jack watling reprised the role of professor travers for the reeltime pictures direct-to-video production "downtime" in 1995, a "doctor who" spin-off. in "downtime", travers's mind is still possessed by the great intelligence and it reanimates his dead body. he is instated as the chancellor of new world university as the great intelligence prepares to conquer the earth. brigadier lethbridge-stewart, sarah jane smith and daniel hinton collaborate to defeat the great intelligence and their robotic yeti. when the great intelligence is defeated, travers's body dissolves.