A quick recap. Jenny, played by Georgia Tennant (although before she had gotten married to David Tennant), was introduced in a Doctor Who episode titled “The Doctor’s Daughter.” She is a genetic clone of a DNA sample stolen from the 10th Doctor. While not biologically “born” a TimeLord, she was “born” a clone of a TimeLord. And that comes with all the genetic TimeLordlyness one would expect. Including two hearts. While she wasn’t around the Doctor much, she gained a sense of who he was that she incorporated quickly into her psyche. Might have been a quicker melding since it was technically genetically encoded within her. The episode ended with her sacrificing herself to save the Doctor. Thinking she had died, his part of the story concluded and he left the planet. It was then revealed that she had been shot in one of her two hearts but she pseudo regenerated and therefore survived. She then stole a ship and left to do “Doctor” sorts of things. 

Unfortunately, the Doctor Who universe never brought her back for any sort of follow up to her story. And the Doctor is unlikely to ever search her out, because it was believed that she died.

Fast Forward 10 years to 2018 and Big Finish brought Jenny back to life with a 4 episode audio story awkwardly titled “Jenny: The Doctor’s Daughter.” Exceedingly reminiscent of the title for the tv episode. This is (to date) the first of three “seasons” of Jenny done by Big Finish. They refer to them as Series 1, Series 2, and (wait for it…) Series 3. This is a format they use fairly often. It thrills me when they use it to keep characters alive that don’t have the opportunity to come back in the tv show. (For greater reference, the 8th Doctor Paul McGann had only one episode of his own on tv but is closing in on having done as many audio adventures as the classic Doctor Who had televised stories!)

In this series we are re-introduced to Jenny as she has a mishap on a space travel lane and gets shanghaied by a con man named Garundel. As he and his companions attempt to swindle her, a certain cyborg arrives that is hunting her. She is aware of the cyborg hunting her, but not sure why. Only that she doesn’t really want to be caught by it, and it tends to cause chaos wherever it winds up. This story was great because it brought back Jenny, but the general idea of this particular one is rather lackluster. Although it did introduce the pseudo companion for Jenny (he had no knowledge of a name, so they chose to call him Noah.) 

The second story brings back the Ood in a story where they are the jailors of a very bad guy with impressive mental capabilities. The story takes place in a small community that has itself been imprisoned by the Ood as they try to recapture their escaped inmate. This story really sparked my interest, as it had some horror story vibes to it. Especially when the Ood begin questioning people and kill them, then turn them into an Ood to help search. This was a bit odd though as the Ood were traditionally (relatively) nice. It was also weird that they were used as jailors for a being with immense mental capabilities, as that is their major weakness. 

Neon Reign is the third story which puts Jenny and Noah on a planet where society doesn’t work in a very positive manner. All the men of the planet are under the influence of a very detrimental drug and the women exist to keep men under the thrall of the drug. A fascinating aspect of this story is that Noah seems to have some connection to this place. Prior to this, he had no real knowledge of anything to do with his life. This was a solid story that I enjoyed.

Zero Space concludes the first series of Jenny Adventures. They find themselves in a place where there is nothing. Nothing but a research station that they kinda crash into. For all Jenny’s technical abilities to fly anything, she still tends to have a lot of incidents. They find the station manned by 100 male clones and 100 female clones. All descendants of the two research scientists responsible for the facility. This one has interesting moments and some very predictable ones. 

As a whole, I really enjoyed this set. Four parts to a story, each one about 45 minutes long. Makes for a great listen on a short road trip! Which is what I did with it on my way to Planet Comiccon in KC, where I was pushing and promoting the first Cthulhuville comic, Wanderers. I could easily find myself popping the CDs in again at some point to listen to it again. Although technically that is what I did when going to this convention, because I bought these CDs about 10 years ago (ok, probably more like in 2018 since that is when it was released.)

I have listened to a lot of Big Finish materials over the years. I really enjoy what they do, and they are pretty good at it. I give this one 8 stars. I kinda want to buy Series 2 and 3 of Jenny now (to be fair, I always want to buy more Big Finish CDs. And they have some LPs too! Dammit….)