| Big Finish Productions audio play | |
|---|---|
| The Magic Mousetrap | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | 120 |
| Featuring | Seventh Doctor Ace Hex |
| Writer | Matthew Sweet |
| Director | TBC |
| Production code | 7W/I |
| Set between | Forty Five and Enemy of the Daleks |
| Release date | April 2009 |
The Magic Mousetrap is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the ongoing story of the television series is open to interpretation.
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The Magic Mousetrap
Synopsis
Switzerland, 1926: the Doctor finds himself halfway up an Alpine mountainside, on his way to an exclusive sanatorium for the rich and famous run by the Viennese alienist Ludovic ‘Ludo’ Comfort. In between bouts of electric shock therapy, Ludo’s patients – including faded music hall turn Harry Randall, chess grandmaster Swapnil Khan and Lola Luna, darling of the Weimar cabaret scene – fill their time with endless rounds of Snap!, among other diversions.
But the Doctor soon suspects that someone’s playing an altogether more sinister game. Someone with a score to settle…
Cast
- Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Hex - Philip Olivier
- Ludovic "Ludo" Comfort - Paul Antony-Barber
- Lola Luna - Joan Walker
- Swapnil Khan - Nadim Sawalha
- Queenie Glasscock - Nadine Lewington
- Harry Randall - Andrew Fettes
- Herbert Randall - Andrew Dickens
The Three Companions Part 1
Polly's Story by Marc Platt
The present day. Polly Wright, former companion of the Second Doctor, tracks down Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart via the Internet. As they chat online, they realise that they have a shared experience - and one that began on a world far away.
Notes
Magic Mousetrap
- This marks Big Finish's first use of the character the Celestial Toymaker. He appeared in only one TV story in 1966, The Celestial Toymaker, alongside the First Doctor.
- The Toymaker was originally played by Michael Gough. At the time of this audio's release, he is 95 years old and retired from acting.
- Gough was set to return as the Toymaker 20 years later, alongside the Sixth Doctor, in the TV story The Nightmare Fair, but that script was scrapped in favour of The Trial of a Time Lord season. This story is resurrected by Big Finish later in 2009 as part of their Lost Stories series. Colin Baker plays the Sixth Doctor, but the Toymaker is played by David Bailie.
The Three Companions
- Instead of the usual interviews, the end of the second disk features the first episode of The Three Companions. It will consist of twelve ten minute episodes at the end of this and the subsequent eleven monthly releases. It is written by Marc Platt and stars Anneke Wills, Nicholas Courtney and John Pickard as Polly, The Brigadier and Thomas Brewster respectively.
- The blog that instigates Polly's correspondence was written by the Third Doctor's assistant, Jo Grant. It can be heard in its entirety in The Doll of Death.
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