Loups-Garoux (audio story)

The second audio story to feature the pairing of the Fifth Doctor and Turlough,  was released by Big Finish in 2001. It is one of only three audios to feature only the Doctor and Turlough together. Later audios have featured Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough.

Publisher's summary
Germany, 1589: the townspeople of Cologne, Germany pronounce a sentence of death on a mass-murderer who has stalked the countryside in the guise of a ferocious wolf.

Russia, 1812: retreating from Napoléon's invading forces, a merchant's daughter is rescued from bandits by a handsome partisan with a ravenous appetite.

Brazil, 2080: The Doctor and Turlough arrive for the Rio de Janeiro carnival.

Is wealthy heiress Ileana de Santos all that she seems? What sinister ailment afflicts her invalid son, tended by the mysterious Doctor Hayashi? And who exactly is Rosa, engaged on a secret quest to fulfil the destiny of her extinct tribe?

Time is running out for Rosa, Ileana and the Doctor, as the fearsome shadow of an ancient werewolf moves ever closer...

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Turlough - Mark Strickson
 * Magistrate - Nicholas Pegg
 * Pieter Stubbe - Nicky Henson
 * Rosa Caiman - Sarah Gale
 * Inez - Jane Burke
 * Ileana de Santos - Eleanor Bron
 * Greetings Card - Alistair Lock
 * Anton Lichtfuss - David Hankinson
 * Tourist - Marc Platt
 * Victor - Barnaby Edwards
 * Doctor Hayashi - Burt Kwouk
 * Jorge - Derek Wright

Cultural references from the real world

 * The first scene quotes the real death sentence on Pieter Stubbe from the documented report of his trial in Cologne in 1589.
 * The Doctor quotes Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
 * The Doctor refers to "Alice's white rabbit", from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
 * The Doctor paraphrases William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar when he says that "Stubbe is an honourable wolf".
 * Upon first meeting Stubbe, Turlough believes that he is wearing a werewolf mask and claims that he has seen better ones in "third rate horror films."
 * The Doctor describes Cleopatra as having "the succour and grace of a carpet flea."

Continuity
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Timeline

 * Loups-Garoux occurs after BFA: Phantasmagoria
 * Loups-Garoux occurs before BFA: Singularity