Director: Geoffrey Sax
Script: Matthew Jacobs
Photography: Glen MacPherson CSC
Editor: Patrick Lussier
Production Design: Richard Hudolin
Music: John Debney
Principal Cast: Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook, Sylvester McCoy.
Producer: Peter Ware
Executive Producers: Alex Beaton, Philip Segal, Jo Wright
Production: Universal Productions Canada, in association with BBC Worldwide and MCA Television Ltd.
Distribution: BBC Worldwide
First Broadcast: 27.05.1996, 20:30 BBC1
Selected Filmography Geoffrey Sax: Spitting Images, 1984; The Disputation, 1986; The New Statesman, 1988; Sleepers, 1991; Framed, 1993; Circle of Deceit, 1993; Broken Trust, 1995; Ruby, Jean and Joe, 1996.
The doctor, an eccentric scientist from a distant planet, travells through time and space in the Tardis, a curious device, larger on the inside than on the outside, which due to some technical error allways appears as a blue British police box. The doctor has a soft spot for the planet Earth, and in the classic TV series from the 1960s, he often visited there, either to save it from various alien threats or to whisk a choice few inhabitants away to the distant parts of the galaxy to help him fight evil there. Now the Doctor is back in a one-off BBC TV drama: meanwhile in his 7th reincarnation, he suffers a Tardis malfunction, ends up in San Francisco in 1999 and immediately gets badly injured in a hail of bullets. The Doctor has been transporting the remains of his all-time-foe, The Master, who manages to escape and to assume a bodily form. Middling with the Eye of Harmony at the heart of the Tardis, The Master condemns the Earth to destruction at the stroke of midnight, December 31st. With the held of the attractive heart surgeon Grace Holloway, The Doctor must locate and defeat The Master before the deadline of the turn of the Millennium. A desperate race against time begins.