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{{Rename|[[Gareth Jenkins]], as this page is in-universe, unlike the sound designer.}}
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{{Infobox Individual
|image          = File:Gareth_Jenkins_(A_Fix_with_Sontarans).jpg
|species        = Human
|origin        = [[Earth]]
|grandparent    = Gareth Jenkins's grandmother{{!}}His grandmother
|first mention  = Fixing a Hole (short story)
|only          =  A Fix with Sontarans (home video)
}}
{{you may|Gareth Jenkins (sound designer)|n1=the Big Finish sound designer}}
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Recalling her unexpected reunion with the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] thought that if the reunion was a [[comedy]], then '''Gareth Jenkins'''{{'}}s [[comic]] belittling of the Doctor would've been accompanied by comedy stings of incidental [[music]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fixing a Hole (short story)|Fixing a Hole]]'')
Recalling her unexpected reunion with the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] thought that if the reunion was a [[comedy]], then '''Gareth Jenkins'''{{'}}s [[comic]] belittling of the Doctor would've been accompanied by comedy stings of incidental [[music]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fixing a Hole (short story)|Fixing a Hole]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
In the 1980s, Gareth Jenkins was a child who wrote into the [[BBC One]] audience wish-fulfilment programme, ''[[Jim'll Fix It]]'', to ask if they could let him star in his own episode of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]''. As a part of the request, he demonstrated that he already had a complete [[Sixth Doctor]]'s costume, which had been made for him by his grandmother.
The producers of ''Jim'll Fix It'' agreed, and worked with [[John Nathan-Turner]]'s staff at ''Doctor Who'' to create the sketch, ''[[A Fix with Sontarans]]''. Jenkins — and his kid-sized Sixth Doctor's costume — did indeed play a major role in it, opposite [[Colin Baker]] and [[Janet Fielding]]. At the conclusion of the episode, Baker presented Jenkins with both a ''Jim'll Fix It'' medal and the "meson gun" prop to keep.
Jenkins reunited with Colin Baker at a signing event in January 2013.[http://www.6thdoctorcostume.com/2013/01/close-encounters-of-sixth-kind.html]
He now works as head of campaigns for the [http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/ Save the Children] charity, and still has his ''Jim'll Fix It'' medal. In 2015, he was interviewed by [[Toby Hadoke]] for [[THWR 107|Round 107]] of ''[[Toby Hadoke's Who's Round]]''. He also contributed to the charity reference book ''[[Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who]]''.
== Information from invalid sources ==
== Information from invalid sources ==
[[File:Gareth_Jenkins_(A_Fix_with_Sontarans).jpg|thumb|left|Gareth Jenkins as a character in the TARDIS. ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[A Fix with Sontarans]]'')]]
Since the ending of ''[[A Fix with Sontarans]]'' breaks the fourth wall so thoroughly, the Wiki does not consider it a [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid source]], and consequently does not recognise its events (and the in-universe Gareth Jenkins) to be part of the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]] as we define it.
Since the ending of ''[[A Fix with Sontarans]]'' breaks the fourth wall so thoroughly, the Wiki does not consider it a [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid source]], and consequently does not recognise its events (and the in-universe Gareth Jenkins) to be part of the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]] as we define it.


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Further detail is given about the in-universe Jenkins when Group Marshal [[Nathan (A Fix with Sontarans)|Nathan]] explains that in the year [[2001]], when Sontarans attempt to invade Earth, a man called Gareth Jenkins will lead the Earth defence force which defeats the invasion fleet. The Doctor points out that this future, heroic Jenkins could conceivably be a namesake, though the Sontarans decide they can't take the risk and try to kill Gareth anyway, hence his pressing the aforementioned death-switch on the console.
Further detail is given about the in-universe Jenkins when Group Marshal [[Nathan (A Fix with Sontarans)|Nathan]] explains that in the year [[2001]], when Sontarans attempt to invade Earth, a man called Gareth Jenkins will lead the Earth defence force which defeats the invasion fleet. The Doctor points out that this future, heroic Jenkins could conceivably be a namesake, though the Sontarans decide they can't take the risk and try to kill Gareth anyway, hence his pressing the aforementioned death-switch on the console.
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Revision as of 18:18, 24 June 2022

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Recalling her unexpected reunion with the Sixth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka thought that if the reunion was a comedy, then Gareth Jenkins's comic belittling of the Doctor would've been accompanied by comedy stings of incidental music. (PROSE: Fixing a Hole)

Behind the scenes

Information from invalid sources

Since the ending of A Fix with Sontarans breaks the fourth wall so thoroughly, the Wiki does not consider it a valid source, and consequently does not recognise its events (and the in-universe Gareth Jenkins) to be part of the Doctor Who universe as we define it.

Within the narrative segment of A Fix with Sontarans, Jenkins gets transported from Earth to the Doctor's TARDIS by accident, and is observed by the Doctor to wear a boy-sized version of the Time Lord's own outfit; and knows how to operate the TARDIS' controls from having watched the Doctor do so on television. This includes knowledge of switches which release a gas lethal to Sontarans, interestingly a discrepancy between the in-universe Doctor Who series and the real programme, as this feature of the TARDIS control console was never seen in the TV series proper.

Further detail is given about the in-universe Jenkins when Group Marshal Nathan explains that in the year 2001, when Sontarans attempt to invade Earth, a man called Gareth Jenkins will lead the Earth defence force which defeats the invasion fleet. The Doctor points out that this future, heroic Jenkins could conceivably be a namesake, though the Sontarans decide they can't take the risk and try to kill Gareth anyway, hence his pressing the aforementioned death-switch on the console.

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