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|name= The Vanity Box | |name = The Vanity Box | ||
|series= [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]] | |series = [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]] | ||
|image= | |image = | ||
|number= 97b | |number = 97b | ||
|doctor= Sixth Doctor | |doctor = Sixth Doctor | ||
|companions= [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] | |companions = [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] | ||
|enemy= [[Wishing Beast]] | |enemy = [[Wishing Beast]] | ||
|writer= [[Paul Magrs]] | |writer = [[Paul Magrs]] | ||
|director= [[John Ainsworth]] | |director = [[John Ainsworth]] | ||
|setting= [[Salford]], [[England]], [[1965]] | |setting = [[Salford]], [[England]], [[1965]] | ||
|music= [[ERS]] | |music = [[ERS]] | ||
|sound= [[ERS]] | |sound = [[ERS]] | ||
|publisher= Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date= [[July (releases)|July]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]] | |release date = [[July (releases)|July]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]] | ||
|format= 1 Episode | |format = 1 Episode | ||
|production code= 7C/V | |production code = 7C/V | ||
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-84435-284-5 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-284-5 | ||
|prev=The Wishing Beast (audio story) | |prev = The Wishing Beast (audio story) | ||
|next=Frozen Time (audio story) | |next = Frozen Time (audio story) | ||
}}{{audio stub}} | }}{{audio stub}} | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was part of the ninety-seventh [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly ''Doctor Who'' audio release]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It is the first one part story featuring the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was part of the ninety-seventh [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly ''Doctor Who'' audio release]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It is the first one part story featuring the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
A strange beauty parlour has opened its doors for business in a dowdy [[Salford]] terrace circa [[1965]]. Monsieur Coiffure is the talk of the street with his fabulous make-overs. When the Doctor arrives, however, he knows at once that there's been some unnatural titivation going on. | A strange beauty parlour has opened its doors for business in a dowdy [[Salford]] terrace circa [[1965]]. Monsieur Coiffure is the talk of the street with his fabulous make-overs. When the Doctor arrives, however, he knows at once that there's been some unnatural titivation going on. | ||
Revision as of 21:06, 9 January 2017
The Vanity Box was part of the ninety-seventh monthly Doctor Who audio release produced by Big Finish Productions. It is the first one part story featuring the Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush.
Publisher's summary
A strange beauty parlour has opened its doors for business in a dowdy Salford terrace circa 1965. Monsieur Coiffure is the talk of the street with his fabulous make-overs. When the Doctor arrives, however, he knows at once that there's been some unnatural titivation going on.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Colin Baker
- Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
- Nesta Trubshaw - Diana Flacks
- Winnie - Christine Moore
- Bessy Tiplington / Barmaid - Rachel Laurence
- Monsieur Coiffure / The Wishing Beast - Toby Longworth
References
- Mel refers to Ready Steady Go! and Carnaby Street.
- The Doctor orders a pint of blackcurrant squash with water rather than soda in The Sailor's End.
- From the Doctor's dress and manner, Winnie believes that he may have just been released from either prison or a mental asylum.
- The Doctor describes the Vanity Box as an "excessively chintzy establishment."
- While disguised as a "provincial dolly bird," the Doctor tells Monsieur Coiffure that "two Yanks helped me up the statue in Piccadilly Gardens" on VE Night on 8 May 1945.
- The Doctor buys a milk stout for Nesta in The Sailor's End.
- Bessy Tiplington was born in 1909.
Notes
- The Vanity Box is only one episode long. The other three episodes on the discs are of The Wishing Beast.
- This was the final appearance of Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush in a Big Finish audio drama until AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors in January 2013.
Continuity
- The Vanity Box takes places immediately after the events of AUDIO: The Wishing Beast, from the Doctor and Mel's perspective. However, those events have not taken place from the perspective of the Wishing Beast.
- The Doctor previously visited 1965 on three occasions during his first incarnation. (TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, The Daleks' Master Plan; PROSE: The Meeting) He would later do so again during his eighth (PROSE: The Space Age) and eleventh incarnations (AUDIO: Blackout).
- The Doctor previously disguised himself as a woman on two occasions during his second incarnation (TV: The Highlanders; AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution) and once during his third incarnation (TV: The Green Death).
External links
- Official The Vanity Box page at bigfinish.com
- The Vanity Box at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for The Vanity Box at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
