Doctor Who: The Movie
Date: 1996
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Production Company: Universal Television, BBC Worldwide
Stars: Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook, Sylvester McCoy, Yee Jee Tso, John Novak, Michael David Simms
Location(s): British Columbia (Canada), California (USA)
Region(s): N. America
Storyline:
The newly-regenerated Doctor takes on the Master at the end of the last millennium.
Additional Information:
Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson
Also known as ‘Doctor Who’
A film made for television that also had a limited cinema release.
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As the Doctor transports the remains of the Master across time and space in the TARDIS, a group of Youths run through San Francisco's Chinatown. Dascha Saville grew up in Vancouver's Chinatown and explains that towards the top right is a sign for Scotiabank, a bank that doesn't exist in the States, which helped to identify this view as facing east on Keefer Street in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Chang Lee (Yee Jee Tso) and his Friends (Michael Ching and Daryl Quan) leave the bright lights of the main road and turn down a dimly lit alley.
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The three climb over a padlocked gate as their Pursuer catches up with them in his sedan.
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Turning around after their Pursuer drives away, Chang Lee and his Pals are faced by four armed Gangsters (Byron Lawson, Daryl Quon, Paul Wu and Johnny Mah) . . . who shoot at the Doctor when he appears from the materialised TARDIS.
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Chang Lee calls an ambulance and accompanies the injured Doctor to hospital.
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The ambulance arrives at the Walker General Hospital. The British Columbia Children's Hospital,on Oak Street in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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As the Master in a fluid form secretes himself in the clothing of Bruce the ambulance driver, inside the hospital, cardiologist Dr. Grace Holloway discovers the Doctor's unusual anatomy before his death on the operating table. British Columbia Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
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Views of San Francisco confirm the film's setting. To the right stands the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco 94111 with the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge crossing the background.
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To the bottom stands the floodlit church of Saints Peter and Paul on Filbert Street in San Francisco 94133.
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Cut to the exterior of the house where Miranda lies in bed next to her partner Bruce as he's taken over by the Master. To the bottom right stand numbers 722 to 718 Steiner Street in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California.
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Dawn breaks on the morning after the Doctor's regeneration in the hospital morgue. The Golden Gate Bridge spanning the Golden Gate in San Francisco, California, USA.
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In the hospital car park, the Doctor (Paul McGann) attempts to speak with Dr. Grace Holloway (Daphne Ashbrook) after she walks out when Swift destroys x-rays taken of the Doctor's double heart. The Golden Crown Centre in Vancouver suggested on IMDb.
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Convinced that the Doctor is the patient she treated the previous evening, Grace takes him home to find that her ex-Boyfriend has taken furniture as well as his property. Inside number 1998 Odgen Avenue in Vancouver, British Columbia with Hadden Park visible through the window.
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Having taken the Doctor's belongings, Chang Lee returns to the TARDIS.
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Ducking under the security tape, Chang Lee uses the Doctor's key to enter the TARDIS and finds the Master inside.
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Dr. Holloway examines a specimen taken from the Doctor before declaring that it's not blood. 1998 Odgen Avenue in Vancouver.
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Taking a break outside the house, Grace asks if the Doctor is the result of some weird genetic experiment. Looking towards buildings across English bay from Hadden Park in Vancouver.
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The Doctor's memories of his previous lives begin to return. Facing the public washrooms in Hadden Park near the corner of Maple Street and Ogden Avenue in Vancouver.
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A spilt load blocks the carriageway as the Master takes the Doctor and Grace in an ambulance driven by Chang Lee across town.
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When the Master is unmasked, the two flee from the ambulance and run towards a Motorcycle Cop (Bill Croft) as he gets off his machine.
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Taking the motorcycle, the Doctor and Grace ride away from the scene of the accident followed by the Master and Chang Lee.
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The pursuit continues as the Doctor races against the clock to prevent the destruction of Earth.
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Forced from the road, the Doctor and Grace ride through a railway yard.
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Regaining the highway, the pair continue towards the Institute for Technological Advancement & Research where a beryllium atomic is being used to count down the minutes until midnight and the start of a new millennium.
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The Doctor and Grace arrive at ITAR where they find the ambulance parked. The Plaza of Nations in Vancouver identified on IMDb.
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When the Doctor is captured by the Master after taking the atomic clock to the TARDIS, the apocalypse begins. Another shot of Steiner Street in San Francisco, California.
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As midnight approaches, lightning rains down onto the city. The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
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A tornado sweeps through the skyscrapers as the TARDIS dematerialises. The clock tower of the San Francisco Ferry Building at the Port of San Francisco 94105.