The TV Movie

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The TV Movie is a 1996 television film in the Doctor Who franchise that introduced Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and attempted to relaunch the series for an international audience.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 1990s science fiction film
Doctor Who story
television film
alsoKnownAs Doctor Who
Doctor Who: The TV Movie
attemptedRelaunchFor international audience
basedOn Doctor Who by Sydney Newman
continuity classic Doctor Who series
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
United States
director Geoffrey Sax
distributor BBC
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
executiveProducer Philip Segal
featuresCharacter Eighth Doctor
Seventh Doctor
The Master
featuresElement TARDIS
Time Lords
linked to: Time Lord
featuresRegenerationFrom Seventh Doctor
featuresRegenerationTo Eighth Doctor
followedBy Ninth Doctor era of Doctor Who (in 2005 television series)
genre adventure
science fiction
hasHomeMediaRelease Blu-ray
DVD
VHS
introducesCharacter Eighth Doctor
notableFor first Doctor Who drama produced as a US co-production
first on-screen appearance of the Eighth Doctor
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork Fox
partOf Doctor Who franchise
portraysDoctorNumber 8
producer Peter V. Ware
productionCompany BBC Worldwide
Fox Network
Universal Television
releaseFormat television broadcast
releaseYear 1996
runtimeMinutes 85
settingLocation San Francisco
settingTimePeriod 1 January 2000
31 December 1999
stars Daphne Ashbrook
Eric Roberts
Paul McGann
Sylvester McCoy
writer Matthew Jacobs

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Doctor Who: The Movie alsoKnownAs The TV Movie