Judge Dredd: Jihad

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Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series 2000 A.D.
Release no.13
Written by James Swallow
Directed by John Ainsworth
Length1 hour 19 minutes
Release dateMarch 2004

Judge Dredd: Jihad is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the character Judge Dredd in British comic 2000 AD .

Big Finish Productions British company producing books and audio dramas

Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include Doctor Who, the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from 2000 AD, Blake's 7, Dark Shadows, Dracula, Terrahawks, Sapphire & Steel, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character, Stargate, The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Torchwood.

Judge Dredd Fictional character

Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of 2000 AD (1977), which is a British weekly anthology comic. He is the magazine's longest-running character. He also appears in a number of movie and video game adaptations.

<i>2000 AD</i> (comics) comics magazine from Britain

2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic magazine. As a comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary, which was sold to Robert Maxwell in 1987 and then to Egmont UK in 1991. Fleetway continued to produce the title until 2000, when it was bought by Rebellion Developments.

Contents

Plot

Mega-City One is scheduled to host the Global Justice Summit, a gathering of Chief Judges from all over the world. Judge Dredd is in charge of the security detail, but faces a threat from a radical cult hidden in the city's slums, and a fanatical and ruthless disciple of Morton Judd.

Mega-City One

Mega-City One is a huge fictional post-nuclear megalopolis-size megacity city-state covering much of what is now the Eastern United States and some of Canada in the Judge Dredd comic book series and its spinoff series. The exact geography of the city depends on which writer and artist has done which story, but from its first appearance it has been associated with New York City's urban sprawl; originally it was presented as a future New York, which was retconned as the centre of a "Mega-City One" in the very next story.

Judge (2000 AD)

Judge is a title held by several significant characters in Judge Dredd and other series which appear in the British comics 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine. In the fictional future history of the series, the role of "Judge" combines those of judge, jury and police officer, thus avoiding long legal wrangles by allowing for criminals to be tried and sentenced on the spot. Since they overthrew the U.S. Constitution in 2070, Judges have also held supreme political power in Mega-City One. Collectively they are known as the Justice Department.

Morton Judd

Morton Judd is a fictional character from the Judge Dredd comic strip and first appears in progs 559-563 of the British comic 2000 AD, in the story "Oz".

Cast

Toby Longworth is a British actor who has appeared on film, radio, television and a PC horror game. He is originally from Somerset, where he attended King Edward's School, Bath. He has worked most often as a voice actor, however, notably in several high-profile science-fiction projects.

Garrick Hagon English actor

Garrick Hagon is a British-born Canadian actor on film, stage, television and radio, best known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in Star Wars: A New Hope. His many films include Batman, Spy Game, Me and Orson Welles and The Message. He was the rebel leader Ky in Doctor Who: The Mutants, and played Simon Gerrard, Debbie Aldridge's husband in the BBC's The Archers.

Teresa Gallagher is an American-born British actress, voice actress, and singer.


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