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
Preceded by	"Invaders from Mars"
Followed by	"Seasons of Fear"

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

• In the Whovian timeline, this story takes place between Invaders from Mars and Living Legend.
• 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

• Big Finish Productions - The Chimes of Midnight