The Emerald Tiger (audio story)

The Emerald Tiger was the one hundred and fifty-ninth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Barnaby Edwards and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka and Mark Strickson as Turlough.

Publisher's summary

 * Tiger, tiger, burning bright
 * In the forests of the night

Calcutta, 1926. The Doctor and his companions join an expedition to locate the fabled emerald tiger — a legendary marvel shrouded in myth and mystery. They must journey to an unexplored lost world filled with wonder and wickedness.

But at the centre of this terra incognita, something is stirring. Something with emerald eyes, diamond-sharp claws and a heart of darkness.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * Tegan - Janet Fielding
 * Turlough - Mark Strickson
 * Lady Adela Forster - Cherie Lunghi
 * Professor Narayan - Sam Dastor
 * Shardul Khan/Announcer/Train Guard - Vincent Ebrahim
 * Major Cyril Haggard - Neil Stacy
 * Dawon - Vineeta Rishi
 * Djahn/Lord Edgar Forster - Gwilym Lee
 * Colonel Burroughs/Kimball - Trevor Cooper
 * Jonathan Forster - Benedict Briggs

Continuity

 * Lord Edgar Forster refers to Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle. The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe would later meet him on the Galápagos Islands on 19 September 1835. (AUDIO: Bloodtide)
 * This is the third time that the TARDIS has materialised on the platform of a train station during the 1920s. (AUDIO: The Mouthless Dead; TV: Black Orchid)
 * The Doctor remarks to Turlough that he must speak to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart about the lack of emphasis placed on sport during his education at Brendon Public School in the early 1980s. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
 * Nyssa refers to the Doctor playing cricket at Cranleigh Hall on 11 June 1925. (TV: Black Orchid)
 * The Doctor refers to Sir Isaac Newton. He and Nyssa previously encountered him in the Tower of London in the late 17th century. (AUDIO: Summer)
 * Tegan once again uses "Rabbits!" as an expletive. (TV: Logopolis, Earthshock)
 * Tegan was previously cornered by a tiger in a fairground menagerie in England in the 1920s. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors)
 * Tegan refers to Harry Houdini, whom she met in England in the 1920s. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors)
 * Dawon mentions Nyssa's children Neeka and Adric Traken. (AUDIO: Winter, Heroes of Sontar, Prisoners of Fate)
 * Nyssa refers to the outbreak of Richter's Syndrome on Terminus. (AUDIO: Cobwebs)
 * Nyssa's appearance is reverted to that of her younger self at the time that she left the TARDIS crew. (TV: Terminus) Tegan jokes that she has saved her husband Lasarti a great deal of money on plastic surgery. (AUDIO: Winter)
 * The Tenth Doctor would later fly a hot air balloon over London on 24 December 1851. However, on that occasion, he claimed never to have done so before. (TV: The Next Doctor) The memory loss which he suffered following his fifth regeneration may account for the fact that he did not remember this incident. (AUDIO: The Reaping, The Gathering, Peri and the Piscon Paradox)
 * During his tenth incarnation, the Doctor would later return to Calcutta in 1947 in the company of Donna Noble. On that occasion, they met Mohandas Gandhi. (PROSE: Ghosts of India)