The Final Act (audio story)

The Final Act
Main character(s):	Jago, Litefoot
Featuring:	Ellie Higson
Main enemy:	Magnus Greel, Mr Sin, Guinevere Godiva
Main setting:	London, 1968
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Justin Richards
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	5.4
Release date:	6 March 2013
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPJLCD05
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-563-1
Jago & Litefoot
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The Final Act is the twentieth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago & Litefoot series and the fourth and final episode of Series Five.

Publisher's summary

It's the night of Jago's biggest show - but he isn't quite prepared for the special guest star... as the curtain falls, can Jago and Litefoot find their way home?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
• George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
• Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
• Detective Sergeant Dave Sacker/Magnus Greel - Duncan Wisbey
• Guinevere Godiva - Raquel Cassidy
• Aubrey - Jamie Newall
• Singer - Alice Carter
• The Colonel - Geoffrey Whitehead

References

• Sid James, Tony Hancock, Noël Coward, Eric and Ernie and the Amazing Alice are performing at the Palace Theatre live on Those Were the Days.
• Ellie cried profusely at Litefoot's funeral. She claims that it was a beautiful service but she disapproved of Litefoot's decision to have the hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful" played during the funeral.
• Jago and Litefoot use Magnus Greel's time cabinet to return to 1893.
• Mention is made of Tony Hancock sacking his script writer. At one point Terry Nation was writing scripts for Hancock

Story notes

to be added

Continuity

• Jago and Litefoot once again fight off an attack from Mr Sin. (AUDIO: The Bloodchild Codex)
• Jago refers to the Fourth Doctor destroying the key to Magnus Greel's time cabinet in 1889. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• Sacker refers to Jago and Litefoot's previous claims about time travel (AUDIO: The Age of Revolution) and hallucinogenic frogs. (AUDIO: The Case of the Gluttonous Guru)
• Sacker compares the escapades of Jago and Litefoot to an episode of the science fiction television series Nightshade, "only less plausible". (PROSE: Nightshade)
• Litefoot refers to Greel's catalytic extraction chamber. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• Litefoot tells Ellie that Jago was able to open the time cabinet using the Thraskin crystal which he obtained on Venus in the far future. (AUDIO: Voyage to Venus, The Bloodchild Codex)
• Greel recalls that he used the time cabinet to escape his enemies in the 51st century. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang; AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane)
• Jago comments that the time cabinet is far smaller on the inside than the Sixth Doctor's TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers, Voyage to Venus, Voyage to the New World)

External links

• Official The Final Act - Series Five Box Set page at bigfinish.com