Doctor Who (American film series)

Doctor Who is a British-American film series of three science fiction adventure films directed by Steven Spielberg, adapted from the British television show of the same name. The films are subtitled Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks (2001), Doctor Who and the Scratchman (2003), and Doctor Who and the Trial of a Time Lord (2004). Produced by Amblin Entertainment and BBC Films and seeing distribution through Paramount Pictures, the films were a venture between Steven Spielberg and the BBC.

The films exist from a separate canon of the television show, and focus on the Doctor encountering several iconic villains and battling them alongside multiple companions he meets throughout the trilogy. Eventually his heroism sparks the interest of both fearsome foes and his home planet, leading to more high-stakes adventures.

The first film was shot between 18 August 2000 until 4 January 2001, with the last two being made back-to-back between 7 July 2002 until 29 January 2003. Overall, the films had a combined budget of $286 million and was a major box office success, earning back a total $897 million return.

Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks
The Doctor, a deserter of Gallifrey and Time Lord, has been traveling through time and space for the better half of 10 years saving individuals from alien beasts and seeing astonishing sights throughout the cosmos.

Sarah Foreman, a 36 year old bank clerk, has been living with her married sister until she finds a place of her own and has just recently been informed she's getting laid off on Christmas Eve 1999.

The two meet one fateful night, after the Doctor successfully dispatches a rabid werewolf and gives him an antidote, which unbeknownst to him, managed to bite Sarah after it gave chase to her throught the subway. The TARDIS, his time traveling spaceship, has detected this however so he quickly returns on Christmas day posing as bank executive John Smith reconsidering Sarah's employment to her sister. Sarah, however, is in complete fear of him and makes a quick escape through the backdoor, but the Doctor is close behind.

He catches up to her and introduces himself fully as the Doctor, taking her to his TARDIS and inviting in to give her the antidote. After delivering it, the Doctor prepares to send her off however receives an urgent alert from the Time Lord President Rassilon has discovered the Doctor's location and has him surrounded and ready to take him for treason. However, he relents to lessen his punishment if the Doctor can prevent the creation of the Daleks, an evil race of supremacists destined to rule over the universe, on the war-torn planet Skaro.