Reeltime Pictures

Reeltime Pictures is a British multimedia film and video production company founded in 1984 by Keith Barnfather.

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1984 - Keith Barnfather

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It is known for its many documentaries about the long-running television series Doctor Who (Barnfather was a founding member of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society) and in particular for The Myth Makers, a series of interviews with people associated with the making of the series. Many of these programs were hosted by actor Nicholas Briggs.

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Doctor Who - Doctor Who Appreciation Society - Nicholas Briggs

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Reeltime Pictures also pioneered a technique of creating direct-to-video Doctor Who spin-offs, despite the BBC's close guarding of the series, by building the spin-offs around incidental characters and monsters licensed directly from the writers who created them. Their first effort, 1998's Wartime, was a small-scale piece built around Sergeant Benton of UNIT, a recurring character from the 1970s.

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Direct-to-video - BBC - 1998 - Sergeant Benton - UNIT - 1970s

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Later and more ambitious productions include Mindgame, Shakedown: The Return of the Sontarans, Downtime, and Daemos Rising. Ironically, despite their non-BBC-licensed status, novelisations of both Shakedown and Downtime were released as part of the BBC-sanctioned Virgin New Adventures Doctor Who spin-off novels, their narratives being expanded to incorporate the Doctor, a character missing from the video versions for copyright reasons.

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Sontaran - Downtime - Virgin New Adventures - Doctor

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