Jubilee (audio story)

 was the fortieth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Robert Shearman and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe.

It was the second encounter with the Daleks for companion Evelyn Smythe. It was also the story that the author, Robert Shearman, would use as the basis for his television story Dalek two years later in 2005 when Doctor Who returned to television screens.

Publisher's summary
Hurrah! The deadly Daleks are back! Yes, those lovable tinpot tyrants have another plan to invade our world. Maybe this time because they want to drill to the Earth's core. Or maybe because they just feel like it.

And when those pesky pepperpots are in town, there is one thing you can be sure of. There will be non-stop high octane mayhem in store. And plenty of exterminations!

But never fear. The Doctor is on hand to sort them out. Defender of the Earth, saviour of us all. With his beautiful assistant, Evelyn Smythe, by his side, he will fight once again to uphold the beliefs of the English Empire. All hail the glorious English Empire!

Now that sounds like a jubilee worth celebrating, does it not?

Plot
The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn, having followed a weird transmission, arrive 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 dematerialises, leaving them behind.

The Doctor is then suddenly stricken by a weird sense of déjà vu, and realises 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 of "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

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Nigel Rochester - Martin Jarvis
 * Miriam Rochester - Rosalind Ayres
 * Farrow - Steven Elder
 * Lamb - Kai Simmons
 * Presenter / Mary - Jane Goddard
 * Presenter - Rob Shearman
 * Movie Star - Jack Galagher
 * Movie Star / Judy - Georgina Carter
 * Dalek Voice / US Prime Minister / Announcer - Nicholas Briggs

Foods and beverages

 * Dalek juice is made from the secretions of the Dalek as it is tortured.

Time travel

 * The Doctor and Evelyn become stuck within a temporal paradox.

Transport technology

 * Rochester has a functioning Dalek transolar disc.

Films

 * Plenty O'Toole played Evelyn "Hot Lips" Smythe in the film Daleks: The Ultimate Adventure.

Continuity

 * There is another instance of alternate futures coming as dreams (and involving the Daleks) in AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks.
 * This is not the Doctor and Evelyn's first visit to the Tower of London. They were briefly imprisoned there by order of Queen Mary I in January 1555 when she mistakenly believed they were planning to assassinate her and place her Protestant younger half-sister Elizabeth on the throne. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy) They would visit the Tower once again in 2010. (AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster)
 * The Sixth Doctor previously discovered a statue of himself on Necros. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks)
 * The Fourth Doctor discovered a statue of himself on an unnamed planet. (TV: The Face of Evil)