In the mid-1990s it seemed Doctor Who’s television future lay firmly in North America. Some fans and critics were concerned about whether the narrative of any new series would respect what had gone before, about who might be cast as the Doctor, and about whether the result would feel like the programme they’d known and loved for so many years.
The TV Movie’s visual effects supervisor Eric Alba.
However, it’s fair to say that one area which nobody was particularly worried about was visual effects. With pioneering work being done across a range of high-profile series, American television had come to lead the way in what could be achieved in science-fiction on the small screen. And when the Doctor Who TV Movie began production in January 1996, there was no shortage of experience in its visual effects department.