Following on the heels of 2015’s Jago and Litefoot and Strax, in which Strax delightfully invaded the world of Victorian infernal investigators Jago and Litefoot, now it’s time to swap, with theatre impresario Henry Gordon Jago returning the favour and crashing into a bit of Christmas mayhem on Paternoster row. The fourth and final volume of Heritage opens with a much-demanded crossover in Merry Christmas, Mr Jago.

Obviously, spinning off T he Paternoster Gang was worth doing. Well, now, almost a decade later, Big Finish has just wrapped up their first ever spinoff series, Heritage, with the three-episode fourth volume. The Ghost Writers might just be the purest case of it yet.”Ī lesbian lizard, her ninja maid wife, and their heavily-armed, potato-shaped space butler: The Paternoster Gang was a winning combination from the off, with their Doctor Who debut in 2011’s A Good Man Goes to War, and fandom cried out for a spinoff pretty much from the start. “The clear highlight of this set is Roy Gill’s The Ghost Writers, a deviously fun and fantastical adventure that ratchets up the stakes while nailing the heart of what makes a Paternoster Gang story work… Gill’s scripts for The Paternoster Gang find a new path, defining this world with queerness, literary aesthetics, and an awful lot of magic.

❉ Writer Roy Gill has become one of the defining voices of this range, writes Kevin Burnard.

The Paternoster Gang by Dan Starkey