Minuet in Hell was the fourth serial of Season 36 of Doctor Who. It was written by Alan W. Lear & Gary Russell, directed by Andrew Grieve and starred Hugh Bonneville as the Ninth Doctor & Helen Baxendale as Jean Robinson.
Synopsis[]
The twenty-first century has just begun, and Malebolgia is enjoying its status as the newest state in America. After his successful involvement with Scotland's devolution, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart has been invited over to Malebolgia to offer some of his experiences and expertise.
There he encounters the charismatic Brigham Elisha Dashwood III, an evangelical statesman running for Governor who may not be quite as clean-cut and wholesome as he makes out. One of Dashwood's other roles in society is as patron of a new medical institute, concentrating on curing the ills of the human mind. One of the patients there interests the Brigadier — someone who claims he travels through space and time in something called a TARDIS.
Jean, however, has more than a few problems of her own. Amnesiac, she is working as a hostess at the local chapter of the Hell Fire Club, populated by local dignitaries who have summoned forth the demon Marchosias. And the leader of the Club? None other than Dashwood, who seems determined to achieve congressional power by the most malevolent means at his disposal...
Plot[]
To be added.
Cast[]
- The Doctor - Hugh Bonneville
- Jean Robinson - Helen Baxendale
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
- Brigham Elisha Dashwood III - Robert Jezek
- Senator Waldo Pickering - Morgan Deare
- Becky Lee Kowalczyck - To be added.
- Catatonic Woman - To be added.
- Dr Dale Pargeter - To be added.
- Gideon Crane - Nicholas Briggs
- Orderly - Hylton Collins
- Scott - To be added.
- Catatonic Man - To be added.
- Guard - To be added.
- Catatonic Woman - To be added.
- Catatonic Man - To be added.
Crew[]
To be added.
Worldbuilding[]
Gallifrey[]
- Hell is mentioned in the legends of Gallifrey.
Individuals[]
- Gideon Crane tests the Doctor by listing a range of his former companions — "Jean, Abigail, Benny, Ace, Peri, Nyssa, Romana, Sarah Jane, Jamie, Polly, Ian, Barbara and Susan... dear, dear Susan."
- Jean has read the novel Dracula.
- The Brigadier refers to Doris.
Organisations[]
- The Brigadier mentions Doomwatch.
Philosophy[]
- Gideon Crane mockingly explains the philosophical statement, cogito ergo sum to the Doctor.
Notes[]
To be added.
Continuity[]
- Gideon Crane refers to the Seventh Doctor and Ace's encounter with Metatraxi on the Vancouver, (TV: Earth Aid) the Second Doctor's companion Victoria Waterfield leaving the TARDIS to live with Frank and Maggie Harris (TV: Fury from the Deep) and the Blinovitch Limitation Effect (TV: Day of the Daleks, Mawdryn Undead) to test the actual Doctor's identity.
- The Brigadier mentions that he has fought demons before. (TV: The Dæmons, Battlefield)
- Gideon Crane recalls the Sixth Doctor being put on trial. (TV: The Mysterious Planet)
- Charley mentions to Becky Lee the events from TV: The Smog, says she was on a spaceship (TV: The End of the World) and in Venice in the future. (TV: The Stones of Venice)
Home video releases[]
VHS[]
- This story was first released on VHS.
DVD[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 36 were released individually in 2000
- This story along with the other stories in Season 36 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Thirty-Sixth Season in 2009.
Blu-ray[]
- This story along with the other stories in Season 36 were upscaled in 1080i50 high definition and were released as Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 36 in the UK.