Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)

Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? is the title of a story in The Sarah Jane Adventures series. It is the fifth story of the series, and forms episodes 7 and 8 of Season 1.

Synopsis
Sarah Jane Smith was given a mysterious box from an emissary on a previous episode. She can't unlock it, but was advised to 'give it to someone you trust." Sarah Jane gives it to Maria Jackson. Maria Jackson works it open like a rubics cube and it opens, but nothing happens. Maria Jackson wakes to find that no-one has heard of Sarah Jane or Luke, and a new woman called Andrea Yates has moved into Sarah Jane Smith's House and been replaced her in any photos that Sarah Jane were in. This Graske chase & capture Maria, but she got her dad Alan Jackson the box before she disappears. Maria and Sarah Jane are trapped in a Nothingness dimension where The Trickster has put them. Maria's mother Chrissie Jackson forgets she ever had her, and Alan is adamant that she is alive. Alan confronts the new woman in Sarah Jane's house and Sarah Jane convinces them to switch places once more. The woman Andrea Yates had died on a school trip off a broken down peer when she & Sarah Jane were in school, hence the reason the Trickster could make them switch places.

Cast

 * Sarah Jane Smith — Elisabeth Sladen
 * Maria Jackson — Yasmin Paige
 * Luke Smith — Tommy Knight
 * Clyde Langer — Daniel Anthony
 * Mr Smith — Alexander Armstrong
 * Alan Jackson — Joseph Millson
 * Chrissie Jackson — Juliet Cowan
 * Andrea Yates — Jane Asher
 * The Graske — Jimmy Vee
 * The Trickster — Paul Marc Davis
 * Young Sarah Jane Smith — Jessica Ashworth
 * Young Andrea Yates — Francesca Miller

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Continuity

 * The Graske last appeared in the interactive story Attack of the Graske.
 * Sarah refers to the episode saying that there was Graske activity a couple of years ago.
 * Sarah mentions previous times she saved the Earth and thwarted alien invasions, including the Bane (Invasion of the Bane), the Slitheen (Revenge of the Slitheen) and the Gorgons (Eye of the Gorgon)
 * Sarah also mentions that she helped defeat the Patriachs of the Tin Vagabond. The Church of the Tin Vagabond was previously mentioned in The Satan Pit.
 * Sarah Jane has to move a book about UNIT to get to the puzzle box.
 * The Trickster threatens the Doctor when in limbo. He also wonders aloud what the Universe would be like if the Doctor had never existed.  This echoes some musings of the Doctors arch-nemesis, the Master, in The Five Doctors.

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