The Stones of Venice (Doctor Who audio)
- The Stones of Venice (Doctor Who audio)
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title=The Stones of Venice
series=Doctor Who
number=18
featuring=Eighth Doctor
Charley Pollard
writer=Paul Magrs
director=Gary Russell
producer=Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
executive_producer=Jacqueline Rayner
production_code=8D
set_between="Sword of Orion" and
"Minuet in Hell"
length=1 hour 51 mins
date=March 2001|
"The Stones of Venice" is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". This audio drama was broadcast on BBC 7 in four weekly parts starting on 1 October 2005, and will be repeated on the same channel beginning on 22 October 2006.
Plot
The Eighth Doctor and Charley decide to have a little peace and quiet in 16th century Venice — except that he gets the date wrong by about six hundred years and discovers a cursed city about to sink below the water... complete with a Duke who hasn't aged for a hundred years, Amphibian gondoliers, a curator obsessed with his art collection and your typical mad cult leader. Charley isn't impressed...
Cast
*The Doctor — Paul McGann
*Charley Pollard — India Fisher
*Orsino, a Duke — Michael Sheard
*Churchwell, a curator — Nick Scovell
*Ms Lavish, an elderly lady — Elaine Ives-Cameron
*Pietro, a gondolier — Barnaby Edwards
*Vincenzo, a High Priest — Mark Gatiss
Notes
*The names of some of this play's characters are derived from romantic works of fiction. "Duke Orsino" is from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", and Mrs. Lavish is from "A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster.
*The play's name is a reference to "The Stones of Venice", a collection of essays by John Ruskin from the 1850s.
*Although it was the third to be released, this was the first Eighth Doctor audio drama to be recorded and therefore marked Paul McGann's return to the role for the first time since the 1996 "Doctor Who" TV movie and India Fisher's first performance as Charley Pollard.
External links
* [http://www.bigfinish.com/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=54 Big Finish Productions - "The Stones of Venice"]
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_bf18 | title=The Stones of Venice
Reviews
*OG review | id=bf-18 | title=The Stones of Venice
*DWRG | id=stonev | title=The Stones of Venice
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