TV Movie

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Story Code: TV Movie / Season - UK Airdate: 27 May 1996 Doctor: Paul McGann
First airings by location UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite Previous Story / Next Story

This story aired in the following known countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

Fox TV Movie poster ad, May 1996
Presskit for the TV Movie
Screen grab of French title caption
Canada 12 May 96
United States 14 May 96
United Kingdom 27 May 96
Australia 3 Jul 96
New Zealand 30 Oct 96
Greece 96 or 97
France 18 Mar 97 Le Seigneur du Temps / Docteur Who: Le Film
Poland 97
HBO OLE Cable From Feb 99
Luxembourg 27 Feb 99 Le Seigneur du Temps
Italy 99
Netherlands 5 Aug 99
Ireland 1 May 00
Brazil 27 Jul 00 Doutor Who - O Senhor do Tempo
Czech Republic 9 Sept 00 Doktor Kdo
Austria 24 Jun 01
Iraq 17 Feb 02
Lithuania 25 Jul 03
India 25 Sep 04
  • Fox aired the movie on over 150 channels in the United States.
  • The UK broadcast and VHS video release were edited to remove the graphic images of gun-fire (in the wake of the recent mass shooting at a school in Dunblane, Scotland). The uncut US version (with the "Based on the original series broadcast on the BBC" caption intact was later shown for the November 1999 repeat.
  • The Movie was distributed to Commonwealth markets by the BBC, and to non-Commonwealth markets by Universal Television, hence it had far wider sales internationally.
  • The film was available on the In-flight TV Systems of Singapore Airlines, and was shown 99 times between July and September 1996 by British Airways. It was also available on Merchant Navy vessels.
  • The Movie was also distributed on VHS tape (initially by CIC Video, but later by other companies) to many other countries around the world, from 1996 to 2005; the commercial releases (either subtitled or dubbed) were mainly for the rental market only, but for some countries the tape was the only version of Doctor Who that was seen.
  • In February 1999, the Movie was available to several Central and South American countries via the HBO OLE cable link.
  • The Movie aired on BBC Prime on 30 December 1999 - the actual date on which the story is set!
  • Sci-Fi Channel's UK/Europe station aired the film for the first time on Saturday, 2 November 2002, and then several more times during the next ten months. It aired again on 25 August 2008 - twice!




FOX US trailer



Canadian CHCH Channel 11 intro



FOX intro




FOX promo



FOX promo


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