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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
[[File:The_Doctor.PNG|thumb|right|The Doctor after swapping places with Clyde.]]
[[File:The_Doctor.PNG|thumb|right|The Doctor after swapping places with Clyde.]] '''Part 1'''
Sarah Jane and the gang are talking to Luke on Skype, when suddenly UNIT arrive at Sarah's house. When she goes out, she is informed that her friend, The Doctor, is dead. Sarah Jane doesn't believe UNIT, and goes to the funeral, as well as Rani and Clyde, in a secret UNIT base.
 
The story begins with Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde talking to Luke when Mr Smith alerts them that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIT_(Doctor_Who) UNIT] armed forces are converging on the house, and sure enough several UNIT soldiers and jeeps arrive at the house. Sarah Jane forbids them from crossing into her house and the commanding officer, Colonel Kareem informs the group that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor_(Doctor_Who) the Doctor] is dead, and that it is most definitely him, despite Sarah Janes protests that it can't be. It is claimed that the Doctor died in the Wastelands of the Crimson Heart, where he had saved the lives of 500 children from the Scarlet Monstrosity. A race called the Shansheeth <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Doctor#cite_note-2 [3]]</sup> have retrieved the body and are holding a funeral for the Doctor at UNIT Base 5, buried underground in the Snowdon mountains. Sarah Jane still believes that the Doctor must be alive, and so goes along to search for evidence that this is a hoax.
 
Upon arrival at the base, they find that few other people have been invited, as it is difficult to know who. Many also couldn't make it including the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadier_Lethbridge-Stewart Brigadier], who is stranded in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru Peru]. The team also find, to their surprise Groske working in the base, similar to Graske with who they have many problems with before. The Doctor's body is to be blasted into space via a huge rocket, built by the Groske. They proceed to the ceremony of remembrance, however Clyde feels a blue static before arriving, which he is unerved at. At the ceremony, music is played witch recalls memories for all about the Doctor; for Sarah Jane it is memories of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Doctor Third] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Doctor Fourth] Doctors, while for Rani and Clyde it is their encounters with the Doctor at Sarah Jane's Wedding. Clyde then realises that the blue static he occured earlier was the same as that keeping the Doctor from his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS TARDIS] at the wedding. The ceremony is interupted by the clumsy arrival of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Grant Jo Jones (nee Grant)], as she drops a vase of flowers. She is accompanied by her grandson, Santiago. The two former companians chat, as do the children, and both women agree that they are sure that the doctor must still be alive.
 
In their dormatory, the two women make a list of enemies that might try to fake the Doctor's death, while the children leave and wander round the base. Outside the room, Clyde again receives a shock on his hand, and the children realise that it is Artron energy, the same energy used at the wedding to make the TARDIS phase in and out of reality, and the effect is exactly the same as when clyde touched the TARDIS before when it was phasing in and out of reality. they encounter a Groske who shouts "closer and closer" at them. Clyde, desperate to find out more persues him down an air vent, where they watch as the Shansheeth plot to make the two companians relive their days with the doctor and therefore drain their minds killing them in the process. The Shansheeth play music down the ventelation shafts to the women in their dorm, where they start to recollect their adventures with the Doctor. The children are discovered by the Shansheeth when the blue static gives away their position. The children flee where they run into Sarah Jane and Jo who sense they are in trouble. After recollecting what the shansheeth are doing, they are suprised to hear the Doctor talking through Clyde. However, the next minute Clyde appears normal. He then gains the Doctors hands before swapping with the Doctor. The Doctor, now in the UNIT base explains that he used Clyde's residual Artron Energy to make a complicated swap of 10,000 light years. The result of this is, as the Doctor realises, is that he can fight the Shansheeth while Clyde however is where the Doctor just was: trapped in danger on an alien world. Back on Earth, the Shansheeth catch up with the group where the Doctor confronts them. The Doctor is then is hit by an energy beam from the Shansheeth and ends in a cliffhanger.
 


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Death of the Doctor was the third story of Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. It saw the return of Josephine Grant and the appearance of the Eleventh Doctor.

Synopsis

When the Doctor is declared dead, old companions Sarah Jane and Jo Grant meet for the very first time, and join forces to discover the truth. As an interstellar conspiracy gathers around UNIT HQ, Clyde finds that he holds the fate of the Time Lord in his hand – quite literally!

Plot

File:The Doctor.PNG
The Doctor after swapping places with Clyde.

Part 1

The story begins with Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde talking to Luke when Mr Smith alerts them that UNIT armed forces are converging on the house, and sure enough several UNIT soldiers and jeeps arrive at the house. Sarah Jane forbids them from crossing into her house and the commanding officer, Colonel Kareem informs the group that the Doctor is dead, and that it is most definitely him, despite Sarah Janes protests that it can't be. It is claimed that the Doctor died in the Wastelands of the Crimson Heart, where he had saved the lives of 500 children from the Scarlet Monstrosity. A race called the Shansheeth [3] have retrieved the body and are holding a funeral for the Doctor at UNIT Base 5, buried underground in the Snowdon mountains. Sarah Jane still believes that the Doctor must be alive, and so goes along to search for evidence that this is a hoax.

Upon arrival at the base, they find that few other people have been invited, as it is difficult to know who. Many also couldn't make it including the Brigadier, who is stranded in Peru. The team also find, to their surprise Groske working in the base, similar to Graske with who they have many problems with before. The Doctor's body is to be blasted into space via a huge rocket, built by the Groske. They proceed to the ceremony of remembrance, however Clyde feels a blue static before arriving, which he is unerved at. At the ceremony, music is played witch recalls memories for all about the Doctor; for Sarah Jane it is memories of the Third and Fourth Doctors, while for Rani and Clyde it is their encounters with the Doctor at Sarah Jane's Wedding. Clyde then realises that the blue static he occured earlier was the same as that keeping the Doctor from his TARDIS at the wedding. The ceremony is interupted by the clumsy arrival of Jo Jones (nee Grant), as she drops a vase of flowers. She is accompanied by her grandson, Santiago. The two former companians chat, as do the children, and both women agree that they are sure that the doctor must still be alive.

In their dormatory, the two women make a list of enemies that might try to fake the Doctor's death, while the children leave and wander round the base. Outside the room, Clyde again receives a shock on his hand, and the children realise that it is Artron energy, the same energy used at the wedding to make the TARDIS phase in and out of reality, and the effect is exactly the same as when clyde touched the TARDIS before when it was phasing in and out of reality. they encounter a Groske who shouts "closer and closer" at them. Clyde, desperate to find out more persues him down an air vent, where they watch as the Shansheeth plot to make the two companians relive their days with the doctor and therefore drain their minds killing them in the process. The Shansheeth play music down the ventelation shafts to the women in their dorm, where they start to recollect their adventures with the Doctor. The children are discovered by the Shansheeth when the blue static gives away their position. The children flee where they run into Sarah Jane and Jo who sense they are in trouble. After recollecting what the shansheeth are doing, they are suprised to hear the Doctor talking through Clyde. However, the next minute Clyde appears normal. He then gains the Doctors hands before swapping with the Doctor. The Doctor, now in the UNIT base explains that he used Clyde's residual Artron Energy to make a complicated swap of 10,000 light years. The result of this is, as the Doctor realises, is that he can fight the Shansheeth while Clyde however is where the Doctor just was: trapped in danger on an alien world. Back on Earth, the Shansheeth catch up with the group where the Doctor confronts them. The Doctor is then is hit by an energy beam from the Shansheeth and ends in a cliffhanger.


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