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''Doctor Who'', also referred to as ''Doctor Who: The Movie'' 〔http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Movie-Special-Edition/dp/B0049S1NYG〕〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/tvmovie/〕 to distinguish it from the television series of the same name, is a British-American-Canadian television film continuing the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Developed as a co-production between BBC Worldwide, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox and the American network Fox, the 1996 television film premiered on 12 May 1996 on CITV in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (which was owned by WIC at the time before being acquired by Canwest Global in 2000), 15 days before its first showing in the United Kingdom on BBC One and two days before being broadcast in the United States on Fox. It was also shown in some countries for a limited time in cinemas. The film was the first attempt to revive ''Doctor Who'' following its suspension in 1989. It was intended as a back-door pilot for a new American-produced ''Doctor Who'' TV series and introduced Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in his only televised appearance as the character until "The Night of the Doctor" in 2013. It also marks the final appearance of Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and the only appearance of Daphne Ashbrook as companion Grace Holloway. Although a ratings success in the United Kingdom, the film did not fare well on American television and no series was commissioned. The series was later relaunched on the BBC in 2005.〔 The only official ''Doctor Who'' episodes between the film and the new series were a 1999 spoof, ''Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death'', and a 2003 animation, ''Scream of the Shalka''. Although the film was primarily produced by different people than the 1963–89 series and intended for an American audience, the producers chose not to produce a "re-imagining" or "reboot" of the series but rather a continuation of the original narrative. The production was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, to date the only episode of ''Doctor Who'' filmed in Canada. ==Plot== As the film opens, the Master has been tried on Skaro and found guilty of a "list of evil crimes". His death sentence at the hands of the Daleks has been carried out. His last wish was for his remains to be returned to Gallifrey by his archenemy, the Doctor, currently in his seventh incarnation. During the trip back to Gallifrey in the Doctor's TARDIS, the Doctor is reading H. G. Wells' ''The Time Machine'' and listening to a torch singer on an old gramophone - which at one point skips on the word "Time" until thumped back into shape. The box containing the Master's remains shakes violently and breaks open allowing a sentient ooze to escape from it. The ooze enters the TARDIS controls and forces an emergency landing in Chinatown in San Francisco, California on 30 December 1999. As the Doctor steps from the TARDIS to find his bearings, he is shot by a gang who are chasing down Chang Lee, a young Chinese-American man. The Doctor manages to sputter out a few sentences to Lee, before fainting from pain. Lee calls for an ambulance, and the Doctor is rushed to a nearby hospital. The surgeons find, through X-rays, that the Doctor has two hearts, but they assume the X-ray image is a double exposure. They put The Doctor under pain drugs while they remove the bullets from his right shoulder and left leg before calling in a cardiologist. As cardiologist Dr Grace Holloway starts to operate with a cardiac probe, the Doctor wakes up, tries to prevent the operation by explaining his non-terrestrial origins and tells Grace he needs a beryllium atomic clock, but he is quickly put under anaesthetic and passes out once again. The Doctor's anatomy confuses Grace, who accidentally damages his circulatory system with a probe, killing him. The Doctor is declared dead, and his body is placed into a morgue. Lee steals the Doctor's possessions, including the TARDIS key, and runs off. Meanwhile, the ooze, which had stowed itself away on the ambulance, attacks and takes over the body of the ambulance driver, Bruce. When Bruce's wife comments on his change in behavior the next morning, the Master, now controlling his body, murders her. Late in the night, the Doctor starts breathing again and regenerates into a new body, and leaves the morgue in a state of confusion, donning parts of costumes intended for the New Year's party later that night. He follows Grace as she leaves the hospital, and convinces her that, though his appearance is different, he is the same man she operated on earlier when he pulls out the remains of a probe she had inserted during the surgery. Grace - who has resigned from her job at the hospital after the administration chose to cover up the botched surgery and destroy the Doctor's tell-tale X-rays - takes the Doctor home. Meanwhile, Lee returns to the TARDIS with the key, and enters the time machine. The Master arrives soon afterwards and tells Lee that the Doctor stole the TARDIS from him, as well as his body, which he wants to retrieve. He convinces Lee to open the Eye of Harmony, which he is able to do thanks to his human retinal pattern. The Doctor recovers his memory and tries to keep his own eyes shut to prevent the Master from seeing through them. The Doctor also warns Grace that if they do not shut the Eye before midnight, the entire planet may be sucked into it, and that to close it, he needs an atomic clock. Grace disbelieves the Doctor initially, but when he demonstrates that the nature of reality is already changing by walking through her bay windows without breaking them, she agrees to take him to the unveiling of an atomic clock at the San Francisco Institute of Technological Advancement and Research. They are given a lift to the Institute in an ambulance driven by Lee and the Master, whom the Doctor does not yet recognize. However, when the Master removes his sunglasses, revealing non-human eyes, the Doctor and Grace abandon the ambulance and steal a police motorcycle, but not before the Master is able to shoot Grace's wrist with a strange, bile-like fluid from his mouth. At the Institute, the Doctor and Grace manage to collect the integrated circuit chip with the atomic clock mechanism by subterfuge, and make their way back to the TARDIS. Once there, the Doctor is able to install the chip and close the Eye, but discovers that the Eye has been open for too long, and that they must revert time to before the Eye was opened to prevent the destruction of the Earth. However, before the Doctor can route power to the TARDIS, the Master takes control of Grace using the bile which has infected her, and forces her to knock out the Doctor. The Doctor is chained above the Eye, his eyes forced open so as to allow the Master to take his remaining regenerations. When the Doctor awakes, he tries to talk Lee out of the Master's spell initially to no avail; however, when the Master lies to Lee in order to get him to open the Eye again, Lee refuses, causing the Master to kill him. The Master then releases his control of Grace, returning her eyes to human appearance, and then forces her to open the Eye. While the Master begins the process of transferring the Doctor's remaining regenerations to him, Grace is able to connect the last power circuit in the console room, sending the TARDIS into a time-holding pattern just moments after the turn of midnight, staving off destruction of the Earth. When Grace tries to return to help the Doctor, she is thrown over a balcony and killed by the Master, but her interference has given the Doctor enough time to push the Master into the Eye itself, apparently killing him. The action causes the Eye to close, and time to revert to a few moments before midnight, bringing both Grace and Lee back to life. As the three recover, they find the world is safe. As Lee departs after returning the rest of the Doctor's possessions, the Doctor warns him not to be in San Francisco during next year's Christmas Day. The Doctor then asks Grace to travel with him in the TARDIS, but she politely refuses and also leaves. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS and pilots off to a new adventure. As he returns to the book he was reading before being forced to Earth, the gramophone skips at the same point, leading the Doctor to exclaim "Oh no, not ''again''!" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doctor Who (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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