The Vanity Box (audio story)

 was the following one-part story comprising part of the ninety-seventh release in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Paul Magrs and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush.

Publisher's summary
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
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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

Crew

 * Cover Art - Simon Holub
 * Director - John Ainsworth
 * Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
 * Music - Andy Hardwick
 * Producer - Sharon Gosling
 * Script Editor - Alan Barnes
 * Sound Design - Gareth Jenkins
 * Written - Paul Magrs

Worldbuilding

 * Mel refers to Ready Steady Go! and Carnaby Street.
 * The Doctor orders a pint of blackcurrant squash with water rather than soda in The Sailor's End.
 * 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.

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, 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)
 * The Doctor returned to Salford in his ninth incarnation. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)