Judoon in Chains (audio story)

Judoon in Chains was the second story in Classic Doctors, New Monsters. It featured the Sixth Doctor and the Judoon.

	Sixth Doctor
	Jonathan Jaggers Esq, Meretricious Gedge
	Mars, 19 May 1884
	Big Finish Productions
	Simon Barnard and Paul Morris
	Barnaby Edwards
	Howard Carter
	Tom Webster
	2
	Classic Doctors, New Monsters
	28 July 2016
	1 episodes on 1 CD
	ISBN 978-1-78178-946-9
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Publisher's summary

The Sixth Doctor is no stranger to courtroom drama, but faces a very different challenge when he prepares to defend a most unusual Judoon.

After an environmental clearance mission goes wrong, Captain Kybo of the 19th Judoon Interplanetary Force is stranded in Victorian England, bound in chains, an exhibit in a circus show. But he has allies: Eliza Jenkins — known to audiences as "Thomasina Thumb" — and the larger-than-life "clown" in the colourful coat.

Uncovering a trail of injustice and corruption, the Doctor and Kybo soon find themselves on trial for their lives…

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Captain Kybo/Commander - Nicholas Briggs
• Eliza Jenkins - Kiruna Stamell
• Jonathan Jaggers Esq/Mr Preddle - Trevor Cooper
• Justice Burrows/Jonty - Tony Millan
• President Beel/Aetius/Herculania - Sabina Franklyn
• Meretricious Gedge/Billy - Nicholas Pegg
• Judoon computer - Barnaby Edwards

References

Clothing

• Burrows compares Kybo's uniform to a kilt.

Species

• Gedge had wanted to hire the Ogrons.

The Doctor

• Due to his clothing, the Doctor is mistaken for a court jester, and then forced into being a clown by Jaggers.

Languages

• The Doctor speaks Judoonese.

Literature

• Kybo reads Frankenstein, Great Expectations, Moby Dick, and Robert Burns's poetry.
• Upon hearing Kybo's haiku, the Doctor decides to visit Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The Judoon

• The Judoon use a H2O scoop to transport the whole of the courtroom and its inhabitants to another planet. They also use a DNA scoop to transport Gedge to the courtroom against his will.
• Once again, the Judoon are sticklers for obeying the smallest of rules. The Doctor tricks them into using the correct entrance of the circus, following the painted signs and entering the Hall of Mirrors.
• Although the Judoon mainly work for the Shadow Proclamation, the Captain explains that they also perform nonessential side missions on the side, such as terraforming planets for investors who wish to buy them.
• The Doctor states that the Judoon brain could fit onto a teaspoon.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor finds himself acting as a defendant in a courtroom. (TV: The Mysterious Planet; AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard)
• The courtroom is moved to Mars due to the Judoon lacking jurisdiction on Earth. (TV: Smith and Jones)
• The Judoon's chosen method of transporting the courtroom is H2O scoop. (TV: Smith and Jones, PROSE: Revenge of the Judoon)
• The Judoon like to follow the laws and regulations of the planet that they are on, no matter how ridiculous or unimportant. (TV: Prisoner of the Judoon)
• The Commander executes the leader of the circus on the spot for committing assault. They call it "evapourating". (TV: Smith and Jones)
• The Judoon need translation devices in order to "assimilate" into the target language. (TV: Smith and Jones, Prisoner of the Judoon)
• The Doctor mentions that the Judoon work with the Shadow Proclamation. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
• Kybo reads Frankenstein; the novel's author, Mary Shelley, would later travel with the Doctor in his eighth incarnation. (AUDIO: Mary's Story)
• Mr. Gedge laments working with the Judoon, wishing they had hired Ogrons. (TV: Day of the Daleks)

External links

• Official Classic Doctors, New Monsters page at bigfinish.com