Downtime (Doctor Who)

Downtime
VHS Release cover
Cast
Starring Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith Deborah Watling – Victoria Waterfield Jack Watling – Professor Travers Beverley Cressman – Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
Production
Directed by	Christopher Barry
Written by	Marc Platt
Produced by	Keith Barnfather Ian Levine Paul Cuthbert-Brown Andrew Beech
Music by	Ian Levine, Nigel Stock, and Erwin Keiles
Running time	1 episode, 70 mins.
First broadcast	2 September 1995 (1995-09-02) (release date)
Chronology
← Preceded by — Followed by → Dæmos Rising

Downtime is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures. It is a sequel to the Second Doctor serials The Abominable Snowmen (1967) and The Web of Fear (1968).

Downtime stars Nicholas Courtney, Deborah Watling, Jack Watling and Elisabeth Sladen reprising their roles as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Victoria Waterfield, Professor Edward Travers and Sarah Jane Smith, respectively. It introduces the character of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.

The film received overall mixed reviews from critics, but was successful enough to get a sequel, Dæmos Rising, in 2004.