Chronoclasm (audio story)

Chronoclasm
Main character(s):	Henry Gordon Jago Professor George Litefoot Leela
Featuring:	Ellie Higson Sgt. Quick Professor Claudius Dark
Main enemy:	Professor Payne
Main setting:	London, the 1890s
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Andy Lane
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Release details
Release number:	3.4
Release date:	June 2011
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPJLCD03
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-561-7
Jago and Litefoot
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Next →	Jago in Love

Chronoclasm is the twelfth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago and Litefoot series and the finale of Series Three.

Publisher's summary

When Litefoot’s home is invaded by giant metal spheres, it seems that the end of the world is nigh. The enemy has revealed itself, the end game is afoot - can two Henry Gordon Jagos save the day?

Cast

• Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
• George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
• Sergeant Quick - Conrad Asquith
• Professor Payne - Philip Bretherton
• Nikola Tesla - Duncan Wisbey
• The Time Eaters - Joanna Monro / Wendy Padbury
• Professor Claudius Dark - Colin Baker

References

• According to Payne, this story takes place in "1890, give or take a few years."
• Sgt. Quick tells Professor Litefoot that the Metropolitan Police Service is issuing the cover story that the metal spheres are a stunt by a group of Bohemian artists. Litefoot raises the possibility that this may, in fact, be the truth. According to Quick, the police have interviewed the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde to that end and are confident that he had nothing to do with it. Litefoot mentions that he has met Wilde.
• As a result of the time breaks, Leela and Jago find a 20th century radio playing a BBC shipping broadcast. They later see a British spitfire and a German Messerschmitt fighting each other in the sky over 1890s London which had come from the Blitz in the early 1940s. One of the planes is severely damaged and its pilot makes his escape using a parachute. Jago, having never previously seen either a "flying machine" or a parachute, suggests to Leela that he should hire the pilot to perform his "act" at the New Regency Theatre.
• Payne has brought a sabre-toothed tiger to 1890s London from thousands of years in the past to act as a guard. Leela breaks its neck but sustains several injuries in doing so.
• The version of Jago from several hours in the future, which is eventually rendered an alternative timeline, is killed by one of Payne's traps.

Story notes

• Duncan Wisbey (Nikola Tesla) previously played Professor Litefoot's fellow pathologist Dr. Ormond Sacker in JAL: The Bellova Devil, JAL: The Theatre of Dreams and JAL: The Ruthven Inheritance.

Continuity

• There are several references to the fact that the New Regency Theatre will ultimately be destroyed at 8:47 p.m. on 12 October 1940 in "a future war." (JAL: Swan Song)
• During their brief struggle, the two versions of Jago do not seem to be affected by the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. (DW: Day of the Daleks, DW: Mawdryn Undead)
• Leela previously saw recreations of a British spitfire and a German Messerschmidt in the Morovanian Museum on Morovania Minor. (BFA: The Renaissance Man)
• It would later be revealed that Leela was unable to return to Gallifrey using her Time Ring as the interference from Payne's temporal experiments had prevented it from functioning. (JAL: The Hourglass Killers)

Timeline

• Chronoclasm occurs after JAL: Swan Song
• Chronoclasm occurs immediately before JAL: Jago in Love

External links

• Official Chronoclasm - Series Three Box Set page at bigfinish.com
• Chronoclasm at the Doctor Who Reference Guide