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The “middle aged serving girl who looks like Bev from Abigail’s Party” is the director’s wife, Frances Pidgeon. She gets lines in The Hand of Fear.

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I like that the queen has the same sibilants as her old dad. Not quite a lisp, but a certain quality of the S sounds that’s reminiscent of Boris Karloff (or, indeed, Jon Pertwee).

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