Minuet in Hell

Minuet in Hell

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release number	19
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Charley Pollard
Writer	Alan W. Lear Gary Russell
Director	Nicholas Briggs
Producer	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	8E
Length	1 hour 51 mins
Release date	17 April 2001

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.

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.

Notes

This audio drama is based on an earlier Audio Visuals story of the same name, which was set in the context of the historical Hellfire Club. The Big Finish version moves the action to a fictional U.S. state called "Malebolgia", which, despite its name, appears to be somewhere in the Bible Belt. The Audio Visuals version starred Nicholas Briggs as the "Nth Doctor". In the Big Finish version, Briggs plays a character who believes himself to be the Doctor.
Teenaged demon hunter Becky Lee Kowalczyck is an obvious homage to Buffy Summers, heroine of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

External links

Reviews

Minuet in Hell reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Minuet in Hell reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Eighth Doctor audio dramas

Big Finish Main Range	Storm Warning Sword of Orion The Stones of Venice Minuet in Hell Invaders from Mars The Chimes of Midnight Seasons of Fear Embrace the Darkness The Time of the Daleks Neverland Zagreus Scherzo The Creed of the Kromon The Natural History of Fear The Twilight Kingdom Faith Stealer The Last Caerdroia The Next Life Terror Firma Scaredy Cat Other Lives Time Works Something Inside Memory Lane Absolution The Girl Who Never Was The Company of Friends The Silver Turk The Witch from the Well Army of Death

The Eighth Doctor Adventures	Blood of the Daleks Horror of Glam Rock Immortal Beloved Phobos No More Lies Human Resources Dead London Max Warp Brave New Town The Skull of Sobek Grand Theft Cosmos The Zygon Who Fell to Earth Sisters of the Flame / Vengeance of Morbius Orbis Hothouse The Beast of Orlok Wirrn Dawn The Scapegoat The Cannibalists The Eight Truths / Worldwide Web Death in Blackpool Situation Vacant Nevermore The Book of Kells Deimos / The Resurrection of Mars Relative Dimensions Prisoner of the Sun Lucie Miller / To the Death

Dark Eyes	Dark Eyes Dark Eyes 2 Dark Eyes 3 Dark Eyes 4

Doom Coalition	Doom Coalition 1 Doom Coalition 2 Doom Coalition 3 Doom Coalition 4

Other	Living Legend Shada An Earthly Child Survival of the Fittest & Klein's Story The Four Doctors Solitaire Destiny of the Doctor: Enemy Aliens The Light at the End The Rulers of the Universe The Sontaran Ordeal The Eighth Doctor: The Time War

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