Big Jim (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"name":"\"TCoRR\"","page":"13-16","chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"}, PROSE: TARDIS Data File: Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["TARDIS Data File: Ruby Sunday (feature)"]) was the drummer in a band which Ruby Sunday belonged to. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Biography
On 22 December 2023, Big Jim and the band went to a low-paying gig at (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"name":"\"TCoRR\"","page":"13-16","chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"}) the King's Arms (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"]) in London to perform their "usual set" of Christmas songs, (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"name":"\"TCoRR\"","page":"13-16","chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"}) opening with "One More Sleep". (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"]) However, partway through "Winter Wonderland", a Goblin pulled the plug on Ruby's musical keyboard. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
The next day, he, Trudy, Clark and Ruby Sunday went to a nightclub and discussed what happened the previous day. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"page":"17-18","chaptnum":"Four","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"})
Just before Ruby's death in an alternate timeline's 2091 from the words of a mysterious woman, she remembered Big Jim as her whole life flashed before her. (PROSE: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (novelisation)"])
Legacy
There was a mention of Trudy and the band in the data files of the Doctor's TARDIS. (PROSE: TARDIS Data File: Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["TARDIS Data File: Ruby Sunday (feature)"])
Appearance
He had dark skin, a black beard and a blond buzzcut. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes
- Although Big Jim was referred to multiple times in the script for The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"],[1] he ultimately wasn't addressed in dialogue in the final cut, although he was only visible as a background character. However, his actor has yet to be confirmed.
- The novelisation [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)","2":"The novelisation"} does restore Big Jim's role in the plot.
- Big Jim parallels Big Bone Bill from No Hot Ashes, a band which Mickey Smith belonged to in Russell T Davies's novelisation [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"Rose (novelisation)","2":"novelisation"} of Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"].