Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Cast 4 Production crew 5 References 6 Story notes 6.1 Myths 6.2 Filming Locations 6.3 Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors 7 Continuity 8 DVD, video, and Other releases 9 See also 10 External links

Synopsis Edit

Former UNIT luminary Liz Shaw and her assistant Lou Bayliss are investigating a series of bizarre murders, all committed near a soon-to-be-closed psychiatric hospital.

When the hospital is unexpectedly reprieved by rich industrialist Peter Russell, events seem to move out of Liz's control. Are the incumbent director of the clinic, Doctor Dove and his predecessor, Doctor O'Kane, harbouring the killer? What is the centuries-old horror hidden in the grounds?

And what exactly is the secret of room zero?

Plot Edit

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Cast Edit

• Liz Shaw - Caroline John
• Dr. Jeremiah O'Kane - Jon Pertwee
• Dr. Colin Dove - Sylvester McCoy
• Dr. Peter Russell - Colin Baker
• Lou Bayliss - Linda Lusardi
• Patient Zero (David O'Kane) - David Terence
• Dr. William Bruffin - Mark Gatiss
• Dr. Beatrice Hearst - Nicola Fulljames
• Patricia Haggard - Louise Jameson
• Dr. Gilchrist - Patricia Merrick
• Cummings - Jonathan Rigby
• P.R.O. - Sophie Aldred
• Orderly - Simon Messingham
• Orderly - Alexander Kirk
• Daniel - Bill Baggs
• Boy's Voice - Daniel Mills

Production crew Edit

• Executive producer - Andy Grant
• Original Music - Mark Ayres
• Cinematography - Dick Kursa
• Film Editing - Michael Duxbury
• Art Direction - David Rowston
• Makeup artist - Sarah Dickinson
• Assistant directors - Patricia Merrick, David Rowston, Edward Salt
• Gaffer - David Hilton

References Edit

• Among the items on Jeremiah O'Kane's shelves are the videos Nightshade, Nightshade 2 and Nightshade and the Imps, serials or (more likely) movie adaptations in the Nightshade series which originally starred Edmund Trevithick.
• While discussing the group similar to PROBE she was once a part of, Liz sees a picture of The Brigadier on a wall and begins drawing on it with makeup.

Story notes Edit

• Gary Gillatt created the Nightshade video covers. [1]
• This film is the debut of the Preternatural Research Bureau (PROBE) and the return of Caroline John as Liz Shaw, a character last seen on television in TV: Inferno in 1970 (discounting a psychic projection of Shaw played by John that appeared in 1983's The Five Doctors).
• Several cast members previous portrayed (other) roles in Doctor Who: Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor who acted along side Caroline John); Colin Baker (Sixth Doctor); Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor); Sophie Aldred (Ace); and Louise Jameson (Leela). Any actor to formerly play the Doctor plays a doctor in the film.
• Simon Messingham also wrote: PROSE: Strange England PROSE: The Face-Eater, The Infinity Race, PROSE: Tomb of Valdemar and The Indestructible Man.
• This is the first of four films featuring the PROBE organisation. It pre-dates Torchwood as the first ongoing spin-off of the Doctor Who universe.
• The canonicity of this and the other PROBE storylines have never been officially confirmed. If it does fit within the Whoniverse, it marks the first time Pertwee, Aldred and Jameson have played more than one role in it. It is not the first time for Baker and McCoy, however: Baker played Maxil in TV: Arc of Infinity and McCoy briefly played the Sixth Doctor in TV: Time and the Rani.

Myths Edit

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Filming Locations Edit

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors Edit

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Continuity Edit

• Liz Shaw last appeared on-screen in TV: Inferno, apart from a brief appearance as a psychic projection in TV: The Five Doctors. In spin-off media, she appeared with the Third Doctor several times chronologically afterward (PROSE: The Wages of Sin, and The Devil Goblins from Neptune). Later accounts vary, as one said she died in 2003 while on the Moon (PROSE: Eternity Weeps), but according to Colonel Tia Karim she was still alive and on the Moon as of the Doctor'ss staged funeral in 2010. (TV: Death of the Doctor)

DVD, video, and Other releases Edit

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See also Edit

• Torchwood

External links Edit

• Detailed synopsis of The Zero Imperative at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Zero Imperative at The Whoniverse

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