《神秘博士(1996)》是基于英国科幻电视剧《神秘博士》制作的电视电影。该片由环球影视(Universal Television)、BBC电视台(BBC Television)、BBC国际(BBC Worldwide)和福克斯电视网(Fox Network)合作拍摄,1996年5月12日首映于加拿大Alberta州Edmonton的CITV电视台,BBC一台放映的十五天前,同时也是在美国福克斯台播出的两天前。此部电影是把《神秘博士》带回荧幕的第一次尝试,原始的剧集在1989年的时候就结束了。该片也是美制《神秘博士》电视剧集的一个导剧(back door pilot,导剧是作为独立剧独立拍摄的,若没有收入某剧集里面则可单独播放),并把Paul McGann作为第八任博士推出——虽然他只在该片中唯一一次扮演博士。尽管在英国,该片摘下了收视率冠军的桂冠,但...The Doctor, an alien time traveller from the planet Gallifrey, is transporting the remains of his nemesis, the Master back to their homeworld. However the Master is not as dead as the Doctor thinks. The Master's essence escapes and sabotages the TARDIS, the Doctor's time machine causing it to crash land in San Franscisco on December 30th 1999. The Doctor requires a beryllium atomic clock to repair the TARDIS, but is shot as he leaves it. Taken to hospital, the Doctor's seventh regeneration is triggered by a surgeon, confused by his alien physiology, while the Master takes over a paramedic's body. He needs a Time Lord's body to survive and be able to regenerate again so he needs the Doctor's. The newly regenerated the Doctor must fight to save his own eighth body, and the world when the Master sabotages the TARDIS' power source. By midnight on December 31st 1999, the Earth will be pulled through this power-source, a mini-black hole, and only the Doctor can stop if only he can remember who he is...