![]() ![]() This is very different to classic Who style as is his subsequent regeneration. He steps out of the TARDIS and is dramatically shot with a machine gun. A young Chinese American is chased by a gang with machine guns and the Doctor materialises the TARDIS in the middle of the confrontation. We then get a gangland scene in San Francisco set in 1999, approaching the millennium celebrations. The Master had been previously shown to escape death and take over another being's body so it is not totally unacceptable but the way it is done seems very much a Hollywood addition which is enjoyable but rather jarring. This is certainly not in keeping with what the show has established in terms of Timelord powers. Also the Master inexplicably is shown to be able to become a slimy creature that escapes his supposed deceased form and crawls out to seek a new host body. This in itself is odd but we are told the Master was executed by the Daleks which is even stranger as the idea of the Doctor's main foes the Daleks collaborating with the Timelords and asking their greatest enemy the Doctor to transport his nemesis the Master's remains just sounds against all we know from the classic series. We are told he was summoned to transport the remains of his fellow Timelord and arch enemy the Master home to Gallifrey. The story begins with the character of the Doctor still in the form of the 7th Doctor played beautifully by Sylvester McCoy. It is nice to see our beloved show given some budget at last and it makes for an entertaining adventure which is great fun to watch. On the plus side though this is far more glossy, action packed and fast paced than many classic Who stories with higher budget and more impressive visuals. Hollywood often abandons existing story/lore when adapting pre-existing material in order to create what they think will attract new audiences and this does the same. Many existing Doctor Who fans were put off by the movie's Hollywood style and the way they messed about with existing lore in order to make what they thought would be more exciting and appealing. Sadly this is probably where the production went wrong. This was a collaboration between BBC who had produced the original series and American producers and was made to appeal to American audiences. ![]() It was devised with the possibility of it being a pilot for a new series but failed to get enough positive reaction to encourage any follow up. Dave Gardner ħ years after the classic Doctor Who series was discontinued this TV Movie was produced. By midnight on December 31st 1999, the Earth will be pulled through this power-source, a mini-black hole, and only the Doctor can stop if only he can remember who he is. The newly regenerated the Doctor must fight to save his own eighth body, and the world when the Master sabotages the TARDIS' power source. He needs a Time Lord's body to survive and be able to regenerate again so he needs the Doctor's. ![]() Taken to hospital, the Doctor's seventh regeneration is triggered by a surgeon, confused by his alien physiology, while the Master takes over a paramedic's body. The Doctor requires a beryllium atomic clock to repair the TARDIS, but is shot as he leaves it. The Master's essence escapes and sabotages the TARDIS, the Doctor's time machine causing it to crash land in San Franscisco on December 30th 1999. However the Master is not as dead as the Doctor thinks. The Doctor, an alien time traveller from the planet Gallifrey, is transporting the remains of his nemesis, the Master back to their homeworld. ![]()
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