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| {{retitle|''The Minister of Chance'' (series)}}
| | The Minister of Chance was conceived as a follow up to the 2001 BBCI webcast Death comes to Time. The series expands upon the (now negated) timeline in which after the sacrifice and death of the seventh doctor, the minister takes up the mantle of the doctor out of guilt. |
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| |name = ''The Minister of Chance''
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| |image =
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| |author = Dan Freedman
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| |editor =
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| |publisher = Radio Static
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| |cover =
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| |release date = [[2011 (releases)|2011]]-[[2014 (releases)|2014]]
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| |format = Audio serial
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| }}{{you may|Minister of Chance|n1=the title character}}
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| '''''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 [[Minister of Chance|the eponymous Minister]], who was introduced in Freedman's [[Seventh Doctor]] webcast ''[[Death Comes to Time (webcast)|Death Comes to Time]]'', and his involvement in court intrigue on the planet Thea.
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| == Overview ==
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| === Cast and crew connections ===
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| Despite the cast's limited size, it has 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 (BBCi actor)|Gareth Jones]], and [[George Murphy]].
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| === Connections with the DWU ===
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| The eponymous main character, the [[Minister of Chance]], is portrayed and characterised consistently with his debut appearance in ''[[Death Comes to Time (webcast)|Death Comes to Time]]''. Although in ''The Minister of Chance'' 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]]".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120121011622/http://www.ministerofchance.com/ The Minister of Chance: Tales of a defrocked Time Lord... (21 January 2012, via The Internet Archive)]</ref> 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". | |
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| === Publisher's summary ===
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| A world not our own: Kitty is a barmaid in the occupied city of Tantillion. When a stranger arrives looking for an outlawed scientist, her curiosity is piqued, so she follows him into the forest. When he constructs a doorway to another world it is piqued further, so she follows him across the Frost Bridge and into a terrifying land where the laws of physics themselves are broken.
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| === Stories ===
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| ==== Audio ====
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| Five one-hour audio stories and a ten-minute prequel were released from [[2011 (releases)|2011]] to [[2013 (releases)|2013]]. In [[2020 (releases)|2020]], the episodes were remastered and re-released as a podcast, with each episode split into four parts.
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| |''The Pointed Hand''
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| |Introduces [[Paul McGann]] as Durian and [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the Witch Prime.
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| |1
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| |''The Broken World''
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| |Introduces [[Julian Wadham]] as the [[Minister of Chance]] and [[Lauren Crace]] as Kitty, his [[companion|assistant]].
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| |2
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| |''The Forest Shakes''
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| |3
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| |''Paludin Fields''
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| |4
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| |''The Tiger''
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| |5
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| |''In a Barque on the River Hex''
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| |''to be added''
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| ==== Film ====
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| A video adaptation of the prologue was released in [[2014 (production)|2014]] to promote a Kickstarter for a full film adaptation of ''The Minister of Chance'',<ref>[https://gizmodo.com/ex-doctor-who-spinoff-the-minister-of-chance-wants-a-mo-1643759526 iO9: Ex-''Doctor Who'' Spinoff ''The Minister of Chance'' deserves a Movie adaptation]</ref> but its ultimately failed to meet its fundraising goal.<ref>[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/934034666/the-minister-of-chance-movie-episode-1/ Kickstarter: The Minister of Chance Movie]</ref>
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| ==== Book ====
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| A novelisation of ''The Minister of Chance'' was announced but never released.<ref>[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/934034666/the-minister-of-chance-movie-episode-1/posts/1759216 Kickstarter: We're making The Minister of Chance into a novel!]</ref>
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| == Gallery ==
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| ''to be added''
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| == External links ==
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| {{Elx|page url=https://www.danfreeman.co.uk/the-minister-of-chance|page name=''The Minister of Chance''|website url=https://www.danfreeman.co.uk/|website name=Dan Freeman: Writerator}}
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| == Footnotes ==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{TitleSort}}
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| [[:Category:Real world series with DWU connections]]
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