Train-Flight (comic story)

	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
	Sarah Jane Smith (guest)
	The Kalik
	London, England, UK, Earth, 1990
	[[publisher::Marvel Comics]]
	John Freeman
	Andrew Donkin Graham S. Brand
	John Ridgway
	Comic - 3 parts

Summary

The Doctor arranges a jazz session at the Royal Albert Hall with his best friend Sarah Jane Smith, but their train is sidetracked by an insect-like race eager to feast on the contents.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Sarah Jane Smith

References

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Notes

• This was the first strip in the Magazine to be edited by John Freeman, although John had edited the rest of the content of the Magazine since Issue 137. The strip had previously been edited by Richard Starkings.
• Train-Flight has minor links with following stories building to the Mandragora storyline.
• Elizabeth Sladen was paid the princely sum of £40 as an 'appearance fee'.

Continuity

The Seventh Doctor provides an explanation to why Ace is absent, revealing he has left her in the Cretaceous Period. The reason for this is not explained in this story

The Doctor and Sarah Jane share a hug in this story as The Doctor apologises for the way he abandoned her on Earth, though Sarah Jane would continue to hold this against him in School Reunion.

• However, School Reunion also appears to contradict this story, as it is implied in onscreen dialogue that Sarah and The Doctor had not met since The Hand of Fear (Sarah remarks on The Doctor's regeneration, and he confirms that there had been six regenerations between when they had last met and now).

Timeline

• This story takes place after DWM: Doctor Conkerer
• This story takes place before DWM: Living in the Past