The Butcher of Brisbane

Plot

Cast

• The Doctor – Peter Davison
• Tegan Jovanka – Janet Fielding
• Nyssa – Sarah Sutton
• Vislor Turlough – Mark Strickson
• Magnus Greel – Angus Wright
• Dr Sa Yy Findecker – Rupert Frazer
• Ingrid Bjarnsdottir – Felicity Duncan
• Ragan Crezzen – Daniel Weyman
• Sasha Dialfa – Daisy Ashford
• Eugene Duplessis / Chops – John Banks

  Continuity

• Magnus Greel was introduced in the 1977 Fourth Doctor television story, The Talons of Weng-Chiang. He was a mutated despot from the future who fled to Victorian London in a Time Cabinet, along with his cyborg, Mr Sin. Under his Supreme Alliance, Greel was said to have killed 100,000, giving him the nickname, The Butcher of Brisbane.
• Time Agents were first mentioned in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, with Greel believing they may be after him. Beyond that, no other details are known about them. They weren't mentioned again in a television story until The Empty Child in 2005, when Captain Jack Harkness revealed himself to be a former Time Agent from the 51st century.

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