Enemy of the Bane

Information

Writer: Phil Ford
Director: Graeme Harper
Script Editor: Gary Russell
Producer: Nikki Smith
Executive producer(s): Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner

Originally Broadcast: 1st - 8th December 2008
Duration: 50 mins approx
Viewing Figures: ?
Production Code: 2.11/12
No. of Episodes: 2

Monsters/Villains: Mrs. Wormwood, Commander Kaagh, Bane


Synopsis

Part One
Gita is kidnapped from her florists late one night by Mrs Wormwood, who leaves a cheque with her name on it. In the morning, Rani calls upon Sarah Jane to help her find her mother. Upon investigating the flower shop, they discover the cheque and take it back to Mr Smith for analysis. Mr Smith's scan reveals that the sort code and account number are fake, but are actually a code. When translated, they give an address of an abandoned warehouse. Rani and Sarah Jane find that the door is open and find Gita in a trance. Mrs Wormwood enters and remarks on Rani being taller than Maria. Mrs Wormwood tells Sarah Jane she needs her help. She says that since the Bane's plan to take over the Earth failed, she has been exiled and is being hunted. The Bane attack, but they manage to escape. Sarah Jane takes Mrs. Wormwood back to her house and Mr. Smith locks her in a forcefield. Mrs. Wormwood says that an ancient immortal, Horath, tried to take over the galaxy, but was defeated three thousand years previously. Unable to destroy him, Horath's body and consciousness were separated and placed at opposite ends of the galaxy. Mrs. Wormwood says that the Bane have discovered Horath's consciousness, and are trying to find his body, which is located on Earth. Once united, she says the Bane will be able to conquer the galaxy. The only clue to the body's location is in the Tunguska Scroll, which is kept in UNIT's Black Archive, a secure storehouse of alien artifacts. Sarah Jane visits her old friend, the Brigadier, to get his help to enter the Archive. Sarah Jane and Rani obtain the Tunguska Scroll, which has information on the location of the body of Horath. UNIT personnel stop her, but she uses her sonic lipstick and escapes with Rani and the Brigadier. Meanwhile Luke talks to Mrs. Wormwood and when the Bane attack the house, he releases her from the forcefield. She is about to escape when a Bane tries to eat her. Sontaran Commander Kaagh shoots it and reveals himself to be her agent.

Part Two
Mrs Wormwood saves Luke, then Clyde and Sarah Jane arrive. Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde, Rani, the Brigadier and Mrs Wormwood all hide in Gita's Flower shop so that UNIT cannot find them. Mrs Wormwood asks Sarah Jane for the Scroll but she refuses. Commander Kaagh arrives and forces Sarah Jane to give it up by threatening Luke, Clyde and Rani. With the scroll in hand, Mrs Wormwood forces Luke to go with her and Commander Kaagh. Mrs Wormwood, Kaagh and Luke arrive at a factory where Kaagh has hidden his space pod. He places the Consciousness of Horath in a scroll. Meanwhile the others go to Sarah Jane's House to speak to Mr Smith, to try to find the whereabouts of Luke, Mrs Wormwood and Kaagh. Once they find out, they borrow Gita's van and go after them. Mrs Wormwood, Luke and Kaagh arrive at a stone circle where they force Luke to insert the scroll. Sarah Jane arrives. Mrs Wormwood betrays Kaagh and he stops her by jumping into the portal and dragging her in with him.

Cast

Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith

Tommy Knight – Luke Smith

Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer

Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra

Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith

Nicholas Courtney – Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart

Samantha Bond – Mrs Wormwood[1]

Anthony O'Donnell – Commander Kaagh

Mina Anwar – Gita Chandra

Ace Bhatti – Haresh Chandra

Preceded by: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith - Followed by: (Series 3)

The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

Information

Writer: Gareth Roberts
Director: Graeme Harper
Script Editor: Gary Russell
Producer: Nikki Smith
Executive producer(s): Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner

Originally Broadcast: 17th - 24th November 2008
Duration: 50 mins approx
Viewing Figures: ?
Production Code: 2.9/10
No. of Episodes: 2

Monsters/Villains: The Trickster, The Graske/Oscar


Synopsis

Part One
A child, Oscar, from the 1950s walks into a time fissure and is transported to the current year. Unbeknown to Sarah Jane, who takes him back, he did it deliberately under the command of the Trickster. Having spotted a milestone, she later asks Mr Smith about the village she could see in the distance, discovering it was Foxgrove, the village where she was born. When Luke inquires about her odd behaviour, she shows him a photograph of her parents and tells him of how they abandoned her as a baby by the side of the road before being killed in a car accident, leaving her to be looked after by her aunt. Though realising that the time fissure was a trap and initially refusing herself the opportunity to go back and meet her parents, that evening she does so, but accompanied by Luke who had anticipated her actions. Rani and Clyde ask Mr Smith where they have gone, and realise that she has gone back to when her parents were alive. Then the box from the episode Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, the box that Maria had lights up. Sarah Jane and Luke spot her mother at the village fete carrying Sarah Jane as a baby. When they shake hands with Sarah's father, they introduce themselves as David and Victoria Beckham. Luke spots the child they 'helped' earlier and follows him. Sarah Jane has a conversation with her mother, who reveals her plan is for Sarah Jane to have siblings. Sarah Jane leaves before she is forced to hold herself in baby form, which would have created a paradox. On seeing a newspaper, Sarah Jane realizes that the day she has visited is the day her parents died. She ignores Luke's warning that changing time was a trap, and sabotages her father's car thereby preventing the accident. The child, Oscar, reveals that he is in fact a Graske. Sarah Jane and Luke go through the time fissure again and discover that present-day London has been destroyed. The Trickster then appears before Sarah Jane and mockingly thanks her for all she has done for him.

Part Two
Sarah Jane demands to know how saving her parents could have altered time so drastically, to which the Trickster explains the village was built on a fault in time. Sarah Jane's tampering with a fixed point in time opened this fault, allowing the Trickster to physically enter their reality and ravage Earth for the last half century. Sarah Jane and Luke go back through the fissure as the Trickster gloats he has already won. Meanwhile, Clyde and Rani explore the ruined London, reduced to rock formations and worked by the last surviving human slaves who are led by the Trickster's Graske. The slaves are being made to mine resources so that the Trickster may create a ship and extend his reach to the rest of the universe. Clyde and Rani implore the Graske to help them restore the original timeline but he explains that if he did the Trickster would punish him; years ago the Graske had nearly died in space, but had been saved by the Trickster in return for eternal servitude. Clyde promises the Graske that if he helps them, they will give him the puzzle box to free him from the Trickster. The Graske agrees and reopens the fissure so that Rani can tell Sarah Jane the new information. In the past, Sarah Jane's parents come to realise who she is and what she was trying to prevent. However, their touch now instantly withers any organic life they hold and they realise it is their destiny to drive off this day. After telling their daughter how proud they are of her, they both enter the new repaired car and drive off. The Trickster begins to fade, unable to see how the timeline could have been restored. Sarah Jane proudly states that the Trickster's plan never considered that her parents would willingly sacrifice themselves to save the world. The Trickster vanishes, howling in pain. Back in the modern day, the timeline is restored around the Graske and Clyde, who gives the alien the box. The Graske teleports away, beaming over its newly returned freedom. The fissure reopens as Sarah Jane, Luke and Rani return. Later at home, Sarah Jane reminisces over her parents. Although she could not save them, she finally knows why they left and is incredibly proud of them.

Cast

Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith
Tommy Knight – Luke Smith
Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer
Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra
Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith
Ace Bhatti – Haresh Chandra
Mina Anwar – Gita Chandra
Rosanna Lavelle - Barbara Smith
Christopher Pizzey - Eddie Smith
Paul Marc Davis - The Trickster
Jimmy Vee - The Graske
Georgie Glen - Mrs King
Robert Madge - Oscar

Preceded by: The Mark of the Berserker - Followed by: Enemy of the Bane

The Mark of the Berserker

Information

Writer: Joseph Lidster
Director: Joss Agnew
Script Editor: Gary Russell
Producer: Nikki Smith
Executive producer(s): Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner

Originally Broadcast: 3rd - 10th November 2008
Duration: 50 mins approx
Viewing Figures: ?
Production Code: 2.7/8
No. of Episodes: 2

Monsters/Villains: Pendant, Possessed Paul Langer


Synopsis

Part One
Luke Smith is going for a sleepover at Clyde Langer's house whilst Sarah Jane goes away for the weekend. Clyde's estranged father Paul turns up hoping to get to know his son. Jacob is in possession of an alien pendant. Jacob discovers that he can use it to control other people. When he takes a teacher's voice in a detention, Jacob rushes to the bathroom to wash the handmark off. When he succesfully does so, Rani knocks on the door and distracts him. Jacob leaves the room but hides outside. Rani enters the bathroom cautiosly, and finds the time-watch. When she discovers, through instructing her dad, that it can control people, she takes it to Sarah Jane's house for Mr Smith to investigate it. Sarah Jane, however, has disabled Mr Smith while she is away. Rani leaves the pendant hanging on a roof beam. Clyde tells his father about the adventures he has with Luke, "saving the world". When his father does not believe him, Clyde takes him to visit Sarah Jane's attic. While Clyde shows him some of the objects in the attic and tells him about Mr Smith, Paul pockets the pendant. When they leave the house, Rani's father spots them and comes over to investigate. In possession of the alien pendant, Paul discovers that he can control people, after making Rani's father a victim of the pendant for the second time that day. After Luke and Rani turn up, Paul instructs his son Clyde, over whom he now has control, to forget who they are and that he has ever seen them before. Clyde, as he must, accepts his father's command.

Part Two
Luke and Rani send a picture of the pendant to Maria and her father to investigate as her father can hack into UNIT. They discover that using the pendant can give you hand marks. Rani's father refuses to stop the pressups. Paul gets everything he wants for free, and uses this as a bonding method with his son. He instructs Clyde to forget about how he left him and his mum when he was young and, indeed, to forget about his mum. The pendant takes over Paul's skin. He cannot control it and collapses. He announces that he is the Berserker and that Clyde is his soldier. Sarah Jane appears and Clyde recognizes her. She tells him that his mum, Rani, and Luke are the most important people in his life when he asks who they are. Clyde and his mum talk Paul through his memories, whilst Sarah Jane shows him a reflection of himself in the mirror, and he remembers who he really is. Everyone who the Berserker commanded has their commands undone. Clyde tries to get his mum and dad back together, but Paul tells his son that he has made his Mum's sister pregnant. Clyde tells his father he doesn't need him and not to mess up with this baby. Clyde tells his mother to forget about the pendant, what she knows about Sarah Jane's adventures with her son, and his father. Clyde chucks away the pendant, into the sea. Sarah Jane reveals that her parents died when she was young and she would do anything to see them again. When Clyde is gone, she takes out a picture of her mother and father and rubs her finger over the latter.

Cast

Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith
Tommy Knight – Luke Smith
Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer
Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra
Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith
Yasmin Paige – Maria Jackson
Joseph Millson - Alan Jackson
Gary Beadle – Paul Langer
Jocelyn Jee Esien – Carla Langer
Ace Bhatti – Haresh Chandra
Perry Millward - Jacob
Huw Higginson - Mr Cunningham
Elijah Baker - Steve Wallace
Jessica Lewis - Detention Girl
Andrew Phillips - Detention Boy

Preceded by: Secrets of the Stars - Followed by: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

Secrets of the Stars

Information

Writer: Gareth Roberts
Director: Michael Kerrigan
Script editor: Gary Russell
Producer: Nikki Smith
Executive producer(s): Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner

Originally Broadcast: 20th - 27th October 2008
Duration: 50 mins approx
Viewing Figures: ?
Production Code: 2.5/6
No. of Episodes: 2

Monsters/Villains: Martin Trueman, The Ancient Lights


Synopsis

Part One
The scene opens up on a woman, Cheryl visiting an astrologer to see her future in the stars. The man is a con artist, deceiving his customers to get money out of them, to which he finally admits this to the woman who has been visiting him frequently. He walks to the window where a shooting star is heading exactly for his house, and he is possessed by an unknown being in front of the woman. Later, Luke, Clyde and Rani are visiting an exhibition with the astrologer, Martin Trueman, as the event is free. Rani's Parents and Sarah Jane also show up and each person fills in a card with their birthday and star signs on it and hand it to Cheryl who is now working with the astrologer. Luke is slightly upset given that he does not have a star sign as he was never born, but activated.
The show starts and Trueman begins to ask random dates and three people including Clyde stand up, as this is their birthday, although Clyde is unsure why he stood up. Sarah Jane tells him its a trick of persuasion and she is sceptical about the entire show. Next he asks for a person and begins to tell truths about her life, as the woman herself is shocked but enjoying the show. Sarah Jane then tells Luke, Clyde and Rani that the woman was a plant and that Martin Trueman already knew her. Next Martin calls on Rani, and starts detailing that she has recently moved house and gives few details about her family. Rani is slightly amazed but not suspicious. Next he calls on Sarah Jane Smith, and begins detailing her travels with the Doctor in front of the audience, no-one but Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde (and possibly Rani) could know of these stories and Sarah Jane is instantly suspicious. Martin Trueman then predicts her downfall.

Part Two
Clyde threatens Sarah but they manage to talk him out of it, which leads Sarah Jane to believe that Trueman's control on people can be repressed by persuading them to do something that they do not normally want to do. Meanwhile, using in his broadcast to the world, Martin Trueman takes over each star sign one by one, starting with Gemini - including Rani's mother. The world is in confusion as people are accepting the 'Ancient Lights'. Sarah Jane and the gang head to the New Theatre in East Acton to stop the broadcast, but the possessed Children of Gemini threaten to stop them. Clyde bluffs his way through by making up horoscopes.
The Ancient Lights create a portal through to the theatre. Martin reveals that Luke's theory on the Ancient Lights is true. Martin insinuates that in the old universe, they used to control all lifeforms. The Ancient Lights survived the Big Bang and needed Martin Trueman to rule the world because, he was the 'Chosen One'. Sarah Jane tries to talk him out of it but to no avail. Rani and Luke try to shut down the broadcast by flicking the mains switch off, but it is protected by the Ancient Lights' energy. Rani is an Aries and eventually becomes possessed, leaving only people with the star-sign of Taurus, which includes Sarah Jane, not under Trueman's control. However Luke, who was not born and so does not have a star-sign, realises he can stop the power of the Ancient Lights by breaking Trueman's circle. Realising that he has been beaten, Trueman cannot bare to return to his former life and instead chooses to become one with the stars. In the aftermath, the unaware Earth authoraties begin a search for Trueman and Sarah Jane declares the date will Luke's equivalent to a birthday.

Cast

Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith

Tommy Knight – Luke Smith

Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer

Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra

Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith

Russ Abbot – Martin Trueman

Mina Anwar – Gita Chandra

Ace Bhatti – Haresh Chandra

Carryl Thomas – Cheryl Farley

Nicky Ladanowski – Lisa Trotter

Ed Hughes – Stuart Farley

Preceded by: The Day of the Clown - Followed by: The Mark of the Berserker

The Day of the Clown

Information

Writer: Phil Ford
Director: Michael Kerrigan
Script editor: Gary Russell
Producer: Matthew Bouch
Executive producer(s): Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner

Originally Broadcast: 6th - 13th October 2008
Duration: 50 mins approx
Viewing Figures: Part 1 - 0.5m
Production Code: 2.3/4
No. of Episodes: 2

Monsters/Villains: Odd Bob/Elijah Spellman/Pied Piper, Animated Clowns


Synopsis

Part One

Luke Smith is struggling to adjust to life without Maria Jackson, she having moved to Washington, D.C. with her father. Meanwhile, the Chandras move into the Jacksons' old house on Bannerman Road and Sarah Jane Smith starts an investigation into disappearing children in the area. Sarah Jane makes Luke and Clyde promise her that they will not reveal her alien investigating secrets to the newcomers to Bannerman Road. Clyde Langer and Luke meet new girl Rani Chandra at school. After Clyde sees a clown in school prior to the sudden disappearance of one of his friends, Rani reveals she is being stalked by a clown that no one else can see. With Clyde having got into trouble with the new Headteacher, Rani's father, Luke arranges to keep an eye on Rani in his place and goes round to her house to help her unpack. Sarah Jane and Clyde link the disappearances of the children to the Museum of the Circus, Clyde and two of the missing children having received tickets for it. Rani, who wants to become a journalist, begins her own investigation and makes the same connection to the Museum having found a ticket in a school book belonging to one of the missing children and having a ticket herself. Sarah Jane and Clyde explore the Museum of the Circus and encounter Elijah Spellman. Soon they are joined by Rani and Luke and Spellman sets his robotic clowns on the group. Sarah Jane halts the clowns, as shown in the picture, with her sonic lipstick and Luke theorises that Spellman is an alien. As Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani attempt to escape the building, Spellman reveals himself to have been the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin and now Odd Bob the Clown seeking to feed off their fear.

Part Two

Sarah Jane and the rest escape through the back door. Then Sarah Jane tells Luke about why she's scared of clowns saying that the clown mannequin in her room came to life when she was young. The next morning, Rani looks out of her bedroom window and sees Odd Bob's balloon in her garden. When she gets to the school she tells Luke and Clyde, then a load of balloons fall down from the sky, all the school children pick them up (apart from Luke, Clyde and Rani) and fall under the spell from Odd Bob, behaving much like the Pied Piper story. But Clyde uses his phone to interfere with Odd Bob's control and the children are released.

Cast

Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith

Tommy Knight – Luke Smith

Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer

Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra

Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith

Bradley Walsh – Odd Bob/Elijah Spellman/The Pied Piper

Mina Anwar – Gita Chandra

Ace Bhatti – Haresh Chandra

Floella Benjamin – Professor Rivers

Yasmin Paige – Maria Jackson (voice)

Jem Brownlee – David Finn

Elijah Baker – Steve Wallace

Aaron Showsanya – Tony Warner

Huw Higginson – Mr Cunningham

Jessica Mogridge – Young Sarah Jane

Preceded by: The Last Sontaran - Followed by: Secrets of the Stars

The Last Sontaran

Information

Writer: Phil Ford
Director: Joss Agnew
Script editor: Gary Russell
Producer: Nikki Smith
Executive producer(s): Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner

Originally Broadcast: 29th September 2008
Duration: 50 mins approx
Viewing Figures: Part 1 - 0.7m / Part 2 - 0.6m
Production Code: 2.1/2
No. of Episodes: 2

Monsters/Villains: Commander Kaagh


Synopsis

Part One

Alan Jackson is offered a job in Washington, D.C. in the United States of America, but seeks daughter Maria's and ex-wife Chrissie's approval before he relocates himself and Maria there.
After strange lights are sighted around the Tycho Radio Tower, Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer and Maria investigate. As shown in the picture, they discover Sontaran Commander Kaagh, the only survivor of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet which was otherwise seen to be destroyed in Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky". Kaagh plans to avenge his fleet by bringing Earth's satellites down on nuclear power plants across the world thereby wiping out all of humanity with the resultant explosions.

Part Two
Failing to overpower Kaagh as he implements his plan, Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria are saved by the arrival of Alan and Chrissie, the latter discovering the truth about Sarah Jane's alien investigations. Chrissie knocks Kaagh unconscious by jamming the high-heel of her shoe into the probic vent on the back of his neck, but an electrical charge also knocks her out and Alan and Maria think they can pass the day's events off to her as a dream. Luke is able to deactivate the computer Kaagh has rigged to ground the satellites and with his ship's weapons deactivated, Kaagh is sent back to his home planet, Sontar. Six weeks later, Alan and Maria leave for America. Chrissie reveals to Sarah Jane that she remembers everything about the Sontaran incident.

Cast

Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith

Yasmin Paige – Maria Jackson

Tommy Knight – Luke Smith

Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer

Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith

Joseph Millson – Alan Jackson

Juliet Cowan – Chrissie Jackson

Anthony O'Donnell – Kaagh

Ronan Vibert – Professor Skinner

Clare Thomas – Lucy Skinner

Preceded by: The Lost Boy - Followed by: The Day of the Clown