Jubilee (audio story)

Jubilee
Adapted into:	Dalek
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Evelyn Smythe
Main enemy:	The Daleks
Main setting:	The Tower of London, 2003 (alternative timeline)
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Robert Shearman
Director:	Nicholas Briggs and Robert Shearman
Music:	Nicholas Briggs
Post production:	Nicholas Briggs
Cover by:	Clayton Hickman
Release details
Release number:	40
Release date:	January 2003
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7C/G
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-022-3
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Jubilee was the fortieth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the second encounter with the Daleks for companion Evelyn Smythe played by Maggie Stables. It was also the a story that author Robert Shearman would use as the basis for his television story Dalek two years later when Doctor Who returned to television screens.

Publisher's summary

Hurrah! The deadly Daleks are back! Yes, those loveable tinpot tyrants have another plan to invade our world. Maybe this time because they want to drill to the Earth's core. Or maybe because they just feel like it.

And when those pesky pepperpots are in town, there is one thing you can be sure of. There will be non-stop high octane mayhem in store. And plenty of exterminations!

But never fear. The Doctor is on hand to sort them out. Defender of the Earth, saviour of us all. With his beautiful assistant, Evelyn Smythe, by his side, he will fight once again to uphold the beliefs of the English Empire. All hail the glorious English Empire!

Now that sounds like a jubilee worth celebrating, does it not?

Plot

to be added

Illustration preview by Martin Geraghty in DWM 326

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
• Nigel Rochester - Martin Jarvis
• Farrow - Steven Elder
• Miriam Rochester - Rosalind Ayres
• Lamb - Kai Simmons
• Actor playing the Doctor - Jack Galagher
• Actress Plenty O'Toole - Georgina Carter
• Presenters - Jane Goddard, Robert Shearman
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

References

All references are from within the alternate timeline

Films

• The film Daleks: The Ultimate Adventure stars an unnamed actor as the Doctor and Plenty O'Toole as Evelyn "Hot Lips" Smythe. Plenty O'Toole is the name of a character in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.

Foods and beverages

• Dalek juice is made from the secretions of the Dalek as it is tortured.
• Dalek ade is just a flavoured drink with an image of a Dalek on the bottle.

Time travel

• The Doctor and Evelyn become stuck within a temporal paradox (though it seems a closed loop)

• If the Doctor and Evelyn hadn't arrived in 1903, then the Daleks would have invaded.

• However, the Doctor and Evelyn do land and for a moment are ejected from the TARDIS and are stuck in 1903 during the Dalek invasion of Earth. They defeated them but remain stranded there.
• However, they also re-land in 2003 and by their actions stop the invasion before it starts in 1903.

Transport technology

• Rochester has a functioning Dalek transolar disc.

Notes

• Jubilee is the first release to use the Dominic Glynn arrangement of the Doctor Who theme. It is also the first to have a full-colour CD insert.
• This is the first release to feature the Daleks that isn't listed as part of the greater Dalek Empire story arc, not including their brief cameo in Seasons of Fear.
• Nigel's habit of collecting dwarves was based on Frederick William I, the emperor of Prussia, who had an obsession of collecting giants- and would parade them up and down as toy soldiers until they dropped down dead.
• Robert Shearman adapted this audio to write Dalek for Series 1 of Doctor Who.
• Jane Goddard and Kai Simmons have characters named for their surnames in Dalek.
• In various Torchwood stories and in TV: Dalek there are Jubilee Pizza pizza boxes as a homage to this story. A Jubilee Pizza leaflet is also seen in TV: The Lodger.
• This audio drama was recorded on 21 and 22 September 2002 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• There is another instance of alternate futures coming as dreams (and involving the Daleks) in AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks.
• This is not the Doctor and Evelyn's first visit to the Tower of London. They were briefly imprisoned there by order of Queen Mary I in January 1555 when she mistakenly believed they were planning to assassinate her and place her Protestant younger half-sister Elizabeth on the throne. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy) They would visit the Tower once again in 2010. (AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster)
• The Sixth Doctor previously discovered a statue of himself on Necros. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks)
• The Fourth Doctor discovered a statue of himself on an unnamed planet. (TV: The Face of Evil)

External links

• Official Jubilee page at bigfinish.com
• Jubilee at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Jubilee at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide