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|number = 271 | |number = 271 | ||
|doctor = Sixth Doctor | |doctor = Sixth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Peri Brown|Peri]], [[Oliver (Plight of the Pimpernel|Oliver]] | |companions = [[Peri Brown|Peri]], [[Oliver (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Oliver]] | ||
|featuring = | |featuring = | ||
|enemy = [[Percy Blakeney|Argana]] | |enemy = [[Percy Blakeney|Argana]] | ||
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|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = [[8 December (releases)|8 December]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]] | |release date = [[8 December (releases)|8 December]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]] | ||
|format = | |format =2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|production code = BFPDWCD271 | |production code = BFPDWCD271 | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-016-9 (physical) | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-83868-016-9 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-83868-017-6 (digital) | ||
|prev = Effect and Cause (audio story) | |prev = Effect and Cause (audio story) | ||
|next = The Grey Man of the Mountain (audio story) | |next = The Grey Man of the Mountain (audio story) | ||
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|next2 = The Grey Man of the Mountain (audio story) | |next2 = The Grey Man of the Mountain (audio story) | ||
|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-plight-of-the-pimpernel-trailer | |soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-plight-of-the-pimpernel-trailer | ||
|epcount=4}} | |epcount = 4 | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the two hundred and seventy first audio story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Chris Chapman]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Bryant]] as [[Peri Brown]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the two hundred and seventy first audio story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Chris Chapman]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Bryant]] as [[Peri Brown]]. | ||
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It's [[1793]] and the [[Reign of Terror]] is slicing through the elite of [[Paris]] - but not if the [[Scarlet Pimpernel]] has anything to do with it! With a very [[Great Britain|British]] pluck, and daring bravado, he rescues [[France|French]] aristocrats from [[Madame Guillotine]]'s embrace. But who hides beneath the Pimpernel’s mask? And isn’t the Scarlet Pimpernel just a fictional character? | It's [[1793]] and the [[Reign of Terror]] is slicing through the elite of [[Paris]] - but not if the [[Scarlet Pimpernel]] has anything to do with it! With a very [[Great Britain|British]] pluck, and daring bravado, he rescues [[France|French]] aristocrats from [[Madame Guillotine]]'s embrace. But who hides beneath the Pimpernel’s mask? And isn’t the Scarlet Pimpernel just a fictional character? | ||
At [[Highmoor House]], in [[England]], [[Peri Brown|Peri]] plays lady of the manor while [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] tends to the strange wounds of her ‘husband’, Sir [[Percy Blakeney]]. As Peri prepares to host a lavish ball in Sir Percy’s name, French agent Citizen [[Donat]], and a sinister alien force are uninvited guests, both intent on unmasking the Scarlet Pimpernel and putting an end to his heroic escapades, forever! | At [[Highmoor House]], in [[England]], [[Peri Brown|Peri]] plays lady of the manor while [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] tends to the strange wounds of her ‘husband’, Sir [[Percy Blakeney]]. As Peri prepares to host a lavish ball in Sir Percy’s name, French agent Citizen [[Donat]], and [[Z22|a sinister alien force]] are uninvited guests, both intent on unmasking the Scarlet Pimpernel and putting an end to his heroic escapades, forever! | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
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* [[Babs (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Babs]] / [[Bernadette (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Bernadette]] / Lady Morton - [[Rebecca Crankshaw]] | * [[Babs (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Babs]] / [[Bernadette (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Bernadette]] / Lady Morton - [[Rebecca Crankshaw]] | ||
* [[Donat]] / [[Devore]] / Lord Morton - [[Anthony Howell]] | * [[Donat]] / [[Devore]] / Lord Morton - [[Anthony Howell]] | ||
* [[Oliver (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Oliver]] / [[Bisset]] / [[Andre (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Andre]] / [[Computer (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Computer]] - [[Joe Jameson]] | * [[Oliver (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Oliver]] / [[Bisset (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Bisset]] / [[Andre (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Andre]] / [[Computer (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Computer]] - [[Joe Jameson]] | ||
* [[Percy Blakeney|Sir Percy]] / [[Terrance (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Terrance]] - [[Jamie Parker]] | * [[Percy Blakeney|Sir Percy]] / [[Terrance (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Terrance]] - [[Jamie Parker]] | ||
* [[Nancy (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Nancy]] / [[Calisto|Lady Calisto]] / [[Tyrax|Hologram Tyrax]] - [[Becky Wright]] | * [[Nancy (Plight of the Pimpernel)|Nancy]] / [[Calisto|Lady Calisto]] / [[Tyrax|Hologram Tyrax]] - [[Becky Wright]] | ||
== | == Crew == | ||
''to be | |||
* Remote Sound Engineer - [[Shane O'Byrne]] @ [[The Soundhouse]] | |||
* Music, Sound Design & Remote Recording Dialogue Assembly - [[Andy Hardwick]] | |||
* Cover Art - [[Tom Newsom]] | |||
* Producer, Script Editor & Director - [[John Ainsworth]] | |||
* Writer - [[Chris Chapman]] | |||
* Senior Producer - [[David Richardson]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* The Doctor expresses that it's always been a fantasy of his to be the master of [[disguise]]. | |||
* The Doctor references much of the original text for Emmuska Orczy's ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' and identifies the numerous Pimpernels as a League (as they are known in the sequel novel). | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story was recorded on [[11 August (production)|11]]-[[12 August (production)|12 August]] [[2020 (production)|2020]] at [[the Soundhouse]] and remotely. | * This story was recorded on [[11 August (production)|11]]-[[12 August (production)|12 August]] [[2020 (production)|2020]] at [[the Soundhouse]] and remotely. | ||
* Working titles for the story included: ''The Multicoloured Pimpernel'' and ''The Scarlet Pimpernels''. | |||
* The concept of a story featuring the Doctor as the Scarlet Pimpernel originally came from a suggestion by [[Colin Baker]]. ([[BFX]]: ''The Plight of the Pimpernel'') | |||
* The ruined building on the cover, depicting Sir Percy's homeworld, resembles the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, now known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, a remembrance of the 140,000 people killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. | |||
* The cover depicts [[Peri Brown|Peri]] with the longer curled hairstyle she had in [[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|''The Mysterious Planet'']] and [[Mindwarp (TV story)|''Mindwarp'']], indicating that this story takes place during shortly before or around that period of her travels with the [[Sixth Doctor]]. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* According to [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], the Doctor's favourite period of history was the [[French Revolution]]. He previously visited the city of [[Paris]] in the company of his granddaughter, [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], and later, a version of Paris twisted by the [[the Pageant]], in the company of [[Dodo Chaplet|Dodo]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]];'' [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)|The Man in the Velvet Mask]]'') | |||
* [[Maximilien Robespierre]] is mentioned, a figure who the Doctor met personally during his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]] during [[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]]''. | |||
* In England, the Doctor uses his longtime alias of "Dr John Smith". ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', et al.) | |||
* The Doctor and Peri previously masqueraded as English aristocrats in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]''. | |||
* The [[Time Lord]]s -- and the Doctor, by extension -- were identified as a form of aristocracy on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)|The Man in the Velvet Mask]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]'') | |||
* The Doctor recounts playing backgammon with [[Kublai Khan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'') | |||
* Peri speculates that [[Robin Hood]] was probably real. The Doctor replies sort of. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Thief of Sherwood (short story)|The Thief of Sherwood]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'') | |||
* Peri compares the [[Z22]] to [[Kamelion]] who she encountered in [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'', remembering how he could barely walk in his undisguised form. | |||
* The Doctor claims to Peri that he's not one for [[dancing]], but apparently possesses enough skill to impress later companions, [[Constance Clarke|Constance]] and [[Flip Jackson|Flip]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Behemoth (audio story)|The Behemoth]]'') | |||
* The Doctor recalls having been [[burial|buried]] alive several times in the past, a fate that would befall [[Seventh Doctor|his successor]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]''. | |||
== Cover gallery == | |||
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Plight of the Pimpernel (audio story) textless.jpg|Textless cover | |||
Plight of the Pimpernel Alt.jpg|Alternate cover | |||
</gallery> | |||
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