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|featuring       =[[Ellie Higson]]<br />[[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]]<br />[[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]]
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|main character  = [[Henry Gordon Jago|Jago]] & [[George Litefoot|Litefoot]]
|writer = [[Justin Richards]]
|featuring      = Leela
|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|featuring2       = Ellie Higson
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|featuring3      = Percival Quick||enemy           = [[Kempston]], [[Hardwick]]
|publisher= Big Finish Productions
|setting        = [[London]] and [[Kempston-Hardwick]], [[Bedfordshire]], [[1893]]
|release date= [[March (releases)|March]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]
|writer         = Justin Richards
|format= 1 CD
|director       = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|production code= BFPJLCD04
|music          = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-84435-562-4
|sound          = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|prev= The Lonely Clock (audio story)
|cover          = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|next= Voyage to Venus (audio story)}}
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
'''''The Hourglass Killers''''' is the sixteenth [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama in the ''[[Jago and Litefoot]]'' series and the final episode of Series Four. The story resolves the ongoing mystery of Professor Claudius Dark's identity .
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|next           = Voyage to Venus (audio story)
|producer = [[David Richardson]]|featuring4 = Sixth Doctor
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'''''The Hourglass Killers''''' was the sixteenth [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama in the ''[[Jago & Litefoot]]'' series and the final episode of [[Jago & Litefoot: Series Four|series 4]]. The story resolved the ongoing mystery of Professor Claudius Dark's identity, revealing him to be none other than the Sixth Doctor.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
The sands of time are running… and they are in pursuit of Jago, Litefoot, Leela and Ellie. As the final battle gets underway, the infernal investigators make the decision of their lives…
The sands of time are running... and they are in pursuit of Jago, Litefoot, Leela and Ellie. As the final battle gets underway, the infernal investigators make the decision of their lives...


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Henry Gordon Jago]] - [[Christopher Benjamin]]
* [[Henry Gordon Jago]] - [[Christopher Benjamin]]
* [[George Litefoot]] - [[Trevor Baxter]]
* [[George Litefoot]] - [[Trevor Baxter]]
* [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]] - [[Colin Baker]]
* [[Leela]] - [[Louise Jameson]]
* [[Leela]] - [[Louise Jameson]]
* [[Ellie Higson]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Ellie Higson]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] - [[Conrad Asquith]]
* [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] - [[Conrad Asquith]]
* [[Lord Ampthill]] - [[Terry Molloy]]
* Lord [[Ampthill]] - [[Terry Molloy]]
* [[Abigail Woburn]] - [[Elizabeth Counsell]]
* [[Abigail Woburn]] - [[Elizabeth Counsell]]
* [[Kempston|Mr Kempston]] - [[Christopher Beeny]]
* [[Kempston|Mr Kempston]] - [[Christopher Beeny]]
* [[Hardwick|Mr Hardwick]] - [[Mike Grady]]
* [[Hardwick|Mr Hardwick]] - [[Mike Grady]]
and
* [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]] - [[Colin Baker]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The [[The Doctor|Doctor]] used the alias "Professor Claudius Dark" to mislead Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick.
* The Doctor laments that he does not have access to a scanning [[electron microscope]].
* The Doctor laments that he does not have access to a scanning [[electron microscope]] in the [[1890s]].
* The Doctor determines that the soil was taken from [[Bedfordshire]].
* From the high clay content of the soil from which the Sandmen are made, the Doctor determines that the soil was taken from [[Bedfordshire]]. Litefoot recalls that there is a village named Kempston-Hardwick in Bedfordshire.
* The Doctor sank [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to the bottom of the mud in the [[River Thames]] to hide it from Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick. He intends to retrieve it using a [[Stattenheim remote control]].
* The Doctor sank [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to the bottom of the mud in the [[River Thames]] to hide it from Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick. He intends to retrieve it using a [[Stattenheim remote control]]. However, Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick have learned the location of the TARDIS and are aware that Professor Dark is actually the Doctor.
* Lord Ampthill's workmen discovered a [[Temparon]] vessel which was dragged to the [[1890s]] by Professor [[Elliot Payne]]'s temporal experiments.
* Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick are capable of duplicating themselves. Furthermore, they can observe everything through the soil which they obtained from Kempston-Hardwick.
* To convince Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick that they have remained in London, Jago and Ellie disguise themselves as the Doctor and Leela.
* Lord Ampthill owns the quarry in Kempston-Hardwick from which the soil used to create the Sandmen was obtained. The Doctor, Litefoot and Leela discover Lord Ampthill trapped in a giant hourglass with the sand up to his neck. Leela rescues him by smashing the hourglass with a chair.
* Lord Ampthill's workmen discovered a [[Temperon]] vessel which was dragged to the [[1890s]] by [[Payne (Swan Song)|Payne]]'s temporal experiments. Unlike the [[Time Lord]]s, the Temperons lack true [[time travel]]. The Doctor claims that, in a sense, Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick are the vessel's pilots whereas, in another sense, they are part of the ship itself. They seek to absorb the [[artron energy]] from the TARDIS in order to access the [[Time Vortex]].
* The Doctor notes that the 1890s is a little too early for {{w|Werner Heisenberg}}.
* The Temperons' empire is expanding. The Doctor believes they may have set their sights on Earth.
* The Doctor states that the Sandmen are "unfinished" compared to Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick as creating them requires a lot of energy from the Temperon vessel.
* Jago's erstwhile fiancé [[Abigail Woburn]] was created by Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick from the soil in the same manner in which they manifested themselves and created their duplicates. Her name was taken from Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire.
* The roof of the tunnel which Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick have built underneath the [[River Thames]] collapses under the weight of the water, causing the two of them, their various duplicates and all of the other Sandmen to be diluted.
* The Doctor has an appointment in the [[Horsehead Nebula]] in the [[29th century]].
* The Doctor has an appointment in the [[Horsehead Nebula]] in the [[29th century]].
* As her [[Time Ring]] is again operational, Leela returns to [[Gallifrey]].
* As her [[Leela's Time Ring|Time Ring]] is again operational, Leela returns to [[Gallifrey]].
* The Doctor invites Jago and Litefoot to join him as his latest companions, an offer they graciously accept. However, Jago is concerned about travelling in the TARDIS due to motion sickness.


== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
* [[Terry Molloy]] (Lord Ampthill) is best known for playing [[Davros]], the creator of the [[Dalek]]s, in [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' as well as numerous other Big Finish audio dramas. Furthermore, he played [[Russell (Attack of the Cybermen)|Russell]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'' as well as Magus Riga in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kingdom of Silver (audio story)|Kingdom of Silver]]'', Examiner 2 in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Keepsake (audio story)|Keepsake]]'' and Dr. Christopher Wallace and the Rat King in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rat Trap (audio story)|Rat Trap]]''.
''to be added''


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* This is Jago and Litefoot's first encounter with the Doctor since the [[Magnus Greel|Weng-Chiang Incident]] in [[1889]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') They will meet the [[Fourth Doctor]] again in 1899. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Justice of Jalxar]]'')
* This is Jago and Litefoot's first encounter with the Doctor since the [[Magnus Greel|Weng-Chiang]] incident in [[1889]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') They would later meet the [[Fourth Doctor]] again in [[1899]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Justice of Jalxar]]'') the [[Sixth Doctor]] later still, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stage Fright (audio story)|Stage Fright]]'') and the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]] and [[Eleventh Doctor]] later still, but respectively for each other. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Jago & Litefoot Revival (audio story)|The Jago & Litefoot Revival]]'')
* In her personal timeline, Leela's last encounter with the Doctor occurred in the [[Dark Tower]] in the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]] during his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') In the interim, however, she encountered an alternative version of the Sixth Doctor known as the [[Burner Doctor]] on the Gallifrey of an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'')
* In her personal timeline, [[Leela]]'s last encounter with the Doctor occurred in the [[Dark Tower]] in the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]] during his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') In the interim, however, she encountered an alternative version of the Sixth Doctor known as the [[Burner Doctor]] on the Gallifrey of an [[Alternate timeline|alternative timeline]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'')
* Litefoot tells the Doctor that he and Jago previously destroyed a Sandman. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'')
* Litefoot tells the Doctor that he and Jago previously destroyed a Sandman. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'')
* The Doctor congratulates [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] on his promotion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bloodless Soldier (audio story)|The Bloodless Soldier]]'')
* The Doctor congratulates [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] on his promotion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bloodless Soldier (audio story)|The Bloodless Soldier]]'')
* Jago refers to the metal spheres from the future which damaged Litefoot's house. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chronoclasm (audio story)|Chronoclasm]]'') Litefoot complains that it is still undergoing repairs. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beautiful Things (audio story)|Beautiful Things]]'')
* Jago refers to the metal spheres from the future which damaged Litefoot's house. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chronoclasm (audio story)|Chronoclasm]]'') Litefoot complains that it is still undergoing repairs. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'', ''[[Beautiful Things (audio story)|Beautiful Things]]'')
* The Doctor makes use of a [[Stattenheim remote control]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'')
* The Doctor makes use of a [[Stattenheim remote control]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'')
* Litefoot refers to [[Winnie O'Connor]]'s time cracker. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lonely Clock (audio story)|The Lonely Clock]]'')
* Litefoot refers to [[Winnie O'Connor]]'s time cracker. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lonely Clock (audio story)|The Lonely Clock]]'')
* Like the Temperon vessel, the TARDIS was dragged to the [[1890s]] as a result of Payne's temporal experiments. His experiments also prevented Leela's Time Ring from functioning. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chronoclasm (audio story)|Chronoclasm]]'')
* Like the Temperon vessel, the TARDIS was dragged to the [[1890s]] as a result of Payne's temporal experiments. His experiments also prevented Leela's Time Ring from functioning. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chronoclasm (audio story)|Chronoclasm]]'')
* Litefoot would later recall his and Jago's departure with the Doctor as having occurred in [[1893]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Age of Revolution (audio story)|The Age of Revolution]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{Bigfinish|releases/v/jago-litefoot-series-four-box-set-558|The Hourglass Killers - Series Four Box Set}}
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The Hourglass Killers was the sixteenth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago & Litefoot series and the final episode of series 4. The story resolved the ongoing mystery of Professor Claudius Dark's identity, revealing him to be none other than the Sixth Doctor.

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

The sands of time are running... and they are in pursuit of Jago, Litefoot, Leela and Ellie. As the final battle gets underway, the infernal investigators make the decision of their lives...

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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