Doctor Who - The Movie

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Movie
German title Doctor Who - The Movie
Original title Doctor Who
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length (GB version) 89 minutes
(German version) 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Geoffrey Sax
script Matthew Jacobs
production Peter V. Ware
music John Debney
camera Glen MacPherson
cut Patrick Lussier
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Death on quiet feet

Successor  →
Rose

Doctor Who - Der Film (Original Title: Doctor Who , DVD Title: Doctor Who - The Movie ; Alternative title also Doctor Who - The Enemy Within ) is a British science fiction television film from 1996, which is based on the British science fiction of the same name. Fiction series that was previously produced from 1963 to 1989. It was an attempt to revive the series, which ultimately only happened successfully in 2005. The film is in continuity with the series, which can be seen in particular from the fact that the last actor in the main character, the doctor from the series, Sylvester McCoy resumes his role as the seventh incarnation at the beginning of the film, before Paul McGann as the eighth incarnation appears. Thus, the film is also considered the 156th serial in the series. The executive producer of the film, Philip David Segal , gives the film the title The Enemy Within .

action

The TARDIS , the Doctor's time-traveling spaceship
Sylvester McCoy , the Seventh Doctor (May 2000)
Paul McGann , the Eighth Doctor (March 2007)

The action begins with an introductory explanation from the doctor. Accordingly, his archenemy, the Master, was tried on the planet Skaro, in the course of which he was sentenced to death. He was granted his last wish, however, that the Doctor return his remains to their home planet, Gallifrey. When the seventh Doctor travels to Gallifrey with the remains of the Master in his TARDIS , the TARDIS has a malfunction (short circuit in the time parameter), which causes the Doctor to be on Earth in San Francisco , USA , on the evening of December 30, 1999 to land in between. During this time, the urn in which the remains of the Master are kept breaks and an entity flows out. When the TARDIS lands on earth, it materializes in the middle of a shooting, so that the doctor is shot while leaving the TARDIS. Just before he passes out, he sees the entity exit the TARDIS through the keyhole. An ambulance takes the doctor, accompanied by the petty criminal Lee, who was also involved in the shooting and who the paramedics assume is a friend of the doctor, to a hospital. Meanwhile, the entity hides in the jacket of the paramedic Bruce.

At the hospital, the paramedics cannot help the doctor due to his non-human anatomy and he appears to be dying. When the doctors tell his supposed friend Lee, he runs away with the doctor's things - including the key to the TARDIS. Meanwhile, the doctor's body is taken to the morgue, where it eventually regenerates to the eighth doctor. The anesthesia in the operating room hindered the regeneration process, so that the doctor suffered amnesia due to the long time until regeneration . The doctor picks up new clothes from some lockers. Not knowing who he is, he sees the emergency doctor Dr. Grace Holloway trying to save his life, whom he had seen in brief periods of consciousness in the operating room. Hoping she can help him find out who he is, he follows her and gets in touch with her. To solve the mystery of the man with the two hearts, she takes him home with her. Meanwhile, the paramedic Bruce has unwittingly taken the entity in his jacket home with him, where it leaves his jacket at night while he sleeps and flows through his mouth into his body.

The next morning Bruce urges his wife to call Master instead of him by name. Thereupon the master kills the woman and goes in search of the doctor in order to take possession of the Timelord body because the human body would not last long. The master manages to get into the TARDIS, where he meets Lee. He convinces Lee that he's the good guy and the doctor the bad guy. The doctor stole his body and his TARDIS. If Lee helps him, he will reward him richly (with money and power). Thus, with Lee's help, the master succeeds in opening the TARDIS “eye of harmony” in the TARDIS, so that he learns what the doctor looks like in his eighth incarnation and beyond, that the doctor is half human and half Timelord. By opening the Eye of Harmony, however, the doctor also regains his memory and also becomes aware of the Master's plan to take control of his body. In addition, opening the Eye of Harmony threatens the security of the entire earth. If the doctor did not manage to fix the TARDIS timing mechanism by midnight, the entire earth would be destroyed.

With the help of Grace, the doctor manages to close the eye of harmony. The master opens it again shortly afterwards with the help of Lee, because he needs it to take possession of the doctor's body. When the Master triumphantly announces that the Doctor has none of his 13 lives left and that he will therefore take over the Doctor's life, Lee realizes that the Master has lied to him. He turns against him and loses his life in the process. Grace is also killed in the fight against the master before the doctor can defeat him. The master falls into the eye of harmony and is absorbed by it. Before the eye finally closes again, the TARDIS releases some regeneration energy from it, with which Grace and Lee are both awakened. After a short trip through space and time, the doctor drops them both on New Year's Day 2000 in San Francisco. He asks Grace if she would like to continue with him. When she refuses, he kisses her goodbye and leaves alone in his TARDIS.

synchronization

The German version of the film was produced in the Alster Studios in Hamburg. The dialogue book was written by Achim Schmidt-Carstens and Regina Speer took over the direction .

role actor Voice actor
The (8th) doctor Paul McGann Kai Henrik Möller
The (7th) doctor Sylvester McCoy Harald Pages
The master Eric Roberts Wolfgang Jürgen
Dr. Grace Holloway Daphne Ashbrook Ela Nitzsche
Chang Lee Yee Jee Tso Christian Stark

background

Although the previous series enjoyed cult status, especially in Great Britain, the film was produced for an Anglo-American audience in collaboration with the British BBC - which had already produced the Doctor Who series - and the US broadcaster FOX . The film was first shown in Canada on May 12, 1996, shortly thereafter on May 14, 1996 in the USA and only two weeks later on May 27, 1996 in Great Britain. The producers hoped to be able to produce a series based on it with FOX if there was enough success in the USA. However, the desired success did not materialize.

The budget of the film was around US $ 5 million (around 3.52 million euros or 3.7 million Swiss francs [as of November 5, 2010]), half of which was funded by the US broadcaster FOX.

Awards

The film won the 1996 Saturn Award in the Best Television Presentation category .

Home video publishing

The film was first released on DVD in Great Britain on August 13, 2001. Since then, it has been re-released several times in connection with the DVD release of the old Doctor Who series on DVD. The film was released on VHS in Germany. and will now be reissued in German for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray in spring 2017. In addition to the feature film, this publication also contains the short film “Die Nacht des Doktors” and a total of five hours of bonus material, as well as a booklet with prefaces written exclusively for the German publication by Matthew Jacobs (screenplay), Daphne Ashbrook (actor) and Yee Jee Tso (actor ).

For DOCTOR WHO - DER FILM, three different editions for the German-speaking area were announced for 2017. A Limited Collectors Edition Mediabook (BD + 2DVD) will be released on February 17th, and the two standard editions will be released on March 31, 2017 as double DVD and Blu-Ray disc.

Trivia

  • This was to be Paul McGann's only appearance as Doctor for 17 years. Only in the course of the 50th anniversary of the series did he reappear in the specially produced mini-episode The Night of the Doctor and regenerate there in his ninth body, which was portrayed by John Hurt, but did not call himself "Doctor". The following events were dealt with in the anniversary special episode The Day of the Doctor .
  • After the film, the master somehow managed to escape the eye of harmony and get a new Timelord body before reappearing in the third season of the sequel series, in episode 3.11 Utopia .
  • The name of the doctor's species, the Timelords, is translated in German as “Lords of Time”.
  • If the doctor gives the distance to his home planet Gallifrey as about 215 million light years at the end of the film , this becomes “a mere 15 million light years” in the German dubbing for no apparent reason.
  • The opening credits are entirely in the tradition of the series. With a variation on the Doctor Who theme, it shows the journey of the TARDIS through the time vortex.
  • When the doctor is looking for a new outfit, a scarf by the fourth doctor (Tom Baker) hangs in the first locker.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doctor Who - VHS. Online shop with data origin from Amazon, April 6, 2010, accessed on April 6, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Doctor Who - The Movie - detail page at Pandastorm Pictures ( Memento from January 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Doctor Who - The Film - limited Mediabook - Product description and release date at WVG.com . Pandastorm Pictures. 19th January 2017.
  4. ↑ Doctor Who - The Movie (DVD) - Product description and release date at WVG.com . Pandastorm Pictures. December 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ Doctor Who - The Movie (BD) - Product description and release date at WVG.com . Pandastorm Pictures. December 26, 2016.
Doctor Who Serials and Episodes
First doctor

The Child of the Stars  (1963)  • The Daleks  (1963/1964)  • The Daleks' Master Plan  (1965)  • The Tenth Planet (1966)

Second doctor

The Power of the Daleks  (1966)  • The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967) 

Third doctor

The Three Doctors (1972/73) 

Fourth doctor

City of Death (1979) 

Fifth doctor

The Five Doctors (1983)  • The Androzani Caves (1984)

Sixth doctor

Attack of the Cybermans (1985)  • Planet of the Dead (1985)  • The Judgment: The Enigmatic Planet (1986)  • The Judgment: Mindwarp (1986)  • The Judgment: Vervoid Terror (1986)  • The Judgment: The Worst Enemy (1986)

Seventh doctor

The Hand of Omega (1988)

Eighth doctor

Doctor Who: The Movie (1996)

Ninth doctor

Rose  (2005) 

Tenth doctor

The girl in the fireplace  (2006)  • The nature of man  (2007)  • Blood ties  (2007)  • Don't blink  (2007)  • The red garden (2009)  • The end of time (2009/2010)

Eleventh doctor

Doctor's Day (2013)

Twelfth doctor

Fallen Out of Time (2017)

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