The digitally remastered Doctor Who – The Movie will be release for the first time in North America on Tuesday, February, 8th.
The long awaited release first aired on Fox on May 14, 1996.
Synopsis from WBShop.com
The Doctor is returning home to Gallifrey with the remains of his arch-nemesis, the Master. Forced off course, the TARDIS arrives in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve 1999, where the Doctor is critically wounded in a gangland gun battle. At the local hospital, Dr. Grace Holloway fights – and fails – to save his life. Later, in the morgue, the Doctor wakes up a new man. But he is not the only one – the Master has also found himself a new body. As the clock counts down to the start of the new millennium, can the Doctor stop his oldest enemy from destroying all life on Earth?
Shaun and I (as well as many other U.S. and Canadian fans) have been eagerly awaiting for 2entertain to make the film available to North American audiences since it’s release in the UK in August of 2001 (The Special Edition was released in October of last year).
It’s release here was tied up in legal wranglings with Universal who owned partial rights to the production.
Now the time has come, and I for one cannot wait to finally get my hands on a (legal) copy of the discs. I have already pre-ordered it on Amazon.com.
We will be doing a review of the DVD in two weeks on Traveling the Vortex, so be sure to listen.
