The Emerald Tiger (audio story)

The Emerald Tiger was the first story in the 2012 Fifth Doctor audio trilogy.

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 / Iyaphin the Destroyer - 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 Beagle. The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe would later meet him on the Galapagos Islands on 19 September 1835. (AUDIO: Bloodtide)
 * This is the second time during the Doctor's fifth incarnation that the TARDIS has materialised on the platform of a train station during the 1920s. (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)
 * Dawon mentions Nyssa's children Neeka, Adric and Tegan. (AUDIO: Winter, Heroes of Sontar)
 * 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 lot 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, AUDIO: The Gathering, AUDIO: 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)