A Victorian Interlude (short story)

A Victorian Interlude
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Main setting:	London, 1890
Key crew
Writer:	Andy Lane
Illustrator:	Lee Brimmicombe-Wood
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine 172
Brief Encounter
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A Victorian Interlude is a Brief Encounter short story published in Doctor Who Magazine 172. It features Henry Jago and George Litefoot in their first appearance in any medium since they made their debut in the television story The Talons of Weng-Chiang in 1977.

Summary

With giant rats still roaming the sewers of Victorian London, Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot realise that someone must deal with the creatures and intend to do it themselves using their newly-acquired Gatling gun. As the pair leave the public house where they have been discussing their forthcoming task, as well as wishing the Doctor was still around to help, Litefoot bumps into a stranger dressed as a cricketer, to whom he apologises before departing.

Characters

• Fifth Doctor
• Henry Gordon Jago
• George Litefoot

References

to be added

Notes

• Andy Lane would later write four Big Finish audio dramas featuring Jago and Litefoot: The Mahogany Murderers, The Similarity Engine, The Ruthven Inheritance and Chronoclasm.

Continuity

• Jago and Litefoot talk about their recent adventure with the Fourth Doctor and discuss exterminating the giant rats remaining in the sewers. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• Jago and Litefoot would later travel with another future incarnation of the Doctor, the Sixth Doctor. (AUDIO: Voyage to Venus, Voyage to the New World)
• Litefoot bumps into the Fifth Doctor, but does not recognise him due to his regeneration. (TV: Logopolis)

External links

• A Victorian Interlude at the Doctor Who Reference Guide