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Delivering some radioactive material from one place to another,
Sergeant Benton (John Levene) from UNIT comes across the place where his
brother Chris (Paul Greenhalgh) has died back in 1944 when he was still a
kid, and it seems Chris's spirit calls him back - to the picnic his family
had right before Chris's death, which was also the last time Benton saw
his father (Michael Wisher) who died on the battlefield only weeks later
alive. Benton now has to fight the guilt he has felt all these years
because his dad blamed Chris's death on him and always liked Chris better
anyways - but returning to the scene of the accident finally convinces him
that he actually tried to save his brother all those years back, not to
hurt him, and thus the ghosts of the past disappear. And with his
new-found self-confidence, Benton manages to easily overcome some guy who
tries to steal his radioactive material. Sergeant Benton as
played by John Levene was actually a semi-regular on the TV-show Doctor
Who in the early to mid-1960's, which is also where the
UNO-subdivision UNIT stems from. Thsi film was the first official,
independently produced spin-off of the series, and the only one made when
the series (first run) was still on air. But all this facts don't say
anything about the quality (or lack thereof) of this half-hour movie as
such ... As a ghost-story, one has to admit, Wartime is decent
enough if not exactly highly original (actually, it's pretty clichéed and
thus highly predictable), but what the film lacks is the scientific
backbone of its story, something that pretty much defined the original run
of Doctor
Who - which makes this film pretty much pointless as a
spin-off, that and the fact that there is not real reason for the movie to
feature of all characters Sergeant Benton and not pretty much any other
character from the series or any other series or a newly created character
altogether. That's not to say the film as such is useless, it's pretty
decent (as stated above), it's just no masterpiece and a failed attempt at
a spin-off.
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