Downtime
Released: February 3, 1995Runtime: 65 min
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?
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Nicholas Courtney
as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Elisabeth Sladen
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Deborah Watling
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Jack Watling
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Beverley Cressman
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Mark Trotman
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Geoffrey Beevers
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Peter Silverleaf
as Christopher Rice
John Leeson
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Miles Richardson
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