Freakshow (audio story)

Freakshow (audio story)

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Freakshow
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Turlough, Tegan
Main enemy:	Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer
Main setting:	Buzzard Creek, in the American west, circa 1905
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Mark Morris
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Read by:	Mark Strickson
Release details
Release date:	3rd March 2010
Format:	MP3 digital download - 1 file, 2 episodes
ISBN:	None"None" was classified as invalid by the "ISBN" regular expression.

Freakshow, an audio drama in Big Finish Productions' The Companion Chronicles series, was a digital download exclusive offered to readers of Doctor Who Magazine Issue 419 for a limited time beginning with the magazine's release in March 2010.

Publisher's summary

None released. The following is the story summary provided in Doctor Who Magazine Issue 419:

Freakshow features the Fifth Doctor, Turlough and Tegan. Aboard the TARDIS, Turlough is recording his testimony. He tells the story of a past adventure - a visit to Buzzard Creek, on Earth. There he meets the enigmatic Thaddeus P Winklemeyer, who possesses a caged menagerie of unusual aliens. And he'd jump at the chance to add Turlough to his collection...

Cast

• Vislor Turlough - Mark Strickson
• Thaddeus P Winklemeyer - Toby Longworth

References

• Thaddeus is a Vermaal.
• The aliens in the Freakshow consist of:
  • "Aqua Boy" - no given name/race. A water-breather.
  • "The Mimic" - no given name/race. A shapechanger.
  • "The Wild Man of Borneo" - Berman Labazeen, a Krolock.
  • "The Porcupine" - Splayne, no given race.
  • "The Butterfly" - no given name.
• Winklemeyer also has two Sythaks - snakes from Palliox, a planet near Trion.
• The events take place around the town of Buzzard Creek, somewhere in the western states of America, circa 1905.
• Turlough records a deposition for the Galactic Authorities.
• Smart implants were outlawed 8 centuries earlier by the Hexen-Brock treaty. The Doctor saved Jallican Brock from assassination by a Tamaranian death squad at the signing of the treaty.

Notes

• The DWM download is considered a promotion for the Big Finish line, so the file begins with an introduction by Nicholas Briggs giving a brief history of the audios.
• Freakshow was available to readers of Doctor Who Magazine issue 419 who went to the Big Finish website and entered a code to be found within the magazine.

• The digital download offer was only available until 26th May 2010. Big Finish has announced that Freakshow will be reissued in The Companion Chronicles: The Specials, a box set scheduled for release in June 2011.[1]

Continuity

• Turlough is working through the personal troubles raised by working for the Black Guardian. (DW: Enlightenment)

Timeline

• This story occurs after: DW: Enlightenment
• This story occurs before: BFA: Cobwebs

External links

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