The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)

The Mad Woman in the Attic is the second story in The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3.

Synopsis
The year is 2059. In the derelict attic of 13, Bannerman Road, an elderly Rani Chandra tells the story of the day she met the alien Eve, and her life went wrong.

Cast

 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
 * Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
 * Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
 * Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
 * Mr Smith - Alexander Armstrong
 * Eve - Eleanor Tomlinson
 * Older Rani - Souad Faress
 * Harry - Brian Miller
 * Adam - Greg Sulki
 * Samuel Lloyd - Toby Parkes
 * Shuresh - Raj Rajani
 * Ship - Kate Fleetwood
 * Voice of K9 - John Leeson

Crew
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Story Notes

 * Harry is played by Brian Miller, Elisabeth Sladen's husband.

Ratings
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Myths

 * Since Eve said about playing games in the trailer, some people thought she was related to the Celestial Toymaker or the Isolus.

Filming Locations

 * Barry Island

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * When Eve scans Rani's mind a Gorgon appears: the Gorgon appeared in series 1, but Rani appeared in series 2. She was also scanning Sarah Jane's mind and Lukes mind at the same time, 'ship' was but its almost the same thing.
 * How can Rani narrate events which she is not a part of? (She could have found out about them later on.)
 * Clips of The Five Doctors is shown but Sarah was supposed to have forgotton about that adventure The clips are of her, on Earth, she was only going to the shops, she said as much to K9MKIII and that was what she remembered, as she was on Earth, her car was in the garrage so she had to walk, and was taken by the time scoop
 * How did Rani get a new phone so quickly? Some time would have pasted since Prisoner of the Judoon, so there would have been plenty of time to get a new phone.

Continuity

 * Images of the Bane, Slitheen, The Trickster, Captain Tybo, and Kaagh are seen when Eve views Rani's thoughts.
 * Visions of Sarah-Jane's past include clips from DW:The Time Warrior (her first story), DW:Planet of the Spiders, DW:The Hand of Fear (her last regular story) and DW:The Five Doctors.
 * Clips from the Sarah Jane Adventures include Invasion of the Bane, Day of the Clown, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith and the next story 'The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith'
 * K-9 appears for the first time since From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love. This marks his first appearance in Series Three. Since he is out of the black hole, he is going to be in six more episodes in the series, with a full appearance instead of cameos.

Timeline
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