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{{Infobox Other Short Story|
|image          = Playtime.jpg
story name=Playtime|
|series         = ''[[Brief Encounter]]''
series=[[Brief Encounters]]|
|main character = [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
main character=[[Sarah Jane Smith]]|
|featuring     = Susan Foreman
featuring=[[Susan Campbell|Susan Foreman]] (unnamed cameo)|
|featuring2    = Lavinia Smith
year=[[November]] [[1963]]|
|setting        = [[Shoreditch]], [[November]] [[1963]]
writer=[[Vanessa Bishop]]|
|writer        = Vanessa Bishop
publication=[[DWMS Holiday 1992]]|
|illustrator    = [[Brian Hudd]]
previous story=[[Girls' Night In]]|
|publication   = ''[[DWMS Holiday 1992]]''
next story=[[Fond Memories]]|
|release date  = August 1992
|}}
|prev          = Girls' Night In (short story)
|next           = Fond Memories (short story)
}}
'''''Playtime''''' was a ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' short story published in ''[[DWMS Holiday 1992]]''.


==Summary==
== Summary ==
On a day trip to [[London]] with [[Lavinia Smith|her aunt]] 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, she suddenly remembers her aunt and races off as a car pulls up and an [[Susan Foreman|older girl]] races inside the junkyard.
On a day trip to [[London]] with her Aunt [[Lavinia Smith|Lavinia]] in [[November]] [[1963]], [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah]], 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, she suddenly remembers her aunt and races off as a [[car]] pulls up and an [[Susan Foreman|older girl]] runs into the junkyard.


==Characters==
== Characters ==
*[[Sarah Jane Smith]]
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
*[[Susan Campbell|Susan Foreman]] (unnamed)
* [[Susan Foreman]]
*[[Lavinia Smith]]
* [[Lavinia Smith]]


==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
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==Notes==
== Notes ==
Illustrated by [[Brian Hudd]]
* 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 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]].


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
*The story presents some of the events of [[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' from the point of view 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"]]. [[SJA]]: ''[[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.
 
==External links==
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== External links ==
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[[Category:Stories set in Shoreditch]]
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[[Category:Sarah Jane Smith short stories]]
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Latest revision as of 22:19, 29 February 2024

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Playtime was a Brief Encounter short story published in DWMS Holiday 1992.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

On a day trip to London with her Aunt Lavinia in November 1963, Sarah, 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 junkyard full of shop window dummies, broken chairs, picture frames and, strangely, a police box. Lost in her own world, during which she briefly pretends to be a reporter at one point, she suddenly remembers her aunt and races off as a car pulls up and an older girl runs into the junkyard.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]