Jubilee (audio drama)
{{short description|2003 Doctor Who audio drama}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox audio drama
|title=Jubilee
|publisher=Big Finish Productions
|series=Doctor Who
|number=40
|featuring=Sixth Doctor
Evelyn Smythe
|cover= Jubilee (Doctor Who).jpg
|writer=Robert Shearman
|director=Nicholas Briggs
|producer=Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
|executive_producer=Jacqueline Rayner
|production_code=7CG
|length=2 hr 20 mins
|date=January 2003
|following="Nekromanteia"
|preceding="Bang-Bang-a-Boom!"}}
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
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 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
- 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
Jubilee received positive reviews from critics. Den of Geek's Andrew Blair called the episode "ambitious."{{Cite web |last=Blair |first=Andrew |date=2022-06-04 |title=Celebrating Doctor Who's 'Jubilee' |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/celebrating-doctor-whos-jubilee/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Den of Geek |language=en-US}}
= Adaptation =
The story was adapted for television, in the revived series episode, Dalek, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Dan |date=2013-12-10 |title=Dalek: Doctor Who classic episode #18 |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2013/dec/10/dalek-doctor-who-classic-episode-christopher-eccleston |access-date=2023-11-25 |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Jeffery |first=Morgan |date=2018-11-01 |title=Doctor Who audio from Big Finish: Here's where to start |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/cult/a869598/big-finish-doctor-who-audio/ |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}}
=In print=
A novelisation written by Shearman will be published 9 October 2025 in Hardcover and ebook formats.{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/469563/doctor-who-jubilee-by-shearman-robert/9781785949579|title=Doctor Who: Jubilee|first=Robert|last=Shearman|via=www.penguin.co.uk}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/jubilee-206 Big Finish Productions – Jubilee]
{{Sixth Doctor audios}}
{{Sixth Doctor stories|selected=Audio}}
{{Dalek stories|selected=Audio}}
Category:Sixth Doctor audio plays