The Emerald Tiger (audio story)
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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
to be added
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
References
- Lady Adela Forster reads the short story "Tiger! Tiger!" from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book to her young son Jonathan in 1908.
- Lady Adela was a journalist until she married her husband, Lord Edgar Forster, who was killed by a tiger during his 1908 expedition to India.
- The Doctor has come to Calcutta on 31 December 1926 to witness the second Unofficial Test match between All India and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which the MCC won by four wickets, at Eden Gardens. Arthur Gilligan was the captain of the MCC team while C. K. Nayudu is a batman for All India. The Doctor considers it to be one of the best cricket matches of all time.
- The Doctor mentions the British Raj.
- It is initially believed that Kimball infected Nyssa with rabies by biting her.
- Professor Narayan owns a white 1908 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.
- Turlough tells Tegan that "stubbornness is one of Australia's greatest exports."
- Tegan refers to Dawon as "Pussy Galore".
- The Doctor tells Colonel Burroughs that his name is "Dr Smith."
- Dawon's owner was killed in the anti-British Empire protests in Burma in November 1926.
- Professor Narayan refers to the crystal skull carved by pre-Columbian Mesoamericans currently in the British Museum.
- Major Haggard refers to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.
- The Doctor mentions the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.
- Turlough states that he always hated the works of William Shakespeare.
- Tegan survived the train going over the cliff by taking refuge in the TARDIS. The Doctor had previously given her the TARDIS key.
- Tegan mentions Tigger from Winnie-the-Pooh.
- The Doctor estimates that the Emerald Tiger crashed to Earth hundreds of thousands of years earlier, and the Karabya valley was the impact crater.
- Tegan refers to a crocodile as "an overgrown handbag".
Notes
- This audio drama was recorded on 8 and 9 November 2011.
- The intro to the publisher's summary draws from the first two lines on William Blake's poem, "The Tyger". Another allusion to his famous poem would be made in the Twelfth Doctor story In the Forest of the Night.
- This story is set between Enlightenment and The King's Demons.
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)
External links
- Official The Emerald Tiger page at bigfinish.com
- DisContinuity for The Emerald Tiger at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
