Doctor Who: Shada

Nov 24, 2017

2h 17m

★ 7.0

First on BBC One, a little later than originally billed...

Overview

The Doctor visits his old Time Lord friend Chronotis in Cambridge, 1979. But the ruthless Skagra has also arrived to retrieve a book that will help unlock one of the Time Lords' greatest secrets: what is Shada? Filming for this story was never finished, and in this version the unfilmed material is completed via animation.

Genres

Science Fiction

Adventure

Animation

TV Movie

Production Companies

BBC

BBC Worldwide

BBC Studios

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Cast

The Doctor

Tom Baker

Romana (voice)

Lalla Ward

K9 (archive footage) (voice)

David Brierly

Skagra (voice)

Christopher Neame

Chris Parsons (voice)

Daniel Hill

Professor Chronotis (archive footage)

Denis Carey

Clare Keightley (voice)

Victoria Burgoyne

Wilkin (archive footage)

Gerald Campion

The Ship (voice)

Shirley Dixon

Dr. Caldera (archive footage)

Derek Pollitt

The Krargs (voice)

James Coombes

Police Constable

John Hallet

A boy, whose mother used to prohibit his time travel games, has grown into an adult. He executes his everyday life like any man - exercising at the gym, working as a nightclub bouncer and spending his spare time with those who just happened to end up around him. An ordinary day comes to a halt when he runs into a familiar woman - with whom he hasn’t met before. The twosome develop an unprecedented sense of connection which makes them question everything they have believed in. As their self-evident future together starts to shine in the horizon, his repressed childhood enters from behind it. Encountering the past drives at stake both - the hopes for true love and his sense of reality.

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