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== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
===Bannerman Road gang begins===
=== Bannerman Road gang begins ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]''  
: Takes place shortly after ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]''  at the start of a new year at [[Park Vale Comprehensive School]]. Maria and Luke, who is now "fourteen", befriend [[Clyde Langer]]. Luke and Clyde are classmates in form [[10B]]
: Set in [[September]] [[2008]]. A new school year has started at [[Park Vale Comprehensive School]], and Clyde befriends [[Maria Jackson]] and [[Luke Smith]], and joins the [[Bannerman Road gang]] while helpoing [[Sarah Jane Smith]] foil a plot by the [[Slitheen family]]. Luke and Clyde are classmates in form [[10B]].


* [[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]''  
: [[Alan Jackson|Alan]] tells [[Chrissie Jackson|Chrissie]] that she took their home apart "six months ago", setting this story at most that long since ''Invasion of the Bane''.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]''  
: Luke has been experimenting with [[joke]]s, and asks Clyde about girls after receiving his first [[kiss]]. Luke, Maria and Clyde go into space for the first time.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glittering Storm (audio story)|The Glittering Stone]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glittering Storm (audio story)|The Glittering Stone]]''
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* [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]''  
: Continues from ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?''. "[[Jay Stafford]]" claims that "[[Ashley Stafford]]", actually Luke, has been missing for five months, setting this story at least that long since ''Invasion of the Bane''.
: Mr Smith reveals himself to be a [[Xylok]] with intentions of destroying the world, but he is rebooted into a benevolent being by the [[Armageddon virus]]. Sarah Jane meets [[Celeste Rivers]] at the [[Pharos Institute]], and Clyde meets K9 for the first time.


::''Clyde is with his [[Carla Langer|mother]] during the [[21st century Dalek invasion|Dalek invasion]].'' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Earth, Sun and Moon (video game)|Earth, Sun and Moon]]''
: Set immediately after ''The Lost Boy'', and the day before Clyde's birthday on [[5 June]].


:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''During the [[Sontaran invasion of Earth]], Clyde and his mother are safely at home. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Last Sontaran (novelisation)}})
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''During the [[21st century Dalek invasion]] between [[May]] and [[June]] in [[2009]], Clyde stays in his house to protect his mother. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')''
=== After the Dalek invasion ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''
: Six weeks after the encounter with [[Commander]] [[Kaagh]], Maria moves away to [[America]].
: Maria and Alan move to [[Washington DC|Washington, DC]] in [[America]] six weeks after the Bannerman Road gang defeat [[Commander]] [[Kaagh]] of the [[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]]. Alien life is now common knowledge on Earth, implying a setting after ''Journey's End''.  


===Rani joins the gang===
=== Rani joins the gang ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]''  
: [[Rani Chandra]] moves into Bannerman Road and becomes a part of Sarah Jane's gang. It has been a "while" since the disappearance of Park Vale [[headmaster]] [[Greg Blakeman]], from ''Revenge of the Slitheen''. [[Haresh Chandra|Haresh]] observes that Luke has shown impressive results over the "past year".
: Set in [[October]] [[2009]]. [[Rani Chandra]] moves into 36 Bannerman Road and becomes a part of Sarah Jane's gang during their fight with the [[Pied Piper]]. While it has been a "while" since the disappearance of Park Vale [[Headmaster]] [[Greg Blakeman]] in ''Revenge of the Slitheen'', Headmaster [[Haresh Chandra]] observes that Luke has shown impressive results over the "past year", but it is unclear if he is referring to the year date or the school year. Maria notes in an email that it "feels like only yesterday" that she left Bannerman Road. According to Luke, the Bannerman Road gang has saved the world "twelve times".


* [[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]''
:* [[WC]]: ''[[Light (video game)|Light]]''
:: Set during ''The Day of the Clown''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time Capsule (audio story)|The Time Capsule]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time Capsule (audio story)|The Time Capsule]]''
: Set at least a whole year after ''Invasion of the Bane'', and shortly after ''The Day the Clown'', with Rani not having had time to apply for work experience due to moving.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghost House (audio story)|The Ghost House]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghost House (audio story)|The Ghost House]]''
: Mr Smith recalls the recent events of ''The Lost Boy''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]''
: According to [[Martin Trueman]], Rani has still only "just moved house", setting this shortly after ''The Day of the Clown''.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)|The Mark of the Berserker]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)|The Mark of the Berserker]]''
: Rani meets Maria Jackson for the first time, via a video call. Clyde is fifteen years old.
: Clyde's father, [[Paul Langer|Paul]], returns from [[Germany]] to see Clyde, and falls under the sway of a [[Berserker pendant]], though he is able to overcome it before he returns to Germany. Clyde is fifteen-years-old.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
: ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?'' took place "last year".
: Clyde recalls the events of ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?'' as happening "last year", and he helps [[Krislok]] the Graske escape his enslavement by the Trickster.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane (TV story)|Enemy of the Bane]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane (TV story)|Enemy of the Bane]]''
: As Luke would recount in ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files: Episode 3'', the events of ''The Last Sontaran'' are still a recent affair. When Mrs Wormwood and Kaagh return for revenge, Sarah Jane visits [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] for the fist time in a "long time" to get his help in retrieving the [[Tunguska Scroll]] from the [[Black Archive]]. When Wormwood betrays Kaagh when she tries to find [[Horath]], Kaagh drags her into anther dimension. UNIT do not know about Luke's origins, and Clyde shows an interest in joining them.


* [[TV]]: ''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love (TV story)|From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love (TV story)|From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love]]''
: Rani appears to already know K9.


=== Recording the Alien Files ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]''
: After they assist in the capture of [[Androvax]], Clyde and Rani are issued an order of confinement to Earth by the [[Judoon]] Captain [[Tybo]], effectively making them "grounded".
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Material Properties (video game)|Material Properties]]''
: An alternative account of ''Prisoner of the Judoon''.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''
: The black hole [[K9 Mark IV]] guarded is swallowed up.
: When Rani is contacted by her old friend [[Samuel Lloyd]], who she had told of her adventures with Sarah Jane, the Bannerman Road gang travel to [[Danemouth]], where they help power [[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]] with the black hole [[K9 Mark IV]] is guarding, closing the singularity and allowing K9 to return to 13 Bannerman Road.


* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Eve (webcast)|Alien File: Eve]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Eve (webcast)|Alien File: Eve]]''
: Clyde reviews the events of ''The Mad Woman in the Attic'' on the Alien Files.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow People (audio story)|The Shadow People]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Monster Hunt (comic story)|Monster Hunt]]''
 
: K9 has returned to 13 Bannerman Road, setting this after ''The Mad Woman in the Attic''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wraith World (audio story)|Wraith World]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadly Download (audio story)|Deadly Download]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
: Sarah Jane nearly marries [[Peter Dalton]] as part of a plot concocted by the Trickster. The Tenth Doctor appears to foil his plans, meeting Luke, Clyde, and Rani for the first time as he does.
: Sarah Jane nearly marries [[Peter Dalton]] as part of a plot concocted by the Trickster. The Tenth Doctor arrives to foil his plans, meeting Clyde and Rani for the first time, as well as meeting Luke in person for the first time since ''Journey's End''.  


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]''  


* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Erasmus Darkening (webcast)|Alien File: Erasmus Darkening]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Erasmus Darkening (webcast)|Alien File: Erasmus Darkening]]''
: Clyde and Rani review the events of ''The Eternity Trap'' on the Alien Files.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]''  
: Luke and Clyde are now in form [[11T]].
: Luke and Clyde are now in form [[11T]], as is Rani.


* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Mona Lisa (webcast)|Alien File: Mona Lisa]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Mona Lisa (webcast)|Alien File: Mona Lisa]]''
: Clyde and Rani review the events of ''Mona Lisa's Revenge'' on the Alien Files.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''
: Luke is now "fifteen".
: Sarah Jane prevents the [[Slitheen-Blathereen family]] from poisoning the world with [[Rakweed]]. Luke is still only "fifteen".
 
:* [[GAME]]: ''[[Sound (video game)|Sound]]''
:: Set during ''The Gift''.


* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Blathereen (webcast)|Alien File: Blathereen]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Blathereen (webcast)|Alien File: Blathereen]]''
: Clyde reviews the events of ''The Gift'' on the Alien Files.


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Monster Hunt (comic story)|Monster Hunt]]''
=== Luke's final adventures ===
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Krulius (comic story)|Return of the Krulius]]''
: Sequel to ''Monster Hunt''.
 
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Teeth and Eating (video game)|Teeth and Eating]]''
: Set after ''Prisoner of the Judoon''.
 
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Plants (video game)|Plants]]''
: Sequel to ''The Gift''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow People (audio story)|The Shadow People]]''
: Rani recalls meeting the Doctor, setting this after ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''
: Set during [[November]] [[2009]].


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Krulius (comic story)|Return of the Krulius]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadly Download (audio story)|Deadly Download]]''
: Set during [[November]] [[2009]].


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]''
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
: Present day setting is 2009. Sarah Jane meets the Tenth Doctor again, and she has a photograph of herself and the Tenth Doctor from her wedding day to Peter Dalton, setting this between ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith'' and ''The End of Time''.
:: ''Shortly after [[Christmas]] [[2009]], Luke talks about the [[Master Race]] with Clyde over the phone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')''


* [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wraith World (audio story)|Wraith World]]''
: Sarah and Luke see the Tenth Doctor for the final time, with Sarah sensing that he is about to regenerate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')


===Luke leaves for university===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''  
: Luke leaves for [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] with K9.
: Though Luke has only just started [[Sixth form]], setting this near [[September]] [[2010]], he takes his [[A levels]] a year early and leaves for [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] with K9.


=== After Luke left for university ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets (TV story)|The Vault of Secrets]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets (TV story)|The Vault of Secrets]]''
: Luke has settled into Oxford, but Sarah Jane is still coping with his absence.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]''  
: Sarah Jane meets the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. She alludes to the events of ''School Reunion'', which she recalls took place "about four years ago".
: Set in [[2010]], at least six months after [[February]]. Luke has still only "just left for university". When the [[Claw Shansheeth]] fake the Doctor's death, Sarah Jane meets [[Jo Grant]] at the staged funeral, and the pair help the [[Eleventh Doctor]] foil their plans. Clyde has not seen the Doctor since ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith'', and has his first meeting with his eleventh incarnation.
 
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Monster Morpher (video game)|Monster Morpher]]''
: The gang are aware of the Shansheeth, setting this after ''Death of the Doctor''. Luke is at 13 Bannerman Road, presumably visiting from university.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet (TV story)|The Empty Planet]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet (TV story)|The Empty Planet]]''
 
: Clyde and Rani grow closer after being left the only two humans on Earth for an hour-and-a-half by two [[Automaton (The Empty Planet)|Automatons]] looking for [[Gavin (The Empty Planet)|a lost alien prince]]. In gratitude for them finding him, the prince makes them a Lord and a Lady.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Defending Bannerman Road (comic story)|Defending Bannerman Road]]''


* [[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]''
: Set on [[23 November]] [[2010]].
: Set on [[23 November]] [[2010]]. The Bannerman Road gang meet [[The Shopkeeper (Lost in Time)|the Shopkeeper]] for the first time, and he sends Clyde to fight [[Nazi]]s in [[1941]].


* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 5]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 5]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Defending Bannerman Road (comic story)|Defending Bannerman Road]]''
: Sequel to ''Return of the Krulius''. The Krulius has a photo from the events of ''Death of the Doctor''.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]''
: Luke visits from Oxford to help save Sarah Jane from a [[Qetesh]] called "[[Ruby White]]". While on the verge of apparent death, Clyde tries to confess something to Rani, with the implication that it an admittance of [[love]] towards her.


===Adopting Sky===
* [[WC]]: ''[[Rani and Clyde (webcast)|Rani and Clyde]]''
: Clyde has drawn a [[Groske]], setting this after ''Death of the Doctor''.
 
* [[WC]]: ''[[Chris Meets... (TV story)|Chris Meets...]]''
 
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''Sarah Jane, Clyde and Rani investigate a fossilised [[Silurian]] egg at the Pharos Institute. ([[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 6]]'')''
 
=== Sky joins the gang ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]''
: Sky is adopted by Sarah Jane.
: The Shopkeeper leaves a [[Fleshkind (Sky)|Fleshkind]] bio-weapon baby with Sarah Jane for safekeeping, and she is adopted as "[[Sky Smith]]". Rani is 17-years-old, and Sky is aged up to a 12-year-old.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)|The Curse of Clyde Langer]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)|The Curse of Clyde Langer]]''
: "Barely a month" following ''Sky''.
: Set "barely a month" after ''Sky''. Clyde and Rani are still in [[sixth form]]. Due to a curse placed on him by [[Hetocumtek]], Clyde is briefly forced into [[homeless]]ness, where he forms a relationship with a girl called [[Ellie Faber|Ellie]], but is forced to abandon her to stop Hetocumtek ending the world, and is unable to find her afterwards.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]''
: Luke has gone through seven [[mobile phone]]s in "the past two years.
: Luke and Sky meet face-to-face for the first time, and come to embrace each other as siblings. Luke has begun pairing Clyde and Rani together, calling them "[[Clani]]".


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Children of Steel (audio story)|Children of Steel]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Children of Steel (audio story)|Children of Steel]]''
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (SJA audio story)|Judgement Day]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (SJA audio story)|Judgement Day]]''


=== Later life ===
=== Adapting his comics ===
* [[WC]]: ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]''
: Friends of Sarah Jane and the Doctor attend Sarah's funeral.
: After Sarah Jane passes away, Clyde attends her wake on a [[Spring]] day with friends of both hers and the Doctor, and helps repel a final attack from the Trickster. Luke, Clyde and Rani shut down Mr Smith when they lock up 13 Bannerman Road, as per Sarah Jane's last request. Though no date is given, Luke has been married to [[Sanjay (Death of the Doctor)|his husband]] for five years, and Jo is still alive, which would set this before [[2028]]. Going by how little Luke, Rani and Clyde have aged, it is implied that Sarah Jane died in [[2020]], the year the story was released.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Tales of the TARDIS]]: [[The Three Doctors (TotT TV story)|The Three Doctors]]''
: While working on a television adaptation of his ''[[Blood River City]]'' comics, Clyde finds himself reunited with Jo in the [[remembered TARDIS]], where Jo tells him about ''The Three Doctors''. He hasn't seen much of Luke and Rani since Sarah Jane's wake, suggesting a setting between ''Farewell, Sarah Jane'' and ''Here Today''.
 
=== Working with Rani again ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Here Today (audio story)|Here Today]]''
: Clyde is thirty years old, setting this in 2023 or 2024. Samira claims that "last year", palaeontologists discovered that dinosaurs had belly buttons. In the real world, this happened in [[2022]], suggesting that this story occurs in [[2023]]. He hasn't seen Rani since the events of ''Farewell Sarah Jane'' and hasn't been to 13 Bannerman Road since either. Mr Smith is still closed up, setting this before ''Regrets''. Gita phones Rani about a wedding invite, setting this shortly before ''Destination: Wedding''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Destination: Wedding (audio story)|Destination Wedding]]''


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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Witching Tree (audio story)|The Witching Tree]]''
: Clyde decides to stick around Bannerman Road to help Rani with her further investigations after his partner, [[Phoenix Laight]], is revealed to be an alien intent on taking over the world. Rani and Clyde are awkwardly dancing around their feelings for each other.

Latest revision as of 02:36, 23 December 2024

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This page lists appearances of Luke Smith in the order he experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

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Timeline[[edit source]]

Bannerman Road gang begins[[edit source]]

Set in September 2008. A new school year has started at Park Vale Comprehensive School, and Clyde befriends Maria Jackson and Luke Smith, and joins the Bannerman Road gang while helpoing Sarah Jane Smith foil a plot by the Slitheen family. Luke and Clyde are classmates in form 10B.
Luke has been experimenting with jokes, and asks Clyde about girls after receiving his first kiss. Luke, Maria and Clyde go into space for the first time.
Mr Smith reveals himself to be a Xylok with intentions of destroying the world, but he is rebooted into a benevolent being by the Armageddon virus. Sarah Jane meets Celeste Rivers at the Pharos Institute, and Clyde meets K9 for the first time.
Set immediately after The Lost Boy, and the day before Clyde's birthday on 5 June.
(REFERENCE)
During the Sontaran invasion of Earth, Clyde and his mother are safely at home. (PROSE: The Last Sontaran [+]Loading...["The Last Sontaran (novelisation)"])
(REFERENCE)
During the 21st century Dalek invasion between May and June in 2009, Clyde stays in his house to protect his mother. (TV: The Stolen Earth)

After the Dalek invasion[[edit source]]

Maria and Alan move to Washington, DC in America six weeks after the Bannerman Road gang defeat Commander Kaagh of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet. Alien life is now common knowledge on Earth, implying a setting after Journey's End.

Rani joins the gang[[edit source]]

Set in October 2009. Rani Chandra moves into 36 Bannerman Road and becomes a part of Sarah Jane's gang during their fight with the Pied Piper. While it has been a "while" since the disappearance of Park Vale Headmaster Greg Blakeman in Revenge of the Slitheen, Headmaster Haresh Chandra observes that Luke has shown impressive results over the "past year", but it is unclear if he is referring to the year date or the school year. Maria notes in an email that it "feels like only yesterday" that she left Bannerman Road. According to Luke, the Bannerman Road gang has saved the world "twelve times".
Set during The Day of the Clown.
Set at least a whole year after Invasion of the Bane, and shortly after The Day the Clown, with Rani not having had time to apply for work experience due to moving.
Mr Smith recalls the recent events of The Lost Boy.
According to Martin Trueman, Rani has still only "just moved house", setting this shortly after The Day of the Clown.
Clyde's father, Paul, returns from Germany to see Clyde, and falls under the sway of a Berserker pendant, though he is able to overcome it before he returns to Germany. Clyde is fifteen-years-old.
Clyde recalls the events of Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? as happening "last year", and he helps Krislok the Graske escape his enslavement by the Trickster.
As Luke would recount in Sarah Jane's Alien Files: Episode 3, the events of The Last Sontaran are still a recent affair. When Mrs Wormwood and Kaagh return for revenge, Sarah Jane visits Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for the fist time in a "long time" to get his help in retrieving the Tunguska Scroll from the Black Archive. When Wormwood betrays Kaagh when she tries to find Horath, Kaagh drags her into anther dimension. UNIT do not know about Luke's origins, and Clyde shows an interest in joining them.
Rani appears to already know K9.

Recording the Alien Files[[edit source]]

After they assist in the capture of Androvax, Clyde and Rani are issued an order of confinement to Earth by the Judoon Captain Tybo, effectively making them "grounded".
An alternative account of Prisoner of the Judoon.
When Rani is contacted by her old friend Samuel Lloyd, who she had told of her adventures with Sarah Jane, the Bannerman Road gang travel to Danemouth, where they help power Ship with the black hole K9 Mark IV is guarding, closing the singularity and allowing K9 to return to 13 Bannerman Road.
Clyde reviews the events of The Mad Woman in the Attic on the Alien Files.
K9 has returned to 13 Bannerman Road, setting this after The Mad Woman in the Attic.
Sarah Jane nearly marries Peter Dalton as part of a plot concocted by the Trickster. The Tenth Doctor arrives to foil his plans, meeting Clyde and Rani for the first time, as well as meeting Luke in person for the first time since Journey's End.
Clyde and Rani review the events of The Eternity Trap on the Alien Files.
Luke and Clyde are now in form 11T, as is Rani.
Clyde and Rani review the events of Mona Lisa's Revenge on the Alien Files.
Sarah Jane prevents the Slitheen-Blathereen family from poisoning the world with Rakweed. Luke is still only "fifteen".
Set during The Gift.
Clyde reviews the events of The Gift on the Alien Files.

Luke's final adventures[[edit source]]

Sequel to Monster Hunt.
Set after Prisoner of the Judoon.
Sequel to The Gift.
Rani recalls meeting the Doctor, setting this after The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith.
Set during November 2009.
Set during November 2009.
(REFERENCE)
Shortly after Christmas 2009, Luke talks about the Master Race with Clyde over the phone. (TV: The End of Time)
Though Luke has only just started Sixth form, setting this near September 2010, he takes his A levels a year early and leaves for Oxford University with K9.

After Luke left for university[[edit source]]

Luke has settled into Oxford, but Sarah Jane is still coping with his absence.
Set in 2010, at least six months after February. Luke has still only "just left for university". When the Claw Shansheeth fake the Doctor's death, Sarah Jane meets Jo Grant at the staged funeral, and the pair help the Eleventh Doctor foil their plans. Clyde has not seen the Doctor since The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, and has his first meeting with his eleventh incarnation.
The gang are aware of the Shansheeth, setting this after Death of the Doctor. Luke is at 13 Bannerman Road, presumably visiting from university.
Clyde and Rani grow closer after being left the only two humans on Earth for an hour-and-a-half by two Automatons looking for a lost alien prince. In gratitude for them finding him, the prince makes them a Lord and a Lady.
Set on 23 November 2010. The Bannerman Road gang meet the Shopkeeper for the first time, and he sends Clyde to fight Nazis in 1941.
Sequel to Return of the Krulius. The Krulius has a photo from the events of Death of the Doctor.
Luke visits from Oxford to help save Sarah Jane from a Qetesh called "Ruby White". While on the verge of apparent death, Clyde tries to confess something to Rani, with the implication that it an admittance of love towards her.
Clyde has drawn a Groske, setting this after Death of the Doctor.
(REFERENCE)
Sarah Jane, Clyde and Rani investigate a fossilised Silurian egg at the Pharos Institute. (TV: SJAF 6)

Sky joins the gang[[edit source]]

The Shopkeeper leaves a Fleshkind bio-weapon baby with Sarah Jane for safekeeping, and she is adopted as "Sky Smith". Rani is 17-years-old, and Sky is aged up to a 12-year-old.
Set "barely a month" after Sky. Clyde and Rani are still in sixth form. Due to a curse placed on him by Hetocumtek, Clyde is briefly forced into homelessness, where he forms a relationship with a girl called Ellie, but is forced to abandon her to stop Hetocumtek ending the world, and is unable to find her afterwards.
Luke and Sky meet face-to-face for the first time, and come to embrace each other as siblings. Luke has begun pairing Clyde and Rani together, calling them "Clani".

Adapting his comics[[edit source]]

After Sarah Jane passes away, Clyde attends her wake on a Spring day with friends of both hers and the Doctor, and helps repel a final attack from the Trickster. Luke, Clyde and Rani shut down Mr Smith when they lock up 13 Bannerman Road, as per Sarah Jane's last request. Though no date is given, Luke has been married to his husband for five years, and Jo is still alive, which would set this before 2028. Going by how little Luke, Rani and Clyde have aged, it is implied that Sarah Jane died in 2020, the year the story was released.
While working on a television adaptation of his Blood River City comics, Clyde finds himself reunited with Jo in the remembered TARDIS, where Jo tells him about The Three Doctors. He hasn't seen much of Luke and Rani since Sarah Jane's wake, suggesting a setting between Farewell, Sarah Jane and Here Today.

Working with Rani again[[edit source]]

Clyde is thirty years old, setting this in 2023 or 2024. Samira claims that "last year", palaeontologists discovered that dinosaurs had belly buttons. In the real world, this happened in 2022, suggesting that this story occurs in 2023. He hasn't seen Rani since the events of Farewell Sarah Jane and hasn't been to 13 Bannerman Road since either. Mr Smith is still closed up, setting this before Regrets. Gita phones Rani about a wedding invite, setting this shortly before Destination: Wedding.
Clyde decides to stick around Bannerman Road to help Rani with her further investigations after his partner, Phoenix Laight, is revealed to be an alien intent on taking over the world. Rani and Clyde are awkwardly dancing around their feelings for each other.
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