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One account mentioned they had a son together but had divorced by the [[1990s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'') Another stated that they had seven children and thirteen grandchildren by [[2010]]. While Jo attended what she thought was the Doctor's funeral, Cliff was picketing an [[oil rig]] in the [[Ascension Island]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'') | One account mentioned they had a son together but had divorced by the [[1990s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'') Another stated that they had seven children and thirteen grandchildren by [[2010]]. While Jo attended what she thought was the Doctor's funeral, Cliff was picketing an [[oil rig]] in the [[Ascension Island]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'') | ||
By about [[2019]] Cliff and Jo had acquired [[Bessie]]. They both returned to the abandoned [[Wholeweal]] buildings and armed with some of their new [[shrinking fungus]] tackled another infestation of [[Giant maggot|Giant maggots]] in one of the barns. Later, their mission complete, with Jo longing for a hot bath and reminiscing about [[Third Doctor|the Doctor]] never managing to get hot water in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the Tardis]], Cliff received a call on his mobile. He said it was from [[Mike Yates]], having some more trouble in [[Devil's End]]... ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Jo Grant Returns (webcast)|Jo Grant Returns]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Revision as of 21:53, 16 April 2019
Professor Clifford "Cliff" Jones MBE was a part of the Wholeweal community located in Llanfairfach, Wales. He fell in love with and married Jo Grant.
Cliff was a brilliant Welsh biologist and mycologist. He published a paper on DNA synthesis which the Third Doctor admired for being advanced relative to the 20th century Earth standard. He became a Nobel laureate.
By the 1970s, he lived at the alternative community known as Wholeweal, or "the Nuthutch," where he studied fungi. He was especially interested in the overlooked nutritional value of fungi and thought they might solve the problem of world hunger. Like the rest of the Wholeweal community, he opposed Global Chemicals and protested against them at a public announcement by their director, Stevens.
He first encountered Jo Grant in his laboratory, just as she accidentally ruined one of his experiments. Although he treated her gruffly initially, Cliff gradually fell in love with Jo. By the time that Global Chemicals had been defeated, he asked her to marry him, to which she agreed, having already pulled some strings with her influential uncle to have Wholeweal provided with UN funding. (TV: The Green Death)
The two honeymooned in the Amazon while looking for obscure fungi. (TV: Planet of the Spiders) They had some "adventures" for which the locals blamed the Metebelis crystal given to Jo by the Third Doctor, so she sent it back to him. (PROSE: An Overture Too Early)
One account mentioned they had a son together but had divorced by the 1990s. (PROSE: Genocide) Another stated that they had seven children and thirteen grandchildren by 2010. While Jo attended what she thought was the Doctor's funeral, Cliff was picketing an oil rig in the Ascension Islands. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
By about 2019 Cliff and Jo had acquired Bessie. They both returned to the abandoned Wholeweal buildings and armed with some of their new shrinking fungus tackled another infestation of Giant maggots in one of the barns. Later, their mission complete, with Jo longing for a hot bath and reminiscing about the Doctor never managing to get hot water in the Tardis, Cliff received a call on his mobile. He said it was from Mike Yates, having some more trouble in Devil's End... (HOMEVID: Jo Grant Returns)
Behind the scenes
- Katy Manning was not fond of the Cliff character and did not think that Jo's marriage would have lasted. She said in 1993 at the annual PanoptiCon fan event that she would be willing to reprise her role as Jo only if Jo was divorced from Cliff. However, the two characters were still married when Manning guest-starred in The Sarah Jane Adventures seventeen years later. Russell T Davies did not want to contradict the happy ending presented in The Green Death. Ironically, HOMEVID: Global Conspiracy? would be the only Doctor Who story to feature Stewart Bevan reprising the role of Jones and illustrates the two as separated.
