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|series=[[Jago and Litefoot]]
|range          = Jago & Litefoot
|number= 3.4
|series in range = Jago & Litefoot: Series Three
|main character  =[[Henry Gordon Jago]]<br>[[George Litefoot|Professor Litefoot]]<br>[[Leela]]
|series number in range = 3
|featuring = [[Ellie Higson]]<br>[[Quick|Sergeant Quick]]
|number in series = 4
|setting        =[[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Earth]], [[1890s]]
|series         = ''[[Jago & Litefoot]]''
|writer= [[Andy Lane]]
|number         = 3.4
|director= [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|main character  = [[Henry Gordon Jago|Jago]], [[George Litefoot|Litefoot]], [[Leela]]
|producer=
|featuring       = Ellie Higson
|publisher= [[Big Finish Productions]]
|featuring2      = Percival Quick
|release date= [[June]] [[2011]]
|featuring3      = Nikola Tesla
|format= 1 CD
|featuring4      = Sixth Doctor{{!}}Dark
|production code=
|enemy          = [[Elliot Payne]]
|isbn=
|setting        = [[London]], [[1890s]]
|previous story= [[Swan Song]]
|writer          = Andy Lane
|next story= }}
|director        = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|music          = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|sound          = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|cover          = [[Alex Mallinson]]
|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
|audio anthology = Jago & Litefoot: Series Three
|release date   = 1 June 2011
|format         = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>4th of 4 stories
|production code = BFPJLCD03
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-561-7 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78178-641-3 (digital)
|prev            = Swan Song (audio story)
|next            = Jago in Love (audio story)
|producer = [[David Richardson]]
|epcount = 1
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology ''[[Jago & Litefoot: Series Three]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Andy Lane]] and featured [[Christopher Benjamin]] as [[Henry Gordon Jago]] and [[Trevor Baxter]] as [[George Litefoot]].


'''''Chronoclasm''''' is the eleventh [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama in the ''[[Jago and Litefoot]]'' series and the finale of Series Three.
== Publisher's summary ==
When [[George Litefoot|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 Jago]]s save the day?


==Publisher's summary==
== Plot ==
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?
''to be added''
 
== Cast ==
* [[Henry Gordon Jago]] - [[Christopher Benjamin]]
* [[George Litefoot]] - [[Trevor Baxter]]
* [[Leela]] - [[Louise Jameson]]
* [[Ellie Higson]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] - [[Conrad Asquith]]
* [[Elliot Payne|Professor Payne]] - [[Philip Bretherton]]
* [[Nikola Tesla]] - [[Duncan Wisbey]]
* The [[Time Eater]]s - [[Joanna Monro]] / [[Wendy Padbury]]
* [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]] - [[Colin Baker]]
 
== Crew ==


==Cast==
* Cover Art - [[Alex Mallinson]]
*[[Henry Gordon Jago]] - [[Christopher Benjamin]]
* Director - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
*[[George Litefoot]] - [[Trevor Baxter]]
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
*[[Leela]] - [[Louise Jameson]]
* Music and Sound Design - [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
*[[Ellie Higson]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* Producer - [[David Richardson]]
*[[Quick|Sergeant Quick]] - [[Conrad Asquith]]
* Script Editor - [[Justin Richards]]
*Mr Payne - [[Philip Bretherton]]
* Writer - [[Andy Lane]]
*[[Nikola Tesla]] -[[ Duncan Wibsey]]
* Theme Music - [[Jamie Robertson]]
*Time Eaters - [[Joanna Monro]] / [[Wendy Padbury]]
*Professor Claudius Dark - [[Colin Baker]] (cameo)


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
*According to Payne, this story takes place in "[[1890]], give or take a few years."
* According to Payne, the time period is "[[1890]], give or take a few years." He is from 2000 years in the future.
*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. Jago mentions that he has previously met Wilde.
* 2011 is a stable point in time.
*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 originated from either the [[Battle of Britain]] or the [[The Blitz|Blitz]] in the early [[1940s]]. One of the planes is severely damaged and its pilot parachutes out of the plane. 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 uses time bombs, accelerating centuries in seconds.
*Payne has brought a [[sabre-toothed tiger]] to 1890s London from thousands of years in the past to act as a guard. Leela is able to break its neck but sustains several injuries in doing so.
* The Time Eaters were like crabs existing in the event horizon of a black star or sun, feeding off fluctuations in the [[time gradient]]s, converting time to energy. They want to use a time break to leave the black star and feed on all time.
* Payne lost his love Cenya during a gravity spike. The Time Eaters later assume her form.
* Sergeant 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 sculptors.
* According to Quick, the police have interviewed the Irish author and playwright, [[Oscar 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]].
* Payne has brought a [[sabre-toothed tiger]] to London in the 1890s.
* The version of Jago from several hours in the future, which is eventually rendered an [[Alternate timeline|alternative timeline]], is killed by one of Payne's traps.
* Friendship is rare among the [[Sevateem]]. They believe spirits walk the world until a sacrifice is made in their name.
* [[Morse code]] is mentioned.


== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* Leela refers to [[Johnny Skipton]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dead Men's Tales (audio story)|Dead Men Tales]]'')
* Leela previously saw recreations of a British [[Spitfire]] and a German [[Messerschmitt]] in the [[Morovanian Museum]] on [[Morovania Minor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Renaissance Man (audio story)|The Renaissance Man]]'')
* Leela once again refers to members of the Metropolitan Police Service as "blue guards." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Renaissance Man (audio story)|The Renaissance Man]]'', ''[[Energy of the Daleks (audio story)|Energy of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Foe from the Future (audio story)|The Foe from the Future]]'', ''[[Dead Men's Tales (audio story)|Dead Men's Tales]]'')
* Litefoot tells Payne that he and Jago have experience of other times. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Spirit Trap (audio story)|The Spirit Trap]]'', ''[[Swan Song (audio story)|Swan Song]]'')
* The Time Eaters showed Payne how to travel back in time to [[2011]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Swan Song (audio story)|Swan Song]]'')
* Jago and Litefoot recall learning that the [[New Regency Theatre]] will ultimately be destroyed at 8:47 p.m. on [[12 October]] [[1940]] in "[[World War II|a future war]]." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Swan Song (audio story)|Swan Song]]'')
* Ellie refers to the fact that Litefoot allowed her to stay at his house when she was "[[Vampire|ill]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Theatre of Dreams (audio story)|The Theatre of Dreams]]'', ''[[The Ruthven Inheritance (audio story)|The Ruthven Inheritance]]'')
* It would later be revealed that Leela was unable to return to [[Gallifrey]] using her [[Leela's Time Ring|Time Ring]] as the interference from Payne's temporal experiments had prevented it from functioning. Furthermore, the experiments dragged both the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] and a [[Temparon]] vessel to the [[1890s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hourglass Killers (audio story)|The Hourglass Killers]]'')


== Timeline==
== External links ==
*''Chronoclasm'' occurs after [[JAL]]: ''[[Swan Song]]''
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*''Chronoclasm'' occurs before [[JAL]]: ''Jago in Love''
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==External links==
[[Category:Jago & Litefoot: Series Three audio stories]]
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Chronoclasm was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology Jago & Litefoot: Series Three, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Andy Lane and featured Christopher Benjamin as Henry Gordon Jago and Trevor Baxter as George Litefoot.

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

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?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • According to Payne, the time period is "1890, give or take a few years." He is from 2000 years in the future.
  • 2011 is a stable point in time.
  • Payne uses time bombs, accelerating centuries in seconds.
  • The Time Eaters were like crabs existing in the event horizon of a black star or sun, feeding off fluctuations in the time gradients, converting time to energy. They want to use a time break to leave the black star and feed on all time.
  • Payne lost his love Cenya during a gravity spike. The Time Eaters later assume her form.
  • Sergeant 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 sculptors.
  • According to Quick, the police have interviewed the Irish author and playwright, Oscar 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.
  • Payne has brought a sabre-toothed tiger to London in the 1890s.
  • 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.
  • Friendship is rare among the Sevateem. They believe spirits walk the world until a sacrifice is made in their name.
  • Morse code is mentioned.

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

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

v • e
Big Finish Jago & Litefoot audio series
Pilot
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
Specials
Series 5
Series 6
Series 7
Special
Series 8
Series 9
Series 10
Special
Series 11
Series 12
Special
Series 13
Jago & Litefoot
Forever
Series 14
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