Loups-Garoux (audio story)
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| Loups-Garoux | ||
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| Script release: | The Audio Scripts | |
| Doctor: | Fifth Doctor | |
| Companion(s): | Turlough | |
| Main enemy: | Pieter Stubbe | |
| Main setting: | Cologne, Germany, 1589 Russia, 1812 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2080 | |
| Key crew | ||
| Publisher: | Big Finish Productions | |
| Writer: | Marc Platt | |
| Director: | Nicholas Pegg | |
| Music: | Alistair Lock | |
| Cover by: | James Arnott | |
| Release details | ||
| Release number: | 20 | |
| Release date: | May 2001 | |
| Format: | 4 Episodes on 2 CDs | |
| Production code: | 6P/B | |
| ISBN 1-903654-29-7 | ||
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The second audio story to feature the pairing of the Fifth Doctor and Turlough, Loups-Garoux was released by Big Finish in 2001. It is one of only three audios to feature only the Doctor and Turlough together. Later audios, beginning with AUDIO: Cobwebs in 2010, have featured Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough.
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Publisher's summary 
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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 Edit
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Cast Edit
- 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
References Edit
Culture Edit
- 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 Edit
- The first scene quotes the real death sentence on Pieter Stubbe from the documented report of his trial in Cologne in 1589.
Individuals Edit
- 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."
- The Doctor describes Cleopatra as having "the succour and grace of a carpet flea."
Locations Edit
- The Doctor's previous visit to Rio de Janeiro took place in 1700.
Notes Edit
Added by The Librarian- Derek Wright (Jorge) played one of the Roundheads who assailed the UNIT convoy in TV: The Time Monster.
- The new spine design for the range that started with Loups-Garoux was based on the 1999 David Bowie album releases.
- Burt Kwouk (Dr. Hayashi) previously played Lin Futu in TV: Four to Doomsday.
- Eleanor Bron (Ileana de Santos) previously played an art gallery patron in TV: City of Death and Kara in TV: Revelation of the Daleks.
- Nicky Henson (Pieter Stubbe) would later play Dick Turpin in AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse and Gregson Grenville in AUDIO: Deimos.
- Loups-Garoux is the French word for werewolves, but it is misspelled. The correct spelling is Loups-Garous. That said, the x variant does have precedent in literature, such as in the novel Blood and Chocolate.
- After PROSE: Loop the Loup, this is the second story written by Marc Platt to feature werewolves.
- This audio drama was recorded on 9 and 10 December 2000 at The Moat Studios.
- An illustrated preview for this story featured in DWM 304 with artwork by Lee Sullivan.
Continuity Edit
- 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)
External links Edit
- Official Loups-Garoux page at bigfinish.com
- Detailed synopsis of Loups-Garoux at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for Loups-Garoux at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
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