The Chimes of Midnight

The Chimes of Midnight

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release no.	29
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Charley Pollard
Written by	Robert Shearman
Directed by	Barnaby Edwards
Produced by	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Production code	8G
Length	1 hour 56 mins
Release date	February 2002

The Chimes of Midnight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio play was broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7 in four weekly parts, starting on 17 December 2005, and has been rebroadcast on the same channel beginning on 17 December 2006, and again on 26 and 27 September 2007.

Plot

An Edwardian home, Christmas 1906. Or is it? The Doctor and Charley are caught in a mysterious house outside of time and when the grandfather clock strikes, someone will get murdered. Can the Doctor unmask the murderer? Or is something far more sinister at work?

Cast

The Doctor — Paul McGann
Charley Pollard — India Fisher
Edith — Louise Rolfe
Shaughnessy — Lennox Greaves
Mrs Baddeley — Sue Wallace
Frederick — Robert Curbishley
Mary — Juliet Warner

Notes

This is Charley's last chronological Doctor Who story to be broadcast on BBC Radio 7, although India Fisher continues to play her on a vast number of Big Finish commercial releases. The next chronological Doctor Who radio play to be broadcast by the BBC was Blood of the Daleks featuring the Eighth Doctor and new companion Lucie Miller (played by Sheridan Smith).
The names of the characters Shaughnessy and Mrs Baddeley are derived from Alfred Shaughnessy and Angela Baddeley, the script editor and the actress who played the cook Mrs Bridges in the famed British 70s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs which took place in an Edwardian townhouse. Other Upstairs, Downstairs influences includes Edith's similarity with the dimwitted scullery maid Ruby Finch.

External links

Reviews

The Chimes of Midnight reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
The Chimes of Midnight 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 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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