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Disco was the eighty-third story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It starred Ianto Jones and was written by Gareth David-Lloyd.
This was the third and final story in a trilogy written by David-Lloyd, dubbed the "Ianthology", after Ianto himself.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
It's 1987 and "Disco" Jones is still dancing. Life and soul, bab, life and soul. Wednesdays is darts at The Merry Miller, Thursdays - shove ha'penny at The Boilermakers, Fridays played by ear, and Saturdays it's the Disco at Cinderella's.
So who is Tom and why does he want to build a fence with him?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ianto goes to the social club after his father's funeral and learns more about him from Dezzy and Ginge, two old acquaintances of his father's who remember him as "Disco", a popular and funny man who did odd jobs around the estate. Disco never seemed the same after a fight with Ginge at Cinderella's on 22 August 1987, however. On 16 August of that year, a time-travelling Ianto, who needs to recharge his time machine every two hours, meets Disco at a pub, going by the name Tom, and agrees to help him put up a fence for Dezzy the next day. He claims to be a typist looking for a new home in Newport and tells Disco that they will not leave Dezzy's fence unfinished as Disco has so many other jobs, but Disco says that something always comes up three quarters of the way through a job to stop him. After a day of working, they go to the pub together.
Having been told in the future by Dezzy and Ginge that Disco had lost money betting on Goody Little Four Shoes in a horse race, Ianto advises him not to. He admonishes Disco for hurting his family when he finds him about to have sex with Dezzy, with whom he has been having an affair, by the pub's bins and walks him home, joining him the next day to carry on with the fence and play darts at The Merry Miller. Ginge, annoyed at having lost money by betting on Goody Little Four Shoes at Disco's suggestion, distracts and threatens Disco. Ianto resolves the tension between the two by claiming that Disco had been complimentary about Ginge the previous night, however, and afterwards climbs Newport Castle with Disco. There, Ianto admits that he has come from the future to fix Disco's life, but his attempts have changed his and Rhiannon's lives whilst Disco remains dead.
The time machine activates whilst Ianto is with Disco and he disappears, but Disco assumes that what he has seen is simply due to the cannabis he was smoking. Disco decides to stop drinking alcohol, be there for his children and not bet on horses despite Ianto trying to correct the timeline by getting him to bet on a losing horse. He decides to leave Glenda because he does not love her and turns down Ianto's offer of a drink to take his children to the Electro for the last time. Once Dezzy's fence is finished, Ianto gets Disco to go to Cinderella's with him by telling him that he is moving to London for a typing job and provokes Ginge into fighting him. The timeline is restored by Disco's reaction to his own temper at leaving Ginge in need of a walking stick and, back in the 2000s, Ianto admits that he and his father were both selfish. He toasts his fatherand hopes that he found peace or a good disco.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Senior Producer - John Ainsworth
- Cover Art - Sean Longmore
- Director - Lisa Bowerman
- Executive Producer - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
- Music - Blair Mowat
- Producer - James Goss
- Script Editor - James Goss
- Sound Design - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
- Written - Gareth David-Lloyd
- Theme Music - Murray Gold
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ginge uses a walking stick.
- Disco and Ginge both bet on the horse Goody Little Four Shoes.
- Disco watches football.
- Disco drinks lager.
- Disco had Sunday roast with his family at the Pentwyn. Glenda likes the food there and Ianto and Rhiannon like throwing the food at him.
- Frankie steals Dezzy's underwear from her washing line.
- Chrissy Lloyd calls Disco "George". Disco does not know why. Chrissy told him that Goody Little Four Shoes was sure to win.
- Disco smokes.
- Disco describes Tiger Bay as "rough as shit".
- Dezzy lives at 10 Wye Crescent.
- Disco is on the dole.
- Disco has done painting, plumbing and sewing.
- Disco mentions Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Ginge lived with his mother in 1987.
- Ginge is diabetic.
- Tracy works at The Merry Miller.
- Disco claims that he does not do drugs. However, he smokes a spliff.
- Ianto is working for Torchwood London.
- Ianto has his coffee with three spoons of coffee, three sugars and no milk.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Disco was recorded at One Louder Studios on 10 November, 2023.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Disco decides to take Ianto and Rhiannon to the Electro, which appeared in TV: From Out of the Rain [+]Loading...["From Out of the Rain (TV story)"].
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Disco page at bigfinish.com