Downtime (Doctor Who)

Downtime
VHS Release cover
Cast
Starring
Production
Directed byChristopher Barry
Written byMarc Platt
Produced byKeith Barnfather
Ian Levine
Paul Cuthbert-Brown
Andrew Beech
Music byIan Levine, Nigel Stock, and Erwin Keiles
Running time1 episode, 70 mins.
First broadcast2 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.