Medicinal Purposes

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Big Finish Productions audio play

Series	Doctor Who
Release number	60
Featuring	Sixth Doctor Evelyn Smythe
Writer	Robert Ross
Director	Gary Russell
Producer(s)	Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s)	Jacqueline Rayner
Set between	Arrangements for War and Pier Pressure
Length	2 hr 10 mins
Release date	August 2004

Medicinal Purposes is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

Edinburgh, 1827. Body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are on the loose while the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn take an interest in the work of Dr Robert Knox.

Cast

The Doctor — Colin Baker
Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
Doctor Robert Knox — Leslie Phillips
Daft Jamie — David Tennant
Mary Patterson — Glenna Morrison
William Burke — Kevin O'Leary
Billy Hare — Tom Farrelly
Old Woman — Janie Booth

Continuity

Knox meets the Doctor and Evelyn again in Assassin in the Limelight.

Notes

This is one of the last stories, and the last Doctor Who story, that David Tennant would record for Big Finish before being cast as the Tenth Doctor. After leaving the TV series, Tennant was cast as William Burke in the film Burke and Hare, based on the historical murders, but left the film before it began production.^[1]

References

↑ Warmouth, Brian (20 January 2010). "Andy Serkis Replaces David Tennant In 'Burke And Hare,' According To Star Simon Pegg's Twitter Feed". MTV News. Retrieved 14 June 2010.

External links

Reviews

Medicinal Purposes reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Medicinal Purposes reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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Evelyn Smythe	The Marian Conspiracy The Spectre of Lanyon Moor The Apocalypse Element Bloodtide Project: Twilight The Sandman Jubilee Doctor Who and the Pirates Real Time Project: Lazarus Arrangements for War Medicinal Purposes Pier Pressure The Nowhere Place 100 Assassin in the Limelight A Town Called Fortune The Crimes of Thomas Brewster The Feast of Axos Industrial Evolution

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