The Silver Turk (audio story)

The Silver Turk is the first story in the 2011 Eighth Doctor audio trilogy. The story marks the first appearance of the Eighth Doctor in the Big Finish monthly range since BFA: The Company of Friends in 2009. However, an alternative version of the Eighth Doctor appeared in BFA: Klein's Story in the interim.

Publishers summary
Roll up! Roll up! To the great Viennese Exposition, where showman Stahlbaum will show you his most wonderful creation, the Silver Turk – a mechanical marvel that will not only play for you the fortepiano, the spinet and the flute, it will play you at the gaming table too!

But when the Doctor brings his new travelling companion Mary Shelley to nineteenth-century Vienna, he soon identifies the incredible Turk as one of his deadliest enemies – a part-machine Cyberman.

And that’s not even the worst of the horrors at large in the city…

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Mary Shelley - Julie Cox
 * Dr Johan Drossel - Gareth Armstrong
 * Alfred Stahlbaum - Christian Brassington
 * Ernst Bratfisch - David Schneider
 * Count Rolf Wittenmeier - Gwilym Lee
 * Countess Mitzi Wittenmeier - Claire Wyatt
 * The Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs

The Doctor's items

 * Mary breaks the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. The Doctor is indifferent as the TARDIS has a room full of them.

History

 * Both Bratfisch and Countess Wittenmeier mention the economic problems besetting Austria as a result of "the Crash." This refers to the Long Depression.

Individuals

 * Once the fact that she is more than half a century in her personal future sinks in, Mary begins to consider how old she would be in September 1873 and the fates of her family and friends. She later notes that she would be seventy-six years old by this time.
 * Mary's husband Percy Shelley invested in the Turk prior to 1816.
 * The Doctor attempts to pick up Samson and Gemma Griffin in Vienna, having left them there in June 1816.

Literature

 * Mary is unfamilar with the term "science fiction".

Species

 * The Doctor refers to the Cyberman as "one of the Mondas originals."

Continuity

 * This story begins only an hour after the events of BFA: Mary's Story from the Doctor and Mary's perspective. The Doctor initially believes that they have not left June 1816.
 * The Doctor tells Mary that he witnessed the creation of the Cybermen. (BFA: Spare Parts)
 * The future Eighth Doctor previously told Mary that they had encountered the Cybermen during their travels together. (BFA: Mary's Story)
 * Mary feels pity for the deteriorated condition of the Cybermen, just like Rose for the deteriorated Dalek in DW: Dalek