The Stones of Venice
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Charley Pollard
Main enemy:	Estella
Main setting:	Venice, 2294
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Andy Hardwick
Release details
Release number:	18
Release date:	March 2001
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	8D
ISBN 1-903654-25-4
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Publisher's summary Edit

The Eighth Doctor and Charley decide to take a well-deserved break from the monotony of being chased, shot at and generally suffering anti-social behaviour at the hands of others.

And so they end up in Venice, well into Charley's future, as the great city prepares to sink beneath the water for the last time...

Which would be a momentous, if rather dispiriting, event to witness in itself. However, the machinations of a love-sick aristocrat, a proud art historian and a rabid High Priest of a really quite dodgy cult combine to make Venice's swansong a night to remember.

And then there's the rebellion by the web-footed amphibious underclass, the mystery of a disappearing corpse and the truth behind a curse going back further than curses usually do.

The Doctor and Charley are forced to wonder just what they have got themselves involved with this time...

Cast Edit

• The Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann
• Charley Pollard - India Fisher
• Orsino - Michael Sheard
• Churchwell - Nick Scovell
• Pietro - Barnaby Edwards
• Ms Lavish / Estella - Elaine Ives-Cameron
• Vincenzo - Mark Gatiss

References Edit

• The Doctor likens the cult worshiping Estella to Liza Minelli being the daughter of Judy Garland.
• The artwork in Churchwell's collection of the woman in the jar is most likely a reference to the Empress' predecessors in Paul Magrs' EDA: The Scarlet Empress.

Notes Edit

• This audio drama was recorded on 15 and 16 May 2000.

Continuity Edit

• The First Doctor previously visited Venice in the company of Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet in 1609 (MA: The Empire of Glass) whereas the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams would later do so in 1580 (DW: The Vampires of Venice).

Timeline Edit

• The Stones of Venice occurs after ST: Best Seller
• The Stones of Venice occurs before BFA: Minuet in Hell

External links Edit

• Official The Stones of Venice page at bigfinish.com
• Detailed synopsis of The Stones of Venice at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide The Stones of Venice page

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