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Released

Monday, June 16, 2003

Written by

Jonathan Clements

Runtime

74 minutes

Time Travel

Present, Alternate Reality

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Hong Kong

Synopsis

What if... the Doctor had not been UNIT's scientific advisor?

1997… and a lone exile arrives on Earth, years later than planned.

On the eve of the Handover, an advanced Chinese stealth bomber crashes in the hills above Hong Kong. The discredited UNIT has just 24 hours to steal the technology, rescue the passenger and flee to international waters.

Down by the harbour, there's big trouble in Little England - a bar owned by an old soldier, who simply wants to forget the past. But an ancient evil is stirring in a place of peace.

The Doctor finds a world on the brink of terror. A world that has lived without him for years. A world that is frighteningly like our own…

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A very nicely done "What If?" that doesn't focus so much on how the Doctor is different but how the world is different thanks to his absence. Shades of Turn Left in how everything is infinitely worse for everyone, and Nicholas Courtney does very well playing a much older, more cynical Brigadier. Mark Gatiss is also a nicely sinister Master, very much in the mould of Delgado and Survival-era Ainley. David Warner is, of course, a big highlight and it's no wonder why they asked him back for more stories and he became the breakout character of this range. He's wry, witty, wise and warm all at once and even though he doesn't get quite as much focus on characterisation as the other Doctors in the Unbound range, he's still a great presence.


David Warner you will always be famous


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