The Vanity Box (audio story)

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.
== Publisher's summary ==
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 ==
to be added
== Cast ==
* 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 ==
* Mel refers to 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.
* Bessy Tiplington was born in 1909.
== Notes ==
* 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 ==
* 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, 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).
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Category:2007 audio stories
Category:Stories set in Manchester
Category:Stories set in 1965
Category:Pseudo-historical stories
Category:Audio stories that use the Dominic Glynn theme