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| The Eighth Doctor (1996) | |
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1996 TV Movie:
Out Of The Ashes First appearance of Grace. Telefilm co-produced with American concerns which could have led to an ongoing series. |
| Doctor Who (1996): Out Of The Ashes |
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Paul McGann played the Doctor in Doctor Who in May 1996. |
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Grace Holloway was a cardiologist in 1999 San Francisco who inadvertently caused the Doctor to regenerate into his eighth incarnation. Daphne Ashbrook played Grace in Doctor Who in May 1996. |
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| The Production Team |
| A completely new production team was needed for Doctor Who's 1996 return as a two-hour TV movie. The telefilm had three executive producers: Philip David Segal was the man largely responsible for Doctor Who's return, while Jo Wright and Alex Beaton represented the two coproduction partners in the project -- the BBC and Universal Pictures, respectively. They oversaw the work done with by the producer, Peter V Ware. |
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Doctor Who (1996) by Matthew Jacobs,
directed by Geoffrey Sax
The Master forces the TARDIS to crashland in San Francisco the day before
New Year's Eve, 1999. The Doctor is shot by gang members and regenerates
into his eighth incarnation while the Master possesses the body of an
ambulance attendant and deludes a youth named Chang Lee into helping him
open the TARDIS's link to the Eye of Harmony. This will allow the Master
to seize the Doctor's body for his own, but also causes the molecular
structure of the Earth to start to decay. With the help of cardiologist Dr
Grace Holloway, the Doctor races against time to save the Earth -- and
himself -- before time runs out at the birth of the new millennium.
(Also known as Enemy Within, a title Philip Segal suggested
fans might use to refer to the telefilm.)
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| Making History |
| Philip Segal had been trying, on and off, since 1989 to acquire the rights to make Doctor Who. Finally, in 1995, he forged a partnership between the BBC and Universal Pictures to make a two-hour Doctor Who movie for broadcast on both BBC1 and the Fox network. This movie would serve as a "backdoor pilot", possibly giving rise to a new ongoing series should ratings warrant it. Unfortunately, although Doctor Who was successful in the United Kingdom, it was a disappointment in North America, where it was broadcast during the fierce May "sweeps" period. Fox passed on Doctor Who and although Universal maintained their option until the end of 1997, they were unsuccessful in interesting other parties in the programme. Doctor Who as a television property then lay fallow for several years until, one September morning in 2003, the seeds were sown for its rebirth... |
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