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Writer: Robert Shearman
Director: Gary Russell
Starring: Paul McGann as the Doctor, India Fisher as Charley
Release Date: December 2003
Recorded: 16 May 2003
Post-Production, Sound Design: ERS
Production Code: 8N There were two friends, and together they travelled the cosmos. They thwarted tyrants and defeated monsters, they righted wrongs wherever they went. They explored the distant future and the distant past, new worlds and galaxies, places beyond imagining. But every good story has to come to an end... This story takes place after the TV movie .Cast List | The Doctor | | Paul McGann | | Charley | | India Fisher | "Rob Shearman came to me wanting to write another Eighth Doctor adventure. Always looking for ways to throw a spanner in Rob's plans, I immediately said to him 'okay, but only if you write me a two-hander'. He responded by saying 'alright then, but it's called Scherzo and has no incidental music at all'. Only Rob could give us a music-themed play with no music! "Normally when we do Big Finish audios, we do rehearse/record for each scene, usually wilfully out of order and all o er the shop. As this was a two-hander, I thought it best to do a straight read-through of all four episodes. This was then followed by a straight recording of all four, stopping only to accommodate page turns, line corrections and the odd fit of the giggles - never has one actor wrung so many minutes of downtime from one line! We recorded this one last because I thought after a week's worth of recording, the actors involved would be more relaxed and more in-the-swing of things. It's going to make a powerful and highly emotional start to the new run."
- Producer / Director, Gary Russell
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