver, Canada
- Keefer Street (No 222), Vancouver, Canada
- Carrall Street/Keefer Street, Vancouver, Canada
- Waterfront Road, Vancouver, Canada
- Hadden Park, Vancouver, Canada
- British Columbia Children's Hospital, 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, Canada
- East Georgia Street (alley), Vancouver, Canada (Alley where the TARDIS materialises)
- Golden Crown Centre (car park), 211 East Georgia Street, Vancouver
- Andy Livingstone Park, Vancouver, Canada
- Eastlake Drive (no 8651), Burnaby, Canada (Location of studio)
Continuity Edit
- The Seventh Doctor uses a sonic screwdriver, a previous one having been destroyed during his fifth incarnation. (TV: The Visitation)
- The Doctor has a toolbag containing some of his tools such as the one used against Omega's fusion booster, (TV: Arc of Infinity) a magnetic clamp, a laser cutter and a magnetic drone. (TV: Earthshock)
- Subsequent books have elements that serve as prequels to this story. Lungbarrow explains why the TARDIS interior looks the way it does, why the Doctor now has a sonic screwdriver and why the Doctor was rescuing the Master. Equally, The Eight Doctors contains a scene featuring the trial of the Master and makes reference to his use of a Deathworm Morphant.
- The Master previously attempted to use the Eye of Harmony to give himself a new set of regenerations. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
- The Apocalypse Element goes some way to explain why the Eye of Harmony in the TARDIS required a human eye in order to open.
- The Doctor used a defective chameleon arch to make himself half human and fool the Master. (COMIC: The Forgotten)
- The Master's statement that the Doctor made him waste all his lives has some grounding in PROSE: The Dark Path.
- The cloister room makes a return appearance. (TV: Logopolis)
- Pete watches the 1931 film version of Frankenstein as the Doctor undergoes his seventh regeneration. The First Doctor encountered an android version of Frankenstein's monster at the Festival of Ghana in 1996. (TV: The Chase) Later in his eighth incarnation, the Doctor would meet Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in Switzerland in June 1816. She subsequently became his companion, travelling with him for years. (AUDIO: Mary's Story)
- In an alternative timeline in which the Nazis won World War II, the Seventh Doctor regenerated for the same reason, only in Nazi Germany in 1955. His next incarnation was an alternative version of the Eighth Doctor who used the alias "Johann Schmidt." (AUDIO: Colditz, Klein's Story)
- Several established events happen concurrently with this story:
- The Sixth Doctor and his companion Melanie Bush saved the Earth from being taken over by Saraquazel, a being from the after-universe, and his servant Ashley Chapel. (PROSE: Millennial Rites)
- A younger version of the Seventh Doctor and an older version of Mel gate crashed the New Year's Eve party being thrown by Alisha Hammerson, the Auton head of Hammerson Plastic PLC, in London. They foiled her plan to replace her guests with Auton replicas so the Earth could be dominated and absorbed by severing her link to the Nestene Consciousness. (COMIC: Plastic Millennium)
- Alex Hopkins, Team Leader of Torchwood Three in Cardiff, had a mental breakdown and massacred his team within the Torchwood Hub. The only survivor was Captain Jack Harkness, who was both out on a mission and, by this time, immortal. Alex told Jack that the 21st century was when everything would change, and that they would not be ready. Alex then committed suicide, leaving Jack in charge of Torchwood Three. (TV: Fragments)
- During a visit to Haven in the 28th century, the Seventh Doctor experienced a premonition of hearing Puccini while unconscious. (PROSE: Companion Piece)
- Death previously taunted the Doctor by telling him that his seventh incarnation would die without warning, without purpose, afraid and alone. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)
- An alternative version of the Doctor settled down in San Francisco and eventually married Grace. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)
- When Chang Lee and the Master get caught in a traffic jam caused by a spun out flatbed truck, the Master bemoans Chang Lee for thinking they are bound by civilian highway rules, shouting, "We are in an ambulance!" Eight years later in 2007, when the Krillitanes took control of Deffry Vale High School and locked Mickey Smith and K9 Mark III out while they were sitting in a vehicle, K9 iterated "We are in a car" several times to Mickey before he understood they could simply crash the car through the entrance to gain entry. (TV: School Reunion)
- While the Doctor and Grace are escaping from Chang Lee and the Master via a ladder and fire hose, he cites a fear of heights. This is likely a reference to his fourth incarnation's fatal drop from the Pharos Project telescope in TV: Logopolis.
- When the TARDIS temporarily stops working, the Doctor "fixes" it by hitting the console. (TV: The Five Doctors)
- The Doctor has a Nine Hundred Year Diary, similar to the Five Hundred Year Diary he previously kept. (TV: The Power of the Daleks)
- Both the Eighth Doctor (in his narration) and the Master reaffirm that Time Lords can regenerate twelve times. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
- The Doctor previously met H. G. Wells. (TV: Timelash)
- The Eighth Doctor loses his memory again in AUDIO: Minuet in Hell.
Home video and audio releases Edit
Despite the fact that the 1996 tele-film was made for American broadcast, it was until 2011 the only non-missing story which had not received a North American home video release in any format. Joint BBC/Universal ownership was problematic for North American publication, because the BBC are obliged to use Warner Brothers, and not Universal, for their Doctor Who DVD distribution. In August 2010 it was announced by Dan Hall, the commissioning editor of the Classic Doctor Who DVD range, that Universal had agreed on the release of the TV Movie outside the UK (including North America). Release finally occurred on 8th February 2011.
Several of the featurettes on the 2001 UK DVD were produced specifically for US audiences, and provided British home audiences with a look into the way Doctor Who was marketed in America.
Some snippets of footage from the movie had made their way onto certain US releases. In 1999 the charity spoof The Curse of Fatal Death, which reused a short snippet of the TARDIS in flight from the TV movie, was released to UK and US audiences on VHS. In 2003, a special 40th anniversary music video that included footage from the film was added to a number of classic-series Region 1 DVDs. In July 2009, the Region 1 DVD release of Planet of the Dead included an unedited edition of Doctor Who Confidential that includes part of a dialogue scene from the film. The Next Doctor, also released to DVD in Region 1 in 2009, includes a short piece of footage from the film.
A special edition DVD release was released 2010 in the UK as part of the Revisitations box set, with additional special features. It is this version that was also released to North America/Region 1 in February 2011.
Blu-ray Edit
Released only in the UK 19 September 2016 as a 2 disc set, the first disc included the film itself and the second disc is a special features DVD disc instead of Blu-ray. This version is not re-scanned from the film's original negatives, and instead an HD upscaled version of the 480p broadcast copy. The Blu-ray disc also includes the 2013 short The Night of the Doctor.
DVD releases Edit
2001 Edit
Released to DVD in the UK as Doctor Who: The Movie, this release was the fourth release of 2001.
It was released:
- Philip Sega's Tour of the TARDIS - Talks about the making of the telemovie.
- Electronic Press Kit - Cast & crew interviews/behind the scenes footage/tour of the TARDIS set.
- Alternate/Extended Scenes
- Music Feature - Songs from the story.
- Music-only Option
- Trailers
- Photo Gallery
- Production Subtitles
- Easter Egg- Hit left on the "Play Movie" option and the logo on the main menu page becomes illuminated. Hit select and you get a dedication caption to Jon Pertwee. The week of its premiere, Jon Pertwee, who played the Third Doctor, passed away.
- Commentary: Geoffrey Sax
Rear Credits:
- By Matthew Jacobs
- Executive Producers: Alex Beaton & Philip Segal
- Executive Producer for the BBC: Jo Wright
- Produced: Peter V. Ware
- Co-Producer: Matthew Jacobs
- Director: Geoffrey Sax
- Incidental Music: John Debney, John Sponsler & Louis Febre
- The 'Based on the BBC Television series' caption used for the US broadcast has been removed from the DVD.
- Editing for the DVD release was completed by the Doctor Who Restoration Team.
2010 Edit
A 2 disc version was released in October 2010 in the UK and on 8 February 2011 in North America. It includes the following extras:
- Electronic Press Kit - Cast & crew interviews/behind the scenes footage/tour of the TARDIS set (from the 2001 release)
- Alternate/Extended Scenes (from the 2001 release)
- Audio commentary by director Geoffrey Sax.
- Second audio commentary by Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann, moderated by Nicholas Briggs
- Isolated music soundtrack.
- Four musical tracks taken from the soundtrack, including "In a Dream."
- The Seven Year Hitch - detailing Philip Segal's efforts to get Doctor Who back on air (which began before production of Season 26 had concluded).
- Paul McGann's audition video, featuring two takes of him performing a scene from the early, rejected script for the film, set on Gallifrey.
- FX test reels, including early concepts for the opening credits and a proposed redesign of the Daleks.
- The Wilderness Years - The world of Doctor Who in between Survival and the TV Movie, featuring footage from several BBV and Reeltime Pictures productions.
- Who Peter part 2 - 1989-2009
- Stripped for Action - the Eighth Doctor
- Tomorrow's Times - the Eighth Doctor
- The Doctor's Strange Love - fans discuss the film
- BBC trailers promoting the film
- Radio Times listings (PDF)
VHS releases Edit
This story was released as Doctor Who.
It was released:
Notes: This story was released in an edited form with the operating scene and gang gun battle trimmed; the latter was considered to be inappropriate in light of the shootings that had taken place at the primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, earlier that year.
Laserdisc Edit
Digital releases Edit
- The story is available for streaming through the BBC Store and Amazon Instant Video .
Soundtrack Edit
Press kit Edit
To promote the film among North American media, Fox issued a small, coil-bound press booklet detailing the film and also explaining a bit of the history of Doctor Who.
Contents Edit
- Introduction, a brief explanation of the film and the concept.
- Main credits: This is the only place where Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy are actually credited as The Doctor and The Old Doctor, respectively, or Eric Roberts as The Master, Daphne Ashbrook as Grace Holloway, and Yee Jee Tso as Chang Lee, as they are not credited with their character names in the televised film. As in the film, John Debney receives sole music credit, with no reference made to Ron Grainer. Also, although it is common practice for US productions to credit a creator(s) for the characters, no individuals are credited in this way for Doctor Who.
- Production Notes: A primer on the concept of Doctor Who, including explanations of what regeneration is all about, what Time Lords are, The Master, etc., and includes actor comments on their characters.
- About the Production: More on the making of the film, plus a discussion of the new TARDIS design, including a reference to the interior being covered by "round bells" (!).
- History: Brief primer on the history of the series back to 1963.
- Facts: Fast facts about the Doctor and the series. Interestingly, it makes reference to the Guinness Book of Records naming it the world's longest running SF series, even though official recognition of this would not occur until 2007. According to this section, the TV movie is the 696th instalment of the television series.
- Biographies: cast and crew biographies for the main actors.
Technical information Edit
This movie was shot on 35mm film, transferred to 525i60 Digital Betacam and edited. The finished master is 525i60 Digital Betacam.[4] The BBC owns 525i60 upconversion of this on Digital Betacam and on D3 Videotape. Universal Pictures only holds film trims in its archive.
External links Edit
- Doctor Who at the BBC's official site
- Doctor Who (The Movie) at RadioTimes
- Doctor Who at BroaDWcast
- Doctor Who at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- Doctor Who at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)
- Doctor Who at The Locations Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide Doctor Who page
- Newspaper and magazine articles at the Doctor Who Cuttings Archive
Footnotes Edit
- ↑ Technically, the very first broadcast anywhere in the world was on 12 May. But this was not a network broadcast. It was instead a transmission on CityTV, an individual Canadian station in Edmonton.
- ↑ UK final ratings
- ↑ Share is the percentage of television sets in use at the time that were tuned to the programmme [1]
- ↑ The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013.