Jubilee is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written by Robert Shearman Jubilee was released to celebrate Doctor Who's forty anniversary. Elements of the story were reworked by Shearman to create the episode "Dalek" for the 2005 series.
| Jubilee | |
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release no. | 40 |
| Featuring | Sixth Doctor Evelyn Smythe |
| Written by | Robert Shearman |
| Directed by | Nicholas Briggs |
| Produced by | Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Executive producer(s) | Jacqueline Rayner |
| Production code | 7CG |
| Length | 2 hr 20 mins |
| Release date | January 2003 |
| Preceded by | "Bang-Bang-a-Boom!" |
| Followed by | "Nekromanteia" |
Plot
editThe 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 have 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.
Cast
edit- Sixth Doctor — Colin Baker
- Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
- Miriam Rochester — Rosalind Ayres
- Dalek Voices — Nicholas Briggs
- Female Movie Star — Georgina Carter
- Farrow — Steven Elder
- Male Movie Star — Jack Galagher
- Nigel Rochester — Martin Jarvis
- Lamb — Kai Simmons
Release
editJubilee received positive reviews from critics. Den of Geek's Andrew Blair called the episode "ambitious."[1]
Adaptation
editThe story was adapted for television, in the revived series episode, Dalek, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ Blair, Andrew (4 June 2022). "Celebrating Doctor Who's 'Jubilee'". Den of Geek. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Martin, Dan (10 December 2013). "Dalek: Doctor Who classic episode #18". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Jeffery, Morgan (1 November 2018). "Doctor Who audio from Big Finish: Here's where to start". Digital Spy. Retrieved 4 December 2024.