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The Wishing Beast and The Vanity Box

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Series
  
Doctor Who

Featuring
  
Sixth Doctor Mel Bush

Production code
  
7C/V

Release no.
  
97

Written by
  
Paul Magrs

Executive producer(s)
  
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery

The Wishing Beast and "The Vanity Box" are Big Finish Productions audio dramas based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Keeping the standard four-episode count of a Big Finish main range release, this release includes The Wishing Beast as a three-episode story and single-episode story "The Vanity Box", together.

Contents

The Wishing Beast

The Doctor and Mel investigate the mysterious Wishing Beast on an isolated asteroid.

Cast

  • The Doctor- Colin Baker
  • Mel - Bonnie Langford
  • Maria - Jean Marsh
  • Eliza - Geraldine Newman
  • Mildew - Sean Connolly
  • Daniel - Toby Sawyer
  • Wishing Beast - Toby Longworth
  • Female Ghost - Rachel Lawrence

    • "The Vanity Box"

    The Doctor investigates mysterious goings on at a beauty salon.

    Cast

  • The Doctor — Colin Baker
  • Mel — Bonnie Langford
  • Nesta — Diana Flacks
  • Winnie — Christine Moore
  • Bessy — Rachel Laurence
  • Monsieur Coiffure — Toby Longworth

    • Continuity

  • "The Vanity Box" continues the "Virus Strand" story arc, which started in the previous one-episode stories "Urgent Calls" and "Urban Myths" and culminates in "Mission of the Viyrans".
  • Jean Marsh has previously appeared in Doctor Who in The Crusade, The Daleks' Master Plan (as Sara Kingdom) and Battlefield, and has reprised the role of Sara Kingdom for the Companion Chronicles range.

    • References

    The Wishing Beast & The Vanity Box Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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