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
Length1 hour 56 mins
Release dateFebruary 2002
Preceded by"Invaders from Mars"
Followed by"Seasons of Fear"

The Chimes of Midnight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . This audio play was 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.

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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

Notes

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