Playtime (short story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|image= Playtime.jpg

|series= [[Brief Encounter]]

|main character= [[Sarah Jane Smith]]

|featuring= Susan Foreman

|featuring2= Lavinia Smith

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

|writer= [[Vanessa Bishop]]

|illustrator= [[Brian Hudd]]

|publication=''[[DWMS Holiday 1992]]''

|release date= [[August (releases)|August]] [[1992 (releases)|1992]]

|prev= Girls' Night In (short story)

|next= Fond Memories (short story)

}}{{prose stub}}

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 [[Candy|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.

 

== References ==

* The story presents some of the events of ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' from the viewpoint of Sarah Jane Smith. ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' shows Sarah Jane as thirteen years old in [[1964]], and she clearly gives her age as "twenty-three" in ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'', set in [[1974]].