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'''''The Minister of Chance''''' was a series of fantasy audio and video stories written by [[Dan Freedman]]. 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 == | ||
=== Cast and crew connections === | |||
[ | 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 === | |||
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> | |||
=== Publisher's summary === | |||
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. | |||
=== Stories === | |||
==== Audio ==== | |||
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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! # || Title || Notes | |||
|- | |||
|0 | |||
|''The Pointed Hand'' | |||
|Introduces [[Paul McGann]] as Durian and [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the Witch Prime. | |||
|- | |||
|1 | |||
|''The Broken World'' | |||
|Introduces [[Julian Wadham]] as the [[Minister of Chance]] and [[Lauren Crace]] as Kitty, his [[companion|assistant]]. | |||
|- | |||
|2 | |||
|''The Forest Shakes'' | |||
|''to be added'' | |||
|- | |||
|3 | |||
|''Paludin Fields'' | |||
|''to be added'' | |||
|- | |||
|4 | |||
|''The Tiger'' | |||
|''to be added'' | |||
|- | |||
|5 | |||
|''In a Barque on the River Hex'' | |||
|''to be added'' | |||
|} | |||
==== Film ==== | |||
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> | |||
==== Book ==== | |||
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> | |||
== Gallery == | |||
''to be added'' | |||
== External links == | |||
{{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}} | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
{{Reflist}} | |||
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