Enemy of the Bane (TV story)

Enemy of the Bane is the sixth and final serial in series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures



Synopsis
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Plot
Part one 1. When Mrs. Wormwood comes to Rani's mum's flower shop, Sarah Jane is led into a case. T Mrs. Wormwood says she will help as she was blamed for the destruction of the Bane mother. She is contained, and after a conversation with Luke, is set free. The Bane try to destroy Sarah's house, and later she teams up with Commander Kaarg from the tenth Sontaran battle fleet. She hadn't been working for the Bane, but she had been working with Kaarg.

Cast

 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elizabeth Sladen
 * Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
 * Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
 * Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
 * Mrs Wormwood - Samantha Bond
 * Kaagh - Anthony O'Donnell
 * Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
 * Gita Chandra - Mina Anwar
 * Haresh Chandra - Ace Bhatti
 * Alan Jackson - Joseph Millson
 * Chrissie Jackson - Juliet Cowan

Production crew
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Story notes

 * Mrs Wormwood returns along with the Bane. They last appeared in Invasion of the Bane.
 * Commander Kaagh from The Last Sontaran returns.
 * "Brigadier" Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart returns for the first time in 19 years, having last appeared on TV in the 1989 Doctor Who adventure Battlefield. His appearance in this story marks 40 years in the role, having first appeared as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart back in the 1968 serial, The Web of Fear, and makes him the longest serving single character in Doctor Who thus far (second only to the Doctor himself).

Ratings
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Rumours

 * Luke will meet his father; a Bane (The Bane that created him) and will be persuaded to turn against Sarah Jane. (In The Mark of the Berserker, Carla Langer tells Luke if his father ever comes back not to forget his Mum.)

Filming Locations
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors
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Continuity
Sir Alistair is a Special Envoy for UNIT, and often serves on diplomatic missions, such as his recent trip to Peru (DW: The Poison Sky). He doesn't especially trust UNIT as it stands today, but still maintains a Level One security clearance.

When arguing against UNIT dealing with a more dangerous Earth these days, Sir Alistair refers to several enemies UNIT battled against in his day, concluding "it doesn't get more dangerous than that". The events he alludes to are; Of all the above mentioned enemies, only the Zygons have yet to appear in the new series of Doctor Who.
 * Cybermen (DW: The Invasion)
 * Autons (DW: Spearhead from Space) & (DW: Terror of the Autons)
 * Daleks (DW: Day of the Daleks)
 * Zygons (DW: Terror of the Zygons)

DVD and Other releases
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