Downtime

Downtime

65 mins | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror, War | Feb. 3, 1995

Retired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the mysterious time traveler the Doctor, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart faces the toughest battle of his military career when he is embroiled in a plot unwittingly set in motion by university chancellor Victoria Waterfield, herself a former companion of the Doctor, to take over the Earth by an evil alien entity called the Great Intelligence, aided by its ferocious robot Yeti cohorts. Can the Brigadier defeat this menace to the Earth without the Doctor's help?

Downtime

65 mins | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror, War | Feb. 3, 1995

Downtime
Retired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the mysterious time traveler the Doctor, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart faces the toughest battle of his military career when he is embroiled in a plot unwittingly set in motion by university chancellor Victoria Waterfield, herself a former companion of the Doctor, to take over the Earth by an evil alien entity called the Great Intelligence, aided by its ferocious robot Yeti cohorts. Can the Brigadier defeat this menace to the Earth without the Doctor's help?
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Reeltime Pictures
Original title Downtime
Directors Christopher Barry, Keith Barnfather
Writers Marc Platt

Cast

Nicholas Courtney

as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

Elisabeth Sladen

as Sarah Jane Smith

Deborah Watling

as Victoria Waterfield

Jack Watling

as Professor Travers

Geoffrey Beevers

as 'Harrods' Haroldson

Peter Silverleaf

as Christopher Rice

John Leeson

as Anthony the D.J.

Miles Richardson

as Captain Douglas Cavendish

Beverley Cressman

as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart