The Day of the Clown (TV story)

Synopsis
The new girl in Bannerman Road, Rani Chandra, is being haunted by a sinister clown -- does it have anything to do with the local children that have gone missing? When Clyde's friend disappears the trail leads them to a strange circus museum - and the legend of the Pied Piper?

Part 1
A group of teenaged kids are playing football when one boy kicks the ball over the fence into the forest. He goes and gets the football but he hears something and a clown starts to circle him and then it makes him vanish. A few days later Sarah Jane is talking to Luke about Maria leaving and says that she will be back for the Her Mothers wedding. Clyde walks to Sarah Jane and they see that a new family is moving into 36 Bannerman Road the house that Maria and her dad once lived in. At school Rani enters her new class she is in the same class as Luke and Clyde, but while Clyde is having a joke her father walks in he is the new head teacher. Even though no one knows she does not want them to find out. Clyde then gets into trouble and when he is waiting outside the head teachers office and he meets another class mate. This Class Mate then disapears and Clyde sees a A Clown and looks for him he then looks in the toilets and finds nothing. A few minutes later the head teacher does not believe the story about the clown and dismisses it. Meanwhile Sarah Jane meets Gita mother of Rani and tells her that Rani wants to be a journolist. On the way home from school Luke and Clyde are walking and Clyde sees this clown he then chases him. Luke can not see him and they then meet up with Rani. At Banner Man road the two meet Rani and discover that her dad is the head teacher. Clyde tells Sarah Jane about the clown and Luke then says he heard Rani say something about the clown. Luke goes to Rani's house and speaks with her about a clown. Meanwhile Sarah Jane and Clyde go to the football field and talk to another boy he says that A clown had been handing out tickets outside the railway stationg to see the circus Museum. Clyde then reveals that his mum picked up a ticket for him and gave it to him, Rani reveals the same thing to luke and they decide to go. As do Sarah Jane and Clyde, they are the first to get there and they meet Elijah Spellman he then takes them to a room full of clown maniquins. Sarah Jane tells the story of the Pied Piper and Elijah activates Robot Clowns to chase Sarah Jane and Clyde and they bump into Luke and Rani. Sarah Jane uses her Sonic Lipstick to deactivate the clowns and they walk through them. Elijah morphs into Old Bob the Clown and The Pied Piper. He then tells Sarah Jane that there is nothing that she can do.

Cast

 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elizabeth Sladen
 * Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
 * Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
 * Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
 * Gita Chandra - Mina Anwar
 * Haresh Chandra - Ace Bhatti
 * Pied Piper / Elijah Spellman / Odd Bob the Clown - Bradley Walsh
 * Maria Jackson (voice) - Yasmin Paige

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors
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Continuity

 * Like fellow companion Ace, Sarah Jane finds clowns creepy--and has tangled with sinister clowns. (DW: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
 * Menacing clowns have also appeared in DW: The Celestial Toymaker and The Deadly Assassin. There were also clowns among the Night Travellers in TW: From Out of the Rain.

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