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The Vanity Box
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Melanie Bush
Main enemy:	The Wishing Beast
Main setting:	Salford, England, 1965
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Director:	John Ainsworth
Release details
Release number:	97b
Release date:	July 2007
Format:	1 Episode
Production code:	7C/V
ISBN 978-1-84435-284-5
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The Vanity Box was part of the ninety-seventh monthly Doctor Who audio release produced by Big Finish Productions. It is the first one part story featuring the Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush.

1 Publisher's summary
2 Plot
3 Cast
4 References
5 Notes
6 Continuity
7 External links

Publisher's summary Edit

The Vanity Box (A One-Part Story)

A strange beauty parlour has opened its doors for business in a dowdy Salford terrace circa 1965. Monsieur Coiffure is the talk of the street with his fabulous make-overs. When the Doctor arrives, however, he knows at once that there's been some unnatural titivation going on.

Plot Edit

to be added

Cast Edit

The Doctor - Colin Baker
Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
Nesta Trubshaw - Diana Flacks
Winnie - Christine Moore
Bessy Tiplington / Barmaid - Rachel Laurence
Monsieur Coiffure / The Wishing Beast - Toby Longworth

References Edit

Mel refers to Ready Steady Go! and Carnaby Street.
The Doctor orders a pint of blackcurrant squash with water rather than soda in The Sailor's End.
From the Doctor's dress and manner, Winnie believes that he may have just been released from either prison or a mental asylum.
The Doctor describes the Vanity Box as an "excessively chintzy establishment."
While disguised as a "provincial dolly bird," the Doctor tells Monsieur Coiffure that "two Yanks helped me up the statue in Piccadilly Gardens" on VE Night on 8 May 1945.
The Doctor buys a milk stout for Nesta in The Sailor's End.

Notes Edit

The Vanity Box is only one episode long. The other three episodes on the discs are of The Wishing Beast.
This was the final appearance of Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush in a Big Finish audio drama until AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors in January 2013.

Continuity Edit

The Vanity Box takes places immediately after the events of AUDIO: The Wishing Beast, from the Doctor and Mel's perspective. However, those events have not taken place from the perspective of the Wishing Beast.
The Doctor previously visited 1965 on three occasions during his first incarnation. (TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, TV: The Daleks' Master Plan, PROSE: The Meeting) He would later do so again during his eighth (PROSE: The Space Age) and eleventh incarnations (AUDIO: Blackout).
The Doctor previously disguised himself as a woman on two occasions during his second incarnation (TV: The Highlanders, AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution) and once during his third incarnation (TV: The Green Death).

External links Edit

Detailed synopsis of The Vanity Box at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
Official The Vanity Box page at bigfinish.com
DisContinuity for The Vanity Box at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide

Big Finish monthly releases

Fifth Doctor

	Nyssa	The Land of the Dead • Winter for the Adept • The Mutant Phase • Primeval • Spare Parts • Creatures of Beauty • The Game • Circular Time (Spring • Summer • Autumn • Winter) • Renaissance of the Daleks • Return to the Web Planet • Castle of Fear • The Eternal Summer • Plague of the Daleks • The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories (The Demons of Red Lodge • The Entropy Composition • Doing Time • Special Features) • 1001 Nights

	Nyssa Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster • The Boy That Time Forgot • Time Reef • A Perfect World

	Tegan Turlough Nyssa	Cobwebs • The Whispering Forest • The Cradle of the Snake • Heroes of Sontar • Kiss of Death • Rat Trap • The Emerald Tiger • The Jupiter Conjunction • The Butcher of Brisbane • Eldrad Must Die! • The Lady of Mercia

	Turlough	Phantasmagoria • Loups-Garoux • Singularity

	Peri	Red Dawn • Exotron • Urban Myths • Mission of the Viyrans

	Peri Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion • The Church and the Crown • Nekromanteia • The Axis of Insanity • The Roof of the World • Three's a Crowd • The Council of Nicaea • The Kingmaker • Son of the Dragon • The Mind's Eye • The Bride of Peladon

	Amy	The Judgement of Isskar • The Destroyer of Delights • The Chaos Pool

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Omega • The Gathering • The Four Doctors • The Burning Prince

Sixth Doctor

	Peri	Whispers of Terror • ...ish • Cryptobiosis • The Reaping • Year of the Pig • Recorded Time and Other Stories (Recorded Time • A Most Excellent Match • Question Marks • Paradoxicide)

	Frobisher	The Holy Terror • The Maltese Penguin

	Evelyn	The Marian Conspiracy • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor • The Apocalypse Element • Bloodtide • Project: Twilight • The Sandman • Jubilee • Doctor Who and the Pirates • Project: Lazarus • Arrangements for War • Medicinal Purposes • Pier Pressure • The Nowhere Place • 100 (100 BC • My Own Private Wolfgang • Bedtime Story • The 100 Days of the Doctor) • Assassin in the Limelight

	Evelyn Brewster	The Crimes of Thomas Brewster • The Feast of Axos • Industrial Evolution

	Flip	The Curse of Davros • The Fourth Wall • Wirrn Isle

	Charley	The Condemned • The Doomwood Curse • Brotherhood of the Daleks • Return of the Krotons • The Raincloud Man • Patient Zero • Paper Cuts • Blue Forgotten Planet

	"Jamie"	City of Spires • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the Cybermen

	Mel	The One Doctor • The Juggernauts • Catch-1782 • Thicker than Water • The Wishing Beast • The Vanity Box • The Wrong Doctors • Spaceport Fear • The Seeds of War

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Davros • The Wormery • Her Final Flight • I.D. • Urgent Calls • The Four Doctors • The Acheron Pulse

Seventh Doctor

	Mel	The Fires of Vulcan • Bang-Bang-A-Boom! • Flip-Flop • Unregenerate! • Red

	Ace	The Fearmonger • The Genocide Machine • Dust Breeding • Colditz • The Rapture

	Ace Hex	The Harvest • Dreamtime • LIVE 34 • Night Thoughts • The Settling • No Man's Land • Nocturne • The Dark Husband • Forty-Five (False Gods • Order of Simplicity • Casualties of War • The Word Lord) • The Magic Mousetrap • Enemy of the Daleks • The Angel of Scutari • Project: Destiny • A Death in the Family • Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge • Protect and Survive

	Ace Benny	The Shadow of the Scourge • The Dark Flame

	Sally	House of Blue Fire

	Ace Hex Lysandra Sally	Black and White • Gods and Monsters

	Klein	A Thousand Tiny Wings • Klein's Story • Survival of the Fittest • The Architects of History

	Solo travels	The Sirens of Time • Project: Lazarus • Master • Return of the Daleks • Valhalla • Frozen Time • Death Collectors • Spider's Shadow • Kingdom of Silver • Keepsake • The Four Doctors • Robophobia • The Doomsday Quatrain • The Shadow Heart

Eighth Doctor

	Mary Shelley	Mary's Story • The Silver Turk • The Witch from the Well • Army of Death

	Charley	Storm Warning • Sword of Orion • The Stones of Venice • Minuet in Hell • Invaders from Mars • The Chimes of Midnight • Seasons of Fear • Embrace the Darkness • The Time of the Daleks • Neverland • Zagreus • Scherzo • The Girl Who Never Was

	Charley C'rizz	The Creed of the Kromon • The Natural History of Fear • The Twilight Kingdom • Faith Stealer • The Last • Caerdroia • The Next Life • Terror Firma • Scaredy Cat • Other Lives • Time Works • Something Inside • Memory Lane • Absolution

	Solo & Other travels	The Company of Friends (Benny's Story • Fitz's Story • Izzy's Story) • An Earthly Child • The Four Doctors

All stories of the main monthly range are included in this navigation box including the "subscriber only" stories which are part of Big Finish Productions' subscription for this range. All other stories are represented in other navigation boxes.

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