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|enemy = [[Gabriel Sanders]], [[Cornelius Ruthven]] | |enemy = [[Gabriel Sanders]], [[Cornelius Ruthven]] | ||
|setting = [[London]], the [[1890s]] | |setting = [[London]], the [[1890s]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Andy Lane | ||
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|cover = [[Alex Mallinson]] | |cover = [[Alex Mallinson]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = Jago & Litefoot: Series Two | ||
|release date = | |release date = 7 January 2011 | ||
|production code = BFPJLCD02 | |production code = BFPJLCD02 | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-512-9 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-512-9 | ||
Revision as of 11:05, 6 March 2024
The Ruthven Inheritance was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology Jago & Litefoot: Series Two, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Andy Lane and featured Christopher Benjamin as Henry Gordon Jago and Trevor Baxter as George Litefoot.
Publisher's summary
The pathology skills of Professor Litefoot and Dr Sacker are called upon by Lord Ruthven, who asks them to catalogue a cache of bones beneath his country estate. And so begins the endgame... as a plan long laid come to its glorious fruition.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
- George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
- Leela - Louise Jameson
- Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
- Doctor Ormond Sacker - Duncan Wisbey
- Gabriel Sanders - David Collings
- Lord Ruthven - Simon Williams
Worldbuilding
- Mrs Hudson erroneously believes that Litefoot can get tickets for the two of them to one of Queen Victoria's garden parties.
- Jago owes 500 guineas to the bank.
- Dr Sacker used to play rugby.
Story notes
- This story marks the death of Professor Litefoot's fellow pathologist, Dr Ormond Sacker (Duncan Wisbey).
- This story marks the first time that Jago and Litefoot have met Leela since the events of the television story The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
- This audio drama was recorded on 25, 26, 29 and 30 March 2010.
- Lord Ruthven shares his surname with the vampiric villain of John William Polidori's 1819 short story The Vampyre.
Continuity
- Jago refers to the fact that Ellie killed Sibelius Crow. (AUDIO: The Necropolis Express)
- Jago believes that Mrs Hudson has Litefoot in her sights. Litefoot himself previously expressed the same concern. (AUDIO: The Similarity Engine)
- Litefoot refers to his work as a forensic pathology lecturer at St Thomas' Hospital. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers)
- Litefoot mentions his time in China. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
- There are reports of lights underneath the River Thames and strange wet footprints on the docks. (AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales)
- Litefoot and Leela once again discuss tea. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
External links
- Official The Ruthven Inheritance page at bigfinish.com
- The Ruthven Inheritance at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
