Doctor Who (1996)

Cast

Eric Roberts
as The Master / Bruce
Sylvester McCoy
as The Doctor
Will Sasso
as Pete
Paul McGann
as The Doctor

Get more information about Doctor Who (1996) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

6.4 / 10

The Doctor, an alien time traveller from the planet Gallifrey, is transporting the remains of his nemesis, the Master back to their homeworld. However the Master is not as dead as the Doctor thinks. 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. The Doctor requires a beryllium atomic clock to repair the TARDIS, but is shot as he leaves it. 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. He needs a Time Lord's body to survive and be able to regenerate again so he needs the Doctor's. The newly regenerated the Doctor must fight to save his own eighth body, and the world when the Master sabotages the TARDIS' power source. 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 ...

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Comments on this trailer
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The Death Star

0:13 Foreshadowing of the end of time? - @Tuesday, October 9, 2018 3:23 PM

ing.Slavibor Petržílka

paul mcgann best doctor who im sorry that he didnt get chance to prove it - @Friday, September 7, 2018 7:00 PM

Noble Slayer

I love how the movie intro had both a classic and revival feel to it - @Thursday, March 22, 2018 10:56 PM

doctor who whoviens

Good - @Friday, February 9, 2018 11:23 PM

Lee Hutchings

For all its flaws - and there are a few - I still prefer this movie, with its darker tone and style, over New Who. This FELT like a continuation of Old Who, which is something I've never gotten with the new series. Maybe it's just me, but I wish this pilot had succeeded and we'd got more of the 8th Doctor in this Gothic format. (And by the way, the TARDIS looked utterly cool. I loved the new design!) - @Sunday, January 28, 2018 9:03 PM

Ian Rainford

Star Trek discovery - @Friday, January 26, 2018 7:12 PM

Język Filmowców

I think the movie is my guilty pleasere. - It's horribly written, and Master's performence is really bad, but it's a lot of fun, and it looks pretty good on blu ray - @Friday, December 22, 2017 1:15 PM

Stanley Pines

It's not even that bad guys, c'mon - @Sunday, December 3, 2017 10:53 PM

Dark Whovian

Lord McGann - @Monday, November 27, 2017 5:16 PM

Steven Baxter

Loved Paul magan as the doctor and TV movie was better than a lot of people say it is they should bring Paul magan back for multi doctor story with Jodie Whitaker - @Friday, October 6, 2017 11:17 PM

XxDachshundxX Productions

On eBay, this costs $160. WHAT THE HELL??? - @Tuesday, September 19, 2017 6:06 AM

The JAD Gamers

0:00 doctor:Oh no i pooped XD - @Saturday, May 13, 2017 8:11 AM

Laura Reid

Am I the only one who loves this movie, different yes but different doesn't mean bad, the use of Madam Butterfly and the sad reality of the 7th doctor dying on his own on an operating table was heartbreaking! And silly sexy Paul :P - @Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:56 AM

TheZebbga

I have been watching this on VHS for the longest time. - @Sunday, October 30, 2016 5:18 PM

Ryan Neufeld

Will think more about trying to own this version than the DVD because I missed my chance a couple years ago when I saw Doctor Who: The Movie by itself during the season of Christmas as per the winter holidays instead I now own my copies of the story Horror At Fang Rock and the special The Snowmen but I could still get the combo pack that featured him along with the previous three doctors - @Monday, October 17, 2016 8:46 AM

Dan Williams

So is this for only a UK release or will this come out in America as well? - @Wednesday, October 5, 2016 7:41 PM

Sean Grand

What's the music? - @Wednesday, September 28, 2016 6:28 PM

Crazy CandyLover

Is this really happening? - @Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:36 AM

Proco

it the film available in Canada - @Sunday, September 25, 2016 6:22 PM

z00ts00t77

I think in some ways one thing that is very overlooked about this film is that in a sense it provided a little bit of a blueprint for the modern era of Doctor Who. It was shot on film with lots of location work, had a bigger budget with good SFX, and had a very cinematic feel (including the sense of scale in the Tardis). And of course we had a Doctor that got to kiss a girl and be seen as romantic. If anything this showed that Doctor Who could be made in a more modern way, a world way from the old series of the late 80's from before the hiatus, shot on video to a lower budget with creaky indoor sets, an episodic serial format that didn't always work so well in terms of pace, and some very stilted acting from the non-leads. In a sense, modern Doctor Who as we know it had it's genesis right here in The Movie. - @Saturday, September 24, 2016 4:22 PM

Spicy_Juustomättö

this trailer is amazing it actually made me buy the movie (not the blue-ray though) - @Friday, September 23, 2016 12:05 PM

LoriCiani

I remember when I saw this on TV. I remember thinking yes, the Doctor is back! Then having a very embarrassing adult feminine reaction to the sight of Paul McGann's handsome Doctor. Not good as I was sitting next to my then husband.😃 - @Thursday, September 22, 2016 11:30 PM

swamp world

😭😭😭😭😭😭 misse u doctor who - @Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:26 PM

Sidney Woolf-Hoyle

0:18 Chimes of Midnight anyone? - @Thursday, September 22, 2016 9:15 PM

Tycent

I WANT MORE OF THE EIGHTH DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!! The good Doctor. - @Thursday, September 22, 2016 2:32 AM

Deni Pivac

Literally, I watched this movie almost everyday on my TV: SyFy, but seeing it advertised on Blu-Ray is even better. I definitely want one. - @Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:07 AM

Ergotth

The movie wasn't nearly disastrous as it could be, but several things could have used a light slap behind the head of the writer and designer, such as the plotholes involving the daleks and the master (but I recognize the master's plan was really fiting like the classic Doctor Who plot) and the design of the tardis was TERRIBLE. Someone though it was what, a haunted mansion time machine? Dried leaves and bats inside a stone-cold atrium as the time vortex? And the doctor was a wee bit underplayed, but the actor was perfect. I look forward for a doctor who movie DONE PROPERLY in the future. Come on, we have the technology! - @Wednesday, September 21, 2016 2:49 PM

Krisow

You should make an Doctor Who Spin Off called ¨Doctor Who: The Time War¨ where Paul McGain is playing the 8th Doctor and we get to see what he went trough and then later on John Hurt (or the actor who played the Young War Doctor) can play the War Doctor after the 8th Doctor dies in the crash and the continue the series until the War Doctor got to the point where was thinking of destroying Gallifrey as its in the 50th Anniversary Episode. - @Wednesday, September 21, 2016 1:47 PM

indoBOB 666

is this just UK release or does US also get it at the same time? - @Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:23 AM

xPsychedelicTRIPx

Paul mcgann was a great doctor. especially in the short ep. he did for the 50th - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 9:00 PM

Andrew Lewis

I assume this will be full 1080p Bluray? - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 7:38 PM

TheRecreator

I wonder if anyone will actually buy this today? The sort of people who would spend £20 on a TV Movie Blu-Ray are also the sort of people who know it's not actually in Blu-Ray quality. - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 2:30 PM

Tulf42

Doctor Who on Blu-ray, other breaking news: water wet. Does anyone actually buy blu-ray? Good box art though. - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 8:52 AM

MrSpeaker

I remember mostly enjoying it on the night, and finding it pretty damn bad when I rewatched it a year ago. Such a shame. Eight deserved (and deserves) better. Seven too - my favourite of the classic Doctors. - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 6:43 AM

G_Man

Ah, the *Movie that Must Not Be Named* - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 6:34 AM

Garrett Laporte

what even.... why? - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 5:39 AM

feliperagonha

i think it is really bad. but just because they've made a stupid mistake... The movie didn't have any time travel. it was time this... time that... but nothing really time related. - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 2:56 AM

MsShadows

ahhh my bæ paul - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 2:10 AM

RassilonTDavros

So this is cropped AND upscaled? - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:19 AM

Lilly Fuentes

i want!!! r they selling it again!!!! - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 12:51 AM

Samuel Osterhoudt

Best doctor! - @Tuesday, September 20, 2016 12:17 AM

Im no one important

why America just why? - @Monday, September 19, 2016 10:39 PM

herobrinekingmaster

i want it... with subtitles - @Monday, September 19, 2016 10:18 PM

magicman1921

I wonder if they will do some audiobooks or or or some recorded episode's that the writers planned to make after the film if it had in fact actually made more money and was more of a success. You know add them onto the Blu-Ray DVD in the Special Features. - @Monday, September 19, 2016 10:09 PM

TomStufforShow

Hey Doctor Who, remember to put Capaldi's voice in both channels at the end - at the moment he's only coming through the right. - @Monday, September 19, 2016 10:07 PM

Gertrude Perkins

"And now one of BBC's greatest heroes is back; and it's about time! Actions, scares and adventure '90s style as mankind faces total destruction, in Doctor Who!" - BBC announcer, May 1996. Where have those TWENTY YEARS (!) gone!? I am looking forward to this Blu Ray release! - @Monday, September 19, 2016 9:52 PM

MsCadenza

Paul is by far my favorite Doctor! <3 - @Monday, September 19, 2016 9:45 PM

Crit Fail

Love Paul as the Doctor. He showed he could do it and on Audio he has been very cool. But the movie just seemed off. From memory he gets the Masters ashes from Skaro...ummm why? - @Monday, September 19, 2016 9:35 PM

REFLEX iw

*psst* its not very good - @Monday, September 19, 2016 9:29 PM

LightFuryDoctor

I actually have come to really appreciate this movie , since it has had a big influence on nu who - @Monday, September 19, 2016 8:53 PM