Story Line for the new Doctor Who movie - SPOILERS!!!

The eagerly-awaited two-hour television movie, DOCTOR WHO, based on the long-running and phenomenally popular BBC series of the same name will have its world premier May 14 when it airs on The FOX Tuesday Night Movie (8:00 - 10:00 PM ET/PT). The film will be simultaneously released in the United Kingdom by BBC Video, prior to its British television airing.

British actor Paul McGann (Withnail & I, Alien3) stars as The Doctor, Daphne Ashbrook (Midnight Heat) stars as his companion Grace Holloway, and Eric Roberts (It's My Party) plays The Master, an evil force who threatens to destroy the universe.

Sylvester McCoy, who played the most recent Doctor on the BBC series, makes a cameo appearance in the film, reprising his role until the character transforms into the new Doctor, played by McGann.

While transporting the remains of The Master back to his home planet, The Doctor's time machine malfunctions, forcing him to land in San Francisco on December 30, 1999. When The Doctor is wounded and rushed to hospital, The Master escapes and takes over the body of an unsuspecting paramedic. Meanwhile, unaware that The Doctor has two hearts, Dr. Grace Holloway inadvertently kills him on the operating table. After The Doctor regenerates into a new body, he turns to Grace to help him discover his identity, find The Master and save the universe.

DOCTOR WHO, the longest-running science fiction series in the world, began as a BBC series November 1963 featuring William Hartnell as the Time Lord The Doctor. Righting wrongdoings and conquering alien threats, The Doctor travels through time in his TARDIS, which resembles a London police box on the outside, but is a sprawling H.G. Wells-esque spaceship on the inside. With unique regeneraive capabilites, The Doctor has survived death and changed physical appearances seven times in his many years on telvision, Hartnell's Doctor was followed by Patrick Troughton in 1966, Jon Pertwee in 1970, Tom Baker in 1974, Peter Davison in 1982, Colin Baker in 1984 and Sylvester McCoy in 1987.

DOCTOR WHO is produced in Canada by Universal Productions Canada for distribution by BBC Worldwhide, the commerical arm of the BBC, and MCA Television Limited. Philip Segal and Alex Beaton are exective producers and Peter Ware is producer. Matthew Jacobs wrote the screenplay and is co-producer. Jo Wright serves as executive producer for the BBC. Music is by John Debney, Emmy Award winner for seaQuest DSV. Geoffrey Sax is the director.