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Battlefield: Movie Version
Last updated 02 January 2017
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WCET
Featuring: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Courtney, Angela Bruce, Angela Douglas, James Ellis, Jean Marsh
As UNIT are transporting a nuclear warhead around Carbury, knights in armour arrive to continue waging a war that began thousands of years ago, but in a wholly different dimension.
Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:
Friday 2nd October 1998:
WCET 48 in Cincinnati, Ohio offers the movie version of Battlefield Saturday late night at 11PM. The 7th Doctor and Ace arrive in the near future, where warriors from an alternate dimension have shown up to fight over King Arthur. And they all think the Doctor is Merlin. Nicholas Courtney reprises his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Jean Marsh plays Morgaine. Interestingly, Nicholas Courtney's first Doctor Who appearance was in The Daleks' Master Plan, where his character was killed by the character Jean Marsh was playing in the story. Bessie plays herself. 90 minutes.
WCET 48 in Cincinnati, Ohio offers the movie version of Battlefield Saturday late night at 11PM. The 7th Doctor and Ace arrive in the near future, where warriors from an alternate dimension have shown up to fight over King Arthur. And they all think the Doctor is Merlin. Nicholas Courtney reprises his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Jean Marsh plays Morgaine. Interestingly, Nicholas Courtney's first Doctor Who appearance was in The Daleks' Master Plan, where his character was killed by the character Jean Marsh was playing in the story. Bessie plays herself. 90 minutes.