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cd name=  The Angel of Scutari|
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{{Infobox Story SMW
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Big Finish - Doctor Who Audio Dramas | Big Finish Audio Dramas]] |
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number= 122 |
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doctor= [[Seventh Doctor]]|
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companions= [[Ace]], [[Hex]] |
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enemy= |
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year= [[Earth]], [[Scutari]], [[October]], [[Crimean War]], [[1854]] |  
|number in range = 122
writer= [[Paul Sutton]] |
|number         = 122
director= [[Ken Bentley]] |
|doctor         = Seventh Doctor
producer= [[Toby Hrycek-Robinson]] |
|companions     = [[Ace]], [[Hex]]
publisher= [[Big Finish Productions]] |
|enemy           = [[Bartholomew Kitchen]]
release date= [[June]] [[2009]] |
|setting        = [[Scutari]] and [[Sevastopol]], [[Uskudar]], the [[Crimean Peninsula]], the [[Russia|Russian Empire]]; [[17 October]]-[[19 November]]; [[25 September]]-[[2 October]] [[1854]]
format= 4 Episodes on 2 CDs |
|writer         = Paul Sutton
production code= 7W/L |
|director       = [[Ken Bentley]]
isbn=ISBN 978-1-84435-410-8 |
|producer        = [[David Richardson]]
previous story= [[Enemy of the Daleks]] |
|music          = [[Toby Hrycek-Robinson]]
next story= [[The Company of Friends]]
|sound          = Toby Hrycek-Robinson
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|cover          = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|epcount        = 4
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|release date   = June 2009
|format         = 2 CDs<br/>Download
|production code = [[List of production codes#Big Finish production codes|7W/L]]
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-410-8 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-669-6 (digital)
|series          = ''[[Main Range]]'' stories
|prev            = Enemy of the Daleks (audio story)
|next           = Benny's Story (audio story)
|series2        = ''[[Main Range]]'' releases
|prev2          = Enemy of the Daleks (audio story)
|next2          = The Company of Friends (audio anthology)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the one hundred and twenty-second story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Paul Sutton]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]] and [[Philip Olivier]] as [[Hex]].


==Publisher's summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
October 1854: As the British Army charges into catastrophe in the Crimea, the Minister for War sends Miss Florence Nightingale to take charge of the field [[hospital]] at Scutari.
[[October]] [[1854]]: As the British Army charges into catastrophe in the [[Crimea]], the Minister for War sends Miss [[Florence Nightingale]] to take charge of the field [[hospital]] at Scutari.


But there's already an angel of mercy working with the wounded at Scutari. A first-rate fellow who's turned up out of the blue. Goes by the name of Schofield; Thomas Hector Schofield...
But there's already an angel of mercy working with the wounded at Scutari. A first-rate fellow who's turned up out of the blue. Goes by the name of Schofield; [[Hex|Thomas Hector Schofield]]...


With the Doctor and Ace lost in the siege of Sebastopol, Hex has rediscovered his calling. But there's cannon to the left of him, cannon to the right of him - and a deranged spycatcher-in-chief on his case.
With [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Ace]] lost in the siege of [[Sevastopol]], [[Hex]] has rediscovered his calling. But there's [[cannon]] to the left of him, cannon to the right of him — and a deranged spycatcher-in-chief on his case.


==Cast==
== Plot ==
* [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy ]]
''to be added''
 
== Cast ==
* [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]]
* [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]]
* [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]]
* [[Hex]] - [[Philip Olivier]]
* [[Hex]] - [[Philip Olivier]]
* Sir [[Sidney Herbert]]/[[Tzar Nicholas I]] - [[Hugh Bonneville]]
* Sir [[Sidney Herbert]] / [[Tsar Nicholas I]] - [[Hugh Bonneville]]
*[[Florence Nightingale]] - [[Jeany Spark]]
* [[Florence Nightingale]] - [[Jeany Spark]]
*[[William Russell (The Angel of Scutari)|William Russell]]/Russian DungeonGuard - [[John Paul Connolly]]
* [[William Russell (The Angel of Scutari)|William Russell]] / [[Russian dungeon guard]] - [[John Paul Connolly]]
* Brigadier-General [[Bartholomew Kitchen|Bartholomew ‘Barly’ Kitchen]] - [[Alex Lowe]]
* Brigadier-General [[Bartholomew Kitchen|Bartholomew 'Barly' Kitchen]] - [[Alex Lowe]]
*[[Nikolayevich Tolstoy|Lev Tolstoy]]/Preston - [[John Albasiny]]
* [[Nikolayevich Tolstoy|Lev Tolstoy]] / [[Preston (The Angel of Scutari)|Preston]] - [[John Albasiny]]
* Sir [[Hamilton Seymour]] - [[Sean Brosnan]]
 
== Crew ==
 
* Cover Art - [[Alex Mallinson]]
* Director - [[Ken Bentley]]
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Music and Sound Design - [[Toby Hrycek-Robinson]]
* Producer - [[David Richardson]]
* Script Editor - [[Alan Barnes]]
* Writer - [[Paul Sutton]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Individuals ===
* Hex is still reeling from the events that he witnessed on [[Bliss (planet)|Bliss]] with the [[Dalek]]s.
* Hex is shot with a [[musket]].
* Ace and Lev ride [[horse]]s when Ace escapes en route to prison.
 
=== Locations ===
* After Hex is shot, the Doctor sets the TARDIS for [[St Gart's Bankside Hospital]].
 
=== Species ===
* Ace has previously encountered the [[Killoran]]s.
 
=== TARDIS ===
* Cannon fire activates [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]' [[Hostile Action Displacement System]].
* The Doctor uses his TARDIS key and some of Ace's [[blood]] to build a device to home in on her.


==References==
=== Technology ===
*Hex is still reeling from the events he witnessed on [[Bliss (planet)|Bliss]] with the [[Dalek]]s.
* The Doctor has a portable [[nuclear generator]] in the TARDIS, which is extremely difficult for one person to move.
*Hex is shot with a [[musket]].
*Ace and Lev ride [[horse]]s when Ace escapes on-route to prison.
*Following being shot the Doctor sets the TARDIS for [[St Gart's Hospital]].
*The Doctor has a portable [[nuclear generator]] in the TARDIS, which is only bearably movable by one person.


===[[:Category:TARDIS|TARDIS]]===
== Gallery ==
*Canon fire activates [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS']] [[Hostile Action Displacement System]].
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" widths="250">
*After being shot the exterior of the TARDIS is separated from its interior, the blue police box shell is washed up at [[Scutari]] and used for firewood.
File:The Angel of Scutari cover.jpg|Cover on the official ''The Angel of Scutari'' page and used in general publicity.
*There is a spare key to the TARDIS located in the cubby hole behind the P in '[[Police box]]'.
File:The Angel of Scutari Cover (Day 8-12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer).jpg|Cover from the 'Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer' article.
*The Doctor uses his TARDIS key and some of Ace's [[blood]] to build a device to home in on her.
File:The Angel of Scutari Preview Comic.JPG|Illustration from [[DWM 409]] by [[Rob Davis]].
</gallery>


==Notes==
== Notes ==
*This story also included episode 3 'The Gathernaut' of ''[[The Three Companions]]''.
* This audio release also included the third episode of ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]'' "[[The Three Companions (audio story)#The Gathernaut (3)|The Gathernaut]]".
*Hex's ultimate fate is not revealed. There is another Seventh Doctor trilogy scheduled for late 2010, but his companion(s) for these stories have yet to be made known.
* This story is a "[[pure historical]]" featuring no science fiction elements apart from the presence of the Doctor, Ace, Hex and the TARDIS.
* This was the last time that the TARDIS was its traditional blue colour in a Seventh Doctor audio drama released in the main range until the final scene of the audio story ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'' in [[August (releases)|August]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]].
* An illustrated preview of this story by [[Rob Davis]] was published in [[DWM 409]].
* This audio drama was recorded on [[16 January (production)|16]] and [[17 January (production)|17 January]] [[2009 (production)|2009]] at [[the Moat Studios]].<ref name=":0">'Backstage' tab of [https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-angel-of-scutari-288 the official ''The Angel of Scutari'' page] at [https://www.bigfinish.com bigfinish.com].</ref>
* Another version of this cover was used in Big Finish's article 'Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer'. It is more saturated than the one generally used.<ref>[https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/day-8-12-days-of-big-finish-special-offer1 Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer]</ref>


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
*This takes place almost immediately after [[BFA]]: ''[[Enemy of the Daleks]]''.
* The cubby hole above the "P" where the spare key to the TARDIS is located was first shown to exist in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''.
*The cubby hole for the spare key was seen in [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)]]''.
* The Doctor mentions that he witnessed the [[Charge of the Light Brigade]] in [[October]] [[1854]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror (novel)|The King of Terror]]'')
* Ace previously rode a horse on [[Cheetah World]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
* At a later point during his seventh incarnation, the Doctor returned to 1854 when he travelled to the home of Professor [[Michael Faraday]] in [[London]] in order to seal one end of an unstable time space corridor which had been accidentally created by his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]] on the Vault of Stellar Curios centuries in the future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'')


==[[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]]==
== External links ==
* The Angel of Scutari occurs after [[BFA]]: ''[[Enemy of the Daleks]]''
{{bigfinish|releases/v/the-angel-of-scutari-288|The Angel of Scutari}}
* The Angel of Scutari occurs before [[BFA]]:'' [[Project Destiny]]''
{{dwrefguide|who_bf122.htm|The Angel of Scutari}}
* {{tetrap|7/angelofscutari.html|The Angel of Scutari}}


==External links==
== Footnotes ==
*{{bigfinish|122-Doctor-Who-Angel-of-Scutari|The Angel of Scutari}}
<references />{{BFA monthly}}
*{{dwrefguide|who_bf122.htm|The Angel of Scutari}}
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The Angel of Scutari was the one hundred and twenty-second story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Paul Sutton and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and Philip Olivier as Hex.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

October 1854: As the British Army charges into catastrophe in the Crimea, the Minister for War sends Miss Florence Nightingale to take charge of the field hospital at Scutari.

But there's already an angel of mercy working with the wounded at Scutari. A first-rate fellow who's turned up out of the blue. Goes by the name of Schofield; Thomas Hector Schofield...

With the Doctor and Ace lost in the siege of Sevastopol, Hex has rediscovered his calling. But there's cannon to the left of him, cannon to the right of him — and a deranged spycatcher-in-chief on his case.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Hex is still reeling from the events that he witnessed on Bliss with the Daleks.
  • Hex is shot with a musket.
  • Ace and Lev ride horses when Ace escapes en route to prison.

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Ace has previously encountered the Killorans.

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor has a portable nuclear generator in the TARDIS, which is extremely difficult for one person to move.

Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Cover on the official The Angel of Scutari page and used in general publicity.

    Cover on the official The Angel of Scutari page and used in general publicity.

  • Cover from the 'Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer' article.

    Cover from the 'Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer' article.

  • Illustration from DWM 409 by Rob Davis.

    Illustration from DWM 409 by Rob Davis.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This audio release also included the third episode of The Three Companions "The Gathernaut".
  • This story is a "pure historical" featuring no science fiction elements apart from the presence of the Doctor, Ace, Hex and the TARDIS.
  • This was the last time that the TARDIS was its traditional blue colour in a Seventh Doctor audio drama released in the main range until the final scene of the audio story Black and White in August 2012.
  • An illustrated preview of this story by Rob Davis was published in DWM 409.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 16 and 17 January 2009 at the Moat Studios.[1]
  • Another version of this cover was used in Big Finish's article 'Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer'. It is more saturated than the one generally used.[2]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 'Backstage' tab of the official The Angel of Scutari page at bigfinish.com.
  2. ↑ Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer
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