Wartime (1988)
January 1, 1988Release Date
Wartime (1988)
January 1, 1988Release Date


Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

John Levene
John Benton

Michael Wisher
Father

Mary Greenhalgh
Mother

Peter Greenhalgh
Chris Benton

Steven Stanley
Johnnie Benton

Peter Noad
Private Willis

Paul Flanagan
Man

Paul Flanagan II
Man

Nicholas Briggs
Soldier

Nicholas Courtney
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (voice)

Helen Stirling
Screenplay

Keith Barnfather
Director / Producer

Kevin Davies
Title Graphics

Helen Stirling
Writer

Andy Lane
Screenplay

Derrick Sherwin
Writer

Mark Ayres
Original Music Composer

Edward Strickland
Editor
Media.


Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1988
StatusReleased
Running Time32m
Budget$6,022
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Wartime is a 1988 direct-to-video science fiction film produced by Reeltime Pictures. It is the first professionally produced, authorized independent spin-off of the British television series Doctor Who, and the only such production to be made while the original run of the show was still on the air.
Produced and directed by Keith Barnfather and written by Andy Lane and Helen Stirling, Wartime follows Warrant Officer John Benton of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. During a mission for UNIT leader Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton visits his childhood home where ghosts of the past rise up to haunt him. John Levene, who played Benton on Doctor Who off-and-on between 1968 and 1975, reprised the role for the film. In 1997, a revised version of the film was released, acknowledging in the credits for the first time a voice-only cameo by Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier which had always been present in the film.
Although the British Broadcasting Corporation owns the rights to Doctor Who and its lead characters, Reeltime was able to obtain permission from Derrick Sherwin, creator of Benton and UNIT, to use both entities in this film so long as the Doctor was not mentioned. This set a precedent that led to further independently made spin-offs featuring former companions of the Doctor, and alien races from the show, which would be released over the following decade; ultimately an independent company, Big Finish Productions, would in the late 1990s receive a licence from the BBC to produce officially sanctioned Doctor Who-based productions.
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