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{{Infobox Audiobook

|name = The Butcher of Brisbane

|image = 161 The Butcher of Brisbane.png

|series = [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]]

|number = 161

|doctor = [[Fifth Doctor]]

|companions = [[Nyssa]]<br />[[Tegan Jovanka]]<br />[[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]]

|enemy = [[Magnus Greel]]<br>Dr. [[Sa Yy Findecker]]

|setting = The [[Brisbane|Brisbane Dead Zone]], [[Australia]], the [[51st century]]<br>The Correspondence Club in orbit of [[Earth]], the [[51st century]]<br>[[Peking]], [[China]], the [[51st century]]<br>[[Reykjavik]], [[Iceland]], the [[51st century]]

|writer = [[Marc Platt]]

|publisher = [[Big Finish Productions]]

|release date = [[June]] [[2012]]

|format = 2 CDs, 4 parts

|prev = The Jupiter Conjunction (audio story)

|next = Protect and Survive (audio story)

|director = [[Ken Bentley]]

|production code = 6H/H

|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-629-4}}{{Audio stub}}

'''''The Butcher of Brisbane''''' was the third story in the [[2012]] [[Fifth Doctor]] audio trilogy.

Adopting the alias of [[Weng-Chiang]], the [[51st century]] war criminal [[Magnus Greel]] will one day arrive in [[Victorian]] [[London]] by [[Time cabinet|Time Cabinet]] – only to meet his doom, his plans undone by the [[Time Lord]] known as the [[Fourth Doctor|Doctor]].

The [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]] never believed he'd meet Greel again. But when a [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] trip to companion [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]]'s home town goes wrong, the Doctor ends up in the younger Greel's heyday – in a world on the brink of [[World War VI|all-out war]].

With the Doctor at the mercy of Greel's alien associate [[Sa Yy Findecker|Findecker]] and his army of mutations, Tegan is about to learn just why they called Greel 'The Butcher of Brisbane'...

''to be added''

* [[Fifth Doctor]] - [[Peter Davison]]

* Dr. [[Sa Yy Findecker]] - [[Rupert Frazer]]  

* [[Ingrid Bjarnsdottir]]/Stewardess - [[Felicity Duncan]]  

* [[Ragan Crezzen]] - [[Daniel Weyman]]  

* [[Sasha Dialfa]]/[[Kaori]] - [[Daisy Ashford]]  

* [[Eugene Duplessis]]/[[Chops]]/Guard/Reporter/Autovoice - [[John Banks]]

== References ==

* [[Magnus Greel]] is the Supreme [[Minister of Justice]] of the [[Supreme Alliance|Supreme Alliance of Eastern States]]. Presiding over the Star Chamber, he sentences [[Ragan Crezzen]] (Prisoner 100742) to life imprisonment in a labour camp for the attempted murder of a government official, namely [[Sa Yy Findecker|Dr. Sa Yy Findecker]], whom he blames for the death of his friend Sasha. However, he is immediately placed in Findecker's time chamber for experimentation.

* The Doctor attempts to materialise the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] in Tegan's father's sheep farm in [[Australia]] in [[June]] during the [[1980s]] in order to witness the sheep shearing. However, the TARDIS encounters turbulence in the [[Time Vortex]] shortly before being struck by a [[Zygma beam]], which begins to carve up its dimensions. The Doctor and Tegan remain in the TARDIS' console room while Nyssa and Turlough arrive in a frozen tundra in the early [[51st century]]. However, the Doctor believes that they may have been lost in the vortex.

* The Doctor tells Tegan that the 51st century is "justly notorious" for using [[Zygma energy]] to conduct time travel experiments. Tegan recognises the lie of the land as Spring Hill in Brisbane.

* While sheltering from the cold, Nyssa and Turlough are discovered by a woman named Sasha Dialfra, a member of the [[Earth Free Media]], who offers them thermal blankets. She recognises the corpse of the man from the future as her friend Ragan, whose younger self is back at their base. She realises that he allowed himself to be a victim of Findecker's time experiments in order to prove his theory that the people appearing in the Brisbane Dead Zone are from the future.

* Earth Free Media's base, the Correspondence Club, is in close orbit of [[Earth]], 250 cliques above the surface of the planet. On a television monitor, Tegan witnesses Magnus Greel meeting with [[Ingrid Bjarnsdottir]], the Commissioner of the [[Icelandic Alliance]], in [[Peking]], [[China]]. Greel introduces Bjarnsdottir to his "devoted bride-to-be": Nyssa.

* Dr. Findecker attempts to hypnotise the Doctor, though his efforts are unsuccessful. Findecker's interest is piqued by not only the Doctor's alien nature but also the fact that he is aware that he has discovered the [[double nexus particle]] in spite of this information not being made public.

* Sasha and Ragan tell Tegan that the former discovered Nyssa and Turlough in the Brisbane Dead Zone three years earlier and that the two of them were given new identities. Tegan comments that Nyssa, who uses the alias "Nyssa Traken," has clearly done well for herself.

* Findecker, an expert in cybernetics, has augmented various dingoes with advanced technology, substantially increasing their intelligence and giving them the ability to speech. He names one of them "Chops." Having been given a tour of Findecker's laboratory, the Doctor is chained up and offered to the mutated troll which he and Tegan encountered in the Dead Zone as food. However, Findecker spares his life when the Doctor tells him that he is a [[Time Agency|Time Agent]] and he therefore knows from personal experience that time travel is possible. While Findecker order Chops to chain the Doctor up elsewhere, the Doctor is able to reprogamme Chops to obey his orders.

* In her chambers, Nyssa discovers that Findecker is present. The scientist accuses her and Turlough of being Time Agent spies in the employ of the [[Iceland]]ers. He disappears as soon as Kaori arrives. Confirming his suspicions, Turlough sneaks out to the Icelandic Embassy and presents Commissioner Bjarnsdottir with the evidence which Nyssa has accumulated.

* When Findecker's time cabinet materialises on a cliff top in Reykjavik, Greel has Mr Sin kill the alien scientist. The two of them gain control of the cabinet and are sent back in time to 19th century China.

* [[Angus Wright]] (Magnus Greel) previously played [[Mister Dread]] in [[SJA]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets (TV story)|The Vault of Secrets]]''.

* [[Felicity Duncan]] (Ingrid Bjarnsdottir) would later play [[Ikiria]] and Corporal [[Jean Mercer]] in [[CC]]: ''[[The Rings of Ikiria (audio story)|The Rings of Ikiria]]''.

* [[Daisy Ashford]] ([[Sasha Dialfa]]) previously played [[Lizzie Harcourt]] in [[BFA]]: ''[[The Renaissance Man (audio story)|The Renaissance Man]]''. She is the daughter of [[Caroline John]] and [[Geoffrey Beevers]].

* This story is both a sequel and a prequel to [[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''.  

* This is the second time that the Fifth Doctor has faced an old enemy in their early days. The first was [[Morbius]] in [[PDA]]: ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]''. Both characters were first encountered by the [[Fourth Doctor]] and both were originally played by [[Michael Spice]].

* This audio drama was recorded on [[19 January|19]] and [[20 January]] [[2012]].

* The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan previously spent several days on holiday in [[Brisbane]] in [[1983]] after defeating Father Thane and the Elite on [[Florana]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Elite (audio story)|The Elite]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[Hexagora (audio story)|Hexagora]]'') Later in his personal timeline, the Doctor would return to Brisbane on [[22 September]] [[2006]] where he was unexpectedly reunited with Tegan, approximately 22 years after she had left the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] following an encounter with the [[Dalek]]s in [[London]] in [[1984]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')

* The Doctor tells Tegan that there was another [[Ice Age]] during the [[51st century]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]'')

* The Doctor tells Tegan and Ragan that Greel is destined to die in another time. However, he initially refuses to either confirm or deny that he was present for that incident. During his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]], he and his companion [[Leela]] encountered an older version of Greel, who was posing as the [[China|Chinese]] [[god]] [[Weng-Chiang]], and Mr Sin in [[London]] in [[1889]]. As doing so would alter the course of history, the Doctor never reveals his true identity to the younger Greel. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')

* The older Greel would later tell the Fourth Doctor that he had previously encountered a [[Time Agency|Time Agent]] in the 51st century. The Doctor was unaware that Greel was referring to his future self. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')

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