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|aka              = [[Sherlock Holmes]]
|individual name = Henry Gordon Jago
|image            = Jago in a hat.jpg
|species=[[Human]]
|species           = Human
|home planet = [[Earth]]
|job              = Impresario
|home era = [[19th century]]
|job2              = Television presenter
|appearances = [[Henry Gordon Jago - List of Appearances|Full list of appearances]]
|affiliation      = Palace Theatre
|mentions= [[BFA]]: ''[[Destination: Nerva]]''<br />[[MA]]: ''[[The Shadow of Weng-Chiang]]''<br />[[EDA]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers]]''
|origin            = [[Earth]]
|actor = [[Christopher Benjamin]]
|father            = Henry Gordon Jago's father{{!}}Father
|mother            = Henry Gordon Jago's mother{{!}}Mother
|sister            = Henry Gordon Jago's sister{{!}}Sister
|child            = Henry Gordon Jago Jr
|first cs          = The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)
|appearances      = [[Henry Gordon Jago/Appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|actor            = Christopher Benjamin
|other voice actor = [[Alex Lowe]]
|clip              = Hypnotised - The Talons of Weng-Chiang - BBC
|clip2            = Escaping the Laser Dragon - The Talons of Weng-Chiang - BBC
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'''Henry Gordon Jago''' was the owner of the [[Palace Theatre]] in [[London]].
{{Sherlock Holmes}}
Sir '''Henry Gordon Jago''', KCBE was the owner of the [[Palace Theatre]] and the [[New Regency Theatre]] in [[London]] during the late [[19th century]].
 
He had adventures with [[the Doctor]] in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth]], [[Fifth Doctor|fifth]] and [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnations]] and became a short-lived [[companion]] of the [[Sixth Doctor]].
 
Following his adventures with the Doctor, Jago became a "defender of the [[Earth]]", investigating [[alien]] activity that threatened the future, alongside Professor [[George Litefoot]], with whom he developed a great friendship.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Jago had an aunt named [[Maude]] who was still alive in the [[1890s]]. She lived in [[Margate]] and had recently become engaged to a fishmonger named [[Robert Botcherby]]. ([[JAL]]: ''[[The Spirit Trap]]'')
=== Childhood ===
Henry Gordon Jago was told by [[Henry Gordon Jago's mother|his mother]] that he "had all the grace of a bull in a china shop" ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jago in Love (audio story)}}) and that drinking would inevitably lead to death. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Backwards Men (audio story)}}) Both his mother and [[Henry Gordon Jago's father|father]] had died by the [[1890s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jago in Love (audio story)}}) He had [[Henry Gordon Jago's sister|a sister]] who lived in [[Brighton]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Bodysnatchers (novel)}})
 
As a child, Jago lived downwind of a [[tannery]] ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (audio story)}}) and always wanted to drive a [[train|steam train]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Higson & Quick (audio story)}}) His aunt [[Maude (The Spirit Trap)|Maude]] sometimes took him [[swimming]] in [[Margate]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Spirit Trap (audio story)}})
 
Jago was a member of the under-eleven [[Fives (sport)|fives]] at school ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Higson & Quick (audio story)}}) and claimed that he was "a dab hand with a [[catapult]] when [he] was a nipper". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)}}) He always came last in the cross country races at school. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Backwards Men (audio story)}})
 
In [[1851]], Jago witnessed [[Michael Faraday]] demonstrate [[electricity]] at [[the Great Exhibition]] in the [[Crystal Palace]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)}})
 
=== Early career ===
Jago began working in the music halls in [[1859]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)}}) As a young man, he performed at the [[Glasgow Empire]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Lonely Clock (audio story)}})
 
In [[1866]], he was at the [[Alhambra Theatre]] where he auditioned for Romeo in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' where he got a letter from his future self. He also worked as a cleaner in the theatre. His future self sent him a letter to stop the kidnapping of one of the youths that worked in the theatre, but this led to him being knocked out. He realised that the kids were being kidnapped as food. It was then he drunk his first Pale Ale from the [[Red Tavern]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Year of the Bat (audio story)}})
 
At some point in the mid 1870s, Jago took the place of Arthur Lloyd, who was suffering from goat, in managing an act performed by [[Ruby Valentine]]. A playbill about this was also recorded. The two potentially had a romantic relationship, though Jago would later claim that because of his fondness for "orange nectar", his memories of events during this time are "hazy". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jago & Son (audio story)}})
 
Some time prior to [[1881]], Jago presented the "[[Monstre Gathering]]", which featured [[Vastra|Madame Vastra]], known as "the Amazing Lizard Lady", as the main act. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Madame Vastra (short story)}}'')
 
=== Meeting the Doctor, Litefoot and Leela ===
{{section stub|Info from ''[[The Talents of Greel (audio story)|The Talents of Greel]]'' needs to be added}}
 
In either [[1889]] ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Time Machination (comic story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Talents of Greel (audio story)}}) or [[1892]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)}}) [[Li H'sen Chang]] performed his magic act at the Palace Theatre. Secretly, Chang worked for [[Magnus Greel]], who was kidnapping and cannibalising women to heal himself. Jago helped the [[Fourth Doctor]] and his [[companion]] [[Leela]] with their investigations of the disappearances, believing them to be police officers. Chang's plan was revealed during a performance and he tried to commit suicide, while Greel escaped.
 
[[File:Jago & Litefoot.jpg|left|thumb|Jago and [[George Litefoot|Litefoot]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)}}]]
[[George Litefoot]] joined forces with Jago to find where Greel escaped to. They followed him to the [[House of the Dragon]], where they were captured by members of the Tong. The Doctor tried to help free them, but he was captured as well. During the final confrontation with Magnus, Jago and Litefoot helped to distract Mr Sin, with Jago taking a glancing blow from a laser. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)}})
 
Jago was forced to sell the Palace Theatre after these events, as a result of the scandal following the Weng-Chiang Incident. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (novel)}}) At some later time, he began working at the [[Alhambra Theatre]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)}})
 
The Fourth Doctor once described Jago and Litefoot as being "outstanding and extraordinary." ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Justice of Jalxar (audio story)}})
 
=== Investigating infernal incidents ===
His association with George Litefoot continued beyond their adventure with the Doctor. The pair were involved as amateur sleuths in several other mysteries as well as receiving help from Sergeant [[Percival Quick]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)}}, ''[[Jago & Litefoot]]'')
 
In [[1890]], Jago and Litefoot later descended into the [[London sewers]] to kill the rest of Greel's remaining [[giant rat]]s with a [[Gatling gun]] and on the way there, failed to recognise the [[Fifth Doctor]], who had [[Regeneration|regenerated]] since their first encounter with him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Victorian Interlude (short story)}})
 
Jago believed that he and Litefoot were the inspiration for the serialised adventures of [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[John Watson|Dr John Watson]] by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] featured in ''[[The Strand (magazine)|The Strand]]'' magazine. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jago in Love (audio story)}})
 
Litefoot kept mementos of all of his adventures with Jago. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mind Games (audio story)}})
 
Litefoot once described Jago as "a very dear friend". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Bloodless Soldier (audio story)}}) Similarly, Jago considered Litefoot to be his best friend. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Encore of the Scorchies (audio story)}})
 
==== Tracking down Tulp ====
After the Doctor's departure, he and George Litefoot began many adventures together, finding murderers and so on. They had an adventure involving mahogany mannequins, animated by the living spirits of criminals in prison, who had been assisted by a man called Dr [[Heinrich Tulp]]. The mannequins were defeated, but Tulp escaped. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)}})
 
Jago, along with his friend Litefoot, were confronted by a bloodsucking beast, which had originally been a [[Hertford (The Bloodless Soldier)|captain]] who was scratched by a beast in [[India]]. Jago was forced to shoot an innocent man as he quickly transformed into another of the beasts in front of his eyes. The man turned out to be [[Ellie Higson]]'s brother. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Bloodless Soldier (audio story)}})
 
Jago and Litefoot were forced to resort to bodysnatching as they tried to discover the mystery of a resurrecting man. He was almost drowned in the [[Thames]] after hearing too much about [[the Far-Off Travellers]], organised by Doctor Tulp. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Bellova Devil (audio story)}})
 
He later became trapped in an unusual cabinet, which held the souls of the future inside. Along with Ellie Higson's help, he managed to escape. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Spirit Trap (audio story)}})
 
Litefoot and Jago met Dr Tulp again, where they discovered that he had the ability of [[astral projection]], and could take knowledge from the future and use it for profit. Where they found that Tulp was mining [[uranium]] and constructing more mahogany mannequins to replace important politicians, as a means of making profit and seizing control of the world. However, Tulp had in fact been possessed by an entity who wanted to dominate the world. Although, Litefoot and Jago stopped his plans, and killed Tulp. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Similarity Engine (audio story)}})
 
==== Litefoot and Sanders ====
Later, Litefoot began working with a man called [[Gabriel Sanders]] who helped him to investigate the cause of a number of mysterious murders, whose victims had been drained of blood. George made sure that Henry was kept away from the investigation to protect him. However, after Henry had intervened against George's wishes, they discovered that Sanders was the [[vampire]] killing the victims, and left him to die in a burning building. But not before he claimed Ellie as one of his victims. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Litefoot and Sanders (audio story)}})
 
Later, they both boarded a train carrying the body of Ellie to a cemetery, to investigate whether she would become a vampire too. They arrived in the cemetery, and discovered an associate of Sanders, Doctor [[Sibelius Crow]]. Discovering that he was attempting to experiment with and revive the dead. However, Crow was killed by the now vampire, Ellie. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Necropolis Express (audio story)}})
 
Soon after this adventure, George and Henry foiled a plan by a group of harlequins, to infiltrate Henry's newly-owned [[New Regency Theatre]], and drain the lifeforce from the audience. They found that their travelling caravan was, in fact, a living thing, and created the people who travelled within it. However, they both managed to destroy the caravan. It was after this adventure, that Litefoot managed to discover the cure for Ellie's vampirism, but also, that Sanders had survived being burnt to death in the building. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Theatre of Dreams (audio story)}})
 
Litefoot and Jago both discovered Sanders plan to breed a new race of human-vampire hybrids, using the [[Ruthven family]] line. However, the last of the line, Lord [[Cornelius Ruthven|Ruthven]], was killed, and Jago managed to destroy Sanders by impaling him with a [[chandelier]]. After defeating Sanders, Leela arrived at Litefoot's house while he and Jago were there, and told them that she had been sent from [[Gallifrey]] to investigate [[time distortion]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Ruthven Inheritance (audio story)}})
 
==== Leela and the time traps ====
Liteoot, Jago and Leela discovered that due to the time distortion, a sailor named [[Johnny Skipton]] was removed from his own time, namely [[1958]], before he was supposed to die while sinking in his ship. This caused apparitions of the dead crew, to arrive in the 1890s to take Johnny away. To prevent the time distortion, Jago, Litefoot and Leela convinced Johnny to accept his fate, and departed back to his ship, to die. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Dead Men's Tales (audio story)}})
 
After this, they all discovered that the time distortion was causing a fictional character, called the [[Man at the End of the Garden]], to become real, and caused the disappearance of the writer who created him. However, they managed retrieve the writer and defeat the Man. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Man at the End of the Garden (audio story)}})
 
They team traced the next source of time distortion in the New Regency Theatre, where it was linking the 1890s time zone, with the [[2011]] time zone, bringing people from 2011 to the New Regency, and vice versa. This also caused the New Regency itself to come to life, but they stopped the time distortion, causing the theatre to return to normal, and return the people from 2011 to their native time. However, they discovered that Professor [[Elliot Payne]] was behind all the time distortions. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Swan Song (audio story)}})
 
As Payne arrived, the amount of time distortions rapidly increased, and threatened to destroy the world. It was where they discovered that Payne was conducting experiments with time to bring his wife, Shania, back from the dead. This was part of an arrangement he made with beings called the [[Time Eater]]s. However, the Time Eaters betrayed Payne, and he helped Jago, Litefoot and Leela to destroy the Time Eaters, and return all objects out of their time zone to their proper place in time and space. Shortly after this, Litefoot and Jago were summoned by a man called [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Chronoclasm (audio story)}})
 
==== Kempston, Hardwick and Dark ====
Jago and Litefoot escaped Dark, believing him to be hostile, and decided to go to have a holiday in [[Brighton]]. Jago meet a singer called [[Abigail Woburn]] whilst in Brighton, and fell in love with her. They arranged to be married, but when he went to help George, who was possessed, when he returned, she had disappeared. After failing to find her, Jago sadly returned to London. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jago in Love (audio story)}})
 
Dark later found Jago and Litefoot, and offered them tickets to see the new [[Oscar Wilde]] play. Where they had an adventure with Wilde, and a man called [[Warren Gadd|Gadd]] hired to kill him. It was after saving Wilde, that Jago and Litefoot discovered that two men, Mr [[Kempston]] and Mr [[Hardwick (Jago in Love)|Hardwick]] hired Gadd, and that they were Professor Dark's enemies. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Beautiful Things (audio story)}})
 
Jago and Litefoot tried to escape from Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick by boarding a train, which was their intention in the first place. Discovering that the train was caught in a [[time loop]], in an attempt to trap them. However, thanks to Leela, Ellie and Dark, they both were freed. It was here that Dark revealed his true identity, as the Sixth Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Lonely Clock (audio story)}})
 
They all discovered that Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick were constructs created by a [[Temparon]] ship using sand to form bodies, which had crashed to Earth, as a result of Payne's time experiments. He had to pretend to be the Doctor when he went to Bedfordshire, this managed to fool Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick for a while. During the confrontation with Kempston adn Harkwick, Jago encountered Abigail again, and he realised she was a construction made by Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick. However, Jago, Litefoot, Leela and the Doctor managed to dissipate the bodies of Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick with water, effectively killing them. After this, Leela returned to Gallifrey, and they were invited to join the Doctor as his companions aboard [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. They eagerly accepted the offer, though Jago began to suffer from motion sickness on his first trip. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Hourglass Killers (audio story)}})
 
=== Travelling through time ===
[[File:Jangl_and_Litefoot_travel_with_the_Doctor.jpg|thumb|The Doctor travelling with Henry Gordon Jago and Litefoot. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Voyage to Venus (audio story)}})]]
On their first trip through space and time, Jago and Litefoot arrived on [[Venus]] in the [[far future]], where they discovered the corrupt [[Venusian (Voyage to Venus)|Venusian]] Queen [[Vulpina]] was imprisoning an alien race called the [[Thraskin]]. During this time Jago became the "pet" of Vulpina. However, with the Doctor's help, they defeated Vulpina and released the Thraskin, resulting in a peaceful treaty between the Thraskins and Venusians. Jago, Litefoot and the Doctor then left Venus. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Voyage to Venus (audio story)}})
 
Although they intended to return to London, the TARDIS arrived in the [[Roanoke Island]] in [[1590]], and were held hostage by a local tribe of [[Native American]]s. They discovered that the tribe were being terrorised by a group of ethereal children, who had been present for four hundred years. Whenever they kidnapped natives, they would leave behind the word "Croatoan", inscribed in the place where they once were. Jago, Litefoot and the Doctor discovered that [[Croatoan]] was an island, which they intended to explore, but not before Henry himself was kidnapped. When they arrived on Croatoan Island, they found Henry, and discovered the TARDIS, which had been on Croatoan for four hundred years.
 
When they found Henry's captor, he revealed that he was Sir [[Walter Raleigh]], who had discovered the TARDIS, while George and the Doctor were venturing to Croatoan. After tampering with the controls, Raleigh travelled back four hundred years, and encountered a group of alien beings, who would later become the children who had terrorised the tribe. He taught them how to live and hunt, and in return, they extended his life. However, the Doctor managed to communicate with Walter in the TARDIS, four hundred years prior, and prevent him from travelling in the TARDIS. This then caused the alternative Walter to disappear, and the aliens would never have terrorised the tribe. After restoring the timeline, the Doctor deposited Jago and Litefoot back in London. However, after the Doctor left, they discovered that he had left them stranded in London on [[21 February]] [[1968]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Voyage to the New World (audio story)}})
 
==== Stuck in the sixties ====
Soon after, Jago and Litefoot discovered Ellie was still alive, as an effect of the vampire curse she still had. Jago eventually became a very famous figure on television when he met Detective Inspector [[Dave Sacker]]. Jago and Litefoot told him the circumstances which led them to their arrival in the [[1960s]], just in time for all of them to foil a plan to hypnotise the nation using a mystical statue and Jago's new television show. The plan was foiled by using a psychic crystal which Jago picked up on Venus. It was after the adventure that Jago and Litefoot met a performer on Jago's show, [[Guinevere Godiva]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Age of Revolution (audio story)}})
 
He found himself very popular following his show and was invited to a party, where [[Aubrey (The Age of Revolution)|Aubrey]] wanted him to meet [[Cliff Richard]], instead he met Guru [[Sanjaya Starr]]. After eating something strange at the party he started to act strangely wanting loads of salt. Jago and Litefoot also stopped an alien being and a mad [[guru]] from killing people by eating food containing the aliens offspring. The guru believed the alien was a god, and the aliens way of reproduction was by laying eggs in it's victims and eating them from the inside out. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)}})
 
Jago and Litefoot also discovered a book which was created by [[Thomas Bloodchild]] as a means of preserving his life essence inside it's pages. After several people attempted to steal the book to achieve immortality, Bloodchild was resurrected, but quickly destroyed again by Jago and Litefoot. After this encounter, they visited a crypt where they discovered several unusual artefacts, which included the [[time cabinet]], containing a murderous [[Mr Sin]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Bloodchild Codex (audio story)}})
 
However, they promptly escaped from Sin, and recruited Sacker to investigate the crypt with reinforcements to discover that all the artefacts had vanished. Later on, during Jago's show, Guinevere Godiva made Ellie vanish, and held her to ransom, which led them the rendezvous point, the [[House of the Dragon]]. There, Godiva revealed she had reconstructed Mr Sin and the key to the time cabinet, which she intended to use to recreate [[Magnus Greel]] from the psychic imprint left in the key, using Jago's Venusian crystal. However, Godiva needed a large quantity of energy to start the process, so Mr Sin betrayed her, put her in the [[catalytic extraction chamber]] and used her life energy as power, killing her. Successful, Greel's essence possessed Sacker, killing him, but giving Greel life. However, Greel was killed when Ellie stood in the extraction chamber and overloaded his intake of life energy, due to her unnatural lifespan. Using the time cabinet, Jago and Litefoot both departed 1968, arriving back in [[1893]]. But immediately upon their arrival, they were greeted by a mysterious man calling himself [[The Colonel (The Final Act)|The Colonel]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Final Act (audio story)}})
 
=== Return to Victorian London ===
He was sent by [[The Colonel (The Final Act)|The Colonel]] to [[Suffolk]] to discover the truth about ghosts in the Fog. On the train down to [[Lowestoft]], he immediately fell asleep. He started to realise his memories of the future and his travels of the Doctor started to fade. Over the cliffs in [[Shingle Cove]], he met [[Camilla Tevelyan]] before the Fog came in. Jago and Litefoot went into the cove to discover more about the person Camila saw. They saw a pub full of skeletons. He was rescued from drowning by [[Isaac Pawley]]. Tevelyan tried to kill them. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Skeleton Quay (audio story)}})
 
He started to have bad dreams and [[Sigmund Freud]] analysed them. He started to include Freud into his dreams. Before a treatment session he saw a baboon buying tickets at his theatre, this was one of his dreams. As part of his dream he started to remember is mother. He went to the Zoo with Litefoot where he was pushed into the Ape house. He was rescued by [[Madame Anna]] who accompanied him around town. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Return of the Repressed (audio story)}})
 
The Colonel asked him about their adventures including their encounters with Dr Tulp. When Litefoot started to ask questions, [[Drucker (Military Intelligence)|Drucker]] told Jago that asking questions would be bad. He was told by [[Agatha Worthing]] that the Colonel was working against the crown. He went to find Litefoot after he was kidnapped, and was given where he was held by Agatha. Ellie and he went to find Litefoot using this knowledge. His verbose way of talking confused the Colonel's robots. He was presumed dead in the destruction of the Colonel's base. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Military Intelligence (audio story)}}) He wasn't dead and impersonated the Colonel. Jago was to represent Litefoot as his barrister. During the trial of Litefoot he was arrested for contempt of court and as an accessory to murder. Quick managed to get them free by misdirecting the police force into which station they were taken to. They went to the Colonel's base and discovered that the Colonel wanted to kill the Queen and become emperor of the British Empire. He realised that he could reset the gun the Colonel was using to fire on his base, he stopped the Colonel. Because of the death of Agatha the Queen put a bounty on their heads and they became fugitives. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Trial of George Litefoot (audio story)}})
 
==== Life as a Fugitive ====
He was charged with the attempted assassination of Queen [[Victoria]]. Ellie gave him a message from the Doctor allowing them to use his house, [[107 Baker Street]]. He met [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] when the Doctor sent Doyle to him. He helped Doyle in an investigation when [[Laura Lyons]] sent him a letter and he posed as [[Sherlock Holmes]]. On meeting Lyons he started to be shot at. Following a clue from Lyons they found a route to prehistoric Earth in London. He decided to sacrifice himself when a set of dogs came after them, to allow Litefoot and Doyle to escape. He then met [[Roger Baskerville]] who told him about there work. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Monstrous Menagerie (audio story)}}) He started to long for the New Regency theatre before, [[Remorse (The Night of 1000 Stars)|Remorse]] got him to remember his bad memories. In a picture Remorse showed them, he remembered one of his former theatre girls who became pregnant so he sacked her. He later found out that she was found floating down the Themes. Whilst drunk he started to fight Litefoot due to remorse. He couldn't juggle when drunk. After realising this he started to mope about their current predicament. Jago wanted to make an honest women out of the girl and marry her but she rejected him. He found out that this was all a scheme to kill the guild of clockmakers. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Night of 1000 Stars (audio story)}}) He went to find [[Willis (Murder at Moorsey Manor)|Willis]], but he was murdered. They discovered that they were at the a Sherlock Holmes convention. He posed as Professor Potter in a murder mystery. After [[Fanshaw (Murder at Moorsey Manor)|Fanshaw]] was burnt alive he tried to comfort the maid who was distraught. He found at clock room with [[Reginald Peacock]] and was told to find the right clock. Peakcock found the right clock by recognising the Fundamental Theory of calculus but Jago watched him died from being steamed. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Murder at Moorsey Manor (audio story)}}) He knew of [[Frederick Abberline]]. He helped in his investigations to find the Ripper, after he escaped from custody. Abberline asked to him inquire at the New Regency Theatre as Jack's new victims worked in the chorus there. He discovered that the theatre girls had gone to the New Regency's store warehouse. Abberline went with Jago and Litefoot to the palace to stop the Ripper from murdering the Queen. He was then exonerated by Queen Victoria. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Wax Princess (audio story)}}) In [[1894]], Jago spent time with his sister in [[Brighton]] after a bout of dyspepsia. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Bodysnatchers (novel)}})
 
==== Back at the New Regency ====
[[Nancy Pettigrew]] convinced Jago to hire the [[Scorchie]]s. They convinced him that they were the best act in London. He spent most of his time with the Scorchies so forgot to talk with Litefoot and Ellie. When Litefoot saw Jago crying in the theatre, Jago was crying sawdust. He knew he made a bad decision by allowing the Scorchies to have a show. Seeing the dead body of one of Nancy's lovers he realised that the Scorchies were evil. He tried to get Sergeant [[Appleby (Encore of the Scorchies)|Appleby]] to get away from the theatre before he was killed. He wondered how many people had witnessed being murdered in his theatre. [[Colonel Fuzz]] wanted Jago to kill Litefoot. They were both rescued by Ellie who burnt all the Scorchies. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Encore of the Scorchies (audio story)}})
 
He desired that when he died the Litefoot would be the one who would perform the post-mortem. Quick asked him and Litefoot to investigate the strange appearance of people congregating at cross roads and parks who attacked an people who interfered with them. Realising that they had gone to a funfair they went to investigate. He was mistaken for Ellie's grandfather. He saw the machine that caused people to become blank and possessed, exactly what Quick described. He was the followed by the people but he had Ellie managed to escape. [[Wednesday (The Backwards Men)|Wednesday]] tried convert him into a Kine, an alien being. Jago discovered that he wanted to convert people into Kine so that he could get undo the genocide of the Kine. He was stopped from converting to a Kine by [[Arioch]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Backwards Men (audio story)}})
 
He thought that they were Lucky to have the Red Tavern as a base of operations. He started in investigate the appearance of a beast in the Thames. He said that one of acts had made a song about it. They later went to [[Jacob's Island]] to discover some more information. [[Mulberry Gride]] discovered that they weren't offically connect to the police so chucked them out of his factory. He found out about the [[Darkling Façade]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (audio story)}}) He became infected by the creature and started to behave strangely. They inquired after Patsy when she was imprisoned. When he went back to the Red Tavern he asked for a water instead of beer at the pub which brought Ellie's suspicions. When he met Ellie at [[Paddington station]] he trapped her in train carriage and drove the train to Litefoot. He found driving a train exciting. After getting them off the train, Ellie got them drunk to sedate them. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Higson & Quick (audio story)}})
 
He employed Mr [[Rees]] at the theatre. He wanted to buy a phonograph so that he could record the best acts for prosperity. He recorded himself to show Litefoot how it worked. He found out how Rees made people attack people. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Mind Games (audio story)}})
 
==== Taking a cruise ====
He went on a cruise with Jago upon the [[Fata Morgana]]. He was met with the advances of [[Isobelle Danvers]]. Isobelle asked him to be there to stop the advances of other men. He didn't like rope ladders. He and Litefoot encountered a French Jago and Litefoot coming from a timeline where Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo. More Jago and Litefoots were encountered that were from different course of history where different countries won wars with the UK, with there being at least ones from Prussia, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Flying Frenchmen (audio story)}})
 
He thought that Casino games were rigged towards the house. He went to a casino at [[Monte Carlo]] and won some money. He became enamoured with [[Madame Diabolique]]. He the helped Litefoot find the body of a missing person. Diabolique to him to a secret casino with [[Aubrey (The Flying Frenchmen)|Aubrey]]. He almost lost the [[New Regency Theatre]] in a bet. He kept winning and ended up playing the devil's roulette. He was tricked into changing his will to allow the theatre to go to the Dark Casino. He was taken to have his soul removed but because he was a veteran of the theatre he saw through the tricks. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Devil's Dicemen (audio story)}})
 
He tried to hypnotise Isobelle to stop her sea sickness. He went dancing with Isobelle. When visiting an island, he went after Isobelle when she was possessed. They met [[Victor Bataille]] who showed them an ancient temple. He was tasked with looking after Isobelle. The possessed Isobelle ran off and he chased after her. He was to be sacrificed to Kibu. Litefoot got Jago to hypnotise Isobelle to stop Kibu from awakening. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Island of Death (audio story)}})
 
He said he didn't have a strong stomach when the saw the dead body of Riverstock. He wanted to help [[Fowler]] return a mysterious artefact back to its home. Helping Litefoot to operate the fog funnel machine in order to get back to the isle of the artefact, he was sitting on the operation notes which allowed the Litefoot to get the machine working. This allowed them to get back to London. He then asked for Quick's help in capturing the beast. He knew how to get into the Red Tavern through the cellars, after all the doors were locked when Fowler entered the pub. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Return of the Nightmare (audio story)}})
 
==== Meeting their Biographer ====
He was very nervous when he met with [[Carruthers Summerton]]. He found Carruthers interesting. After visiting [[Hartley Harecourt]], he believed that [[McCallum]] was murdered by a gas being. He went to a Gasogene shop owned by [[Grayson (The Case of the Missing Gasogene)|Grayson]] to talk about his work. Following Ellie's information he went to a pawn shop and bought the missing Gasogene. He later went to show it to Harecourt. Soon he became the next of Harecourt's experiments. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Case of the Missing Gasogene (audio story)}})
 
Realising that he could send letters to his past using the yesterday box. He told his younger self to stop one of the urchin's in the theatre from being kidnapped and recalled the story to himself. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Year of the Bat (audio story)}})
 
He was shot and buried alive. His grave was dug up by [[Adella Lestrange]] who told him that it was now the year 2000s. He was then chased by Zombies and was led to believe that the world was in an apocalypse and that he was patient zero of the Zombie plague. Adella told him that she was a member of the Jago and Litefoot society and got him to recant his tales. She then tricked him into entering a "time door" created from the notes of Claudius Dark, so that he could cure the world in his time. He was actually placed back into his coffin, but this time he was dug up by Litefoot and Quick. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Mourning After (audio story)}})
 
He later went to the Red Tavern to regain his sustenance. He spotted [[Luke Betterman]]'s hankerchief at a murder scene. He realised that there was something wrong with the cards that they had found at the murder scenes and went to his printer [[Cooper (The Museum of Curiosities)|Cooper]] to find more information. He discovered where the Museum of Curiosities cards were sent and went there. He went in hiding at the Museum and turned up in time to stop Summerton from turning Litefoot into an exhibit. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Museum of Curiosities (audio story)}})
 
==== A Masterful Encounter ====
Following the evening show at the New Regency, he found a man lurking in a cupboard who said he was his [[Henry Gordon Jago Jr|son]]. Jago Jr asked him to help find his mother [[Ruby Valentine]] who had been abducted. He accompanied his son to where Ruby was taken and saw a strange temple, the [[Hellfire Club]] and brought her to Litefoot's mortuary. After his son was kidnapped her went after the kidnappers back to where he found Ruby's body. He found a monstrous menagerie and later witnessed the resurrection of Satan, who stated that Harry was his son. He was attacked and almost mortally wounded, though he was able to finally recall Ruby. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Jago & Son (audio story)}})
 
He ran into the Red Tavern saying that Litefoot had disappeared. Ellie and him accompanied him to [[Maurice Ravel]]'s flat where they saw a mysterious creature. He then was used as a bargaining chip. He pressed a button in the sand tank and unlocked Maurice and Litefoot from a strange land. He was trapped in a room by his impersonator but shot the lock off and went to stop him. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Maurice (audio story)}})
 
[[Bram Stoker]] invited him to watch [[Henry Irving]] perform. He thought that Henry wasn't acting at the moment. Bram later informed him about uncanny things happening at the Prince Albert Theatre such as disappearances of the actors. He told Litefoot and discovered that there was something connecting it to the recent death Litefoot had to deal with. He had to stop Irving from attacking Bram. They returned to the theatre where they found some tunnels under which they explored. He then fell through them when they started to collapse. He encountered [[Wilhelmina Gussett]] in a cave under the theatre before she was cremated and he saw the [[Women in White]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Woman in White (audio story)}})
 
Jago received a new mirror in his office, which suddenly appeared on his desk. In the following days, he started to feel exhausted thinking he was coming down with the flu. A week later he had to keep asking his stage manager to keep announcing the acts as his condition was deteriorating. He thought that Quick was hypnotised and took him to Madame [[Sosostris]] thinking she was behind it. Finding out where {{Pratt}} was hiding and went after him. In the Master's lair, the Master tried to hypnotise the Jago and Litefoot, but with [[Sosostris]] help they resisted. The Doctor reversed the Master's machine and revived Jago back to health. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Masterpiece (audio story)}})
 
==== Vampiric Designs ====
They were invited to the Scarlet Gallery by Quick as there was a murder. He didn't think that the deaths of [[Melchester]] and [[James Royston]] were connected. He noticed that something was wrong with Litefoot. He went back to the Gallery and found him sulking about there, but when Jago touched Litefoot he became a pile of rotten canvas. He discovered that Litefoot was in a painting. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Picture This (audio story)}})
 
He believed that cinema would take up and his profits were decreasing because of it. He went to visit the fair and participated in [[Old Ma Hambley]]'s horror. He thought that it was a variation on Pepper's Ghost when he saw one of the Flickermen. He became annoyed when [[Robert W Paul]] secretly filmed them being scared by a rubber skeleton. When investigating an abandoned tunnel, he saw loads of the Flickermen. Paul showed them the film after it was developed when Flickermen appeared on the film. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Flickermen (audio story)}})
 
Both Jago and Litefoot received letters informing them of something uncanny happening at St. Cecillia's School for Girls. He then went after Ellie, thinking something was wrong with her. He then spent his nights getting drunk at the Red Tavern, and let slip to Ellie about vampires. Shortly afterwards he became the caretaker of the school. He then had to referee a Hockey games. He accompanied the girls to a trip to the New Regency Theatre. Jago thought [[Lucilla Fredericks]] was a vampire and was later proven correct. [[Ravener]] later told him that he was the person killing the students and the teachers. On viewing Paul's film, he realised that Ellie was now a vampire again. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|School of Blood (audio story)}})
 
He helped Litefoot to stake out Ellie to discover if she was committing the murders. He followed Ellie to a rendezvous with Ravener, and then promptly lost her. At Litefoot's house, Ellie informed him about [[the Old One]] and his supposed plans. She then confronted them about her brother's murder, which they had to tell her the truth about. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Warm Blood (audio story)}})
 
==== Finding himself on a parallel Earth ====
He found George's dream interesting. Back at the New Regency he welcomed back an old colleague, [[Harry Hypno]], to his stage when he saw something in the wings. This caused him to have a dream where he corpsed on the stage during his act. He later found that these were caused by [[Chronoplasm]] leaking from the [[Time Agency|Time Agent]] [[Cara (The Stuff of Nightmares)|Cara]]. When Agent Cara discovered that Magnus Greel was dead she decided to kill them both. They later had another nightmare where they were time agents. Jago and Litefoot became trapped in the future and escaped through a time portal back to what seemed to be their time. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Stuff of Nightmares (JL audio story)}})
 
He thought something was wrong when Ellie didn't recognise him. After seeing an old friend [[Toby Brokesmith]] and went after him to find out why he was in hard times. Finding out that he went to the chapel of night, [[Bartholomew (Chapel of Night)|Bartholomew]] then tried to use him to be a carrier for her lords essence. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Chapel of Night (audio story)}})
 
He spent his time trying to find food for himself and Litefoot. He accidentally met his counterpart's wife [[Xiu Xiu]] who chastised him. Litefoot asked Jago to locate his alternative self and the equipment he had just bought. When he saw Greel's time cabinet, he tried to stop it being activated, but failed. He used the energy in it to heal his alternative self's injuries. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|How The Other Half Lives (audio story)}})
 
He then helped Aubrey and Betterman in an investigation of fading bodies, accompanying them to a fallen spaceship in the middle of the city. He encountered [[Angelica (Chapel of Night)|Angelica]] who wanted to take his reality, but because he came from another world it didn't work and blew up the spaceship. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Too Much Reality (audio story)}})
 
==== Christmas at Paternoster Row ====
Jago went searching for a source of magic tricks in order to perform at an orphanage, and [[Strax]] took him to [[Smallpiece]]'s emporium. Finding himself alone at Christmas as Litefoot was away with [[Jean Bazemore]], [[Vastra]] invited him over for Christmas. [[Alice Ayling]] forced him to take her with him. Strax caused an infestation of ancient pests meaning that he and Jago had to escape via the dumb waiter. The wand he got from Smallpiece turned out to be a ray gun which helped them escape. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Merry Christmas, Mr Jago (audio story)}})
 
==== Later encounters with the Doctor ====
[[The Valeyard]] hired his theatre to stage a play about the Doctor's previous regenerations. This got him a lot of money and he was delighted at this. He took [[Flip Jackson]] on a tour of the [[New Regency Theatre]] and then went to the [[Red Tavern]] for a drink with him. He was concerned when he noticed that the actors disappeared after the performances, but the Valeyard told him they they retired and then asked him to play the Brigadier in his next rewrite. After recovering, he led an angry mob to the theatre to stop the Valeyard. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Stage Fright (audio story)}})
 
In 1899, Jago and Litefoot had an encounter with witches. Jago was able to defeat them with his large vocabulary. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Carrionite Curse (audio story)}})
 
At the dawn of a new century and over ten years after their first encounter, the Fourth Doctor returned to Jago and Litefoot's native time with his new companion, [[Romana I]]. He thought that [[the Pugilist]]'s exploits were being exaggerated. He was enamoured of Romana and took her out for a meal. He was mugged by [[Johnny Stone]], but "the Pugilist" arrived before he was killed. Romana told him that the person was in fact their cab driver [[Bobby Stamford]]. The Pugilist sentenced him to death for trespassing, but the Doctor arrived in time to stop the execution. He helped the Doctor to rescue Romana. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Justice of Jalxar (audio story)}})
 
Later, he introduced [[K9 Mark II]] as an act at the New Regency, as part of an investigation with the Doctor. He was delighted at K9's performance. He disappeared when K9 tracked an energy source to the basement of the New Regency Theatre. After the Doctor traced him to [[Nicholas Asquin]]'s house, he helped him to set a trap for the local thief. He started to mutate into a hairy being but this was stopped by K9 stunning him. He followed the Doctor to Asquin's place as he hoped that he had a cure. The Doctor managed to cure him by resetting the transmat. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Beast of Kravenos (audio story)}})
 
=== Later life ===
In [[1968]], Litefoot read records indicating that Jago died sometime in the [[20th century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)}}) Jago was long dead by the time that the New Regency Theatre, which he had owned and operated in the [[1890s]], was destroyed in the [[the Blitz|Blitz]] at 8:47 p.m. on [[12 October]] [[1940]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Swan Song (audio story)}})
 
=== Legacy ===
By [[2014]], [[UNIT]] had extensive files concerning Jago and Litefoot's exploits. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Screaming Skull (audio story)}})
 
=== Alternative timeline ===
In timeline created by [[the Valeyard]], [[Jed Barrow]] saw Jago working at the Palace Theatre, goading his stage hands into work. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Matrix (novel)}})
 
== Personality ==
Henry Gordon Jago was an effervescent, and theatrical figure, who revelled in using a large vocabulary, but underneath his bravado, he saw himself as a coward, which many of his friends disagreed with ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)}}), with the Doctor describing Jago as "always the reluctant hero but a hero nonetheless". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Voyage to the New World (audio story)}}) Leela believed that Jago was a very brave man. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Chronoclasm (audio story)}}) He was insecure of his friendship with the upper class Litefoot, and valued it deeply. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Litefoot and Sanders (audio story)|Litefoot and Sanders]]'', [[Jago in Love (audio story)|''Jago in Love'']])
 
Jago was fond of drinking [[pale ale]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Bellova Devil (audio story)}}, {{cs|The Spirit Trap (audio story)}}) He often said "Dash me optics!" and "Oh, corks!" when surprised. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)}}; [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Spirit Trap (audio story)}}, {{cs|Litefoot and Sanders (audio story)}}, {{cs|The Necropolis Express (audio story)}}) In his own words, Jago was "all bluster and bravado". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Litefoot and Sanders (audio story)}})


In [[1889]], [[Li H'sen Chang]] performed his magic act at the Palace Theatre. Secretly, Chang worked for [[Magnus Greel]], who was kidnapping and cannibalising women to heal himself. Jago helped the [[Fourth Doctor]] with his investigations of the disappearances, believing him a police officer. Chang's plan was revealed during a performance and he tried to commit suicide, while Magnus escaped.
Being a product of the British Empire, Jago considered female emancipation to be a bad idea, but was always respectful to women. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Swan Song (audio story)}}, [[The Lonely Clock (audio story)|''The Lonely Clock'']]) Indeed, he felt horribly guilty when he was unable to save [[Mags (Litefoot and Sanders)|Mags]] from vampirism. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Litefoot and Sanders (audio story)|Litefoot and Sanders]]'')


Litefoot joined forces with [[Henry Gordon Jago]] to find where Magnus escaped to. They followed him to the [[House of the Dragon]], where they were captured by members of the Tong. The Doctor tried to help free them, but he was captured as well. During the final confrontation with Magnus, Jago and Litefoot helped to distract Mr. Sin, with Jago taking a glancing blow from a laser. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
== Parallel World ==
On a parallel Earth, Jago didn't work in the theatre but instead worked in the sewers collecting the valuables which had been flushed down the toilet. He devised a way to capture the [[giant rat]] in the sewer, but sustained a broken leg courtesy of the oversized rodent. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|How The Other Half Lives (audio story)}})


He may have sold the Palace Theatre after these events. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Shadow of Weng-Chiang]]'') At some later time he acquired the [[New Regency Theatre]]. ([[JAL]]: ''[[The Theatre of Dreams]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
Jago debuted in the 1977 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', where he was portrayed by [[Christopher Benjamin]]. The events of the story saw him strike a working relationship with [[George Litefoot|Professor Litefoot]], a pathologist. Despite having only appeared in the one televised story, the pair became fan-favourite characters.


Jago and Litefoot descended into the [[London sewers]] to kill the rest of Greel's remaining [[giant rat]]s with a [[Gatling gun]] and on the way there, failed to recognise the [[Fifth Doctor]], who had [[Regeneration|regenerated]] since their first encounter with him. ([[BE]]: ''[[A Victorian Interlude]]'')
The duo were reunited for ''[[The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)|The Mahogany Murderers]]'' in 2009, as part of ''[[The Companion Chronicles]]'' for [[Big Finish Productions]], with both original actors returning to their roles. The story served as a sort of 'backdoor pilot' for the eventual ''[[Jago & Litefoot]]'' audio series, also by Big Finish, which was formally commissioned following favourable reviews.{{fact}} In the intervening years, the only other appearance of Jago was in 1991's ''[[A Victorian Interlude (short story)|A Victorian Interlude]]'', a short story published in [[DWM 172|issue 172]] of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''.


[[File:Jago & Litefoot.jpg|left|thumb|Jago and [[George Litefoot|Litefoot]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')]]
The ''Jago & Litefoot'' audio series ran for 13 regular series between 2010 and 2017, before the death of [[Trevor Baxter]], who played Litefoot, halted the production. A commemorative release, ''[[Jago & Litefoot Forever (audio anthology)|Jago & Litefoot Forever]]'', would come out the following year, before a fourteenth and final series in 2021 in the form of narrated audiobooks.


His association with Professor Litefoot continued beyond their adventure with the Doctor. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers]]'') The pair were involved as amateur sleuths in several other mysteries. ([[CC]]: ''[[The Mahogany Murderers]]'', [[JAL]]: ''[[Jago and Litefoot]]'')
[[Alex Lowe]] voiced the younger Jago in flashbacks throughout [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Year of the Bat (audio story)|The Year of the Bat]]'', a story in which Jago's past catches up with him.


In [[1894]], Jago spent time with his sister in [[Brighton]] after a bout of dyspepsia. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers]]'')
The duo were to have featured in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Avenues of Possibility (audio story)|The Avenues of Possibility]]'' in 2019, but this was dropped following Baxter's death. ([[DCOM]]: ''The Legacy of Time: Behind the Scenes'')


He was long dead by the time that the [[New Regency Theatre]], which he had owned and operated in the [[1890s]], was destroyed in [[the Blitz]] at 8:47 p.m. on [[12 October]] [[1940]]. ([[JAL]]: ''[[Swan Song]]'')
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Latest revision as of 08:37, 17 October 2024

Sir Henry Gordon Jago, KCBE was the owner of the Palace Theatre and the New Regency Theatre in London during the late 19th century.

He had adventures with the Doctor in his fourth, fifth and eleventh incarnations and became a short-lived companion of the Sixth Doctor.

Following his adventures with the Doctor, Jago became a "defender of the Earth", investigating alien activity that threatened the future, alongside Professor George Litefoot, with whom he developed a great friendship.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Childhood[[edit] | [edit source]]

Henry Gordon Jago was told by his mother that he "had all the grace of a bull in a china shop" (AUDIO: Jago in Love [+]Loading...["Jago in Love (audio story)"]) and that drinking would inevitably lead to death. (AUDIO: The Backwards Men [+]Loading...["The Backwards Men (audio story)"]) Both his mother and father had died by the 1890s. (AUDIO: Jago in Love [+]Loading...["Jago in Love (audio story)"]) He had a sister who lived in Brighton. (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers [+]Loading...["The Bodysnatchers (novel)"])

As a child, Jago lived downwind of a tannery (AUDIO: Jago & Litefoot & Patsy [+]Loading...["Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (audio story)"]) and always wanted to drive a steam train. (AUDIO: Higson & Quick [+]Loading...["Higson & Quick (audio story)"]) His aunt Maude sometimes took him swimming in Margate. (AUDIO: The Spirit Trap [+]Loading...["The Spirit Trap (audio story)"])

Jago was a member of the under-eleven fives at school (AUDIO: Higson & Quick [+]Loading...["Higson & Quick (audio story)"]) and claimed that he was "a dab hand with a catapult when [he] was a nipper". (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"]) He always came last in the cross country races at school. (AUDIO: The Backwards Men [+]Loading...["The Backwards Men (audio story)"])

In 1851, Jago witnessed Michael Faraday demonstrate electricity at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers [+]Loading...["The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)"])

Early career[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jago began working in the music halls in 1859. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"]) As a young man, he performed at the Glasgow Empire. (AUDIO: The Lonely Clock [+]Loading...["The Lonely Clock (audio story)"])

In 1866, he was at the Alhambra Theatre where he auditioned for Romeo in Romeo and Juliet where he got a letter from his future self. He also worked as a cleaner in the theatre. His future self sent him a letter to stop the kidnapping of one of the youths that worked in the theatre, but this led to him being knocked out. He realised that the kids were being kidnapped as food. It was then he drunk his first Pale Ale from the Red Tavern. (AUDIO: The Year of the Bat [+]Loading...["The Year of the Bat (audio story)"])

At some point in the mid 1870s, Jago took the place of Arthur Lloyd, who was suffering from goat, in managing an act performed by Ruby Valentine. A playbill about this was also recorded. The two potentially had a romantic relationship, though Jago would later claim that because of his fondness for "orange nectar", his memories of events during this time are "hazy". (AUDIO: Jago & Son [+]Loading...["Jago & Son (audio story)"])

Some time prior to 1881, Jago presented the "Monstre Gathering", which featured Madame Vastra, known as "the Amazing Lizard Lady", as the main act. (PROSE: Madame Vastra [+]Loading...["Madame Vastra (short story)"])

Meeting the Doctor, Litefoot and Leela[[edit] | [edit source]]

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In either 1889 (COMIC: The Time Machination [+]Loading...["The Time Machination (comic story)"], AUDIO: The Talents of Greel [+]Loading...["The Talents of Greel (audio story)"]) or 1892, (AUDIO: The Case of the Gluttonous Guru [+]Loading...["The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)"]) Li H'sen Chang performed his magic act at the Palace Theatre. Secretly, Chang worked for Magnus Greel, who was kidnapping and cannibalising women to heal himself. Jago helped the Fourth Doctor and his companion Leela with their investigations of the disappearances, believing them to be police officers. Chang's plan was revealed during a performance and he tried to commit suicide, while Greel escaped.

Jago and Litefoot. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"]

George Litefoot joined forces with Jago to find where Greel escaped to. They followed him to the House of the Dragon, where they were captured by members of the Tong. The Doctor tried to help free them, but he was captured as well. During the final confrontation with Magnus, Jago and Litefoot helped to distract Mr Sin, with Jago taking a glancing blow from a laser. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"])

Jago was forced to sell the Palace Theatre after these events, as a result of the scandal following the Weng-Chiang Incident. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (novel)"]) At some later time, he began working at the Alhambra Theatre. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers [+]Loading...["The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)"])

The Fourth Doctor once described Jago and Litefoot as being "outstanding and extraordinary." (AUDIO: The Justice of Jalxar [+]Loading...["The Justice of Jalxar (audio story)"])

Investigating infernal incidents[[edit] | [edit source]]

His association with George Litefoot continued beyond their adventure with the Doctor. The pair were involved as amateur sleuths in several other mysteries as well as receiving help from Sergeant Percival Quick. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers [+]Loading...["The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)"], Jago & Litefoot)

In 1890, Jago and Litefoot later descended into the London sewers to kill the rest of Greel's remaining giant rats with a Gatling gun and on the way there, failed to recognise the Fifth Doctor, who had regenerated since their first encounter with him. (PROSE: A Victorian Interlude [+]Loading...["A Victorian Interlude (short story)"])

Jago believed that he and Litefoot were the inspiration for the serialised adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson by Arthur Conan Doyle featured in The Strand magazine. (AUDIO: Jago in Love [+]Loading...["Jago in Love (audio story)"])

Litefoot kept mementos of all of his adventures with Jago. (AUDIO: Mind Games [+]Loading...["Mind Games (audio story)"])

Litefoot once described Jago as "a very dear friend". (AUDIO: The Bloodless Soldier [+]Loading...["The Bloodless Soldier (audio story)"]) Similarly, Jago considered Litefoot to be his best friend. (AUDIO: Encore of the Scorchies [+]Loading...["Encore of the Scorchies (audio story)"])

Tracking down Tulp[[edit] | [edit source]]

After the Doctor's departure, he and George Litefoot began many adventures together, finding murderers and so on. They had an adventure involving mahogany mannequins, animated by the living spirits of criminals in prison, who had been assisted by a man called Dr Heinrich Tulp. The mannequins were defeated, but Tulp escaped. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers [+]Loading...["The Mahogany Murderers (audio story)"])

Jago, along with his friend Litefoot, were confronted by a bloodsucking beast, which had originally been a captain who was scratched by a beast in India. Jago was forced to shoot an innocent man as he quickly transformed into another of the beasts in front of his eyes. The man turned out to be Ellie Higson's brother. (AUDIO: The Bloodless Soldier [+]Loading...["The Bloodless Soldier (audio story)"])

Jago and Litefoot were forced to resort to bodysnatching as they tried to discover the mystery of a resurrecting man. He was almost drowned in the Thames after hearing too much about the Far-Off Travellers, organised by Doctor Tulp. (AUDIO: The Bellova Devil [+]Loading...["The Bellova Devil (audio story)"])

He later became trapped in an unusual cabinet, which held the souls of the future inside. Along with Ellie Higson's help, he managed to escape. (AUDIO: The Spirit Trap [+]Loading...["The Spirit Trap (audio story)"])

Litefoot and Jago met Dr Tulp again, where they discovered that he had the ability of astral projection, and could take knowledge from the future and use it for profit. Where they found that Tulp was mining uranium and constructing more mahogany mannequins to replace important politicians, as a means of making profit and seizing control of the world. However, Tulp had in fact been possessed by an entity who wanted to dominate the world. Although, Litefoot and Jago stopped his plans, and killed Tulp. (AUDIO: The Similarity Engine [+]Loading...["The Similarity Engine (audio story)"])

Litefoot and Sanders[[edit] | [edit source]]

Later, Litefoot began working with a man called Gabriel Sanders who helped him to investigate the cause of a number of mysterious murders, whose victims had been drained of blood. George made sure that Henry was kept away from the investigation to protect him. However, after Henry had intervened against George's wishes, they discovered that Sanders was the vampire killing the victims, and left him to die in a burning building. But not before he claimed Ellie as one of his victims. (AUDIO: Litefoot and Sanders [+]Loading...["Litefoot and Sanders (audio story)"])

Later, they both boarded a train carrying the body of Ellie to a cemetery, to investigate whether she would become a vampire too. They arrived in the cemetery, and discovered an associate of Sanders, Doctor Sibelius Crow. Discovering that he was attempting to experiment with and revive the dead. However, Crow was killed by the now vampire, Ellie. (AUDIO: The Necropolis Express [+]Loading...["The Necropolis Express (audio story)"])

Soon after this adventure, George and Henry foiled a plan by a group of harlequins, to infiltrate Henry's newly-owned New Regency Theatre, and drain the lifeforce from the audience. They found that their travelling caravan was, in fact, a living thing, and created the people who travelled within it. However, they both managed to destroy the caravan. It was after this adventure, that Litefoot managed to discover the cure for Ellie's vampirism, but also, that Sanders had survived being burnt to death in the building. (AUDIO: The Theatre of Dreams [+]Loading...["The Theatre of Dreams (audio story)"])

Litefoot and Jago both discovered Sanders plan to breed a new race of human-vampire hybrids, using the Ruthven family line. However, the last of the line, Lord Ruthven, was killed, and Jago managed to destroy Sanders by impaling him with a chandelier. After defeating Sanders, Leela arrived at Litefoot's house while he and Jago were there, and told them that she had been sent from Gallifrey to investigate time distortions. (AUDIO: The Ruthven Inheritance [+]Loading...["The Ruthven Inheritance (audio story)"])

Leela and the time traps[[edit] | [edit source]]

Liteoot, Jago and Leela discovered that due to the time distortion, a sailor named Johnny Skipton was removed from his own time, namely 1958, before he was supposed to die while sinking in his ship. This caused apparitions of the dead crew, to arrive in the 1890s to take Johnny away. To prevent the time distortion, Jago, Litefoot and Leela convinced Johnny to accept his fate, and departed back to his ship, to die. (AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales [+]Loading...["Dead Men's Tales (audio story)"])

After this, they all discovered that the time distortion was causing a fictional character, called the Man at the End of the Garden, to become real, and caused the disappearance of the writer who created him. However, they managed retrieve the writer and defeat the Man. (AUDIO: The Man at the End of the Garden [+]Loading...["The Man at the End of the Garden (audio story)"])

They team traced the next source of time distortion in the New Regency Theatre, where it was linking the 1890s time zone, with the 2011 time zone, bringing people from 2011 to the New Regency, and vice versa. This also caused the New Regency itself to come to life, but they stopped the time distortion, causing the theatre to return to normal, and return the people from 2011 to their native time. However, they discovered that Professor Elliot Payne was behind all the time distortions. (AUDIO: Swan Song [+]Loading...["Swan Song (audio story)"])

As Payne arrived, the amount of time distortions rapidly increased, and threatened to destroy the world. It was where they discovered that Payne was conducting experiments with time to bring his wife, Shania, back from the dead. This was part of an arrangement he made with beings called the Time Eaters. However, the Time Eaters betrayed Payne, and he helped Jago, Litefoot and Leela to destroy the Time Eaters, and return all objects out of their time zone to their proper place in time and space. Shortly after this, Litefoot and Jago were summoned by a man called Professor Claudius Dark. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm [+]Loading...["Chronoclasm (audio story)"])

Kempston, Hardwick and Dark[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jago and Litefoot escaped Dark, believing him to be hostile, and decided to go to have a holiday in Brighton. Jago meet a singer called Abigail Woburn whilst in Brighton, and fell in love with her. They arranged to be married, but when he went to help George, who was possessed, when he returned, she had disappeared. After failing to find her, Jago sadly returned to London. (AUDIO: Jago in Love [+]Loading...["Jago in Love (audio story)"])

Dark later found Jago and Litefoot, and offered them tickets to see the new Oscar Wilde play. Where they had an adventure with Wilde, and a man called Gadd hired to kill him. It was after saving Wilde, that Jago and Litefoot discovered that two men, Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick hired Gadd, and that they were Professor Dark's enemies. (AUDIO: Beautiful Things [+]Loading...["Beautiful Things (audio story)"])

Jago and Litefoot tried to escape from Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick by boarding a train, which was their intention in the first place. Discovering that the train was caught in a time loop, in an attempt to trap them. However, thanks to Leela, Ellie and Dark, they both were freed. It was here that Dark revealed his true identity, as the Sixth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Lonely Clock [+]Loading...["The Lonely Clock (audio story)"])

They all discovered that Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick were constructs created by a Temparon ship using sand to form bodies, which had crashed to Earth, as a result of Payne's time experiments. He had to pretend to be the Doctor when he went to Bedfordshire, this managed to fool Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick for a while. During the confrontation with Kempston adn Harkwick, Jago encountered Abigail again, and he realised she was a construction made by Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick. However, Jago, Litefoot, Leela and the Doctor managed to dissipate the bodies of Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick with water, effectively killing them. After this, Leela returned to Gallifrey, and they were invited to join the Doctor as his companions aboard the TARDIS. They eagerly accepted the offer, though Jago began to suffer from motion sickness on his first trip. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers [+]Loading...["The Hourglass Killers (audio story)"])

Travelling through time[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor travelling with Henry Gordon Jago and Litefoot. (AUDIO: Voyage to Venus [+]Loading...["Voyage to Venus (audio story)"])

On their first trip through space and time, Jago and Litefoot arrived on Venus in the far future, where they discovered the corrupt Venusian Queen Vulpina was imprisoning an alien race called the Thraskin. During this time Jago became the "pet" of Vulpina. However, with the Doctor's help, they defeated Vulpina and released the Thraskin, resulting in a peaceful treaty between the Thraskins and Venusians. Jago, Litefoot and the Doctor then left Venus. (AUDIO: Voyage to Venus [+]Loading...["Voyage to Venus (audio story)"])

Although they intended to return to London, the TARDIS arrived in the Roanoke Island in 1590, and were held hostage by a local tribe of Native Americans. They discovered that the tribe were being terrorised by a group of ethereal children, who had been present for four hundred years. Whenever they kidnapped natives, they would leave behind the word "Croatoan", inscribed in the place where they once were. Jago, Litefoot and the Doctor discovered that Croatoan was an island, which they intended to explore, but not before Henry himself was kidnapped. When they arrived on Croatoan Island, they found Henry, and discovered the TARDIS, which had been on Croatoan for four hundred years.

When they found Henry's captor, he revealed that he was Sir Walter Raleigh, who had discovered the TARDIS, while George and the Doctor were venturing to Croatoan. After tampering with the controls, Raleigh travelled back four hundred years, and encountered a group of alien beings, who would later become the children who had terrorised the tribe. He taught them how to live and hunt, and in return, they extended his life. However, the Doctor managed to communicate with Walter in the TARDIS, four hundred years prior, and prevent him from travelling in the TARDIS. This then caused the alternative Walter to disappear, and the aliens would never have terrorised the tribe. After restoring the timeline, the Doctor deposited Jago and Litefoot back in London. However, after the Doctor left, they discovered that he had left them stranded in London on 21 February 1968. (AUDIO: Voyage to the New World [+]Loading...["Voyage to the New World (audio story)"])

Stuck in the sixties[[edit] | [edit source]]

Soon after, Jago and Litefoot discovered Ellie was still alive, as an effect of the vampire curse she still had. Jago eventually became a very famous figure on television when he met Detective Inspector Dave Sacker. Jago and Litefoot told him the circumstances which led them to their arrival in the 1960s, just in time for all of them to foil a plan to hypnotise the nation using a mystical statue and Jago's new television show. The plan was foiled by using a psychic crystal which Jago picked up on Venus. It was after the adventure that Jago and Litefoot met a performer on Jago's show, Guinevere Godiva. (AUDIO: The Age of Revolution [+]Loading...["The Age of Revolution (audio story)"])

He found himself very popular following his show and was invited to a party, where Aubrey wanted him to meet Cliff Richard, instead he met Guru Sanjaya Starr. After eating something strange at the party he started to act strangely wanting loads of salt. Jago and Litefoot also stopped an alien being and a mad guru from killing people by eating food containing the aliens offspring. The guru believed the alien was a god, and the aliens way of reproduction was by laying eggs in it's victims and eating them from the inside out. (AUDIO: The Case of the Gluttonous Guru [+]Loading...["The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)"])

Jago and Litefoot also discovered a book which was created by Thomas Bloodchild as a means of preserving his life essence inside it's pages. After several people attempted to steal the book to achieve immortality, Bloodchild was resurrected, but quickly destroyed again by Jago and Litefoot. After this encounter, they visited a crypt where they discovered several unusual artefacts, which included the time cabinet, containing a murderous Mr Sin. (AUDIO: The Bloodchild Codex [+]Loading...["The Bloodchild Codex (audio story)"])

However, they promptly escaped from Sin, and recruited Sacker to investigate the crypt with reinforcements to discover that all the artefacts had vanished. Later on, during Jago's show, Guinevere Godiva made Ellie vanish, and held her to ransom, which led them the rendezvous point, the House of the Dragon. There, Godiva revealed she had reconstructed Mr Sin and the key to the time cabinet, which she intended to use to recreate Magnus Greel from the psychic imprint left in the key, using Jago's Venusian crystal. However, Godiva needed a large quantity of energy to start the process, so Mr Sin betrayed her, put her in the catalytic extraction chamber and used her life energy as power, killing her. Successful, Greel's essence possessed Sacker, killing him, but giving Greel life. However, Greel was killed when Ellie stood in the extraction chamber and overloaded his intake of life energy, due to her unnatural lifespan. Using the time cabinet, Jago and Litefoot both departed 1968, arriving back in 1893. But immediately upon their arrival, they were greeted by a mysterious man calling himself The Colonel. (AUDIO: The Final Act [+]Loading...["The Final Act (audio story)"])

Return to Victorian London[[edit] | [edit source]]

He was sent by The Colonel to Suffolk to discover the truth about ghosts in the Fog. On the train down to Lowestoft, he immediately fell asleep. He started to realise his memories of the future and his travels of the Doctor started to fade. Over the cliffs in Shingle Cove, he met Camilla Tevelyan before the Fog came in. Jago and Litefoot went into the cove to discover more about the person Camila saw. They saw a pub full of skeletons. He was rescued from drowning by Isaac Pawley. Tevelyan tried to kill them. (AUDIO: The Skeleton Quay [+]Loading...["The Skeleton Quay (audio story)"])

He started to have bad dreams and Sigmund Freud analysed them. He started to include Freud into his dreams. Before a treatment session he saw a baboon buying tickets at his theatre, this was one of his dreams. As part of his dream he started to remember is mother. He went to the Zoo with Litefoot where he was pushed into the Ape house. He was rescued by Madame Anna who accompanied him around town. (AUDIO: Return of the Repressed [+]Loading...["Return of the Repressed (audio story)"])

The Colonel asked him about their adventures including their encounters with Dr Tulp. When Litefoot started to ask questions, Drucker told Jago that asking questions would be bad. He was told by Agatha Worthing that the Colonel was working against the crown. He went to find Litefoot after he was kidnapped, and was given where he was held by Agatha. Ellie and he went to find Litefoot using this knowledge. His verbose way of talking confused the Colonel's robots. He was presumed dead in the destruction of the Colonel's base. (AUDIO: Military Intelligence [+]Loading...["Military Intelligence (audio story)"]) He wasn't dead and impersonated the Colonel. Jago was to represent Litefoot as his barrister. During the trial of Litefoot he was arrested for contempt of court and as an accessory to murder. Quick managed to get them free by misdirecting the police force into which station they were taken to. They went to the Colonel's base and discovered that the Colonel wanted to kill the Queen and become emperor of the British Empire. He realised that he could reset the gun the Colonel was using to fire on his base, he stopped the Colonel. Because of the death of Agatha the Queen put a bounty on their heads and they became fugitives. (AUDIO: The Trial of George Litefoot [+]Loading...["The Trial of George Litefoot (audio story)"])

Life as a Fugitive[[edit] | [edit source]]

He was charged with the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria. Ellie gave him a message from the Doctor allowing them to use his house, 107 Baker Street. He met Arthur Conan Doyle when the Doctor sent Doyle to him. He helped Doyle in an investigation when Laura Lyons sent him a letter and he posed as Sherlock Holmes. On meeting Lyons he started to be shot at. Following a clue from Lyons they found a route to prehistoric Earth in London. He decided to sacrifice himself when a set of dogs came after them, to allow Litefoot and Doyle to escape. He then met Roger Baskerville who told him about there work. (AUDIO: The Monstrous Menagerie [+]Loading...["The Monstrous Menagerie (audio story)"]) He started to long for the New Regency theatre before, Remorse got him to remember his bad memories. In a picture Remorse showed them, he remembered one of his former theatre girls who became pregnant so he sacked her. He later found out that she was found floating down the Themes. Whilst drunk he started to fight Litefoot due to remorse. He couldn't juggle when drunk. After realising this he started to mope about their current predicament. Jago wanted to make an honest women out of the girl and marry her but she rejected him. He found out that this was all a scheme to kill the guild of clockmakers. (AUDIO: The Night of 1000 Stars [+]Loading...["The Night of 1000 Stars (audio story)"]) He went to find Willis, but he was murdered. They discovered that they were at the a Sherlock Holmes convention. He posed as Professor Potter in a murder mystery. After Fanshaw was burnt alive he tried to comfort the maid who was distraught. He found at clock room with Reginald Peacock and was told to find the right clock. Peakcock found the right clock by recognising the Fundamental Theory of calculus but Jago watched him died from being steamed. (AUDIO: Murder at Moorsey Manor [+]Loading...["Murder at Moorsey Manor (audio story)"]) He knew of Frederick Abberline. He helped in his investigations to find the Ripper, after he escaped from custody. Abberline asked to him inquire at the New Regency Theatre as Jack's new victims worked in the chorus there. He discovered that the theatre girls had gone to the New Regency's store warehouse. Abberline went with Jago and Litefoot to the palace to stop the Ripper from murdering the Queen. He was then exonerated by Queen Victoria. (AUDIO: The Wax Princess [+]Loading...["The Wax Princess (audio story)"]) In 1894, Jago spent time with his sister in Brighton after a bout of dyspepsia. (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers [+]Loading...["The Bodysnatchers (novel)"])

Back at the New Regency[[edit] | [edit source]]

Nancy Pettigrew convinced Jago to hire the Scorchies. They convinced him that they were the best act in London. He spent most of his time with the Scorchies so forgot to talk with Litefoot and Ellie. When Litefoot saw Jago crying in the theatre, Jago was crying sawdust. He knew he made a bad decision by allowing the Scorchies to have a show. Seeing the dead body of one of Nancy's lovers he realised that the Scorchies were evil. He tried to get Sergeant Appleby to get away from the theatre before he was killed. He wondered how many people had witnessed being murdered in his theatre. Colonel Fuzz wanted Jago to kill Litefoot. They were both rescued by Ellie who burnt all the Scorchies. (AUDIO: Encore of the Scorchies [+]Loading...["Encore of the Scorchies (audio story)"])

He desired that when he died the Litefoot would be the one who would perform the post-mortem. Quick asked him and Litefoot to investigate the strange appearance of people congregating at cross roads and parks who attacked an people who interfered with them. Realising that they had gone to a funfair they went to investigate. He was mistaken for Ellie's grandfather. He saw the machine that caused people to become blank and possessed, exactly what Quick described. He was the followed by the people but he had Ellie managed to escape. Wednesday tried convert him into a Kine, an alien being. Jago discovered that he wanted to convert people into Kine so that he could get undo the genocide of the Kine. He was stopped from converting to a Kine by Arioch. (AUDIO: The Backwards Men [+]Loading...["The Backwards Men (audio story)"])

He thought that they were Lucky to have the Red Tavern as a base of operations. He started in investigate the appearance of a beast in the Thames. He said that one of acts had made a song about it. They later went to Jacob's Island to discover some more information. Mulberry Gride discovered that they weren't offically connect to the police so chucked them out of his factory. He found out about the Darkling Façade. (AUDIO: Jago & Litefoot & Patsy [+]Loading...["Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (audio story)"]) He became infected by the creature and started to behave strangely. They inquired after Patsy when she was imprisoned. When he went back to the Red Tavern he asked for a water instead of beer at the pub which brought Ellie's suspicions. When he met Ellie at Paddington station he trapped her in train carriage and drove the train to Litefoot. He found driving a train exciting. After getting them off the train, Ellie got them drunk to sedate them. (AUDIO: Higson & Quick [+]Loading...["Higson & Quick (audio story)"])

He employed Mr Rees at the theatre. He wanted to buy a phonograph so that he could record the best acts for prosperity. He recorded himself to show Litefoot how it worked. He found out how Rees made people attack people. (AUDIO: Mind Games [+]Loading...["Mind Games (audio story)"])

Taking a cruise[[edit] | [edit source]]

He went on a cruise with Jago upon the Fata Morgana. He was met with the advances of Isobelle Danvers. Isobelle asked him to be there to stop the advances of other men. He didn't like rope ladders. He and Litefoot encountered a French Jago and Litefoot coming from a timeline where Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo. More Jago and Litefoots were encountered that were from different course of history where different countries won wars with the UK, with there being at least ones from Prussia, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. (AUDIO: The Flying Frenchmen [+]Loading...["The Flying Frenchmen (audio story)"])

He thought that Casino games were rigged towards the house. He went to a casino at Monte Carlo and won some money. He became enamoured with Madame Diabolique. He the helped Litefoot find the body of a missing person. Diabolique to him to a secret casino with Aubrey. He almost lost the New Regency Theatre in a bet. He kept winning and ended up playing the devil's roulette. He was tricked into changing his will to allow the theatre to go to the Dark Casino. He was taken to have his soul removed but because he was a veteran of the theatre he saw through the tricks. (AUDIO: The Devil's Dicemen [+]Loading...["The Devil's Dicemen (audio story)"])

He tried to hypnotise Isobelle to stop her sea sickness. He went dancing with Isobelle. When visiting an island, he went after Isobelle when she was possessed. They met Victor Bataille who showed them an ancient temple. He was tasked with looking after Isobelle. The possessed Isobelle ran off and he chased after her. He was to be sacrificed to Kibu. Litefoot got Jago to hypnotise Isobelle to stop Kibu from awakening. (AUDIO: Island of Death [+]Loading...["Island of Death (audio story)"])

He said he didn't have a strong stomach when the saw the dead body of Riverstock. He wanted to help Fowler return a mysterious artefact back to its home. Helping Litefoot to operate the fog funnel machine in order to get back to the isle of the artefact, he was sitting on the operation notes which allowed the Litefoot to get the machine working. This allowed them to get back to London. He then asked for Quick's help in capturing the beast. He knew how to get into the Red Tavern through the cellars, after all the doors were locked when Fowler entered the pub. (AUDIO: Return of the Nightmare [+]Loading...["Return of the Nightmare (audio story)"])

Meeting their Biographer[[edit] | [edit source]]

He was very nervous when he met with Carruthers Summerton. He found Carruthers interesting. After visiting Hartley Harecourt, he believed that McCallum was murdered by a gas being. He went to a Gasogene shop owned by Grayson to talk about his work. Following Ellie's information he went to a pawn shop and bought the missing Gasogene. He later went to show it to Harecourt. Soon he became the next of Harecourt's experiments. (AUDIO: The Case of the Missing Gasogene [+]Loading...["The Case of the Missing Gasogene (audio story)"])

Realising that he could send letters to his past using the yesterday box. He told his younger self to stop one of the urchin's in the theatre from being kidnapped and recalled the story to himself. (AUDIO: The Year of the Bat [+]Loading...["The Year of the Bat (audio story)"])

He was shot and buried alive. His grave was dug up by Adella Lestrange who told him that it was now the year 2000s. He was then chased by Zombies and was led to believe that the world was in an apocalypse and that he was patient zero of the Zombie plague. Adella told him that she was a member of the Jago and Litefoot society and got him to recant his tales. She then tricked him into entering a "time door" created from the notes of Claudius Dark, so that he could cure the world in his time. He was actually placed back into his coffin, but this time he was dug up by Litefoot and Quick. (AUDIO: The Mourning After [+]Loading...["The Mourning After (audio story)"])

He later went to the Red Tavern to regain his sustenance. He spotted Luke Betterman's hankerchief at a murder scene. He realised that there was something wrong with the cards that they had found at the murder scenes and went to his printer Cooper to find more information. He discovered where the Museum of Curiosities cards were sent and went there. He went in hiding at the Museum and turned up in time to stop Summerton from turning Litefoot into an exhibit. (AUDIO: The Museum of Curiosities [+]Loading...["The Museum of Curiosities (audio story)"])

A Masterful Encounter[[edit] | [edit source]]

Following the evening show at the New Regency, he found a man lurking in a cupboard who said he was his son. Jago Jr asked him to help find his mother Ruby Valentine who had been abducted. He accompanied his son to where Ruby was taken and saw a strange temple, the Hellfire Club and brought her to Litefoot's mortuary. After his son was kidnapped her went after the kidnappers back to where he found Ruby's body. He found a monstrous menagerie and later witnessed the resurrection of Satan, who stated that Harry was his son. He was attacked and almost mortally wounded, though he was able to finally recall Ruby. (AUDIO: Jago & Son [+]Loading...["Jago & Son (audio story)"])

He ran into the Red Tavern saying that Litefoot had disappeared. Ellie and him accompanied him to Maurice Ravel's flat where they saw a mysterious creature. He then was used as a bargaining chip. He pressed a button in the sand tank and unlocked Maurice and Litefoot from a strange land. He was trapped in a room by his impersonator but shot the lock off and went to stop him. (AUDIO: Maurice [+]Loading...["Maurice (audio story)"])

Bram Stoker invited him to watch Henry Irving perform. He thought that Henry wasn't acting at the moment. Bram later informed him about uncanny things happening at the Prince Albert Theatre such as disappearances of the actors. He told Litefoot and discovered that there was something connecting it to the recent death Litefoot had to deal with. He had to stop Irving from attacking Bram. They returned to the theatre where they found some tunnels under which they explored. He then fell through them when they started to collapse. He encountered Wilhelmina Gussett in a cave under the theatre before she was cremated and he saw the Women in White. (AUDIO: The Woman in White [+]Loading...["The Woman in White (audio story)"])

Jago received a new mirror in his office, which suddenly appeared on his desk. In the following days, he started to feel exhausted thinking he was coming down with the flu. A week later he had to keep asking his stage manager to keep announcing the acts as his condition was deteriorating. He thought that Quick was hypnotised and took him to Madame Sosostris thinking she was behind it. Finding out where the Decayed Master was hiding and went after him. In the Master's lair, the Master tried to hypnotise the Jago and Litefoot, but with Sosostris help they resisted. The Doctor reversed the Master's machine and revived Jago back to health. (AUDIO: Masterpiece [+]Loading...["Masterpiece (audio story)"])

Vampiric Designs[[edit] | [edit source]]

They were invited to the Scarlet Gallery by Quick as there was a murder. He didn't think that the deaths of Melchester and James Royston were connected. He noticed that something was wrong with Litefoot. He went back to the Gallery and found him sulking about there, but when Jago touched Litefoot he became a pile of rotten canvas. He discovered that Litefoot was in a painting. (AUDIO: Picture This [+]Loading...["Picture This (audio story)"])

He believed that cinema would take up and his profits were decreasing because of it. He went to visit the fair and participated in Old Ma Hambley's horror. He thought that it was a variation on Pepper's Ghost when he saw one of the Flickermen. He became annoyed when Robert W Paul secretly filmed them being scared by a rubber skeleton. When investigating an abandoned tunnel, he saw loads of the Flickermen. Paul showed them the film after it was developed when Flickermen appeared on the film. (AUDIO: The Flickermen [+]Loading...["The Flickermen (audio story)"])

Both Jago and Litefoot received letters informing them of something uncanny happening at St. Cecillia's School for Girls. He then went after Ellie, thinking something was wrong with her. He then spent his nights getting drunk at the Red Tavern, and let slip to Ellie about vampires. Shortly afterwards he became the caretaker of the school. He then had to referee a Hockey games. He accompanied the girls to a trip to the New Regency Theatre. Jago thought Lucilla Fredericks was a vampire and was later proven correct. Ravener later told him that he was the person killing the students and the teachers. On viewing Paul's film, he realised that Ellie was now a vampire again. (AUDIO: School of Blood [+]Loading...["School of Blood (audio story)"])

He helped Litefoot to stake out Ellie to discover if she was committing the murders. He followed Ellie to a rendezvous with Ravener, and then promptly lost her. At Litefoot's house, Ellie informed him about the Old One and his supposed plans. She then confronted them about her brother's murder, which they had to tell her the truth about. (AUDIO: Warm Blood [+]Loading...["Warm Blood (audio story)"])

Finding himself on a parallel Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

He found George's dream interesting. Back at the New Regency he welcomed back an old colleague, Harry Hypno, to his stage when he saw something in the wings. This caused him to have a dream where he corpsed on the stage during his act. He later found that these were caused by Chronoplasm leaking from the Time Agent Cara. When Agent Cara discovered that Magnus Greel was dead she decided to kill them both. They later had another nightmare where they were time agents. Jago and Litefoot became trapped in the future and escaped through a time portal back to what seemed to be their time. (AUDIO: The Stuff of Nightmares [+]Loading...["The Stuff of Nightmares (JL audio story)"])

He thought something was wrong when Ellie didn't recognise him. After seeing an old friend Toby Brokesmith and went after him to find out why he was in hard times. Finding out that he went to the chapel of night, Bartholomew then tried to use him to be a carrier for her lords essence. (AUDIO: Chapel of Night [+]Loading...["Chapel of Night (audio story)"])

He spent his time trying to find food for himself and Litefoot. He accidentally met his counterpart's wife Xiu Xiu who chastised him. Litefoot asked Jago to locate his alternative self and the equipment he had just bought. When he saw Greel's time cabinet, he tried to stop it being activated, but failed. He used the energy in it to heal his alternative self's injuries. (AUDIO: How The Other Half Lives [+]Loading...["How The Other Half Lives (audio story)"])

He then helped Aubrey and Betterman in an investigation of fading bodies, accompanying them to a fallen spaceship in the middle of the city. He encountered Angelica who wanted to take his reality, but because he came from another world it didn't work and blew up the spaceship. (AUDIO: Too Much Reality [+]Loading...["Too Much Reality (audio story)"])

Christmas at Paternoster Row[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jago went searching for a source of magic tricks in order to perform at an orphanage, and Strax took him to Smallpiece's emporium. Finding himself alone at Christmas as Litefoot was away with Jean Bazemore, Vastra invited him over for Christmas. Alice Ayling forced him to take her with him. Strax caused an infestation of ancient pests meaning that he and Jago had to escape via the dumb waiter. The wand he got from Smallpiece turned out to be a ray gun which helped them escape. (AUDIO: Merry Christmas, Mr Jago [+]Loading...["Merry Christmas, Mr Jago (audio story)"])

Later encounters with the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Valeyard hired his theatre to stage a play about the Doctor's previous regenerations. This got him a lot of money and he was delighted at this. He took Flip Jackson on a tour of the New Regency Theatre and then went to the Red Tavern for a drink with him. He was concerned when he noticed that the actors disappeared after the performances, but the Valeyard told him they they retired and then asked him to play the Brigadier in his next rewrite. After recovering, he led an angry mob to the theatre to stop the Valeyard. (AUDIO: Stage Fright [+]Loading...["Stage Fright (audio story)"])

In 1899, Jago and Litefoot had an encounter with witches. Jago was able to defeat them with his large vocabulary. (AUDIO: The Carrionite Curse [+]Loading...["The Carrionite Curse (audio story)"])

At the dawn of a new century and over ten years after their first encounter, the Fourth Doctor returned to Jago and Litefoot's native time with his new companion, Romana I. He thought that the Pugilist's exploits were being exaggerated. He was enamoured of Romana and took her out for a meal. He was mugged by Johnny Stone, but "the Pugilist" arrived before he was killed. Romana told him that the person was in fact their cab driver Bobby Stamford. The Pugilist sentenced him to death for trespassing, but the Doctor arrived in time to stop the execution. He helped the Doctor to rescue Romana. (AUDIO: The Justice of Jalxar [+]Loading...["The Justice of Jalxar (audio story)"])

Later, he introduced K9 Mark II as an act at the New Regency, as part of an investigation with the Doctor. He was delighted at K9's performance. He disappeared when K9 tracked an energy source to the basement of the New Regency Theatre. After the Doctor traced him to Nicholas Asquin's house, he helped him to set a trap for the local thief. He started to mutate into a hairy being but this was stopped by K9 stunning him. He followed the Doctor to Asquin's place as he hoped that he had a cure. The Doctor managed to cure him by resetting the transmat. (AUDIO: The Beast of Kravenos [+]Loading...["The Beast of Kravenos (audio story)"])

Later life[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 1968, Litefoot read records indicating that Jago died sometime in the 20th century. (AUDIO: The Case of the Gluttonous Guru [+]Loading...["The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)"]) Jago was long dead by the time that the New Regency Theatre, which he had owned and operated in the 1890s, was destroyed in the Blitz at 8:47 p.m. on 12 October 1940. (AUDIO: Swan Song [+]Loading...["Swan Song (audio story)"])

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

By 2014, UNIT had extensive files concerning Jago and Litefoot's exploits. (AUDIO: The Screaming Skull [+]Loading...["The Screaming Skull (audio story)"])

Alternative timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

In timeline created by the Valeyard, Jed Barrow saw Jago working at the Palace Theatre, goading his stage hands into work. (PROSE: Matrix [+]Loading...["Matrix (novel)"])

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

Henry Gordon Jago was an effervescent, and theatrical figure, who revelled in using a large vocabulary, but underneath his bravado, he saw himself as a coward, which many of his friends disagreed with (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"]), with the Doctor describing Jago as "always the reluctant hero but a hero nonetheless". (AUDIO: Voyage to the New World [+]Loading...["Voyage to the New World (audio story)"]) Leela believed that Jago was a very brave man. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm [+]Loading...["Chronoclasm (audio story)"]) He was insecure of his friendship with the upper class Litefoot, and valued it deeply. (AUDIO: Litefoot and Sanders, Jago in Love)

Jago was fond of drinking pale ale. (AUDIO: The Bellova Devil [+]Loading...["The Bellova Devil (audio story)"], The Spirit Trap [+]Loading...["The Spirit Trap (audio story)"]) He often said "Dash me optics!" and "Oh, corks!" when surprised. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"]; AUDIO: The Spirit Trap [+]Loading...["The Spirit Trap (audio story)"], Litefoot and Sanders [+]Loading...["Litefoot and Sanders (audio story)"], The Necropolis Express [+]Loading...["The Necropolis Express (audio story)"]) In his own words, Jago was "all bluster and bravado". (AUDIO: Litefoot and Sanders [+]Loading...["Litefoot and Sanders (audio story)"])

Being a product of the British Empire, Jago considered female emancipation to be a bad idea, but was always respectful to women. (AUDIO: Swan Song [+]Loading...["Swan Song (audio story)"], The Lonely Clock) Indeed, he felt horribly guilty when he was unable to save Mags from vampirism. (AUDIO: Litefoot and Sanders)

Parallel World[[edit] | [edit source]]

On a parallel Earth, Jago didn't work in the theatre but instead worked in the sewers collecting the valuables which had been flushed down the toilet. He devised a way to capture the giant rat in the sewer, but sustained a broken leg courtesy of the oversized rodent. (AUDIO: How The Other Half Lives [+]Loading...["How The Other Half Lives (audio story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jago debuted in the 1977 Doctor Who episode The Talons of Weng-Chiang, where he was portrayed by Christopher Benjamin. The events of the story saw him strike a working relationship with Professor Litefoot, a pathologist. Despite having only appeared in the one televised story, the pair became fan-favourite characters.

The duo were reunited for The Mahogany Murderers in 2009, as part of The Companion Chronicles for Big Finish Productions, with both original actors returning to their roles. The story served as a sort of 'backdoor pilot' for the eventual Jago & Litefoot audio series, also by Big Finish, which was formally commissioned following favourable reviews.[source needed] In the intervening years, the only other appearance of Jago was in 1991's A Victorian Interlude, a short story published in issue 172 of Doctor Who Magazine.

The Jago & Litefoot audio series ran for 13 regular series between 2010 and 2017, before the death of Trevor Baxter, who played Litefoot, halted the production. A commemorative release, Jago & Litefoot Forever, would come out the following year, before a fourteenth and final series in 2021 in the form of narrated audiobooks.

Alex Lowe voiced the younger Jago in flashbacks throughout AUDIO: The Year of the Bat, a story in which Jago's past catches up with him.

The duo were to have featured in AUDIO: The Avenues of Possibility in 2019, but this was dropped following Baxter's death. (DCOM: The Legacy of Time: Behind the Scenes)

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