Wartime

Wartime (1988)

While on a seemingly routine delivery run for the Brigadier, Benton finds himself close to his childhood home, where ghosts from his past have never rested easily… Trapped in a nightmare world where past and present are one, will he be lost forever or can he fight his way back to reality, where he is desperately needed?

Data di uscita
1988-01-01
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (8)
Durata
32 min
Generi
Azione, Dramma, Fantascienza, Guerra, Horror
Regista
Keith Barnfather

Cast

Curiosità

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.

Background

In 1988, Wartime was first released on VHS. In 1997, Keith Barnfather revised the film — adding a voice-over with Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and released this version as well on VHS. The VHS also contained old video recordings of a Doctor Who Convention in London with Patrick Troughton, Colin Baker, Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee, and Peter Davison. In September 2015, the film was released on DVD

In this film it is the first time Sergeant Benton's first name John is mentioned on screen, it had been used in the 1983 book "A Celebration". Since then the name was used for Sergeant Benton in the media, by fans and in other Doctor Who releases. For example, the name John appears in the Big Finish audio play Council of War. Furthermore, it was used in a few novels which were produced by the BBC, for example in David A.

The fact Benton is a warrant officer, having been promoted in the first Fourth Doctor serial, Robot, places it after that serial, but presumably before his departure from UNIT in the late 1970s as revealed in the serial Mawdryn Undead.

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