Jubilee (audio story)

Jubilee
Adapted into:	Dalek
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Evelyn
Main enemy:	Miriam Rochester, Daleks, Nigel Rochester
Main setting:	Tower of London, 2003
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Robert Shearman
Director:	Nicholas Briggs and Robert Shearman
Music:	Nicholas Briggs
Sound:	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 story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Robert Shearman and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe.

It was the second encounter with the Daleks for companion Evelyn Smythe. It was also the 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 lovable 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

The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn, having followed a weird transmission, arrives in London in 2003, but they quickly notice that the city appears strange and looks unusually dirty and dusty. Before they can properly investigate, the TARDIS suddenly flees in terror and leaves them behind.

The Doctor is then suddenly stricken by a weird sense of deja vu, and realizes that he and Evelyn has landed in an alternate timeline. England, now known as the "English Empire", has become the central political power of the world, following the events "The Great Dalek War of 1903", and is ruled by the despotic President Rochester, who holds the sole surviving Dalek in the universe as a captive, and uses it as a part of his propaganda campaign of death.

As the Doctor and Evelyn try to restore the original timeline, they discover that they are being worshipped as heroes of the Dalek war, a fact which worries the Doctor, as he suddenly has faint and rather out-of-place memories of having fought in that war, and perhaps even more disturbingly, he can't recall if he ever managed to escape from it.

Illustration preview by Martin Geraghty in DWM 326

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
• Nigel Rochester - Martin Jarvis
• Miriam Rochester - Rosalind Ayres
• Farrow - Steven Elder
• Lamb - Kai Simmons
• Presenter / Mary - Jane Goddard
• Presenter - Rob Shearman
• Movie Star - Jack Galagher
• Movie Star / Judy - Georgina Carter
• Dalek Voice / US Prime Minister / Announcer - Nicholas Briggs

References

Foods and beverages

• Dalek juice is made from the secretions of the Dalek as it is tortured.

Time travel

• The Doctor and Evelyn become stuck within a temporal paradox.

Transport technology

• Rochester has a functioning Dalek transolar disc.

Films

• Plenty O'Toole played Evelyn "Hot Lips" Smythe in the film Daleks: The Ultimate Adventure.

Notes

• Jubilee was the first release to use the Dominic Glynn arrangement of the Doctor Who theme. It was also the first to have a full-colour CD insert.
• This was the first Big Finish audio drama to feature the Daleks that wasn'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, King in Prussia, who had an obsession with recruiting giants into his elite infantry regiment. He was so obsessed that he would even recruit foreign Soldiers, such as Ottomans, and have the entire regiment parade for his entertainment.
• Robert Shearman later used plot elements of this audio as the basis for his Series 1 television story Dalek. Shearman also used the surnames of actors Jane Goddard, his wife, and Kai Simmons as names of characters in the production.
• Both Dalek and various Torchwood stories feature Jubilee Pizza pizza boxes as an homage to this story. A Jubilee Pizza leaflet is also seen in the television story 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