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|publisher = Radio Static | |publisher = Radio Static | ||
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|release date = [[2011 (releases)|2011]]-[[2014 (releases)|2014]] | |type = Audio series, webcast, prose | ||
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|release date = [[2011 (releases)|2011]]-[[2014 (releases)|2014]]; [[2022 (releases)|2022]] | |||
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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. | '''''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. | ||
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]]".<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 == | |||
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. | 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. | 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. ''The Pointed Hand'', a prologue to the series, introduced [[Paul McGann]] as Durian and [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the Witch Prime. | ||
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|''The Pointed Hand'' | |''The Pointed Hand'' | ||
| | |Durian, Witch Prime | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|1 | |1 | ||
|''The Broken World'' | |''The Broken World'' | ||
| | |[[Minister of Chance]], [[Kitty (The Broken World)|Kitty]] | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|2 | |2 | ||
|''The Forest Shakes'' | |''The Forest Shakes'' | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|3 | |3 | ||
|''Paludin Fields'' | |''Paludin Fields'' | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|4 | |4 | ||
|''The Tiger'' | |''The Tiger'' | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|5 | |5 | ||
|''In a Barque on the River Hex'' | |''In a Barque on the River Hex'' | ||
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=== Film === | |||
A video adaptation of the prologue was released in [[October (releases)|October]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141020194720/https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hi6TmyHzTK4 The Minister of Chance: Prologue (YouTube, via The Internet Archive]</ref> 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> | A video adaptation of the prologue was released in [[October (releases)|October]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141020194720/https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hi6TmyHzTK4 The Minister of Chance: Prologue (YouTube, via The Internet Archive]</ref> 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 | A novelisation of ''The Minister of Chance'' was announced in 2016,<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> and was eventually released in [[30 June (releases)|30 June]] [[2022 (releases)|2022]] by [[Arcbeatle Press]]. | ||
== 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 (BBCi actor)|Gareth Jones]], and [[George Murphy]]. | |||
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