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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Strange himself is this. In the source material as well as all other adaptations, Stephen starts out as a complete JerkAss who is openly disrespectful to everyone and cares very little for patients unless they can benefit him - either in money or glory. It takes a crippling accident & some humble teachings from The Ancient One before he grows into a compassionate soul. Here, he is introdiced making a few sarcastic comments, but they are mostly light-hearted jests. Overall he is depicted as empathetic from the beginning, een being noted to have a strong empathy for others from a young age.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Strange himself is this. In the source material as well as all other adaptations, Stephen starts out as a complete JerkAss who is openly disrespectful to everyone and cares very little for patients unless they can benefit him - either in money or glory. It takes a crippling accident & some humble teachings from The Ancient One before he grows into a compassionate soul. Here, he is introdiced introduced making a few sarcastic comments, but they are mostly light-hearted jests. Overall he is depicted as empathetic from the beginning, een being noted to have a strong beginning - with Lindmer even makingnote of his compassionate soul & empathy for others from a young age. others.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Strange himself is this. In the source material as well as all other adaptations, Stephen starts out as a complete JerkAss who is openly disrespectful to everyone and cares very little for patients unless they can benefit him - either in money or glory. It takes a crippling accident & some humble teachings from The Ancient One before he grows into a compassionate soul. Here, he is introdiced making a few sarcastic comments, but they are mostly light-hearted jests. Overall he is depicted as empathetic from the beginning, een being noted to have a strong empathy for others from a young age.
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* AcidTripDimension: As Lindmer demonstrates to Strange, alternate dimensions would not look out of place in an LSD trip. One of them even can be best described as looking like the '70s intro of ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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* AcidTripDimension: As Lindmer demonstrates to Strange, alternate dimensions would not look out of place in an LSD trip. One of them even can be best described as looking like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8 the '70s intro intro]] of ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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* HotWitch: Morgan le Fay is a very attractive wizard, especially when she's in her sorceress outfit, which offers a lot of cleavage (if not the NavelDeepNeckline levels of the comics) and has a slit on her skirt [[ShesGotLegs allowing to show off one of her legs]]. She almost succeeds in seducing Strange if not for Strange having enough clarity of mind to not give her his ring.
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* HotWitch: Morgan le Fay is a very attractive wizard, especially when she's in her sorceress outfit, which offers a lot of cleavage (if not the NavelDeepNeckline levels of the comics) and has a [[SexySlitDress slit on her skirt [[ShesGotLegs allowing to show off one of her legs]]. She almost succeeds in seducing Strange if not for Strange having enough clarity of mind to not give her his ring.
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* PornStache: This Strange sports a glorious one that gives him an uncanny resemblance to actual porn star John Holmes.
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* HotWitch: Morgan le Fay is a very attractive wizard, especially when she's in her sorceress outfit, which offers a lot of cleavage (if not the AbsoluteCleavage levels of the comics) and has a slit on her skirt [[ShesGotLegs allowing to show off one of her legs]]. She almost succeeds in seducing Strange if not for Strange having enough clarity of mind to not give her his ring.
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* HotWitch: Morgan le Fay is a very attractive wizard, especially when she's in her sorceress outfit, which offers a lot of cleavage (if not the AbsoluteCleavage NavelDeepNeckline levels of the comics) and has a slit on her skirt [[ShesGotLegs allowing to show off one of her legs]]. She almost succeeds in seducing Strange if not for Strange having enough clarity of mind to not give her his ring.
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The film was released twice on VHS in the United States, in 1987 and 1995, and also had multiple foreign releases. Dr. Strange was released on DVD for the first time in the United States and Canada on November 1, 2016 (to coincide with ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'') and on Blu-ray on April 26, 2022 (to coincide with ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'') by Shout! Factory.
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The film was released twice on VHS in the United States, in 1987 and 1995, and also had multiple foreign releases. Dr. Strange ''Doctor Strange'' was released on DVD for the first time in the United States and Canada on November 1, 2016 (to coincide with ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'') and on Blu-ray on April 26, 2022 (to coincide with ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'') by Shout! Factory.
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See also ''Film/DoctorMordrid'', a 1992 film that initially optioned to adapt the ''Doctor Strange'' comic into film, but when the licensing expired mid-production, made the main character a CaptainErsatz of Strange.
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The film was released twice on VHS in the United States, in 1987 and 1995, and also had multiple foreign releases. Dr. Strange was released on DVD for the first time in the United States and Canada on November 1, 2016 (to coincide with ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'') and on Blu-ray on April 26, 2022 (to coincide with ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'') by Shout! Factory.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While Morgan le Fay is the BigBad of the film, she is ultimately following the orders of an unnamed evil entity.
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* SequelHook: The film clearly ends in one, with Strange having assumed his powers as Sorcerer Supreme but being warned by Wong that he still has to learn a lot to use them correctly, Strange agreeing to see Clea again, and Le Fay managing to appear on Earth again, now posing as a self-help guru. This is due to this film being a PilotMovie for a TV series that ultimately wasn't picked.
* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of the film Le Fay, stuck in the demon realm, is punished by the evil entity she works for by being turned into an old hag -- and yet, a couple of scenes later, she is shown to be not only on the Earth realm, but a young woman again.
* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of the film Le Fay, stuck in the demon realm, is punished by the evil entity she works for by being turned into an old hag -- and yet, a couple of scenes later, she is shown to be not only on the Earth realm, but a young woman again.
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* SequelHook: The film clearly ends in one, with Strange having assumed his powers as Sorcerer Supreme but being warned by Wong that he still has to learn a lot to use them correctly, Strange agreeing to see Clea again, and Le Fay managing to appear on Earth again, now posing as a self-help guru.guru, not to mention that the unnamed evil entity she worked for is still out there somewhere. This is due to this film being a PilotMovie for a TV series that ultimately wasn't picked.
* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of the film Le Fay, stuck in the demon realm, is punished by the evil entity she works for by being turned into an old hag -- and yet, a couple of scenes later, she is shown tobe not only on have escaped into the Earth realm, but a young woman again.
* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of the film Le Fay, stuck in the demon realm, is punished by the evil entity she works for by being turned into an old hag -- and yet, a couple of scenes later, she is shown to
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[[caption-width-right:280:Despite what the good doctor's resemblance to John Holmes might imply, this is not ''that'' kind of movie.]]
''Doctor Strange'', or simply ''Dr. Strange'', is a 1978 American superhero MadeForTVMovie based on the Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange character of the same name]]. Philip [=DeGuere=] directed the film and wrote it specifically for television, in addition to co-producing it. Creator/StanLee (who co-created the character with Creator/SteveDitko) served as a consultant on the film. It stars Creator/PeterHooten in the title role, along with Creator/JessicaWalter, Eddie Benton, Creator/ClydeKusatsu, and Creator/JohnMills.
An evil entity tells [[Characters/AvengersEnemies Morgan le Fay]] that she has has three days to either defeat or kill a great wizard and win over his successor to her master's side. Le Fay possesses a young woman named Clea Lake and uses her as a weapon in an unsuccessful attempt against the life of Thomas Lindmer, the "Sorcerer Supreme". Suffering from psychic aftereffects of the possession and haunting dreams of le Fay, Lake is under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Strange, who turns out to have the potential to be the successor to Lindmer as Sorcerer Supreme.
The film was created as a PilotMovie for a proposed television series. It aired on September 6, 1978, in a two-hour block from 8pm to 10pm on Creator/{{CBS}}, the same network that at that time aired ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' and ''Series/TheAmazingSpiderMan1978''; however, CBS did not pick it up as a series.
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!!This film features examples of:
* AcidTripDimension: As Lindmer demonstrates to Strange, alternate dimensions would not look out of place in an LSD trip. One of them even can be best described as looking like the '70s intro of ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Stephen Strange is a psychiatrist here, as opposed to a surgeon as in the comics.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Clea belongs to a race that lives in the Dark Dimension, who eventually becomes a disciple of Doctor Strange in the mystic arts (and also his lover). Here, she is a normal human (named Clea Lake) who has no apparent powers.
* DecompositeCharacter: Thomas Lindmer basically takes the role of the Ancient One from the comics in the sense of being an ancient wizard who was Strange's predecessor as Sorcerer Supreme, to the point one might assume that he is the Ancient One... except that the Ancient One makes a voice-only cameo at the end of the film.
* DemonicPossession: The plot gets kickstarted when Morgan le Fay temporarily possesses Clea to push Lindmer off a bridge to kill him.
* HotWitch: Morgan le Fay is a very attractive wizard, especially when she's in her sorceress outfit, which offers a lot of cleavage (if not the AbsoluteCleavage levels of the comics) and has a slit on her skirt [[ShesGotLegs allowing to show off one of her legs]]. She almost succeeds in seducing Strange if not for Strange having enough clarity of mind to not give her his ring.
* RapidAging: As punishment for failing to win over the new Sorcerer Supreme to their side, the evil entity le Lay works for turns her into an old hag on the spot. For some reason however, she's shown shortly afterwards on Earth, young again and no worse for wear.
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Not a relative, but in the comics, Wong was Strange's valet. Here, however, Wong is the valet of Lindmer's, Strange's predecessor as Sorcerer Supreme.
* SequelHook: The film clearly ends in one, with Strange having assumed his powers as Sorcerer Supreme but being warned by Wong that he still has to learn a lot to use them correctly, Strange agreeing to see Clea again, and Le Fay managing to appear on Earth again, now posing as a self-help guru. This is due to this film being a PilotMovie for a TV series that ultimately wasn't picked.
* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of the film Le Fay, stuck in the demon realm, is punished by the evil entity she works for by being turned into an old hag -- and yet, a couple of scenes later, she is shown to be not only on the Earth realm, but a young woman again.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Le Fay admits to passing over an opportunity to kill Strange because she's attracted to him.
* VillainousWidowsPeak: Morgan le Fay, the film's main villain, is given [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExWNimpWQAgpkcK.jpg a relatively subtle widow's peak]].
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[[caption-width-right:280:Despite what the good doctor's resemblance to John Holmes might imply, this is not ''that'' kind of movie.]]
''Doctor Strange'', or simply ''Dr. Strange'', is a 1978 American superhero MadeForTVMovie based on the Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange character of the same name]]. Philip [=DeGuere=] directed the film and wrote it specifically for television, in addition to co-producing it. Creator/StanLee (who co-created the character with Creator/SteveDitko) served as a consultant on the film. It stars Creator/PeterHooten in the title role, along with Creator/JessicaWalter, Eddie Benton, Creator/ClydeKusatsu, and Creator/JohnMills.
An evil entity tells [[Characters/AvengersEnemies Morgan le Fay]] that she has has three days to either defeat or kill a great wizard and win over his successor to her master's side. Le Fay possesses a young woman named Clea Lake and uses her as a weapon in an unsuccessful attempt against the life of Thomas Lindmer, the "Sorcerer Supreme". Suffering from psychic aftereffects of the possession and haunting dreams of le Fay, Lake is under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Strange, who turns out to have the potential to be the successor to Lindmer as Sorcerer Supreme.
The film was created as a PilotMovie for a proposed television series. It aired on September 6, 1978, in a two-hour block from 8pm to 10pm on Creator/{{CBS}}, the same network that at that time aired ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' and ''Series/TheAmazingSpiderMan1978''; however, CBS did not pick it up as a series.
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!!This film features examples of:
* AcidTripDimension: As Lindmer demonstrates to Strange, alternate dimensions would not look out of place in an LSD trip. One of them even can be best described as looking like the '70s intro of ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Stephen Strange is a psychiatrist here, as opposed to a surgeon as in the comics.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Clea belongs to a race that lives in the Dark Dimension, who eventually becomes a disciple of Doctor Strange in the mystic arts (and also his lover). Here, she is a normal human (named Clea Lake) who has no apparent powers.
* DecompositeCharacter: Thomas Lindmer basically takes the role of the Ancient One from the comics in the sense of being an ancient wizard who was Strange's predecessor as Sorcerer Supreme, to the point one might assume that he is the Ancient One... except that the Ancient One makes a voice-only cameo at the end of the film.
* DemonicPossession: The plot gets kickstarted when Morgan le Fay temporarily possesses Clea to push Lindmer off a bridge to kill him.
* HotWitch: Morgan le Fay is a very attractive wizard, especially when she's in her sorceress outfit, which offers a lot of cleavage (if not the AbsoluteCleavage levels of the comics) and has a slit on her skirt [[ShesGotLegs allowing to show off one of her legs]]. She almost succeeds in seducing Strange if not for Strange having enough clarity of mind to not give her his ring.
* RapidAging: As punishment for failing to win over the new Sorcerer Supreme to their side, the evil entity le Lay works for turns her into an old hag on the spot. For some reason however, she's shown shortly afterwards on Earth, young again and no worse for wear.
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Not a relative, but in the comics, Wong was Strange's valet. Here, however, Wong is the valet of Lindmer's, Strange's predecessor as Sorcerer Supreme.
* SequelHook: The film clearly ends in one, with Strange having assumed his powers as Sorcerer Supreme but being warned by Wong that he still has to learn a lot to use them correctly, Strange agreeing to see Clea again, and Le Fay managing to appear on Earth again, now posing as a self-help guru. This is due to this film being a PilotMovie for a TV series that ultimately wasn't picked.
* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of the film Le Fay, stuck in the demon realm, is punished by the evil entity she works for by being turned into an old hag -- and yet, a couple of scenes later, she is shown to be not only on the Earth realm, but a young woman again.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: Le Fay admits to passing over an opportunity to kill Strange because she's attracted to him.
* VillainousWidowsPeak: Morgan le Fay, the film's main villain, is given [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExWNimpWQAgpkcK.jpg a relatively subtle widow's peak]].
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