Taken For Granted was the thirty-fifth Subscriber Short Trips audio story. It featured the Third Doctor and Jo Grant and was available to subscribers of Big Finish's main Doctor Who range whose subscription included Iron Bright.
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Jo Grant, a resourceful and quick-witted woman, finds herself pursued by a mysterious black Jaguar while en route to a lunch appointment at the Churchill Arms Hotel. After evading the car by jumping off a bus, she takes a taxi. A high-speed chase ensues, ending with Jo being abandoned in a remote picnic area.
She flees into nearby woods, where she encounters eerie orange mist and insectoid humanoid creatures. After a tense confrontation, a flamboyantly dressed stranger helps her escape encountered Sergeant Benton (standing in for the Doctor), Jo eventually makes it to the road, where she subdues another assailant, Eleanor, before being recaptured by the taxi driver.
Taken to the hotel, Jo outsmarts her captors and discovers the entire ordeal was an elaborate test orchestrated by her uncle to assess her suitability for fieldwork in UNIT. She passes with flying marks, earning her official UNIT credentials. The story ends with her uncle toasting her success, hinting at future adventures with her new team, including the enigmatic Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
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