Downtime (1995)

Name: Downtime
Genre: Adventure, Action, Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction
Released: 1995-02-03

1h 5m

Running Time

February 3, 1995
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Plot.

Retired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the mysterious time traveler the Doctor, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart faces the toughest battle of his military career when he is embroiled in a plot unwittingly set in motion by university chancellor Victoria Waterfield, herself a former companion of the Doctor, to take over the Earth by an evil alien entity called the Great Intelligence, aided by its ferocious robot Yeti cohorts. Can the Brigadier defeat this menace to the Earth without the Doctor's help?

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Release Date
February 3, 1995

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 5m

Genres
Adventure Action Horror Thriller Science Fiction War & Politics

Last updated: 2024-10-05

Wiki.

Downtime is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures. It is a sequel to the Second Doctor serials The Abominable Snowmen (1967) and The Web of Fear (1968).

Downtime stars Nicholas Courtney, Deborah Watling, Jack Watling and Elisabeth Sladen reprising their roles as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Victoria Waterfield, Professor Edward Travers and Sarah Jane Smith, respectively. It introduces the character of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.

The film received overall mixed reviews from critics, but was successful enough to get a sequel, Dæmos Rising, in 2004.