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Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough

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Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough
BBV Zygon Cover.jpeg
British DVD cover
Directed byBill Baggs
Produced byBill Baggs
StarringJo Castleton
Keith Drinkel
Daniel Harcourt
CinematographyRichard Hookings
Edited byAlistair Lock
Music byAlistair Lock
Production
company
Distributed byBBV Productions
Release date
  • February 2008 (2008-02)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough (or Zygon) is a direct-to-DVD spin-off of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Zygons and was produced by independent production company BBV Productions.

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Production and release

Zygon is an officially licensed Doctor Who spin-off made by BBV Productions. It was produced and directed by Bill Baggs and stars Jo Castleton, Daniel Harcourt and Keith Drinkel. Castleton's character, Lauren Anderson, had appeared in BBV's earlier film Cyberon (2000).

The idea was conceived in 2002. [1] Radio Times states that Zygon was "initially envisioned as something more titillating" and quotes Baggs comparing the premise of the film to soft pornography. [2] The film was originally scripted by Jonathan Blum [1] and Lance Parkin. After Baggs rewrote the script, Blum and Parkin had their names removed from the credits.

Most of the film was shot in 2003. According to Blum, Baggs held a further day of shooting in 2007 to complete the film. It was originally subtitled "When Being Me Is Not Enough". [1]

Zygon departs from the family-friendly nature of Doctor Who by featuring nudity and sex scenes. The film is rated 18 in the UK. [3] It was released on DVD in 2008. The DVD includes the documentary Zygon – Behind The Changing Faces, a making-of featuring deleted scenes and outtakes.

Plot

Michael Kirkwood goes to a psychiatrist, Dr Lauren Anderson. He is having nightmares about being a shape-shifting alien called a Zygon. Lauren wants to help Michael to find out what these dreams mean.

Soon she meets another Zygon disguised as the serial killer Bob Calhoun. The Zygon, who introduces himself as Torlakhl, kills Lauren's roommate and turns Lauren into a Zygon. He hopes that this way Lauren will help Michael find out who he really is: the Zygon Kritakh. Kritakh was sent to Earth with Torlakhl to carry out a mission. However, he has disguised himself as a human for too long and forgotten his true identity.

Eventually, Kritakh remembers who he is but he does not want to complete the mission. Instead, he plans to spend his life with Lauren. Torlakhl is angry. Disguised as Lauren, he kills her colleague on camera. Lauren is blamed for the murder. She kills Torlakhl, who still looks like her. The police find the body of Torlakhl and think it is Lauren. Lauren watches the scene and leaves.

Cast


Critical reception

The only connection that Zygon: WBYJIE has to Doctor Who is that there are Zygons. The movie is very low budget and we rarely see the Zygons in their true forms. Despite these factors, it actually turned out fairly well. For a B movie, the writing and acting were usually decent. They got around the budget issue by making some of the special effects artsy, which particularly worked during dream sequences. One does not even have to have seen Doctor Who to appreciate or understand Zygon: WBYJIE. Check it out as a Whovian or show it to your non-Whovian friends who are into B movies.

— Leah Tedesco. [4]


Baggs admitted the film's failure but called it "a massive learning experience". [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wood, Tat (2007). About Time: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who: 1985–1989. Mad Norwegian Press. p. 87.
  2. 1 2 "Cyberons, Sexy Zygons and Mark Gatiss: The Bizarre World of the Unofficial Doctor Who Spin-Offs". radiotimes.com . 18 October 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  3. ↑ "Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough". timelash.com. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Tedesco, Leah (12 November 2015). "REVIEW: Doctor Who Spin-Off: Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough". winteriscoming.net. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
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