Doctor Who: Visions of Utomu is the second in a series of four fan films made by Seattle International Films, based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written and directed by Ryan K. Johnson and stars Barbara Benedetti as an alternative 7th Doctor, alongside Randy Rogel as her companion, Carl Evans.
| 2 – Visions of Utomu | |
|---|---|
| Doctor Who Fan Film | |
 | |
| Cast | |
| Doctor Barbara Benedetti Doctor | |
| Companions Carl Evans | |
| Others Wesley Rice as Utomu Stasia Johnson as Princess Aldraina | |
| Production | |
| Writer | Ryan K. Johnson |
| Director | Ryan K. Johnson |
| Producer | Ryan K. Johnson |
| Production code | 1.2 |
| Series | Seattle International Films |
| Length | 32 minutes |
| Originally broadcast | January 1986 |
| Chronology | |
| ← Preceded by | Followed by → |
| The Wrath of Eukor | A Doctor In the House |
Plot[]
Synopsis[]
to be added
Continuity[]
- The Doctor mentions travelling with Leela.
Production[]
to be added
Cast[]
Barbara Benedetti as The Doctor
Randy Rogel as Carl Evans
Wesley Rice as Utomu
Stasia Johnson as Princess Aldraina
Robert Eustace as Prince Germain
Jim Dean as the King
Randy Dixon as the M.C.
Joseph McCarthy as Formore
And an orange
Production Notes[]
In August 1985, Ryan K. Johnson formed the Doctor Who fan club, The Society of the Rusting TARDIS, with the goal of making a follow up to his Doctor Who fan film, The Wrath of Eukor. He created the club alongside Howard Carson, an employee of Group W Cable (now Comcast), who said he could arrange for them to make the entire production using equipment at the Public Access Studios of Group W for a fraction of the cost of what The Wrath of Eukor cost.
Alongside Benedetti and Rogel, Jim Dean would also returned from Wrath of Eukor, though in a different role.
As with the previous film, the script want through many drafts, Johnson eventually decided to pursue a medieval theme for the second film, and was aided in the production by the Society for Creative Anachronism, who greatly increasing the production value of the movie. He rented a warehouse near the old Kingdome site in Seattle and filming took place over a terribly cold Veteran's Day weekend in 1985.
The following weekend was spent in relative warmth at the Group W public access studios in North Seattle. Johnson would go on to say that; "this was probably the harshest shoot I've ever done: I had to record nearly 12 pages of dialog in one day! It was a killer. But we got it done".
Johnson and Howard edited the movie over Christmas as there wasn't a big demand for the editing suites at public access, and the film was finished just after New Years, premiered at RustyCon in 1986.
Johnson would made up an hour long compilation tape of both Wrath of Eukor and Visions of Utomu to run on Public Access, which they would many times until the last known screening on August 20, 1995.
Trivia[]
- There is an orange in every scene in the movie, something the crew found endlessly amusing.
- Carl's musical number was included in the script at the request of Randy Rogel, who, according to Ryan K. Johnson, "had been bugging me to let him do a musical number for some time".
- Ryan K. Johnson wasn't thrilled with the idea of shooting on 3/4" videotape, but figured it was in the spirit of the official BBC Doctor Who show.
- T. Brian Wagner, who has a small part in Visions of Utomu, would end up writing the fourth and final film in the Seattle International Films Doctor Who series, Broken Doors.