Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Doctor Who: The Movie with a deep dive into the TV film that relaunched (and possibly reshaped) the WHOniverse in unexpected ways. What hurdles did director Geoffrey Sax face between 1989 and 1996 to get the project greenlit? How was Steven Spielberg connected to the production? Why was it controversial to portray The Doctor as half-human? Is the film “too American”? How has its legacy evolved over three decades? Do the novelizations help smooth out the plot bumps? Why hasn’t Dr. Grace Holloway returned in Big Finish audio dramas? Is Doctor Who: The Movie worth a rewatch? Join Mark Baumgarten, Vicky Jakubowski, and Juan Sanmiguel as they revisit the 1996 TV movie that brought The Doctor back to our screens and left an unforgettable, if unusual, mark on the franchise.
For interviews of cast members and production team from MarkWHO42’s archives:
Matthew Jacobs (writer): episode 145 – “MarkWHO42 Are You?” by Matthew Jacobs
Sylvester McCoy (The 7th Doctor): episode 91 – Playing Spoons with The Doctor
Yee Jee Tso (Chang Lee): episode 78 – Gold Dust Companion episode 130 – Happy New Year 2000! (Wait? What?)
Daphne Ashbrook (Dr. Grace Holloway): episode 189 – Daphne Ashbrook – Part 1: Life Before Doctor Who episode 190 – Daphne Ashbrook – Part 2: Doctor Who and Beyond!
Jeremy Radick (Gareth) – MarkWHO42’s most prolific guest: episode 171 – Doctor… WHO Let That Guy In Here? episode 178 – The Pilots and many other episodes, including our Doctor Who Series 13 review: WTF Episode 1 – A Liverpudlian, a Lupari, and a Gallifreyan Walk into a Flux… WTF Episode 2 – Swarm and Azure: The Disco Villains Who Dance Around The Doctor
And Paul McGann (The 8th Doctor) can be found in our Hurricane Who coverage episodes: episode 62 – Hurricane WHOa!!! episode 139 – Easter Break at Hurricane Who
That’s your homework assignment for the week… 😉
(photo courtesy of Jeremy Radick)
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MarkWHO42
Mark Baumgarten is an old school Whovian who hosts and runs the award-winning online science fiction radio show and podcast The MarkWHO42's Universe Podcast. He became a fan of Doctor Who in 1978 and worked on several of the Omnicon Conventions in South Florida back in the 1980's. With an accumulated knowledge of Who-lore as well as Science Fiction in general, he needed to share it with the world. In 2010 he started markwho42 Books selling Doctor Who books online and at conventions and in 2012 started the show MarkWHO42 and has been invited as a guest panelist at conventions around the country. He definitely puts the "Mark" in MarkWHO42!
