But the Doctor is not the only time-traveller in San Francisco. His oldest enemy, the Master, is there as well, desperately trying to steal the Doctor's newly regenerated body. Before long, the Doctor is faced with a choice: to save his own life, or the billions of people who have no future unless the Master is stopped. If only the Doctor could remember how ...

The novelisation of the long-awaited new Doctor Who film featuring eight pages of colour photographs from the film.

A co-production between BBC Worldwide and Universal Television starring Paul McGann as the Doctor, Eric Roberts as the Master and Daphne Ashbrook as Grace.

A BBC video (BBCV 5882) is also available.
 

IT IS DECEMBER 31ST, 1999. BUT WILL THE WORLD SURVIVE TO SEE THE 21ST CENTURY?

Deep in the heart of San Fransisco's Chinatown, a young boy is about to lose his life in a hail of bullets. But the gunfire finds a different target - a stranger who steps out of a British Police Box.

Dr Grace Hollowaydoes all she can but cannot save him or understand the mysteries that surround him. Who is this unknown traveller with two hearts? Why has his body disappeared? And who is the "madman" who appeals for her help; claiming to be both the dead man and a time traveller known only as the Doctor?

Elsewhere in San Francisco, another time traveller is on the verge of death. For the Master, the Doctor's oldest adversary, survival entails taking over the Doctor's newly-regenerated body. Meddling with the heart of the Doctor's Tardis he condemns the Earth to destruction at the stroke of midnight, December 31st.

As the crowds prepare to celebrate the Millennium, Grace is caught in a desperate race against time to help save the Doctor - and mankind ...

DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Sax • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Philip David Segal and Alex Beaton • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR THE BBC: Jo Wright

Based on the Original Series Broadcast on the BBC Format © BBC 1963.

A co-production between BBC Worldwide Ltd and MCA Television Limited © 1996 BBC Worldwide Ltd and MCA Television Limited. All Rights Reserved.

DOCTOR WHO, the TARDIS , and BBC are trademarks of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Running Time Approx. 87 minutes.

Photography: Joe Lederer

But the Doctor is not the only time traveller in San Francisco. His oldest adversary, the Master, is there as well, desperately trying to steal the Doctor's newly-regenerated body. Before long the Doctor is faced with a choice: to save his own life, or the billions of people who have no future unless the Master is stopped. If only the Doctor could remember how ...

Paul McGann, the Eighth Doctor, reads Gary Russell's novelisation of the BBC TV Film.