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Lord Clyde Langer (born 5 June 1994) was a classmate of Maria Jackson, Luke Smith and Rani Chandra at Park Vale Comprehensive School. He joined them on adventures with Sarah Jane Smith. Clyde was a regular wisecracker and a remarkably talented artist. He sought a professional career as a comic writer and illustrator, occasionally using his exploits with the gang of 13 Bannerman Road as inspiration for his works.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Clyde was originally from Hounslow. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (BBC One and CBBC, 2007).) Clyde's father, Paul, walked out on Clyde and his mother when Clyde was young. Paul ran off with his mother's sister. Clyde blamed his mum and acted up at school, getting himself expelled. (TV: Warriors of Kudlak [+]Phil Gladwin, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007)., The Mark of the Berserker [+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).) After Paul ran off, Clyde and Carla moved to 2 Renfrow Street in Ealing. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker [+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008)., The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).) Clyde still had a lot of his friends in Hounslow after moving to Ealing. (AUDIO: The Thirteenth Stone [+]Justin Richards, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2007).)

Meeting Sarah Jane[]

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Clyde at Park Vale (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (BBC One and CBBC, 2007).)

At around age fourteen, Clyde met and befriended Maria and Luke on his first day at Park Vale School. He considered himself one of the "cool kids". Clyde had a rebellious streak, being quickly identified as a troublemaker, and disliked the school dinners as the food was rotten due to a Slitheen machine in the school. The next day he brought a home-made chip sandwich to school. The science teacher, a Slitheen in disguise, had a fearful reaction to the vinegar in the sandwich; vinegar was the Raxacoricofallapatorian's weakness. After school the teacher unmasked himself as an alien and chased Maria and Clyde. Clyde sprayed deodorant to confuse the Raxacoricofallapatorian's advanced sense of smell. After meeting Sarah Jane Smith, he helped defeat the Slitheen, despite Sarah Jane's initial reluctance to let him get involved. In the aftermath, Clyde decided to join the others in fighting evil aliens and to tutor Luke in the ways of "coolness". In contrast to the others, Clyde showed no moral qualms about the Slitheen being killed — "They were going to kill billions of people, I dunno what the big dilemma was". (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (BBC One and CBBC, 2007).)

Adventures with Sarah Jane, Luke and Maria[]

His grandmother, who knew Mrs Randall, and lived at Lavender Lawns, tipped him off that there was something strange happening there. The claims she made were true. The manager, Mrs Gribbins, was in league with a Gorgon. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007).)

He and Luke went to a laser tag centre, where they were teleported to General Kudlak's battle station. They met others kids who had gone missing due to winning a Combat 3000 game. He got home safely with Sarah Jane's help. (TV: Warriors of Kudlak [+]Phil Gladwin, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007).)

Clyde helped to defeat the Keratin (AUDIO: The Glittering Storm [+]Stephen Cole, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2007).) and supported Luke with his mental battle against the alien Ravage. (AUDIO: The Thirteenth Stone [+]Justin Richards, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2007).)

When the Slitheen took Luke away, Clyde bunked off school to visit him, but got the door slammed in his face after being given a photo. Convinced the photo was a fake, Clyde took it to Mr Smith, who confirmed that Mr Smith had faked the photo himself. Mr Smith then zapped Clyde into the computer. While there, he contacted Alan Jackson via his laptop and warned him, allowing Alan to run over and save Sarah Jane and Maria's lives. He was released just before Mr Smith was defeated. (TV: The Lost Boy [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007).)

Clyde later helped Mr Smith to restore the orbit paths of the Earth, Sun and Moon. (GAME: Earth, Sun and Moon)

Clyde was with his mother during Earth's transportation to the Medusa Cascade and its subsequent invasion by the Daleks. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)

He helped Sarah Jane in further adventures, such as against the Sontaran Commander Kaagh. (TV: The Last Sontaran [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (BBC One and CBBC, 2008).)

Adventures with Sarah Jane, Luke and Rani[]

Rani Chandra, an aspiring teenage journalist, and her parents, Gita and Haresh, moved into Maria's old address. She joined Luke and Clyde to defeat a child-stealing energy entity which had inspired the Pied Piper myth. The entity thrived on Sarah Jane's fears of clowns which had begun in childhood. Clyde weakened the entity by telling jokes, letting Sarah Jane imprison it in a piece of the meteor it had come to Earth in. (TV: The Day of the Clown [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).)

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Clyde meets Rani. (TV: The Day of the Clown [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).)

Rani joined the team permanently. They defeated the Ancient Lights (TV: Secrets of the Stars [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).), Janksia (AUDIO: The Time Capsule [+]Peter Anghelides, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2008).), the Berserker, which had possession of Clyde's father (TV: The Mark of the Berserker [+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).) and the Trickster when he attempted to manifest corporeally in Foxgrove in 1951. (TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).) Later, Mrs Wormwood returned to Earth with the Sontaran Kaagh to try to summon Horath, the immortal tyrant of the Dark Empire. With help from Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and infighting between Kaagh and Mrs Wormwood, they prevented this apocalypse. (TV: Enemy of the Bane [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).)

Clyde did some work experience at Betterworth's. He didn't get along with Mr Charlson, his boss. Charlson always shouted at Clyde. When Sarah Jane came to the supermarket she felt sorry for Clyde. Clyde later found the first component of Janksia's three artefacts, which made Janksia's space ship able to take off. He fell under the influence of the artefact and tried to protect it from non-Persopolisians. Janksia attempted to take the three devices, realising that his ship taking off would destroy most of southern England but not caring. He fell into a garbage compactor which crushed him to death. Clyde was released from the object's influence. (AUDIO: The Time Capsule [+]Peter Anghelides, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2008).)

Later the Victorian house of the Burden family swapped places with the O'Brain's house from 2009. Clyde helped to place the house into correct time again. (AUDIO: The Ghost House [+]Stephen Cole, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2008).)

Clyde realised there was something off with Ambassador Rahnius from the moment he teleported in. He later helped Sarah Jane defeat him by using an energy reverse to send him back where he came from by throwing a hat onto a switch. (TV: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love [+]Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman, Comic Relief specials Comic Relief Special 2009 (2009).)

Clyde helped defeat Androvax and stop him from destroying Earth with Nanoforms. (TV: Prisoner of the Judoon [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)

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Clyde inside a Judoon prison. (GAME: Teeth and Eating)

Later he told jokes in front of the Judoon. They couldn't understand his humour, it wasn't translated well. Clyde Langer was put into a jail for crimes against joke telling. Mr Smith and Rani Chandra convinced Captain Tybo to let Clyde go by giving him food. (GAME: Teeth and Eating)

On a class trip to Snowdonia Clyde met one of the Shadow People. (AUDIO: The Shadow People [+]Scott Handcock, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2009).)

Clyde helped to find out the mystery about the lost memories of people who lived in Wolfenden. Sarah Jane did not want to take Clyde and Rani to Wolfenden in the first place, but Clyde and Rani went there on their own. The people's memories did not come back, but thanks to Clyde, Sarah Jane, Luke and Rani the people of Wolfenden knew that the alien Mrs Hendrick had stolen their memories. (AUDIO: The White Wolf [+]Gary Russell, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2009).)

When Sarah Jane announced her wedding to Peter Dalton, Clyde thought she was rushing and was determined to find a flaw in Peter. He was teleported with Luke, Rani and the Tenth Doctor, who crashed the wedding, into a time trap. Thanks to the TARDIS, he fought the Trickster to exhaustion before collapsing himself. His weakened condition helped Sarah Jane convince Peter to withdraw from the Trickster's agreement, making the Trickster explode. Clyde later got to take a look inside the TARDIS when the Doctor came to Bannerman Road. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).) Clyde also assisted in defeating Erasmus Darkening. (TV: The Eternity Trap [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)

Luke secretly entered one of Clyde's paintings in an art contest. The painting won first prize, earning their class a trip to the International Gallery to see the Mona Lisa, which made Mr Chandra treat Clyde more warmly. Though initially embarrassed, Clyde realised that he had a real talent for art, a talent that helped defeat the Mona Lisa when she came to life. (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)

Clyde was present when the Slitheen-Blathereen arrived, posing as benevolent Blathereen, to help stop two of the Slitheen. Clyde was suspicious of their gift of Rakweed. Before leaving Sarah Jane's house that night, he borrowed K9 to help him cheat in an exam. By then, the Rakweed had spread across London, threatening all the residents. Clyde and Rani discovered that the sound of a school bell could destroy the Rakweed and had K9 send Mr Smith the frequency. On their return to the attic, the group were confronted by the Slitheen-Blathereen, who revealed their true identities and prepared to attack. Sarah Jane had Mr Smith replicate the sound of the school bell, destroying the Rakweed in their stomachs. This created a lethal build-up of methane, causing them to, as Clyde put it, "fart themselves to death". The entire attic was covered with their slimy remains. Sarah Jane had Clyde clean up the mess as punishment for using K9 to cheat. (TV: The Gift [+]Rupert Laight, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)

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Clyde, Luke and the electric guitar. (GAME: Sound)

During the second attempt of the Slitheen-Blathereen family to cover the Earth with Rakweed Clyde used Haresh Chandra's electric guitar to make the same sounds and vibrations as the school bell of the Park Vale Comprehensive School, which had destroyed the Rakweed before. The guitar sound broke the plants' communication methods and neutralised the Rakweed spores. This killed off the Rakweed and saved the lives of the infected people. (GAME: Sound) Later the electric guitar could be seen inside Clyde's room. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

When a story about Hank Carter and the Wraith Warriors was written in a journal with Psionic Paper, these figures began to appear in the real world. Clyde helped Rani and Gregory P. Wilkinson to defeat Hank Carter and his Wraith Warriors. (AUDIO: Wraith World [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) He also supported Sarah Jane against the Umorgus. During that time Clyde fancied Sonia Parks, a girl from his netball team, who did not pay attention to him. (AUDIO: Deadly Download [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

When the Krulius converted aliens into digital bio-data and uploaded them into the internet, Clyde and Rani helped Mr Smith to find all the aliens in the internet and send them back to where they came from. Only the Krulius wasn't sent back to Dothon. He appeared inside Sarah Jane's attic and teleported Sarah Jane and himself away. Sarah Jane defeated the Krulius and returned to Rani and Clyde. (COMIC: Monster Hunt)

On the star ship of the Krulius Rani met some Urglanic Shapeshifters who were imitating Clyde's appearance. Soon Rani realised that these creatures weren't Clyde. She ran to the teleportation chamber on the star ship and teleported herself to Sarah Jane's attic. Then she told Clyde, Sarah Jane and Luke that the Krulius had returned. (COMIC: Return of the Krulius) Meanwhile the Krulius prepared for a war against Sarah Jane Smith and her gang. He came with an army of aliens to Bannerman Road and attacked Sarah Jane's house. Clyde helped fight the Krulius and his army off. The army had to return to the space ship. (COMIC: Defending Bannerman Road)

After Christmas Day, when humanity became transformed into the Master Race, Luke made a phone call to Clyde to explain that Mr Smith put out a cover story saying that the Wi-Fi malfunctioned and gave everyone hallucinations. However, the call was interrupted when the Tenth Doctor, close to his regeneration, saved Luke from being hit by a car. (TV: The End of Time [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2009 and New Year Special 2010 (BBC One, 2009-2010).)

Luke's departure and further adventures[]

When it was established that Luke would be leaving for University one year early, Clyde was distant with him but threw a party at Park Vale to show that they were still best friends. After defeating the Nightmare Man, Luke parted from Clyde when he left for Oxford. (TV: The Nightmare Man [+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

In 2010, an old Nadloon circus comedy cruiser crashed in the Thames. Clyde helped to recover the cruiser. (COMIC: Defending Bannerman Road)

Clyde, Sarah Jane and Rani helped Androvax save his species, and, with the help of Mister Dread, stop the Earth from being destroyed. (TV: The Vault of Secrets [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

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Clyde swaps places with the Doctor. (TV: Death of the Doctor [+]Russell T Davies, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

When Sarah Jane was given news of the Doctor's death by UNIT, Clyde thought she was in denial over accepting his death. He soon discovered that the Doctor was in fact still alive when he overheard the Shansheeth formulating their plan, and later switched places with the Eleventh Doctor himself through residual artron energy from their first encounter. Clyde was returned to Earth and helped remind Sarah Jane of all of their adventures, causing the Shansheeth's memory weave to explode. (TV: Death of the Doctor [+]Russell T Davies, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

Rani, Sarah Jane and Clyde went to the Pharos Institute again to study a fossilised Silurian egg. (TV: SJAF 6)

Clyde and Rani were the only two humans left on Earth by the Automatons (they had been grounded by the Judoon). They found Gavin, who did not know he was an alien. He was protected by a Bio damper which, when removed, allowed the Automatons to find him and return him home, but not before he pronounced the duo Lord Clyde and Lady Rani and ordered the return of the human race. (TV: The Empty Planet [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

ZOMG Clyde!

Clyde returns to his time period, observed by George Woods. (TV: Lost in Time [+]Rupert Laight, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

The Shopkeeper sent Clyde back to 7 June 1941 in search of an item called Chronosteel to repair the tapestry of time. Assisted by a boy called George Woods, he escaped capture by a group of Nazis. He was able to gain the object, a Nazi device, then reappeared in his home time after bidding George farewell. His Chronosteel, along with Rani's and Sarah Jane's, saved the world. Clyde later did some research on George, learning he was 83 years old and very recently knighted by Elizabeth II. (TV: Lost in Time [+]Rupert Laight, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

The gang met Ruby White, another alien hunter. They befriended her, but the next day received a message from Sarah Jane saying she was moving away. Clyde was very upset because it felt like his dad leaving him. Mr Smith tried to warn Clyde that Ruby was evil and was holding Sarah Jane captive, but Ruby captured Clyde as well and left him in an airless prison ship in orbit to suffocate. Clyde left a message on his phone in case he didn't make it, but he was teleported back to the attic by K9. Ruby was a Qetesh with a separate stomach, which swelled and then shrank when she absorbed too many emotions and was, as Clyde put it, "super sized". Clyde went closer to the shrunken organ and commented that it hadn't exploded, only for it to splatter him with purple slime. (TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith [+]Clayton Hickman and Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

Sky and subsequent adventures[]

In 2011, Clyde was surprised by the fact Sarah Jane had a baby one day, called Sky, which caused power fluctuations around Bannerman Road. He had to babysit but was attacked by a supposed meteor. He was saved by the child's mother, Miss Myers, and taken to a power plant where he escaped, met up with Sarah Jane and Rani and saw Sky's transformation from baby to pre-teen. He and Rani deactivated the core of the power station, preventing the entire Metalkind species from being brought to Earth that would have caused Sky to detonate and destroy them all, as per her purpose. When Miss Myers and the Metalkind had left Earth at the supposed cost of Sky's electrical powers, the gang returned to Bannerman Road where Clyde and Rani saw that Sky had not fully lost her abilities. (TV: Sky [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

Clyde was put under a curse by Hetocumtek after he caught a splinter from the alien's totem pole. Everyone who said or saw his name turned against him, and as a result, he became isolated, on top of becoming expelled from school. The police were called on him and he was left on the streets of London. He met Ellie Faber, a homeless teenager to whom he had given some change the previous day. He made up an alias "Enrico Box" so he would not be turned on again. He learned of the "Night Dragon" which took homeless people. He became close with Ellie while back at Bannerman Road. Sky, who was immune to the curse as she wasn't human, had urged Sarah Jane and Rani to break the curse by saying Clyde's name until they remembered what he meant to them. Clyde drew a portrait of Ellie and she kissed him. She went to get them a coffee and a moment later Sarah Jane, Rani and Sky found him. They embraced Clyde and took him back to the attic where he defeated and destroyed the totem pole by shouting his name at it. With the curse lifted, Clyde reconciled with his mother and tried to find Ellie to no avail. He found out that her name wasn't actually Ellie but she got it from a poster like Clyde got "Enrico Box" from a pizza box. One of Ellie's acquaintances, Max, told him that she had been taken by the Night Dragon which was actually a haulage truck that went around Europe. The homeless people in the area went on it to get a second chance. Clyde kept the portrait of Ellie. He would never forget her. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

As she was one of the top three journalists in the United Kingdom, Sarah Jane had been invited to the rehearsal of the launch of the SerfBoard by Joseph Serf. She took Sky and Luke who had just come back from university. Sarah Jane found out through Mr Smith that the real Serf had died in a skiing accident in 2007. She organised an interview with the hologram Serf while Clyde, Rani and Mr Smith analysed a Serf Board, finding it to be nothing more than a low standard computer. Luke and Sky used K9's whistle to alert Clyde and Rani via Mr Smith to get the pen Harrison was using to torture the Skullion slaves he forced to control Serf.

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Clyde and Rani undercover. (TV: The Man Who Never Was [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

Clyde and Rani arrived at the launch in disguise and managed to retrieve Harrison's pen. Luke and Sky took control of Serf whilst Sarah Jane and her new friend Adriana took the Skullions to the roof of the building. Mr Smith had alerted the Skullion species to send a spaceship to Earth to pick up the Skullions. Harrison took his pen back and began to kill the Skullions; Luke and Sky used Serf to hypnotise the audience at the launch to destroy Harrison's pen which they did. He told Clyde and Rani to go to the roof where a Skullion spaceship appeared and took the freed Skullions home. Harrison had also been beamed up by the Skullion spaceship, where Luke hoped that the Skullions would put him to work. Sarah Jane gave Adriana a card for UNIT saying that Adriana was just what they needed and she would ensure that Adriana was paid well. Sarah Jane and her gang then returned home. Clyde drew a picture of Sky entitled "Sky's Room" which Luke stuck up in her room. (TV: The Man Who Never Was [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

Sarah Jane, Clyde, Rani and Sky went to an antiques auction. Clyde thought the auction was boring until Sarah Jane found the head of the Difference Golem Adam, which was alien. Adam was brought back to life. He escaped and tried to activate other Difference Golems. Clyde helped to find Adam and Adam's consciousness was then brought back to the future. (AUDIO: Children of Steel [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Later Clyde helped to convince the Veritas that Sarah Jane's lies to keep the existence of aliens hidden from humans were only made to protect the humans. (AUDIO: Judgement Day [+]Scott Gray, The Sarah Jane Adventures (AudioGO, 2011).)

Later life[]

Sarah Jane and her gang continued to have adventures, defend Earth and save countless lives. Statues were raised in their honour and they left behind a legacy that would last forever. (PROSE: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, TV: The Man Who Never Was [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

Clyde continued to work on The Silver Bullet, eventually getting his comic published, with talks of a movie adaptation eventually in the works.

Clyde was making a guest appearance at the New York Comic-Con when he received the news that Sarah Jane had passed away. He attended her memorial on a "bright, cold Spring day", where he discussed Sarah Jane with other guests, and helped fight the Jackals of the Backwards Clock to foil the Trickster's revenge plot. After the service, Clyde, Luke and Rani journeyed back to 13 Bannerman Road to honour Sarah Jane's request to close down the house. After closing down the attic, Clyde left to continue work on The Silver Bullet movie, (WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who: Lockdown! (YouTube, 2020).) however he eventually turned down the movie opportunity. He and Rani did not talk much following the funeral, though messaged occasionally. (AUDIO: Here Today [+]Joseph Lidster, Beyond Bannerman Road (Rani Takes on the World, Big Finish Productions, 2023).)

By 12 October 2020, Clyde had established the Unity Shelter Project and opened his third homeless shelter. By this point, Clyde had also met Larry Nightingale, though they had not seen each other in "ages". (GAME: The Lonely Assassins [+]Amelia Chung, Priya Kulasagaran, Rebecca Hee and Gavin Collinson, Maze Theory (2021).)

In 2022, along with Luke, Martha and Jo, Clyde disappeared, (AUDIO: Hysteria [+]Juno Dawson, Redacted (BBC Sounds, 2022).) due to a psychic virus infecting the Thirteenth Doctor and targeting people who had had contact with her. The Doctor and Cleo Proctor eventually restored the disappeared. (AUDIO: Salvation [+]Juno Dawson, Redacted (BBC Sounds, 2022).)

While he was in Los Angeles adapting his comics for a television series, Clyde was brought to the remembered TARDIS, where he was found by Jo, who told him of the time she met three Doctors at once. Once her story was over, Jo implored Clyde to tell Rani how he felt about her while he still could, and Clyde left Jo to lingering in the TARDIS alone while he went off to find Rani. (TV: The Three Doctors [+]Phil Ford, Tales of the TARDIS tales of the tardis (BBC iPlayer, 2023).)

Alternate realities[]

Donna's world[]

In a parallel world, Clyde investigated the Royal Hope Hospital along with Sarah Jane, Maria and Luke in 2008. Since it was moved to the Moon, the oxygen ran out. Clyde, along with all but one of the other humans in the hospital, died of suffocation. (TV: Turn Left [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).

Andrea Yates' world[]

In Andrea Yates' World, as Sarah Jane Smith died in 1964, Clyde never knew her and barely knew Maria. (TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007).

Abilities[]

Clyde drawing Mr Smith

Clyde drawing Mr Smith's portrait. (TV: SJAF 5)

Though he initially kept them secret, Clyde had talents for drawing and cooking. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker [+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).) Encouraged by his friends Clyde further developed and embraced his artistic talents; he won a competition to see the Mona Lisa with one of his paintings, and later used his drawing abilities to defeat an alien threat. (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).) Clyde also drew Mr Smith's portrait, proudly calling himself "the Picasso of Bannerman Road." (TV: SJAF 5) His adventures as part of the Bannerman Road influenced his art and he even had a comic creation named "Susie June Jones" referring to Sarah Jane. (TV: The Empty Planet [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010)., The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).) He also created a superhero comic called the Silver Bullet, which eventually got published and made into a film. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011)., WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who: Lockdown! (YouTube, 2020).)

Clyde also could play the electric guitar. (GAME: Sound [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

Clyde briefly obtained a charge of artron energy from the Doctor's TARDIS, with which he was able to defend himself against the Trickster. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).) The Eleventh Doctor used the residual artron energy Clyde retained from this encounter to switch places with Clyde and come to Earth after being stranded, although he was able to modify this device to completely teleport himself from the planet where he had been trapped with the aid of equipment provided by Sarah and Jo Jones. (TV: Death of the Doctor [+]Russell T Davies, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

Clyde demonstrated a degree of athletic skill, hitting a target with a thrown hat. (TV: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love [+]Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman, Comic Relief specials Comic Relief Special 2009 (2009).)

Personality[]

Of all of Sarah Jane's young friends, Clyde made wisecracks by far the most, as he acknowledged, and put to good use. (TV: The Day of the Clown [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).) He frequently made fun of aliens such as Sontaran Commander Kaagh, calling him a baked spud, (TV: The Last Sontaran [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (BBC One and CBBC, 2008).) and the Bane, describing them as "one-eyed squidy things". (TV: Enemy of the Bane [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).)

Clyde also showed an interest in girls of his age group. (TV: Warriors of Kudlak [+]Phil Gladwin, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007)., The Last Sontaran [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (BBC One and CBBC, 2008).) He had a particular interest in Rani and seemed the closest to her in the gang. (TV: The Day of the Clown [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008)., The Nightmare Man [+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010)., The Vault of Secrets [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010)., The Empty Planet [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010)., SJAF 5) By the time that he was an adult, Clyde had accepted that he was in love with Rani, but wasn't sure how to tell her. Jo Grant, who noted that Clyde's love for Rani was obvious every time she saw the two of them together, gave Clyde the courage to finally act on his feelings. (TV: The Three Doctors [+]Phil Ford, Tales of the TARDIS tales of the tardis (BBC iPlayer, 2023).)

He formed a strong bond with Ellie Faber when he was cut away from his friends, to the point that she kissed him, but they were separated when Clyde had to join his friends to defeat their enemy. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).) Clyde was also kind and fiercely loyal to Sarah Jane. He was rarely hostile to people and was often helpful, trying to make others he knew feel better, even giving money to Ellie when he first encountered her on the grounds that her homelessness probably wasn't her fault. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).) Clyde was very understanding with Luke, despite his strange behaviour, especially when he did not understand many social aspects of life. (TV: The Last Sontaran [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (BBC One and CBBC, 2008).) At first, Clyde was unsympathetic to the fates of the enemies the team encountered. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (BBC One and CBBC, 2007).) This opinion changed somewhat over time, as evidenced when he attempted to help the wounded Kaagh. (TV: Enemy of the Bane [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).) He was very close to his mother. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker [+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008)., The Empty Planet [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010)., The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

Unlike Sarah Jane and the Doctor, Clyde believed in fate — the idea that most things happened for a reason, and that events in the universe were connected. (TV: The Vault of Secrets [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010)., The Empty Planet [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

Clyde also showed great respect for the Doctor. This respect for the Doctor was caused by stories Sarah Jane often told him about the Doctor's battles with monsters. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (BBC One and CBBC, 2007)., The Last Sontaran [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (BBC One and CBBC, 2008).) He was delighted when he got to meet the Doctor and was impressed by the TARDIS. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009)., Death of the Doctor [+]Russell T Davies, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

He also had a gift of finding out about the bad guys acting like the good guys before anyone else, and people he initially did not trust often turned out to be malicious in the end. (TV: The Lost Boy [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007)., The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009)., The Gift [+]Rupert Laight, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009)., Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith [+]Clayton Hickman and Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

Clyde apparently enjoyed the Star Wars series, as he referred to it a number of times. (TV: Warriors of Kudlak [+]Phil Gladwin, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007).) When asked to recreate a famous historical battle at school, he suggested doing one on the Battle of Hoth. (TV: The Last Sontaran [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (BBC One and CBBC, 2008).) Clyde was a fan of Kasabian and Arctic Monkeys. (TV: The Lost Boy [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 (CBBC, 2007).)

Clyde was creative and artistic. He drew a lot and kept drawings of Androvax, a Groske, K9, Maria Jackson and Luke Smith inside Sarah Jane's attic. (WC: Attic Padz [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) He created his own superhero the Rocket Man (TV: The Mark of the Berserker [+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008).) and drew his own comic The Silver Bullet. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).) He also used the creatures he faced as influences for his work, such as including Sontaran blasters in his award-winning painting in 2009. (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)

While Clyde tried to hide his feelings on Sarah Jane's passing with a joke, he quickly revealed his gratitude for her and her mentorship, and regretted never having told her how much he loved her for being a positive influence in his life, (WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who: Lockdown! (YouTube, 2020).) with Jo Jones comparing Clyde's love for Sarah Jane to her own love for her mentor, the Third Doctor. (TV: The Three Doctors [+]Phil Ford, Tales of the TARDIS tales of the tardis (BBC iPlayer, 2023).)

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