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Big Finish Productions audio play Medicinal Purposes Series Doctor Who Release number 60 Featuring Sixth Doctor
Evelyn SmytheWriter Robert Ross Director Gary Russell Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-ElleryExecutive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner Set between Arrangements for War and
Pier PressureLength 2 hr 10 mins Release date August 2004 Medicinal Purposes is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Contents
Plot
Edinburgh, 1827. Body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are on the loose while the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn take an interest in the work of Dr Robert Knox.
Cast
- The Doctor — Colin Baker
- Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
- Doctor Robert Knox — Leslie Phillips
- Daft Jamie — David Tennant
- Mary Patterson — Glenna Morrison
- William Burke — Kevin O'Leary
- Billy Hare — Tom Farrelly
- Old Woman — Janie Booth
Continuity
Knox meets the Doctor and Evelyn again in Assassin in the Limelight.
Notes
This is one of the last stories, and the last Doctor Who story, that David Tennant would record for Big Finish before being cast as the Tenth Doctor. After leaving the TV series, Tennant was cast as William Burke in the film Burke and Hare, based on the historical murders, but left the film before it began production.[1]
References
- ^ Warmouth, Brian (20 January 2010). "Andy Serkis Replaces David Tennant In 'Burke And Hare,' According To Star Simon Pegg's Twitter Feed". MTV News. http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/01/20/andy-serkis-replaces-david-tennant-in-burke-and-hare-according-to-star-simon-peggs-twitter-feed/. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
External links
Reviews
- Medicinal Purposes reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- Medicinal Purposes reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
Sixth Doctor audio dramas Peri Slipback • Whispers of Terror • ...ish • Davros • Her Final Flight • Cryptobiosis • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • The Nightmare Fair • Mission to Magnus • Leviathan • The Hollows of Time • Paradise 5 • Point of Entry • The Song of Megaptera • The Macros • Recorded Time and Other Stories • The Guardians of Prophecy • Power Play • The First SontaransFrobisher Evelyn Smythe The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor • The Apocalypse Element • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates • Real Time • Project: Lazarus • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes • Pier Pressure • The Nowhere Place • 100 • Assassin in the Limelight • A Town Called Fortune • The Crimes of Thomas Brewster • The Feast of Axos • Industrial EvolutionCharley The Condemned • The Doomwood Curse • Brotherhood of the Daleks • Return of the Krotons • The Raincloud Man • Patient Zero • Paper Cuts • Blue Forgotten PlanetJamie City of Spires • Night's Black Agents • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the CybermenFlip The Curse of Davros • The Fourth Wall • Wirrn IsleMel The One Doctor • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker than Water • The Wishing Beast & The Vanity BoxAlone The Sirens of Time • The Ratings War • Excelis Rising • The Wormery • I.D. & Urgent Calls • The Four Doctors • Peri and the Piscon ParadoxOther Zagreus • The Ultimate Adventure • Beyond the Ultimate AdventureCategories:- 2004 audio plays
- Sixth Doctor audio plays
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