The Minister of Chance (series)

The Minister of Chance was a series of fantasy audio and video stories written by Dan Freedman and produced and released by Radio Static. The series centered on the eponymous Minister, who was introduced in Freedman's Seventh Doctor webcast Death Comes to Time, and his involvement in court intrigue on the planet Thea.
The eponymous main character, the Minister of Chance, is portrayed and characterised consistently with his debut appearance in Death Comes to Time. Although in this series he was played by Julian Wadham rather than Stephen Fry, initial promotional material for the series explained this by describing him as a "defrocked Time Lord" "now in his second regeneration".The Minister of Chance: Tales of a defrocked Time Lord... (21 January 2012, via The Internet Archive) The events of Death Comes to Time are alluded to as a tragedy in the Minister's past, and following from the Seventh Doctor's revocation of his TARDIS in that story, the Minister travels through time and space by "the scientific formula for doors".
== Stories ==
=== Audio ===
Five one-hour audio stories and a ten-minute prologue were released from 2011 to 2013. The episodes were later remastered, split into four parts, and re-released as a weekly podcast from 5 October 2020 to 23 February 2021. The Pointed Hand, a prologue to the series, introduced Paul McGann as Durian and Sylvester McCoy as the Witch Prime.
#	Title 	Author 	Featuring 	Released
0	The Pointed Hand 	Dan Freedman	Durian, the Witch Prime 	13 July 2012Released between episodes 2 and 3, this prologue was intended to be listened to before episode 1.
1	The Broken World 	Dan Freedman	Minister of Chance, Kitty	13 January 2012
2	The Forest Shakes 	Dan Freedman	Minister of Chance, Kitty	13 January 2012
3	Paludin Fields 	Dan Freedman	Minister of Chance, Kitty	20 July 2012
4	The Tiger 	Dan Freedman	Minister of Chance, Kitty	1 March 2013
5	In a Barque on the River Hex	Dan Freedman	Minister of Chance, Kitty	17 May 2013
=== Film ===
A video adaptation of the prologue was released in October 2014The Minister of Chance: Prologue (YouTube, via The Internet Archive to promote a Kickstarter for a full film adaptation of The Minister of Chance,iO9: Ex-Doctor Who Spinoff The Minister of Chance deserves a Movie adaptation but it ultimately failed to meet its fundraising goal.Kickstarter: The Minister of Chance Movie
=== Book ===
A novelisation of The Minister of Chance was announced in 2016Kickstarter: We're making The Minister of Chance into a novel! and released by Arcbeatle Press on 30 June 2022.
== Notes ==
* Despite the audio series' cast's limited size, it had a substantial overlap with the Doctor Who and related productions, including Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Julian Wadham, Lauren Crace, Jenny Agutter, Paul Darrow, Beth Goddard, Tamsin Greig, Peter Guinness, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Gethin Anthony, Simon Hickson, Mark Lewis, Sophie Aldred, Daniel Easton, Richard Garaghty, James Manley-Buser, Gareth Jones, and George Murphy.
== Gallery ==
File:MoC promo image.png|A promotional image for the series.
File:Minister of Chance series cover.jpg|The standard cover of the series.
File:MoC different.jpg|A variation of the standard cover.
File:MoC wider.jpg|An even wider version of the standard cover.
File:MoC wide.jpg|A wider version of the standard cover.
File:MoC artwork.jpg|The first of Lee Sullivan's artworks promoting the series, featuring The Minister and Kitty.
File:MoC other poster.jpg|A poster for the series.
File:Frostbridge.jpg|One of Lee Sullivan's promotional illustrations for the series.
File:HorsemanA2.jpg|Another of Lee Sullivan's promotional images, this one to tie in with Paludin Fields.
File:Charon.jpg|One of Lee Sullivan's promotional images, released to tie into In a Barque on the River Hex.
File:MoC film poster.png|A poster for the ultimately unproduced feature-length movie adaptation.
File:MoC parsec.jpg|A promotional image to promote the series.
File:MoC reviews.jpg|Another promotional image for the series.
File:The Minister of Chance (novelisation).jpg|The cover of the novelisation of the series.
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
Category:Audio overviews
Category:The Minister of Chance
Category:Prose fiction overviews