Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor (home video)

Downtime is a 1995 direct-to-video production featuring elements from the Doctor Who universe. It saw Nabil Shaban return to the role of Sil for the first time since the Big Finish adaptation of |Mission to Magnus ten years previously and the first time on screen since the 1980's. The story was also written by Sil's original creator Philip Martin.

Synopsis
SIL is worried, very worried, which doesn't keep his reptilian skin in the best condition! Confined in a cold detention cell on the moon, awaiting a deportation hearing for trial on drugs offences on Earth, he faces a death sentence if the application is successful and he is found guilty. And his employers at the Universal Monetary Fund aren't pleased either. Not at all.

As time runs out and friends desert him, SIL must use all of his devious, vile, underhanded, ruthless, and amoral business acumen to survive.

Can he possibly slime his way out of this one?

Plot
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Cast

 * Sil - Nabil Shaban
 * Kiv - Christopher Ryan
 * Mistress Na - Sophie Aldred
 * The Adjudicator - Janet Henfrey
 * Larnier - Sakuntala Ramanee
 * Guard Monk - Jim Conway
 * Guard Peterson - John Michael Rooke
 * Piers - Jay Ramanee-Murphy

Crew

 * Writer - Philip Martin
 * Director - Keith Barnfather
 * Producer - Keith Barnfather
 * Designer - Phil Newman
 * Director of photography - Rob Thrush
 * Creative Designer - Philip Robinson
 * Sil's travel unit creator - Rob Phillips
 * Creature Make-up - Begonia Martin
 * Sound design and Music - Alistair Lock
 * Colourist - Sara Buxton

Story notes
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Continuity
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DVD release

 * This story was released simultaniously on DVD and Blu-ray on 4 November 2019.

VOD release
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