The Doctor and Charley decide to take a well-deserved break from the monotony of being chased, shot at, and generally suffering anti-social behavior at the hands of others. And so they end up in Venice, well into Charley’s future, as the great city prepares to sink beneath the water for the last time.
That would be a momentous, if rather dispiriting, event to witness in itself. However, the machinations of a love-sick aristocrat, a proud art historian, and a rabid high priest of a really quite dodgy cult combine to make Venice’s swan song a night to remember. And then there’s the rebellion by the web-footed amphibious underclass, the mystery of a disappearing corpse, and the truth behind a curse going back further than curses usually do. The Doctor and Charley are forced to wonder just what they have gotten themselves involved with this time.
Cast:
Paul McGann (The Doctor); India Fisher (Charley Pollard); Michael Sheard (Count Orsino); Elaine Ives-Cameron (Ms Lavish / Estella); Nick Scovell (Churchwell); Barnaby Edwards (Pietro); Mark Gatiss (Vincenzo)
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