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Revision as of 22:05, 10 April 2024
- You may be looking for the title character or the novelisation.
The Minister of Chance was a series of fantasy audio and video stories written by Dan Freedman and produced and released by Radio Static. The series centered on the eponymous Minister, who was introduced in Freedman's Seventh Doctor webcast Death Comes to Time, and his involvement in court intrigue on the planet Thea.
The eponymous main character, the Minister of Chance, is portrayed and characterised consistently with his debut appearance in Death Comes to Time. Although in this series he was played by Julian Wadham rather than Stephen Fry, initial promotional material for the series explained this by describing him as a "defrocked Time Lord" "now in his second regeneration".[1] The events of Death Comes to Time are alluded to as a tragedy in the Minister's past, and following from the Seventh Doctor's revocation of his TARDIS in that story, the Minister travels through time and space by "the scientific formula for doors".
Stories
Audio
Five one-hour audio stories and a ten-minute prologue were released from 2011 to 2013. The episodes were later remastered, split into four parts, and re-released as a weekly podcast from 5 October 2020 to 23 February 2021. The Pointed Hand, a prologue to the series, introduced Paul McGann as Durian and Sylvester McCoy as the Witch Prime.
| # | Title | Author | Featuring | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | The Pointed Hand | Dan Freedman | Durian, the Witch Prime | 13 July 2012[2] |
| 1 | The Broken World | Minister of Chance, Kitty | 13 January 2012 | |
| 2 | The Forest Shakes | |||
| 3 | Paludin Fields | 20 July 2012 | ||
| 4 | The Tiger | 1 March 2013 | ||
| 5 | In a Barque on the River Hex | 17 May 2013 |
Film
A video adaptation of the prologue was released in October 2014[3] to promote a Kickstarter for a full film adaptation of The Minister of Chance,[4] but it ultimately failed to meet its fundraising goal.[5]
Book
A novelisation of The Minister of Chance was announced in 2016[6] and released by Arcbeatle Press on 30 June 2022.
Notes
- Despite the audio series' cast's limited size, it had a substantial overlap with the Doctor Who and related productions, including Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Julian Wadham, Lauren Crace, Jenny Agutter, Paul Darrow, Beth Goddard, Tamsin Greig, Peter Guinness, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Gethin Anthony, Simon Hickson, Mark Lewis, Sophie Aldred, Daniel Easton, Richard Garaghty, James Manley-Buser, Gareth Jones, and George Murphy.
Gallery
- Promotion
Promotional image for the series.
Promotional image for the series.
Promotional image for the series.
Promotional illustration by Lee Sullivan for the series.
Promotional artwork by Lee Sullivan, featuring the Second Minister and Kitty.
Promotional image by Lee Sullivan, released to tie into In a Barque on the River Hex.
Promotional image by Lee Sullivan, released to tie into Paludin Fields.
- Audio Series
A poster for the series.
Standard series cover.
A variant of the standard cover.
A large version of the standard cover.
A wide version of the standard cover.
- Film
- MoC film poster.png
A poster for the ultimately unproduced feature-length movie adaptation.
- Novelisation
The cover of the novelisation of the series.
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ The Minister of Chance: Tales of a defrocked Time Lord... (21 January 2012, via The Internet Archive)
- ↑ Released between episodes 2 and 3, this prologue was intended to be listened to before episode 1.
- ↑ The Minister of Chance: Prologue (YouTube, via The Internet Archive
- ↑ iO9: Ex-Doctor Who Spinoff The Minister of Chance deserves a Movie adaptation
- ↑ Kickstarter: The Minister of Chance Movie
- ↑ Kickstarter: We're making The Minister of Chance into a novel!
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