Henry Gordon Jago Henry Gordon Jago was the owner of 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 " defender of the Earth " , investigating alien activity that threatened the future , alongside Professor George Litefoot , with whom he developed a great friendship . Biography . Early life . He had a sister . ( PROSE : " The Bodysnatchers " ) As a child , he lived downwind of a tannery . ( AUDIO : " Jago & Litefoot & Patsy " ) When he was a child , he always wanted to drive a steam train . ( AUDIO : " Higson & Quick " ) He claimed that he was " a dab hand with a catapult when [ he ] was a nipper " . ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) He always came last in the cross country races at school . ( AUDIO : " The Backwards Men " ) He was a member of the under eleven fives at school . ( AUDIO : " Higson & Quick " ) In 1851 , Jago witnessed Michael Faraday demonstrate electricity at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace . ( AUDIO : " The Mahogany Murderers " ) He began working in the music halls in 1859 . ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) As a young man , Jago performed at the Glasgow Empire . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . " ( AUDIO : " Jago in Love " ) His mother always told him that drinking would inevitably lead to death . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " The Spirit Trap " ) When Jago was a child , Maude used to take him swimming in Margate . ( AUDIO : " Jago & Litefoot & Patsy " ) Meeting the Doctor , Litefoot and Leela . In either 1889 ( COMIC : " The Time Machination " ) or 1892 ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( TV : " 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 . ( PROSE : " The Shadow of Weng - Chiang " ) At some later time , he began working at the Alhambra Theatre . ( AUDIO : " The Mahogany Murderers " ) The Fourth Doctor once described Jago and Litefoot as being " outstanding and extraordinary . " ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 rat s with a Gatling gun and on the way there , failed to recognise the Fifth Doctor , who had regenerated since their first encounter with him . ( PROSE : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " Jago in Love " ) Litefoot kept mementos of all of his adventures with Jago . ( AUDIO : " Mind Games " ) Litefoot once described Jago as " a very dear friend " . ( AUDIO : " The Bloodless Soldier " ) Similarly , Jago considered Litefoot to be his best friend . ( AUDIO : " Encore of the Scorchies " ) Tracking down Tulp . 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 another of the beasts in front of his eyes . The man turned out to be Ellie Higson ' s brother . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " The Similarity Engine " ) Litefoot 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 distortion s . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 Eater s . 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 a construction made by Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 American s . 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 performer on Jago ' s show , Guinevere Godiva . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . Later on , 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 . ( AUDIO : " The Final Act " ) Return to Victorian London . He was sent by The Colonel to Suffolk to discover the truth about ghosts in the Fog . On the train down to Lowestoft , he immediately fell asleep . He started to realise his memories of the future and his travels of the Doctor started 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 emperor of 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " The Wax Princess " ) In 1894 , Jago spent time with his sister in Brighton after a bout of dyspepsia . ( PROSE : " The Bodysnatchers " ) Back at the New Regency . Nancy Pettigrew convinced Jago to hire the Scorchie s . 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 caretaker of 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 her . At 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 tour of 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 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 . ( AUDIO : " 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 her out 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 . ( AUDIO : " The Justice of Jalxar " ) In 1899 , Jago and Litefoot had an encounter with witches . Jago was able to defeat them with his large vocabulary . ( AUDIO : " The Carrionite Curse " ) Later life . In 1968 , Litefoot read records indicating that Jago died sometime in the 20th century . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " Swan Song " ) Legacy . By 2014 , UNIT had extensive files concerning Jago and Litefoot ' s exploits . ( AUDIO : " The Screaming Skull " ) Personality . The Doctor described Jago as " always the reluctant hero but a hero nonetheless " . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to the New World " ) Leela believed that Jago was a very brave man . ( AUDIO : " Chronoclasm " ) Jago was fond of drinking pale ale . ( AUDIO : " The Bellova Devil " , " The Spirit Trap " ) He often said " Dash me optics ! " and " Oh , corks ! " when surprised . ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ; AUDIO : " The Spirit Trap " , " Litefoot and Sanders " , " The Necropolis Express " ) In his own words , Jago was " all bluster and bravado " . ( AUDIO : " Litefoot and Sanders " ) He considered female emancipation to be a bad idea . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " How The Other Half Lives " ) Behind the scenes . According to " The Brilliant Book 2012 " , a book that contains 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 .