Jago & Litefoot

Jago & Litefoot is an audio series from Big Finish Productions. The stories involve Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot, characters first introduced in the Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang. In the series, they solve mysteries involving paranormal or alien phenomena in 1890s London. Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter and Conrad Asquith reprise their roles as Jago, Litefoot and PC Quick (promoted to Sergeant Quick, and subsequently to Inspector). They are joined in the regular cast by Lisa Bowerman as barmaid Ellie Higson.

The titular duo in their only televised appearance, The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

A Companion Chronicles release entitled The Mahogany Murderers was released as a standalone story, but served as a backdrop pilot for a potential series. After favourable reception, a season of four stories were announced for release as a boxed CD set as well as digitally on 30 June 2010.^[1]^[2] Weeks before the release of the first series, a second series was confirmed for release in January 2011,^[3] and continual popularity saw a third series begin recording in August 2010 for a June 2011 release.^[4] The series subsequently adopted a bi-annual release pattern, with eleven series having been released so far.^[5]^[6]

On 9 January 2016, a twelfth series was confirmed for release in April 2016.^[7]

Jago & Litefoot releases

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

Series 5

Series 6

Series 7

Series 8

Series 9

Series 10

Series 11

Series 12

Other Jago & Litefoot releases

Two stories, Voyage to Venus and Voyage to the New World, take place between series 4 and 5 of Jago & Litefoot. The CDs were released with reversible covers depicting the discs as either special Doctor Who releases numbered 1 & 2, or as Jago & Litefoot releases numbered 4.5 & 4.6.

The special release The Worlds of Doctor Who was a crossover of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off ranges. Jago and Litefoot were featured in Mind Games.

Jago and Litefoot also appeared in Fourth Doctor Adventures audio story The Justice of Jalxar.

Benjamin & Baxter was an audio documentary featuring interviews with Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter.

Jago and Litefoot appeared in Stage Fright, one of the stories in The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure.

The Haunting was one of Big Finish's first releases featuring elements from the new series of Doctor Who, being released between series 10 and 11.

Cast

Henry Gordon Jago — Christopher Benjamin
George Litefoot — Trevor Baxter
Ellie Higson — Lisa Bowerman
Sergeant Quick — Conrad Asquith (Series 1-4, 6-11)
Doctor Tulp — Toby Longworth (Series 1)
Dr Ormond Sacker — Duncan Wisbey (Series 1-2)
Gabriel Sanders — David Collings (Series 2)
Leela — Louise Jameson (Series 3-4)
Professor Claudius Dark — Colin Baker (Series 4 & 11)
Detective Sergeant Dave Sacker — Duncan Wisbey (Series 5)
Guinevere Godiva - Raquel Cassidy (Series 5)
The Colonel — Geoffrey Whitehead (Series 6)
Patsy - Flaminia Cinque (Series 7-8)
Luke Betterman - David Warner (Series 9-10)
Carruthers Summerton - Toby Hadoke (Series 10)
The Decayed Master - Geoffrey Beevers (Series 11)

Notes

As with most Big Finish series, the main cast does not change between stories but there are many guest actors and other members of the cast.
The Doctor, Jago, Litefoot, Leela, Percival Quick, Magnus Greel, Mr Sin, Patsy and the Decayed Master are the only characters from the classic series to appear in Jago and Litefoot. With the exception of the Master, all these characters featured in the television story The Talons of Weng-Chiang.