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=== Connections with the DWU === | === 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> | 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". | ||
=== Publisher's summary === | === Publisher's summary === | ||
