Freakshow (audio story)

Freakshow
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Vislor Turlough Tegan Jovanka
Main enemy:	Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer
Main setting:	Buzzard Creek, in the American West, USA, Earth, circa 1905
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Mark Morris
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Music:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Sound:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Read by:	Mark Strickson
Release details
Release date:	3 March 2010 (DWM download) 31 August 2011 (The Specials box)
Format:	MP3 digital download two episodes on one CD

Freakshow was an audio drama in Big Finish Productions' The Companion Chronicles series. It was initially a digital download exclusively offered to readers of Doctor Who Magazine Issue 419, but was later released as part of the Companion Chronicles: The Specials box set.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS arrives in Arizona 1905, where travelling showman Thaddeus P Winklemeyer is offering the residents of Buzzard Creek the elixir of life. Winklemeyer also owns a unique carnival, which is full of caged alien creatures. And in Turlough he has found a brand new exhibit...

Plot

to be added

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 was considered a promotion for the Big Finish line, so the file began with an introduction by Nicholas Briggs giving a brief history of the company's audio releases.
• This audio drama was recorded on 24 April 2009.

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

Releases

• The Mists of Time was available to readers of Doctor Who Magazine who went to the Big Finish website and entered a code to be found within the magazine. The digital download offer was only available from March to 26 May 2010.
• Big Finish subsequently reissued the story as part of The Companion Chronicles: The Specials, released August 2011.

External links

• Official Freakshow - The Companion Chronicles Specials page at bigfinish.com
• Freakshow at the Doctor Who Reference Guide