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The Scapegoat (audio drama)

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Series
  
Doctor Who

Written by
  
Pat Mills

Release no.
  
3.5

Directed by
  
Nicholas Briggs

Range
  
Eighth Doctor Adventures

Featuring
  
Eighth Doctor Lucie Miller

The Scapegoat is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.

Contents

Plot

The TARDIS is forced down into occupied Paris and Lucie becomes part of the macabre 'Theatre des Baroque'.

Cast

  • The Doctor — Paul McGann
  • Lucie Miller — Sheridan Smith
  • Mother Baroque — Samantha Bond
  • Major Treptow — Clifford Rose
  • Doc Baroque — Christopher Fairbank
  • Max Paul — Paul Rhys
  • Leutnant — Thorston Manderlay
  • Helene — Beth Chalmers
  • Production and casting

  • Clifford Rose previously played Rorvik in Warriors' Gate.
  • Samantha Bond previously played Mrs Wormwood in Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane.
  • The Doctor says that he has changed eight times since leaving Gallifrey, but this would make him the Ninth Doctor.
  • Critical reception

    Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael noted that the story was an "oddball", and failed to hang together properly.

    Broadcast

    The Scapegoat was broadcast on digital radio station BBC Radio 7 on 13 May 2010 and 20 June 2010 as two half-hour episodes.

    References

    The Scapegoat (audio drama) Wikipedia