Name:
Henry Jago
Main Aliases:
Sherlock Holmes
Species:
Human
Job:
Impresario, Television presenter
Affiliated With:
Palace Theatre
Place of Origin:
Earth
Mother:
Jago’s mother
Father:
Jago’s father
Sister:
Jago’s sister
Children:
Henry Gordon Jago Jr
First Seen In:
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Main Actor:
Christopher Benjamin
Other Voice Actors:
Alex Lowe
Appearances:
The Talons of Weng-Chaing
The Mahogany Murderers
The Bloodless Soldier
The Bellova Devil
The Spirit Trap
The Similarity Engine
Litefoot and Sanders
The Necropolis Express
The Theatre of Dreams
The Ruthven Inheritance
Dead Men’s Tales
The Man at the End of the Garden
Swan Song
Chronoclasm
Jago in Love
Beautiful Things
The Lonely Clock
The Hourglass Killers
Voyage to the New World
The Age of Revolution
The Case of the Gluttonus Guru
The Bloodchild Codex
The Final Act
The Skeleton Quay
Return of the Repressed
Military Intelligence
The Trial of George Litefoot
The Monstrous Menagerie
The Night of 1000 Stars
Murder at Moorsey Manor
The Wax Princess
Encore of the Scorchies
The Backwards Men
Jago &; Litefoot &; Patsy
Higson &; Quick
The Flying Frenchmen
The Devil’s Dicemen
Island of Death
Return of the Nightmare
The Case of the Missing Gasogene
The Year of the Bat
The Mourning After
The Museum of Curiosities
The Haunting
Jago &; Son
Maurice
The Woman in White
Masterpiece
Picture This
The Flickermen
School of Blood
Warm Blood
The Stuff of Nightmares
Chapel of Night
How the Other Half Lives
Too Much Reality
Jago &; Litefoot Forever
The Justice of Jalxar
The Beast of Kravenos
The Jago &; Litefoot Revival
Mind Games
The Screaming Skull
Stage Fright
The Talents of Greel
Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang
A Victorian Interlude
Madame Vastra
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Henry Gordon Jago was the ownerof the Palace Theatre and the New Regency Theatre in London during the late 19th century. He had adventures with The Doctor in his fourth, fifth and eleventh incarnations and became the short-lived companion of the Sixth Doctor. Following his adventures with The Doctor, he became a”defenderof the Earth”, investigating alien activity that threatened the future, alongside Professor George Litefoot, with whom he developed a great friendship.
EARLY LIFE
He had a sister. (The Bodysnatchers)
As a child, he lived downwind of a tannery. (Jago & Litefoot &, Patsy)
When he was a child, he always wanted to drive a steam train. (Higson &, Quick)
He claimed that he was “a dab hand with a catapult when [he] was a nipper”. (The Talons of Weng Chiang)
He always came last in the cross country races at school. (The Backwards Men)
He was a member of the under eleven fives at school. (Higson &, Quick)
In 1851, Jago witnessed Michael Faraday demonstrate electricity at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. (The Mahogany Murderers)
He began working in the music halls in 1859. (The Talons of Weng Chiang)
As a young man, Jago performed at t he Glasgow Empire. (The Lonely Clock)
In 1866, he was at the Alhambra Theatre where he auditioned for Romeo in Romeo and Juliet where he got a letter from his future self. He also worked as a cleaner in the theatre. His future self sent him a letter to stop the kidnapping of one of the youths that worked in the theatre, but this lead to him being knocked out. He realised that the kids were being kidnapped as food. It was then he drunk his first Pale Ale from the Red Tavern. (The Year of the Bat)
Both of his parents had died by the 1890s. His mother claimed that he “had all the grace of a bull in a china shop.” (Jago in Love)
His mother always told him that drinking would inevitably lead to death. (The Backwards Men)
Jago had an aunt named Maude who was still alive in the 1890s. As an elderly woman, she lived in Margate and was engaged to a fishmonger named Robert Botcherby. (The Spirit Trap) When Jago was a child, Maude used to take him swimming in Margate. (Jago & Litefoot &, Patsy)
MEETING THE DOCTOR, LIGHTFOOT AND LEELA
In either 1889 (The Time Machine) or 1892 (The Case of the Gluttonous Guru), Li H’sen Chang performed his magic act at the Palace Theatre. Secretly, Chang worked for Magnus Greel, who was kidnapping and cannibalising women to heal himself. Jago helped the Fourth Doctor and his companion Leela with their investigations of the disappearances, believing them to be police officers. Chang’s plan was revealed during a performance and he tried to commit suicide, while Greel escaped.
George Litefoot joined forces with Jago to find where Greel escaped to. They followed him to the House of the Dragon, where they were captured by members of the Tong. The Doctor tried to help free them, but he was captured as well. During the final confrontation with Magnus, Jago and Litefoot helped to distract Mr Sin, with Jago taking a glancing blow from a laser. (The Talons of Weng Chiang)
Jago was forced to sell the Palace Theatre after these events, as a result of the scandal following the Weng-Chiang Incident. (The Shadow of Weng-Chiang) At some later time, he began working at the Alhambra Theatre. (The Mahogany Murderers)
The Fourth Doctor once described Jago and Litefoot as being “outstanding and extraordinary.” (The Justice of Jalxar)
INVESTIGATING INFERNAL INCIDENTS
His association with George Litefoot continued beyond their adventure with The Doctor. The pair were involved as amateur sleuths in several other mysteries as well as receiving help from Sergeant Percival Quick. (The Mahogany Murderers, Jago & Litefoot)
In 1890, Jago and Litefoot later descended into the London sewers to kill the rest of Greel’s remaining giant rats with a Gatling gun and on the way there, failed to recognise the Fifth Doctor, who had regenerated since their first encounter with him. (A Victorian Interlude)
Jago believed that he and Litefoot were the inspiration for the serialised adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson by Arthur Conan Doyle featured in The Strand magazine. (Jago in Love)
Litefoot kept mementos of all of his adventures with Jago. (Mind Games)
Litefoot once described Jago as “a very dear friend”. (The Bloodless Soldier) Similarly, Jago considered Litefoot to be his best friend. (Encore of the Scorchies)
TRACKING DOWN TULIP
After The Doctor’s departure, he and George Litefoot began many adventures together, finding murderers and so on. They had an adventure involving mahogany mannequins, animated by the living spirits of criminals in prison, who had been assisted by a man called Dr Heinrich Tulp. The mannequins were defeated, but Tulp escaped. (The Mahogany Murderers)
Jago, along with his friend Litefoot, were confronted by a bloodsucking beast, which had originally been a captain who was scratched by a beast in India. Jago was forced to shoot an innocent man as he quickly transformed into anotherof the beasts in front of his eyes. The man turned out to be Ellie Higson’s brother. (The Bloodless Soldier)
Jago and Litefoot were forced to resort to bodysnatching as they tried to discover the mystery of a resurrecting man. He was almost drowned in the Thames after hearing too much about the Far- off Travellers, organised by Doctor Tulp. (The Bellova Devil)
He later became trapped in an unusual cabinet, which held the souls of the future inside. Along with Ellie Higson’s help, he managed to escape. (The Spirit Trap)
Litefoot and Jago met Dr Tulp again, where they discovered that he had the ability of astral projection, and could take knowledge from the future and use it for profit. Where they found that Tulp was mining uranium and constructing more mahogany mannequins to replace important politicians, as a means of making profit and seizing control of the world. However, Tulp had in fact been possessed by an entity who wanted to dominate the world. Although, Litefoot and Jago stopped his plans, and killed Tulp. (The Similarity Engine)
LIGHTFOOT AND SANDERS
Later, Litefoot began working with a man called Gabriel Sanders who helped him to investigate the cause of a number of mysterious murders, whose victims had been drained of blood. George made sure that Henry was kept away from the investigation to protect him. However, after Henry had intervened against George’s wishes, they discovered that Sanders was the vampire killing the victims, and left him to die in a burning building. But not before he claimed Ellie as one of his victims. (Litefoot and Sanders)
Later, they both boarded a train carrying the body of Ellie to a cemetery, to investigate whether she would become a vampire too. They arrived in the cemetery, and discovered an associate of Sanders, Doctor Sibelius Crow. Discovering that he was attempting to experiment with and revive the dead. However, Crow was killed by the now vampire, Ellie. (The Necropolis Express)
Soon after this adventure, George and Henry foiled a plan by a group of harlequins, to infiltrate Henry’s newly-owned New Regency Theatre, and drain the lifeforce from the audience. They found that their travelling caravan was, in fact, a living thing, and created the people who travelled within it. However, they both managed to destroy the caravan. It was after this adventure, that Litefoot managed to discover the cure for Ellie’s vampirism, but also, that Sanders had survived being burnt to death in the building. (The Theatre of Dreams)
Litefoot and Jago both discovered Sanders plan to breed a new race of human-vampire hybrids, using the Ruthven family line. However, the last of the line, Lord Ruthven, was killed, and Jago managed to destroy Sanders by impaling him with a chandelier. After defeating Sanders, Leela arrived at Litefoot’s house while he and Jago were there, and told them that she had been sent from Gallifrey to investigate time distortions. (The Ruthven Inheritance)
LEELA AND THE TIME TRAPS
Liteoot, Jago and Leela discovered that due to the time distortion, a sailor named Johnny Skipton was removed from his own time, namely 1958, before he was supposed to die While sinking in his ship. This caused apparitions of the dead crew, to arrive in the 1890s to take Johnny away. To prevent the time distortion, Jago, Litefoot and Leela convinced Johnny to accept his fate, and departed back to his ship, to die. (Dead Men’s Tales)
After this, they all discovered that the time distortion was causing a fictional character, called the Man at the End of the garden, to become real, and caused the disappearance of the writer who created him. However, they managed retrieve the writer and defeat the Man. (The Man at the End of the garden)
they team traced the next source of time distortion in the New Regency Theatre, where it was linking the 1890s time zone, with the 2011 time zone, bringing people from 2011 to the New Regency, and vice versa. This also caused the New Regency itself to come to life, but they stopped the time distortion, causing the theatre to return to normal, and return the people from 2011 to their native time. However, they discovered that Professor Elliot Payne was behind all the time distortions. (Swan Song)
As Payne arrived, the amount of time distortions rapidly increased, and threatened to destroy the world. It was where they discovered that Payne was conducting experiments with time to bring his wife, Shania, back from the dead. This was part of an arrangement he made with beings called the Time Eaters. However, the Time Eaters betrayed Payne, and he helped Jago, Litefoot and Leela to destroy the Time Eaters, and return all objects out of their time zone to their proper place in time and space. Shortly after this, Litefoot and Jago were summoned by a man called Professor Claudius Dark. (Chronoclasm)
KEMPSTON, HARDWICK AND DARK
Jago and Litefoot escaped Dark, believing him to be hostile, and decided to go to have a holiday in Brighton. Jago meet a singer called Abigail Woburn whilst in Brighton, and fell in love with her. They arranged to be married, but when he went to help George, who was possessed, when he returned, she had disappeared. After failing to find her, they returned to London. It was later discovered that she was aconstruction made by Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick. (Jago in Love)
Dark later found Jago and Litefoot, and offered them tickets to see the new Oscar Wilde play. Where they had an adventure with Wilde, and a man called Gadd hired to kill him. It was after saving Wilde, that Jago and Litefoot discovered that two men, Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick hired Gadd, and that they were Professor Dark’s enemies. (Beautiful Things)
Jago and Litefoot tried to escape from Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick by boarding a train, which was their intention in the first place. Discovering that the train was caught in a time loop, in an attempt to trap them. However, thanks to Leela, Ellie and Dark, they both were freed. It was here that Dark revealed his true identity, as the Sixth Doctor. (The Lonely Clock)
they all discovered that Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick were constructs created by a Temparon ship using sand to form bodies, which had crashed to Earth, as a result of Payne’s time experiments. He had to pretend to be The Doctor when he went to Bedfordshire, this managed to fool Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick for a while. However, Jago, Litefoot, Leela and the Doctor managed to dissipate the bodies of Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick with water, effectively killing them. After this, Leela returned to Gallifrey, and they were invited to join The Doctor as his companions aboard the TARDIS. They eagerly accepted the offer, though Jago began to suffer from motion sickness on his first trip. (The Hourglass Killers)
TRAVELLING THROUGH TIME
On their first trip through space and time, Jago and Litefoot arrived on Venus in the far future, where they discovered the corrupt Venusian Queen Vulpina was imprisoning an alien race called the Thraskin. During this time Jago became the “pet” of Vulpina. However, with The Doctor’s help, they defeated Vulpina and released the Thraskin, resulting in a peaceful treaty between the Thraskins and Venusians. Jago, Litefoot and the Doctor then left Venus. (Voyage to Venus)
Although they intended to return to London, the TARDIS arrived in the Roanoke Island in 1590, and were held hostage by a local tribe of Native Americans. They discovered that the tribe were being terrorised by a group of ethereal children, who had been present for four hundred years. Whenever they kidnapped natives, they would leave behind the word “Croatoan “, inscribed in the place where they once were. Jago, Litefoot and the Doctor discovered that Croatoan was an island, which they intended to explore, but not before Henry himself was kidnapped. When they arrived on Croatoan Island, they found Henry, and discovered the TARDIS, which had been on Croatoan for four hundred years.
When they found Henry’s captor, he revealed that he was Sir Walter Raleigh, who had discovered the TARDIS, while George and the Doctor were venturing to Croatoan. After tampering with the controls, Raleigh travelled back four hundred years, and encountered a group of alien beings, who would later become the children who had terrorised the tribe. He taught them how to live and hunt, and in return, they extended his life. However, The Doctor managed to communicate with Walter in the TARDIS, four hundred years prior, and prevent him from travelling in the TARDIS. This then caused the alternative Walter to disappear, and the aliens would never have terrorised the tribe. After restoring the timeline, The Doctor deposited Jago and Litefoot back in London. However, after The Doctor left, they discovered that he had left them stranded in London on 21 February 1968. (Voyage to the New World)
STUCK IN THE SIXTIES
Soon after, Jago and Litefoot discovered Ellie was still alive, as an effect of the vampire curse she still had. Jago eventually became a very famous figure on television when he met Detective Inspector Dave Sacker. Jago and Litefoot told him the circumstances which lead them to their arrival in the 1960s, just in time for all of them to foil a plan to hypnotise the nation using a mystical statue and Jago’s new television show. The plan was foiled by using a psychic crystal which Jago picked up on Venus. It was after the adventure that Jago and Litefoot met a performeron Jago’s show, Guinevere Godiva. (The Age of Revolution)
He found himself very popular following his show and was invited to a party, where Aubrey wanted him to meet Cliff Richard, instead he met Guru Sanjaya Starr. After eating something strange at the party he started to act strangely wanting loads of salt. Jago and Litefoot also stopped an alien being and a mad guru from killing people by eating food containing the aliens offspring. The guru believed the alien was a god, and the aliens way of reproduction was by laying eggs in it’s victims and eating them from the inside out. (The Case of the Gluttonous Guru)
Jago and Litefoot also discovered a book which was created by Thomas Bloodchild as a means of preserving his life essence inside it’s pages. After several people attempted to steal the book to achieve immortality, Bloodchild was resurrected, but quickly destroyed again by Jago and Litefoot. After this encounter, they visited a crypt where they discovered several unusual artefacts, which included the time cabinet, containing a murderous Mr Sin. (The Bloodchild Codex)
However, they promptly escaped from Sin, and recruited Sacker to investigate the crypt with reinforcements to discover that all the artefacts had vanished. Lateron, during Jago’s show, Guinevere Godiva made Ellie vanish, and held her to ransom, which led them the rendezvous point, the House of the Dragon. There, Godiva revealed she had reconstructed Mr Sin and the key to the time cabinet, which she intended to use to recreate Magnus Greel from the psychic imprint left in the key, using Jago’s Venusian crystal. However, Godiva needed a large quantity of energy to start the process, so Mr Sin betrayed her, put her in the catalytic extraction chamber and used her life energy as power, killing her. Successful, Greel’s essence possessed Sacker, killing him, but giving Greel life. However, Greel was killed when Ellie stood in the extraction chamber and overloaded his intake of life energy, due to her unnatural lifespan. Using the time cabinet, Jago and Litefoot both departed 1968, arriving back in 1893. But immediately upon their arrival, they were greeted by a mysterious man calling himself the Colonel. (The Final Act)
RETURN TO VICTORIAN LONDON
He was sent by theColonel to Suffolk to discover the truth about ghosts in the Fog. On the train down to Lowest oft, he immediately fell asleep. He started to realise his memories of the future and his travels of the Doctorstarted to fade. Over the cliffs in Shingle Cove, he met Camilla Tevelyan before the Fog came in. Jago and Litefoot went into the cove to discover more about the person Camila saw. They saw a pub full of skeletons. He was rescued from drowning by Isaac Pawley. Tevelyan tried to kill them. (The Skeleton Quay)
He started to have bad dreams and Sigmund Freud analysed them. He started to include Freud into his dreams. Before a treatment session he saw a baboon buying tickets at his theatre, this was one of his dreams. As part of his dream he started to remember is mother. He went to the Zoo with Litefoot where he was pushed into the Ape house. He was rescued by Madame Anna who accompanied him around town. (Return of the Repressed)
The Colonel asked him about their adventures including their encounters with Dr Tulp. When Litefoot started to ask questions, Drucker told Jago that asking questions would be bad. He was told by Agatha Worthing that the Colonel was working against the crown. He went to find Litefoot after he was kidnapped, and was given where he was held by Agatha. Ellie and he went to find Litefoot using this knowledge. His verbose way of talking confused the Colonel’s robots. He was presumed dead in the destruction of the Colonel’s base. (Military Intelligence) He wasn’t dead and impersonated the Colonel. Jago was to represent Litefoot as his barrister. During the trial of Litefoot he was arrested for contempt of court and as an accessory to murder. Quick managed to get them free by misdirecting the police force into which station they were taken to. They went to the Colonel’s base and discovered that the Colonel wanted to kill the Queen and become emperorof the British Empire. He realised that he could reset the gun the Colonel was using to fire on his base, he stopped the Colonel. Because of the death of Agatha the Queen put a bounty on their heads and they became fugitives. (The Trial of George Litefoot)
LIFE AS A FUGITIVE
He was charged with the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria. Ellie gave him a message from The Doctor allowing them to use his house, 107 Baker Street. He met Arthur Conan Doyle when The Doctor sent Doyle to him. He helped Doyle in an investigation when Laura Lyons sent him a letter and he posed as Sherlock Holmes. On meeting Lyons he started to be shot at. Following a clue from Lyons they found a route to prehistoric Earth in London. He decided to sacrifice himself when a set of dogs came after them, to allow Litefoot and Doyle to escape. He then met Roger Baskerville who told him about there work. (The Monstrous Menagerie) He started to long for the New Regency theatre before, Remorse got him to remember his bad memories. In a picture Remorse showed them, he remembered one of his former theatre girls who became pregnant so he sacked her. He later found out that she was found floating down the themes. Whilst drunk he started to fight Litefoot due to remorse. He couldn’t juggle when drunk. After realising this he started to mope about their current predicament. Jago wanted to make an honest women out of the girl and marry her but she rejected him. He found out that this was all a scheme to kill the guild of clockmakers. (The Night of 1000 Stars) He went to find Willis, but he was murdered. They discovered that they were at the a Sherlock Holmes convention. He posed as Professor Potter in a murder mystery. After Fanshaw was burnt alive he tried to comfort the maid who was distraught. He found at clock room with Reginald Peacock and was told to find the right clock. Peakcock found the right clock by recognising the Fundamental Theory of calculus but Jago watched him died from being steamed. (Murder at Moorsey Manor) He knew of Frederick Abberline. He helped in his investigations to find the Ripper, after he escaped from custody. Abberline asked to him inquire at the New Regency Theatre as Jack’s new victims worked in the chorus there. He discovered that the theatre girls had gone to the New Regency’s store warehouse. Abberline went with Jago and Litefoot to the palace to stop the Ripper from murdering the Queen. He was then exonerated by Queen Victoria. (The Wax Princess) In 1894, Jago spent time with his sister in Brighton after a bout of dyspepsia. (The Bodysnatchers)
BACK AT THE NEW REGENCY
Nancy Pettigrew convinced Jago to hire the Scorchies. They convinced him that they were the best act in London. He spent most of his time with the Scorchies so forgot to talk with Litefoot and Ellie. When Litefoot saw Jago crying in the theatre, Jago was crying sawdust. He knew he made a bad decision by allowing the Scorchies to have a show. Seeing the dead body of one of Nancy’s lovers he realised that the Scorchies were evil. He tried to get Sergeant Appleby to get away from the theatre before he was killed. He wondered how many people had witnessed being murdered in his theatre. Colonel Fuzz wanted Jago to kill Litefoot. They were both rescued by Ellie who burnt all the Scorchies. (Encore of the Scorchies)
He desired that when he died the Litefoot would be the one who would perform the post-mortem. Quick asked him and Litefoot to investigate the strange appearance of people congregating at cross roads and parks who attacked an people who interfered with them. Realising that they had gone to a funfair they went to investigate. He was mistaken for Ellie’s grandfather. He saw the machine that caused people to become blank and possessed, exactly what Quick described. He was the followed by the people but he had Ellie managed to escape. Wednesday tried convert him into a Kine, an alien being. Jago discovered that he wanted to convert people into Kine so that he could get undo the genocide of the Kine. He was stopped from converting to a Kine by Arioch. (The Backwards Men)
He thought that they were Lucky to have the Red Tavern as a base of operations. He started in investigate the appearance of a beast in the Thames. He said that one of acts had made a song about it. They later went to Jacob’s Island to discover some more information. Mulberry Gride discovered that they weren’t offically connect to the police so chucked them out of his factory. He found out about the Darkling Façade. (Jago & Litefoot &, Patsy) He became infected by the creature and started to behave strangely. They inquired after Patsy when she was imprisoned. When he went back to the Red Tavern he asked for a water instead of beer at the pub which brought Ellie’s suspicions. When he met Ellie at Paddington station he trapped her in train carriage and drove the train to Litefoot. He found driving a train exciting. After getting them off the train, Ellie got them drunk to sedate them. (Higson &, Quick)
He employed Mr Rees at the theatre. He wanted to buy a phonograph so that he could record the best acts for prosperity. He recorded himself to show Litefoot how it worked. He found out how Rees made people attack people. (Mind Games)
TAKING A CRUISE
He went on a cruise with Jago upon the Fata Morgana. He was met with the advances of Isobelle Danvers. Isobelle asked him to be there to stop the advances of other men. He didn’t like rope ladders. He and Litefoot encountered a French Jago and Litefoot coming from a timeline where Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo. More Jago and Litefoots were encountered that were from different course of history where different countries won wars with the UK, with there being at least ones from Prussia, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. (The Flying Frenchman)
He thought that Casino games were rigged towards the house. He went to a casino at Monte Carlo and won some money. He became enamoured with Madame Diabolique. He the helped Litefoot find the body of a missing person. Diabolique to him to a secret casino with Aubrey. He almost lost the New Regency Theatre in a bet. He kept winning and ended up playing the devil’s roulette. He was tricked into changing his will to allow the theatre to go to the Dark Casino. He was taken to have his soul removed but because he was a veteran of the theatre he saw through the tricks. (The Devil’s Dicemen)
He tried to hypnotise Isobelle to stop her sea sickness. He went dancing with Isobelle. When visiting an island, he went after Isobelle when she was possessed they met Victor Bataille who showed them an ancient temple. He was tasked with looking after Isobelle. The possessed Isobelle ran off and he chased after her. He was to be sacrificed to Kibu. Litefoot got Jago to hypnotise Isobelle to stop Kibu from awakening. (Island of Death)
He said he didn’t have a strong stomach when the saw the dead body of Riverstock. He wanted to help Fowler return a mysterious artefact back to its home. Helping Litefoot to operate the fog funnel machine in order to get back to the isle of the artefact, he was sitting on the operation notes which allowed the Litefoot to get the machine working. This allowed them to get back to London. He then asked for Quick’s help in capturing the beast. He knew how to get into the Red Tavern through the cellars, after all the doors were locked when Fowler entered the pub. (Return of the Nightmare)
MEETING THEIR BIOGRAPHER
He was very nervous when he met with Carruthers Summerton. He found Carruthers interesting. After visiting Hartley Harecourt, he believed that McCallum was murdered by a gas being. He went to a Gasogene shop owned by Grayson to talk about his work. Following Ellie’s information he went to a pawn shop and bought the missing Gasogene. He later went to show it to Harecourt. Soon he became the next of Harecourt’s experiments. (The Case of the Missing Gasogene)
Realising that he could send letters to his past using the yesterday box. He told his younger self to stop one of the urchin’s in the theatre from being kidnapped and recalled the story to himself. (The Year of the Bat)
He was shot and buried alive. His grave was dug up by Adella Lestrange who told him that it was now the year 2000s. He was then chased by Zombies and was led to believe that the world was in an apocalypse and that he was patient zero of the Zombie plague. Adella told him that she was a member of the Jago and Litefoot society and got him to recant his tales. She then tricked him into entering a”time door ” created from the notes of Claudius Dark, so that he could cure the world in his time. He was actually placed back into his coffin, but this time he was dug up by Litefoot and Quick. (The Mourning After)
He later went to the Red Tavern to regain his sustenance. He spotted Luke Betterman’s hankerchief at a murder scene. He realised that there was something wrong with the cards that they had found at the murder scenes and went to his printer Cooper to find more information. He discovered where the Museum of Curiosities cards were sent and went there. He went in hiding at the Museum and turned up in time to stop Summerton from turning Litefoot into an exhibit. (The Museum of Curiosities)
A MASTERFUL ENCOUNTER
Following the evening show at the New Regency, he found a man lurking in a cupboard who said he was his son. Jago Jr asked him to help find his mother Ruby Valentine who had been abducted. He accompanied his son to where Ruby was taken and saw a strange temple, the Hellfire Club and brought her to Litefoot’s mortuary. After his son was kidnapped her went after the kidnappers back to where he found Ruby’s body. He found a monstrous menagerie and later witnessed the resurrection of Satan. He was attacked and almost mortally wounded. (Jago &, son)
He ran into the Red Tavern saying that Litefoot had disappeared. Ellie and him accompanied him to Maurice Ravel’s flat where they saw a mysterious creature. He then was used as a bargaining chip. He pressed a button in the sand tank and unlocked Maurice and Litefoot from a strange land. He was trapped in a room by his impersonator but shot the lock off and went to stop him. (Maurice)
Bram Stoker invited him to watch Henry Irving perform. He thought that Henry wasn’t acting at the moment. Bram later informed him about uncanny things happening at the Prince Albert Theatre such as disappearances of the actors. He told Litefoot and discovered that there was something connecting it to the recent death Litefoot had to deal with. He had to stop Irving from attacking Bram. They returned to the theatre where they found some tunnels under which they explored. He then fell through them when they started to collapse. He encountered Wilhelmina Gussett in a cave under the theatre before she was cremated and he saw the Women in White. (The Woman in White)
Jago received a new mirror in his office, which suddenly appeared on his desk. In the following days, he started to feel exhausted thinking he was coming down with the flu. A week later he had to keep asking his stage manager to keep announcing the acts as his condition was deteriorating. He thought that Quick was hypnotised and took him to Madame Sosostris thinking she was behind it. Finding out where The Master was hiding and went after him. In The Master’s lair, The Master tried to hypnotise the Jago and Litefoot, but with Sosostris help they resisted. The Doctor reversed The Master’s machine and revived Jago back to health. (Masterpiece)
VAMPIRIC DESIGNS
they were invited to the Scarlet Gallery by Quick as there was a murder. He didn’t think that the deaths of Melchester and James Royston were connected. He noticed that something was wrong with Litefoot. He went back to the Gallery and found him sulking about there, but when Jago touched Litefoot he became a pile of rotten canvas. He discovered that Litefoot was in a painting. (Picture This)
He believed that cinema would take up and his profits were decreasing because of it. He went to visit the fair and participated in Old Ma Hambley’s horror. He thought that it was a variation on Pepper’s Ghost when he saw one of the Flickermen. He became annoyed when Robert W Paul secretly filmed them being scared by a rubber skeleton. When investigating an abandoned tunnel, he saw loads of the Flickermen. Paul showed them the film after it was developed when Flickermen appeared on the film. (The Flickermen)
Both Jago and Litefoot received letters informing them of something uncanny happening at St. Cecillia’s School for Girls. He then went after Ellie, thinking something was wrong with her. He then spent his nights getting drunk at the Red Tavern, and let slip to Ellie about vampires. Shortly afterwards he became the caretakerof the school. He then had to referee a Hockey games. He accompanied the girls to a trip to the New Regency Theatre. Jago thought Lucilla Fredericks was a vampire and was later proven correct. Ravener later told him that he was the person killing the students and the teachers. On viewing Paul’s film, he realised that Ellie was now a vampire again. (School of Blood)
He helped Litefoot to stake out Ellie to discover if she was committing the murders. He followed Ellie to a rendezvous with Ravener, and then promptly lost herat Litefoot’s house, Ellie informed him about the Old One and his supposed plans. She then confronted them about her brother’s murder, which they had to tell her the truth about. (Warm Blood)
FINDING HIMSELF ON A PARALLEL EARTH
He found George’s dream interesting. Back at the New Regency he welcomed back an old colleague, Harry Hypno, to his stage when he saw something in the wings. This caused him to have a dream where he corpsed on the stage during his act. He later found that these were caused by Chronoplasm leaking from the Time Agent Cara. When Agent Cara discovered that Magnus Greel was dead she decided to kill them both. They later had another nightmare where they were time agents. Jago and Litefoot became trapped in the future and escaped through a time portal back to what seemed to be their time. (The Stuff of Nightmares)
He thought something was wrong when Ellie didn’t recognise him. After seeing an old friend Toby Brokesmith and went after him to find out why he was in hard times. Finding out that he went to the chapel of night, Bartholomew then tried to use him to be a carrier for her lords essence. (Chapel of Night)
He spent his time trying to find food for himself and Litefoot. He accidentally met his counterpart’s wife Xiu Xiu who chastised him. Litefoot asked Jago to locate his alternative self and the equipment he had just bought. When he saw Greel’s time cabinet, he tried to stop it being activated, but failed. He used the energy in it to heal his alternative self’s injuries. (How The Other Half Lives)
He then helped Aubrey and Betterman in an investigation of fading bodies, accompanying them to a fallen spaceship in the middle of the city. He encountered Angelica who wanted to take his reality, but because he came from another world it didn’t work and blew up the spaceship. (Too Much Reality)
LATER ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DOCTOR
The Valeyard hired his theatre to stage a play about The Doctor’s previous regenerations. This got him a lot of money and he was delighted at this. He took Flip Jackson on a tourof the New Regency Theatre and then went to the Red Tavern for a drink with him. He was concerned when he noticed that the actors disappeared after the performances, but The Valeyard told him they retired and then asked him to play the Brigadier in his next rewrite. After recovering, he led an angry mob to the theatre to stop The Valeyard. (Stage Fright)
In 1899, ten years after their first encounter, the Fourth Doctor returned to Jago and Litefoot’s native time with his new companion, Romana I. He thought that the Pugilist’s exploits were being exaggerated. He was enamoured of Romana and took herout for a meal. He was mugged by Johnny Stone, but “the Pugilist” arrived before he was killed. Romana told him that the person was in fact their cab driver Bobby Stamford. The Pugilist sentenced him to death for trespassing, but The Doctor arrived in time to stop the execution. He helped The Doctor to rescue Romana. (The Justice of Jalxar)
Later in 1899, he introduced K9 Mark II as an act at the New Regency, as part of an investigation with The Doctor. He was delighted at K9’s performance. He disappeared when K9 tracked an energy source to the basement of the New Regency Theatre. After The Doctor traced him to Nicholas Asquin’s house, he helped him to set a trap for the local thief. He started to mutate into a hairy being but this was stopped by K9 stunning him. He followed The Doctor to Asquin’s place as he hoped that he had a cure. The Doctor managed to cure him by resetting the transmat. (The Beast of Kravenos)
Also n 1899, Jago and Litefoot had an encounter with witches. Jago was able to defeat them with his large vocabulary. (The Carrionite Curse)
LATER LIFE
In 1968, Litefoot read records indicating that Jago died sometime in the 20th century. (The Case of the Gluttonous Guru) Jago was long dead by the time that the New Regency Theatre, which he had owned and operated in the 1890s, was destroyed in the Blitz at 8:47 p.m. on 12 October 1940. (Swan Song)
LEGACY
By 2014, UNIT had extensive files concerning Jago and Litefoot’s exploits. (The Screaming Skull)
Alternative timeline
In timeline created by theValeyard, Jed Barrow saw Jago working at the Palace Theatre, goading his stage hands into work. (Matrix)
PERSONALITY
The Doctor described Jago as “always the reluctant hero but a hero nonetheless”. (Voyage to the New World)
Leela believed that Jago was a very brave man. (Chronoclasm)
Jago was fond of drinking pale ale. (The Bellova Devil, The Spirit Trap)
He often said “Dash me optics!” and “Oh, corks!” when surprised. (The Talons of Weng Chiang, The Spirit Trap, Litefoot and Sanders, The Necropolis Express)
In his own words, Jago was “all bluster and bravado”. (Litefoot and Sanders)
He considered female emancipatedition to be a bad idea. (Swan Song)
PARALLEL WORLD
On a parallel Earth, he didn’t work in the theatre. He worked in the sewers collecting the valuables which had been flushed down the toilet. He devised a way to capture the giant rat in the sewer. His leg was broken by the rat. (How The Other Half Lives)
BEHIND THE SCENES
- According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information, some time prior to 1881, he presented the “Monstre Gathering”. This featured Madame Vastra, known as “the Amazing Lizard Lady”, as the main act.