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 science fiction television

Science fiction on television

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 series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

. It was released direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

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 and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures

Reeltime Pictures

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. It is a sequel to the Third Doctor

Third Doctor

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 serial The Dæmons

The Dæmons

The Dæmons is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in five weekly parts from May 22 to June 19, 1971.-Plot:...

and the 1995 Reeltime video Downtime

Downtime (Doctor Who)

Downtime is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-video and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures...

and is also a tie-in to Telos Publishing's Time Hunter

Time Hunter

The Time Hunter series of books is published by Telos Publishing Ltd. and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony's Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light...

range of books, another Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

spin-off.

Synopsis

Kate Lethbridge-Stewart responds to a message from ex-UNIT operative Douglas Cavendish to investigate a haunting.

Arriving at Cavendish's isolated cottage, she faces a demonic power her father had previously battled. Summoned by a future tyranny, a Dæmon is set to return to Earth. It is up to Kate and Cavendish to save the planet and its future.

Cast

• Kate Lethbridge-Stewart - Beverley Cressman
• Douglas Cavendish - Miles Richardson
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• The Ghost - Andrew Wisher
• Time Sensitive - Amanda Evans
• Priests - Andy Delafield, Christian James, Stefano Rossini
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  , Bevis Taylor
• Dæmon voice - Alistair Lock
• Narrator - Ian Richardson
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Soundtrack release

Music from this video composed by Alistair Lock was released on CD by Reeltime in March 2004.

Track listing

1. Prologue
2. Into The Woods
3. The Statue
4. The Only One
5. The Book
6. Incantation
7. Manifestation
8. Under The Stairs
9. Ghost Story
10. Seduction
11. The Daemon
12. Broken Vessel
13. Epilogue

See also

Other creator-authorised Doctor Who spin-offs include:

• Wartime
  Wartime (Doctor Who)
  Wartime is the title of a short science fiction film, produced direct-to-video in 1987 by Reeltime Pictures. It was the first professionally produced, authorised independent spin-off of the long-running TV series Doctor Who, and the only such production to be made while the originating TV series...
  
  
• Downtime
  Downtime (Doctor Who)
  Downtime is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-video and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures...
  
  
• Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
  Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
  Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans is a film spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-video in 1995 and was produced by the independent production company Dreamwatch Media, a division of Dreamwatch magazine...