Playtime (short story)

Summary
On a day trip to London with her aunt in November 1963, Sarah Jane, a young girl with an enquiring mind, nips off to explore while her guardian goes off to buy sweets for her. Behind some double gates she finds a junkyard full of shop window dummies, broken chairs, picture frames and, strangely, a police box. Lost in her own world, she suddenly remembers her aunt and races off as a car pulls up and an older girl races inside the junkyard.

Characters

 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Susan Foreman (unnamed)
 * Lavinia Smith

Continuity

 * The story presents some of the events of DW: An Unearthly Child from the point of view of Sarah Jane Smith. The story can only work if it is assumed that the UNIT stories took place in the &quot;near future&quot;. SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, which shows Sarah Jane as thirteen years old in 1964, makes this story impossible, unless changes to the timeline are assumed.