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The Haunting (audio story)

The Haunting, sometimes marketed as Jago & Litefoot & Strax, was a special release from Big Finish Productions, uniting Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot with Strax. It was one of the company's first releases featuring elements from the new series of Doctor Who.

Publisher's summary[]

Strax, the Sontaran butler to Victorian investigator Vastra and her wife Jenny, suffers a disorienting attack and mistakes Jago & Litefoot for Jenny and Vastra and moves into Litefoot's home. Together, they are on the trail of a creature that is stealing brains, which may or may not be linked to a haunted house in London...

Plot[]

to be added

Cast[]

Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
Professor George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
Strax - Dan Starkey
Ellie - Lisa Bowerman
Inspector Quick - Conrad Asquith
Marvo - Stephen Critchlow
Mrs Multravers - Carolyn Seymour

Uncredited cast[]

Ernest Finch - Stephen Critchlow (BFX: The Haunting)

Crew[]

Cover Art - Tom Webster
Director - Lisa Bowerman
Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music and Sound Designer - Howard Carter
Producer - David Richardson
Writer & Script Editor - Justin Richards
Theme Music - Jamie Robertson
Jago & Litetoot and Sontarans created by Robert Holmes

Worldbuilding[]

Strax confuses Jago and Litefoot for Jenny and Vastra, and believes them to be married.
Strax believes the parrot in the stage show is a Rutan in disguise.
Jago enjoys reading penny dreadfuls.
A newspaper published during the 1800s was The Daily Bugle.

Notes[]

This story was recorded on 4 and 6 August 2015 at the Moat Studios.
The first question of Mrs Multravers lists several numbers starting from 1. The correct answer to the question implies that all these numbers, including 1, are prime. While in the modern mathematics it is accepted that 1 is neither prime nor composite, it was not uncommon to consider 1 prime at the time the story is set. In particular, the entry for Number published in 1890 in the 9th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica stated that every positive number was either prime or composite and explicitly listed 1 as prime.^[1]
The idea that Jago and Litefoot are confused for Jenny and Vastra by Strax was suggested by Steven Moffat. (BFX: The Haunting)

Continuity[]

Strax refers to Ellie as "lad", believing her to be male. He has similarly misidentified Clara Oswald's gender on a number of occasions. (TV: Deep Breath et al.)

External links[]

Official The Haunting page at bigfinish.com

Footnotes[]

↑ A. Reddick et al. The History of the Primality of One---A Selection of Sources. Accessed at http://primes.utm.edu/notes/one.pdf on 7.12.2015.

v • e Big Finish Jago & Litefoot audio series

Pilot	The Mahogany Murderers

Series 1	The Bloodless Soldier • The Bellova Devil • The Spirit Trap • The Similarity Engine

Series 2	Litefoot and Sanders • The Necropolis Express • The Theatre of Dreams • The Ruthven Inheritance

Series 3	Dead Men's Tales • The Man at the End of the Garden • Swan Song • Chronoclasm

Series 4	Jago in Love • Beautiful Things • The Lonely Clock • The Hourglass Killers

Specials	Voyage to Venus • Voyage to the New World

Series 5	The Age of Revolution • The Case of the Gluttonous Guru • The Bloodchild Codex • The Final Act

Series 6	The Skeleton Quay • Return of the Repressed • Military Intelligence • The Trial of George Litefoot

Series 7	The Monstrous Menagerie • The Night of 1000 Stars • Murder at Moorsey Manor • The Wax Princess

Special	The Worlds of Doctor Who: Mind Games

Series 8	Encore of the Scorchies • The Backwards Men • Jago & Litefoot & Patsy • Higson & Quick

Series 9	The Flying Frenchmen • The Devil's Dicemen • Island of Death • Return of the Nightmare

Series 10	The Case of the Missing Gasogene • The Year of the Bat • The Mourning After • The Museum of Curiosities

Special	The Haunting

Series 11	Jago & Son • Maurice • The Woman in White • Masterpiece

Series 12	Picture This • The Flickermen • School of Blood • Warm Blood

Special	The Jago & Litefoot Revival

Series 13	The Stuff of Nightmares • Chapel of Night • How The Other Half Lives • Too Much Reality

Jago & Litefoot Forever	Jago & Litefoot Forever

Series 14	The Red Hand • The Laughing Policeman • The Corridors of Power • A Command Performance

v • e

Paternoster Gang stories

Paternoster Gang

Television

A Good Man Goes to War • The Great Detective • The Snowmen • The Crimson Horror • The Name of the Doctor • Deep Breath

Audio

The Paternoster Gang	Prelude Heritage • The Cars That Ate London! • A Photograph to Remember • The Ghosts of Greenwich • Dining with Death • The Screaming Ceiling • Spring-Heeled Jack • Family Matters • Whatever Remains • Truth and Bone • Merry Christmas, Mr Jago • The Ghost Writers • Rulers of Earth • The Ghost and the Potato Man • Symmetry of Death • Till Death Us Do Part • Anne of a Thousand Light Years • Pater Noster • The Gentlemen Thieves • Doppelgängers • Jellyfish! • The Houseguest

The Eighth of March	Inside Every Warrior

Once and Future	The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50

Prose

Devil in the Smoke • Silhouette • The Pest of Paternoster Row • The Red-Eyed League • A Perfect Christmas • The Crimson Horror

The Paternoster Gang Investigates	The Singular Case of the Blue Men of the Minch • The Phantom of the Music Hall • The Giant's Heart • The Singular Case of the Time Machine • The Tudor Engagement • The Curious Case of the Misery Diary • The Spectre of Paternoster Row • The Case of the Dissolving Man • The Confounding Case of the Planetary Prankster • The Importance of Being Strax • The Case of the Curious Fugitive • The Pernicious Plots of the Big Game Hunter • The Dangerous Dilemma of the Dream Doorway • The Terror of the Thames • The Pneuman League • The Curious Case of the Miniature Menaces • The Fear Factory • The Insidious Ideas of the Danger Thinkers • The Howling on the Hills • The Evolution Episode • Assassin on the Railroads • The Inscrutable Illusionist • The Curious Case of the Weirdling Woods

Comics

The Crystal Throne • The Adventures of Strax & the Time Shark

Webcast

Vastra Investigates • The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later

Theatrical
releases

Prequel to Deep Breath

Video
games

Lost in Time

Vastra and Jenny

Comics	The Lost Dimension

Prose	The Big Sleep

Strax

Comics	Sonic Sleuth • Time Gentlemen, Please! • Love Thy Neighbor

Prose	The House of Sorrows

Audio	The Haunting • Brimstone and Terror

Vastra

Audio

Young Winston • Requiem • Ghosts • Rescue