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 was one of only three main range audios to feature only the Doctor and Turlough travelling alone together. Later Turlough audios, beginning with Cobwebs in 2010, also starred Nyssa and Tegan.

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

Culture

 * 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".
 * References are made to Little Red Riding Hood, except in the end, where it's Red (Rosa) who tells the wolf to stay on the path.

History

 * The first scene quotes the real death sentence on Pieter Stubbe from the documented report of his trial in Cologne in 1589.

Individuals

 * When 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."Loups-Garoux Sullivan.jpg
 * The Doctor describes Cleopatra as having "the succour and grace of a carpet flea."

Locations

 * The Doctor's previous visit to Rio de Janeiro took place in 1700.

Continuity

 * The Doctor uses K9 Mark II's dog whistle to draw the werewolf pack. (TV: The Ribos Operation)
 * After his mind had been merged with that of the Eighth Doctor, the British journalist Gideon Crane referred to the Doctor and Turlough's encounter with "lupine activity" in Brazil in order to test the actual Doctor's identity. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell)
 * The Doctor would later encounter a werewolf at the Psychic Circus on Segonax in his seventh incarnation, and another in 1879 Scotland in his tenth. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Tooth and Claw)