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year=[[Shoreditch]], [[November]] [[1963]]| | year=[[Shoreditch]], [[November]] [[1963]]| | ||
writer=[[Vanessa Bishop]]| | writer=[[Vanessa Bishop]]| | ||
illustrator=[[Brian Hudd]] | illustrator=[[Brian Hudd]]| | ||
publication=[[DWMS Holiday 1992]]| | publication=[[DWMS Holiday 1992]]| | ||
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Revision as of 19:28, 29 December 2012
Playtime was a Brief Encounter short story published in DWMS Holiday 1992.
Summary
On a day trip to London with her Aunt Lavinia in November 1963, 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 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 (thus sowing the seeds for her future career!), she suddenly remembers her aunt and races off as a car pulls up and an older girl runs into the junkyard.
Characters
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Susan Foreman (unnamed)
- Lavinia Smith
References
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Notes
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Continuity
- 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 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".
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