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|featuring       = [[Ellie Higson]]
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|enemy = [[Magnus Greel]], [[Mr Sin]], [[Guinevere Godiva]]
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|setting         =[[London]], [[1968]]
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|writer = [[Justin Richards]]
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|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
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|publisher= [[Big Finish Productions]]
|setting               = [[London]], [[1968]]
|release date= [[March]] [[2013]]
|writer                 = Justin Richards
|format= 1 CD
|director               = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
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|music                  = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-84435-563-1  
|sound                  = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|prev= The Bloodchild Codex (audio story)
|cover                  = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|next= }}
|publisher              = Big Finish Productions
|release date           = 6 March 2013
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|isbn                   = ISBN 978-1-84435-563-1
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|next                   = The Skeleton Quay (audio story)
|producer              = [[David Richardson]]
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'''''The Final Act''''' is the twentieth [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama in the ''[[Jago & Litefoot]]'' series and the fourth and final episode of Series Five.


'''''The Last Act''''' is the twentieth [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama in the ''[[Jago and Litefoot]]'' series and the fourth episode of Series Five.
== Publisher's summary ==
It's the night of [[Henry Gordon Jago|Jago]]'s biggest show - but he isn't quite prepared for the [[Magnus Greel|special guest star]]... as the curtain falls, can Jago and [[George Litefoot|Litefoot]] find their way [[1890s|home]]?


== Publisher's summary ==
== Plot ==
It's the night of Jago's biggest show - but he isn't quite prepared for the special guest star... as the curtain falls, can Jago and Litefoot find their way home?
''to be added''


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[Dave Sacker|Detective Sergeant Dave Sacker]]/[[Magnus Greel]] - [[Duncan Wisbey]]
* [[Dave Sacker|Detective Sergeant Dave Sacker]]/[[Magnus Greel]] - [[Duncan Wisbey]]
* [[Guinevere Godiva]] - [[Raquel Cassidy]]
* [[Guinevere Godiva]] - [[Raquel Cassidy]]
* [[Aubrey]] - [[Jamie Newall]]
* [[Aubrey (The Age of Revolution)|Aubrey]] - [[Jamie Newall]]
* [[Singer]] - [[Alice Carter (actress)]]
* [[Singer (The Final Act)|Singer]] - [[Alice Carter (actor)|Alice Carter]]
* [[The Colonel]] - [[Geoffrey Whitehead]]
* [[The Colonel (The Final Act)|The Colonel]] - [[Geoffrey Whitehead]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* [[Sid James]] and [[Eric and Ernie]] are actors at the Regency Theatre.  
* [[Sid James]], [[Tony Hancock]], [[Noël Coward]], [[Eric and Ernie]] and the [[Amazing Alice]] are performing at the [[Palace Theatre]] live on ''[[Those Were the Days]]''.
* Ellie cried profusely at Litefoot's funeral. She claims that it was a beautiful service but she disapproved of Litefoot's decision to have the hymn "[[All Things Bright and Beautiful]]" played during the funeral.
* Jago and Litefoot use [[Magnus Greel]]'s [[time cabinet]] to return to [[1893]].
* Mention is made of Tony Hancock sacking his script writer. At one point Terry Nation was writing scripts for Hancock


== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Sacker compares the escapades of Jago and Litefoot to an episode of the television series ''[[Nightshade (series)|Nightshade]]'', "only far less plausible." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'')
* Jago and Litefoot once again fight off an attack from [[Mr Sin]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bloodchild Codex (audio story)|The Bloodchild Codex]]'')
* Jago refers to the [[Fourth Doctor]] destroying the key to Magnus Greel's time cabinet in [[1889]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
* Sacker refers to Jago and Litefoot's previous claims about [[time travel]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Age of Revolution (audio story)|The Age of Revolution]]'') and hallucinogenic [[frog]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)|The Case of the Gluttonous Guru]]'')
* Sacker compares the escapades of Jago and Litefoot to an episode of the [[science fiction]] television series ''[[Nightshade (series)|Nightshade]]'', "only less plausible". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'')
* Litefoot refers to Greel's [[catalytic extraction chamber]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
* Litefoot tells Ellie that Jago was able to open the time cabinet using the [[Thraskin]] [[crystal]] which he obtained on [[Venus]] in the [[far future]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Voyage to Venus (audio story)|Voyage to Venus]]'', ''[[The Bloodchild Codex (audio story)|The Bloodchild Codex]]'')
* Greel recalls that he used the time cabinet to escape his enemies in the [[51st century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)|The Butcher of Brisbane]]'')
* Jago comments that the time cabinet is far smaller on the inside than the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hourglass Killers (audio story)|The Hourglass Killers]]'', ''[[Voyage to Venus (audio story)|Voyage to Venus]]'', ''[[Voyage to the New World (audio story)|Voyage to the New World]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{Bigfinish|releases/v/jago-litefoot-series-five-box-set-554|The Last Act - Series Five Box Set}}
{{Bigfinish|releases/v/jago-litefoot-series-five-box-set-554|The Final Act - Series Five Box Set}}
 
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The Final Act is the twentieth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago & Litefoot series and the fourth and final episode of Series Five.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

It's the night of Jago's biggest show - but he isn't quite prepared for the special guest star... as the curtain falls, can Jago and Litefoot find their way home?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Series 11
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Jago & Litefoot
Forever
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