The Chimes of Midnight

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The Chimes of Midnight
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Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series Doctor Who
Release no.29
Featuring Eighth Doctor
Charley Pollard
Written by Robert Shearman
Directed by Barnaby Edwards
Produced by Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner
Production code8G
Length116 mins
Release date25 February 2002
Preceded by"Invaders from Mars"
Followed by"Seasons of Fear"

The Chimes of Midnight is the twenty-ninth audio drama of the British science fiction audio series Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures from Big Finish Productions. It was written by Robert Shearman and directed by Barnaby Edwards.

Contents

Initially released as a CD on 25 February 2002, this story was later broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7 in four weekly parts, starting on 17 December 2005, and has been rebroadcast on the same channel beginning on 17 December 2006, and again on 26 and 27 September 2007.

Plot

An Edwardian home, Christmas 1906. Or is it? The Doctor and Charley are caught in a mysterious house outside of time and when the grandfather clock strikes, someone will get murdered. Can the Doctor unmask the murderer? Or is something far more sinister at work?

Cast

In print

A novelisation written by Shearman will be published 9 October 2025 in Hardcover and ebook formats. [1]

Notes

  1. Shearman, Robert. "Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight" via www.penguin.co.uk.

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