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|publisher      = AudioGo
|release date    = [[January]] [[2011]]
|read by        = [[Matt Smith]]
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|previous story = [[The Runaway Train]]
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|next story     = [[The Hounds of Artemis]]
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'''''The Jade Pyramid''''' was the fourth made-for-audio adventure featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]].


==Publisher's summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
Intercepting a distress call, the TARDIS is drawn to a Shinto shrine in medieval Japan, where the Doctor and Amy are met by village elder Shijo Sada. He explains that the ogre-like mannequins surrounding the holy site are harmless guardians, called [[Otoroshi]]. At the heart of the temple is an ancient jade pyramid, so sacred that only the monks may look at it. But the Shogun, the ruler of Japan, wants to possess the pyramid and has ordered seven samurai and a band of soldiers to come to Kokan and seize it. Whilst the Doctor is tracked by a ninja assassin, Amy discovers what happens to trespassers at the shrine. Soon the secrets of the jade pyramid - and the towering Otoroshi - will be known.
Intercepting a distress call, the TARDIS is drawn to a [[Shinto]] shrine in [[medieval]] Japan, where the Doctor and Amy are met by village elder [[Shijô Sada]]. He explains that the ogre-like mannequins surrounding the holy site are harmless guardians, called [[Otoroshi]]. At the heart of the temple is an ancient jade pyramid, so sacred that only the monks may look at it. But the [[Shogun]], the ruler of Japan, wants to possess the pyramid and has ordered seven [[samurai]] and a band of soldiers to come to [[Kokan]] and seize it. Whilst the Doctor is tracked by a [[ninja]] assassin, Amy discovers what happens to trespassers at the shrine. Soon the secrets of the jade pyramid and the towering Otoroshi will be known.


==Cast==
== Plot ==
*[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
''to be added''
*[[Amy Pond]]


==References==
== Cast ==
*Amy remembers a time from her childhood when she believed she saw mannequins move on their own (given her age and date of birth, she could be remembering an Auton invasion, probably the one in [[Rose]]).
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
*Once again the TARDIS' gift of instant translation is referred to, with Sada thinking that Amy and the Doctor speak Japanese fluently but saying that they sounded like foreigners.
* [[Amy Pond]]
*Upon hearing the Doctor's voice, Sada cannot decide if he's a young man without experience or an old man who time has smoothed to a soft confidence.
* [[Shijô Sada]]
*Onarushi is a Ronin (a samurai without a master).
* [[Tanaka (The Jade Pyramid)|Tanaka]]
*Sada compares the way the Doctor moves to a young calf (hearkening back to Steven Moffat's description of Smith moving "like a drunken giraffe")
* [[Nasu]]
* [[Samurai]]


==Notes==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* Once again the TARDIS' [[translation circuit]] is referred to, with Sada thinking that Amy and the Doctor speak [[Japanese language|Japanese]] fluently but saying that they sounded like foreigners.
 
== Notes ==
* The story was also available as a download from the [[AudioGO]] website before the company went into administration.


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] visited Japan on another occasion in the latter's [[2011|present day]], where they defeated an invasion by the [[Axon]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Golden Ones]]'')


==Timeline==
== External links ==
''to be added''
{{dwrefguide|jadepyramid.htm|The Jade Pyramid}}
{{AudioGO}}
{{NSA}}
{{TitleSort}}


==External links==
''to be added''
{{ELDA}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jade Pyramid, The}}
[[Category:Doctor Who original audiobooks]]
[[Category:BBC Eleventh Doctor Adventures]]
[[Category:2011 audio stories]]
[[Category:2011 audio stories]]
[[Category:Stories set in Japan]]
[[Category:Stories set in Japan]]
[[Category:Eleventh Doctor NSA audio stories]]

Latest revision as of 20:46, 17 March 2024

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The Jade Pyramid was the fourth made-for-audio adventure featuring the Eleventh Doctor.

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

Intercepting a distress call, the TARDIS is drawn to a Shinto shrine in medieval Japan, where the Doctor and Amy are met by village elder Shijô Sada. He explains that the ogre-like mannequins surrounding the holy site are harmless guardians, called Otoroshi. At the heart of the temple is an ancient jade pyramid, so sacred that only the monks may look at it. But the Shogun, the ruler of Japan, wants to possess the pyramid and has ordered seven samurai and a band of soldiers to come to Kokan and seize it. Whilst the Doctor is tracked by a ninja assassin, Amy discovers what happens to trespassers at the shrine. Soon the secrets of the jade pyramid — and the towering Otoroshi — will be known.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Once again the TARDIS' translation circuit is referred to, with Sada thinking that Amy and the Doctor speak Japanese fluently but saying that they sounded like foreigners.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The story was also available as a download from the AudioGO website before the company went into administration.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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