The Ghost of Bannerman Road was the third and final story in the audio anthology The Revenge of Wormwood, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Anjli Mohindra as Rani Chandra, Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer, Tommy Knight as Luke Smith and Samantha Bond as Mrs Wormwood.
Publisher's summary[]
13 Bannerman Road. The place where it all began, where Rani, Clyde and Luke fought alien menaces with Sarah Jane. Now it’s locked up, derelict and under the watch of UNIT, because top scientists are mysteriously disappearing, and items of alien technology are being stolen from laboratories. An old friend is planning to make her return...and Rani and Clyde have to face their own ghosts.
Plot[]
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Cast[]
- Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
- Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
- Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
- Mrs Wormwood - Samantha Bond
- Major Hadley - Carla de Wansey
Worldbuilding[]
- Sarah Jane and her friends at Bannerman Road once stopped a Voltron Constructor following its program to turn Earth into a breeding colony for its masters. Clyde and Luke were covered in Voltron cleaning fluid. Clyde recalls this was prior to his encounter with Wormwood.
Notes[]
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Continuity[]
- Luke still refers to Rani and Clyde as “Clani”, as he did in TV: The Man Who Never Was [+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011)..
- Mrs Wormwood recalls how a Sontaran trapped her in the Time Vortex, as depicted in TV: Enemy of the Bane [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008)..
- UNIT is based in the Tower of London, which was first depicted in TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas special (BBC One, 2005)..
- The Black Archive is kept in the Tower of London, as previously depicted in TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, 50th Anniversary Specials (BBC One, 2013)., The Zygon Inversion [+]Peter Harness and Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015)., PROSE: For the Girl Who Has Everything [+]Dave Rudden, The Wintertime Paradox (2020)., and AUDIO: Recruits [+]Ken Cheng, Redacted (BBC Sounds, 2022).. Rani mentions visiting the Black Archive before in a different building, as shown in TV: Enemy of the Bane [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 (CBBC, 2008)., which Hadley explains was an overflow facility.
- Mr Smith is dormant in the attic, having been shutdown in WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who: Lockdown! (YouTube, 2020)..
- Mrs Wormwood reveals that she was behind the dimensional duplicates, depicted in AUDIO: Time Schisms! [+]Lizbeth Myles, The Revenge of Wormwood (Rani Takes on the World, Big Finish Productions, 2023)., and the alternate future in which the Bane invaded the Earth encountered by Rani and Clyde in AUDIO: The Star-Crossed Diversion [+]Alison Winter, The Revenge of Wormwood (Rani Takes on the World, Big Finish Productions, 2023)..
- Mrs Wormwood recalls how Luke resisted her lure to join her, admiring him for rebelling against her, as occurred in AUDIO: Time Schisms! [+]Lizbeth Myles, The Revenge of Wormwood (Rani Takes on the World, Big Finish Productions, 2023)..
External links[]
- Official The Ghost of Bannerman Road page at bigfinish.com