The Ruthven Inheritance (audio story)

The Ruthven Inheritance
Main character(s):	Jago, Litefoot
Featuring:	Ellie, Sacker, Leela
Main enemy:	Gabriel Sanders, Lord Ruthven
Main setting:	London, the 1890s
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Andy Lane
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Music:	Fool Circle Productions
Sound:	Fool Circle Productions
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	2.4
Release date:	January 2011
Production code:	BFPJLCD02
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-512-9
Jago & Litefoot
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The Ruthven Inheritance is the eighth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago & Litefoot series and the finale of series 2.

Publisher's summary

The pathology skills of Professor Litefoot and Dr Sacker are called upon by Lord Ruthven, who asks them to catalogue a cache of bones beneath his country estate. And so begins the endgame... as a plan long laid come to its glorious fruition.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
• George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
• Doctor Ormond Sacker - Duncan Wisbey
• Gabriel Sanders - David Collings
• Lord Ruthven - Simon Williams

References

• Mrs Hudson erroneously believes that Litefoot can get tickets for the two of them to one of Queen Victoria's garden parties.
• Jago owes 500 guineas to the bank.
• Dr Sacker used to play rugby.

Story notes

• This story marks the death of Professor Litefoot's fellow pathologist, Dr Ormond Sacker (Duncan Wisbey).
• This story marks the first time that Jago and Litefoot have met Leela since the events of TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
• This audio drama was recorded on 25, 26, 29 and 30 March 2010.

Continuity

• Jago refers to the fact that Ellie killed Sibelius Crow. (AUDIO: The Necropolis Express)
• Jago believes that Mrs Hudson has Litefoot in her sights. Litefoot himself previously expressed the same concern. (AUDIO: The Similarity Engine)
• Litefoot refers to his work as a forensic pathology lecturer at St Thomas' Hospital. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers)
• Litefoot mentions his time in China. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• There are reports of lights underneath the River Thames and strange wet footprints on the docks. (AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales)
• Litefoot and Leela once again discuss tea. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

External links

• Official The Ruthven Inheritance - Series Two Box Set page at bigfinish.com
• The Ruthven Inheritance at the Doctor Who Reference Guide