Freakshow (audio story)

Freakshow was an audio drama in Big Finish Productions' The Companion Chronicles series. It was initially a digital download exclusively offered to readers of Doctor Who Magazine Issue 419, but was later released as part of the The Companion Chronicles: The Specials box set.

Publisher's summary
The TARDIS arrives in Arizona 1905, where travelling showman Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer is offering the residents of Buzzard Creek the elixir of life. Winklemeyer also owns a unique carnival, which is full of caged alien creatures. And in Turlough he has found a brand new exhibit...

Plot
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Cast

 * Turlough - Mark Strickson
 * Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer / Berman Labazeen - Toby Longworth

Continuity

 * Turlough is working through the personal troubles raised by working for the Black Guardian. (TV: Enlightenment)
 * Turlough comments that Tegan once referred to him as "unreliable" and stated that turning arguments around was something which he was very good at. (TV: Terminus)
 * Turlough refers to Terminus (TV: Terminus) and the Eternal ships (TV: Enlightenment).
 * The First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet previously visited Tombstone in the Arizona Territory in October 1881, where they witnessed the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. (TV: The Gunfighters)
 * The Doctor laments the destruction of his sonic screwdriver by the Terileptil leader in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
 * The Eighth Doctor's Eutermesan companion C'rizz would later be forced to perform in the showman Jacob Crackles's freakshow in London in 1851 in the same manner as the alien creatures in Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer's freakshow. (AUDIO: Other Lives)

Releases

 * Freakshow was available to readers of Doctor Who Magazine who went to the Big Finish website and entered a code to be found within the magazine. The digital download offer was only available from 3 March to 26 May 2010.
 * Big Finish subsequently reissued the story as part of The Companion Chronicles: The Specials, which was released in August 2011.