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Release no.
  
19

Executive producer(s)
  
Jacqueline Rayner

Author
  
Gary Russell

Release number
  
19

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Directed by
  
Nicholas Briggs

Originally published
  
1 April 2001

Series
  
Doctor Who

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Featuring
  
Eighth Doctor Charley Pollard

Written by
  
Alan W. Lear Gary Russell

Produced by
  
Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery

Similar
  
Gary Russell books, Other books

Minuet in Hell is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Unlike the other Eighth Doctor audio plays from this "season", Minuet in Hell was not broadcast on BBC 7 in 2005, primarily due to story references that were dropped for the broadcasts, and the more mature subject matter of this story.

Contents

Plot

The Brigadier finds the Eighth Doctor a patient of a medical institute. Meanwhile, Charley has lost her memory and is working in the Hell Fire Club under the direction of Francis Dashwood the Third, where a demonic creature called Marchosias has been summoned by the local dignitaries of Malebolgia. Are these demons real, or can the disturbed Doctor reclaim his wits and learn the truth?

Cast

  • The Doctor — Paul McGann
  • Charley Pollard — India Fisher
  • Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart — Nicholas Courtney
  • Brigham Elisha Dashwood III — Robert Jezek
  • Dr Dale Pargeter — Maureen Oakley
  • Gideon Crane — Nicholas Briggs
  • Becky Lee Kowalczyck — Helen Goldwyn
  • Senator Waldo Pickering — Morgan Deare
  • Orderly — Hylton Collins
  • Guard — Alistair Lock
  • Scott — Barnaby Edwards

    • Continuity

  • In the second part of Minuet in Hell, a litany of the Doctor's previous companions includes the name "Sam". At the time of the play's release, this was intended as a reference to Sam Jones, the Eighth Doctor's companion from the novels; this placed the books and the audios in the same continuity. Producer Gary Russell subsequently decided that the two continuities should be separate (partly because of different directions taken between the two ranges). The play Terror Firma introduced the characters of Samson and Gemma Griffin, previously unknown companions of the Eighth Doctor, providing the possibility that "Sam" was a reference to Samson instead.
  • Ramsay the Vortisaur first entered the TARDIS in Storm Warning.

    • References

    Minuet in Hell Wikipedia
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