Playtime (short story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Other Short Story|

name=Playtime|

image=Playtime.jpg|

series=[[Brief Encounter]]|

main character=[[Sarah Jane Smith]]|

featuring=[[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Lavinia Smith|Lavinia]]|

year=[[Shoreditch]], [[November]] [[1963]]|

writer=[[Vanessa Bishop]]|

illustrator=[[Brian Hudd]]|

publication=[[DWMS Holiday 1992]]|

prev=Girls' Night In (short story)|

next=Fond Memories (short story)|

|}}

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' short story published in [[DWMS Holiday 1992]].

On a day trip to [[London]] with her Aunt [[Lavinia Smith|Lavinia]] in [[November]] [[1963]], [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]], a young girl with an enquiring mind, nips off to explore while her guardian goes off to buy sweets for her. Behind some double gates she finds a [[76 Totter's Lane|junkyard]] full of shop window dummies, broken chairs, picture frames and, strangely, a [[the Doctor's TARDIS|police box]]. Lost in her own world, during which she briefly pretends to be a reporter at one point (thus sowing the seeds for her future career!), she suddenly remembers her aunt and races off as a car pulls up and an [[Susan Foreman|older girl]] runs into the junkyard.

* [[Susan Foreman]] (unnamed)

== References ==

''to be added''

* The story presents some of the events of [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' from the viewpoint of Sarah Jane Smith. The story can only work if it is assumed that the [[UNIT]] stories [[UNIT dating controversy|took place in the "near future"]]. [[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'', which shows Sarah Jane as thirteen years old in [[1964]], makes this story impossible, unless changes to the [[timeline]] are assumed.

* As ''Playtime'' cannot fit into current continuity for the reasons mentioned above, it would perhaps be best to class the story as "imaginary".

* {{dwrefguide|brief.htm#dwmh1992b|Playtime}}

 

{{prose stub}}

[[Category:Stories released in 1992]]