Death of the Doctor (TV story)

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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

Part 1

Sarah Jane and the gang are talking to Luke on a webcam, when suddenly UNIT arrive on Bannerman Road outside Sarah's house. When she goes out, she is informed by officer Tia Karim that her friend, The Doctor, is dead. Inside Sarah Jane doesn't believe UNIT, Colonel Karim tells the gang that the alien undertakers, The Shansheeth will be organizing the funeral. That makes Sarah Jane more suspicious untill Mr. Smith tells here the Shansheeth are called the Galactic Undertakers. That night Sarah Jane is telling Luke the news and tells him she thinks he is still alive although Luke thinks that the idea is crazy. The next day Sarah Jane goes to the funeral, as well as Rani and Clyde but just as he is getting into the private car Artron energy appears on his hand and gives him a static electric shock. Some time later the gang arrive at Mount Snowden, where the UNIT base is hidden.

When the gang arrive they bump into the Groske, a blue, tame version of the Graske. One of the Groske follows them and tells Clyde he "Smells like Time." That makes Clyde looks down at his hand and he sees Artron energy again. The gang are taken to the funeral parlour where the funeral is taking place. When there the Shansheeth play music to help the mourners remember The Doctor. The thoughts are ruined by the entry of Jo Jones (née Grant) dropping the flowers she brought. Her and her grandson Santiago pick up the carnage. Jo then sits next to Sarah Jane , Santiago behind Rani and Clyde. Sarah Jane and Jo soon start talking and make friends, as do Santiago, Clyde and Rani.

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The Doctor after swapping places with Clyde.

After the remberance the gang is in a bed room where Jo agrees with Sarah Jane's theory that the Doctor is still alive. After that Clyde, Rani and Santiago leave the room where the Groske tells Clyde that he "Smells like Time". Clyde gives chase but The Groske jumps into a ventelation shaft. Meanwhile the Blue Shansheeth is trying to find out who had the most fond memories of The Doctor and the Red, Yellow and Green Shansheeth agree its Sarah Jane and Jo. They begin to play music through the vents putting Sarah Jane and Jo into a trance. Clyde, Rani and Santiago follow the Groske into the vent where they lose him but over hear the Shansheeth going over their plot to steal Jo and Sarah Jane's memories but in doing that killing them. Just then the Artron energy on Clyde's hand starts up alerting the Shansheeth with a bright, blue light. Clyde, Santiago & Rani shuffle their way backwards out of the vent. Sarah Jane and Jo hear the clatter of the vents and break their trance. They run into the corridors and bump into the others. Clyde tells Sarah Jane and Jo that this is a trap and they are the prize.

Just then Clyde freezes and starts talking in a different voice, A voice that knows Clyde, Rani, Jo & Sarah Jane. Clyde regains control of his normal voice to realise that he has someone elses hand. Suddenly Clyde and The Eleventh Doctor trade places using the residuel Artron energy on Clyde's hand leaving Clyde stuck on a red, a wasteland-like planet. After The Doctor explains who he is and what has happened The Shansheeth arrive and tell the gang the death warrent had been sent out early. Then they shoot the Doctor with a laser beam implanted on their claws. The Doctor is left lying on the floor dying, unable to regenerate.

Part 2

The Doctor dissapears, and him and Clyde keep swapping places. The Doctor, Jo, Santiago and Sarah Jane run away from the Shansheeth, and then find safety. The Doctor, Jo and Sarah swap places with Clyde and go to the alien planet, where they talk. The Doctor says that he visited Jo before he regenerated and told Jo that he had been into her future and seen her thirteenth grandchild. The Doctor has a machine allowing them to swap places.

Clyde and Rani talk with Santiago, who reveals he hasn't spoken to his parents in six monthes. Colonel Karim meanwhile is with the Shansheeth, and they are plotting to use Jo and Sarah-Janes memories of the TARDIS to create a new TARDIS Key, so the Shansheeth can stop death across the universe by interfering with the timelines and so that Colonel Karim, in return, shall visit the stars because she has nothing left for her on Earth.

Rani, Santiago and Clyde try to get through the ventilation shafts, and they are heated up so it is possible the children may boil. The Doctor, Jo and Sarah-Jane come to the rescue, but the two companions are kidnapped, strapped up and the Memory Weave is used on them. Their minds are scanned and they begin remembering the TARDIS, these memories generate a new TARDIS Key as the Shansheeth and Colonel Karim make their intentions clear.

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Jo, Sarah Jane and the Shansheeth.

The Doctor, Rani, Clyde, Santiago and a Groske come to the room Sarah Jane and Jo are in and tell them to remember other experiences. Sarah Jane and Jo both remember past encounters with the Doctor and all the creatures and enemies they met. Jo remembers all the countries she has been to as Sarah Jane remembers her battles with aliens. The memory weave overloads and explodes, the room is on fire.

Sarah Jane and Jo enter the Doctors coffin and shut themselves inside to survive the explosion. Later, they are taken to Sarah Janes house, alive and well. Jo and Sarah Jane are with the Doctor inside the TARDIS, Jo mentions the Time Lords and the Doctor says a foreshadowing (that if he ever were to die, the universe would shiver). He then allowed them to leave, and demateralised. Jo and Santiago left for Norway, and the trio are left behind, where Sarah Jane tells them of Tegan Jovanka, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Harry Sullivan, Ben Jackson, Polly and a Dorothy. They say that with friends like themselves, the Doctor would never die.

Cast

Crew

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References

Time Lords

  • The Doctor says he can regenerate 507 times and change to any colour of skin.
  • Jo says she should leave before the Doctor "gets in trouble with the Time Lords", he does not tell her that the Time Lords are dead.

Individuals

  • Liz Shaw is mentioned as being stranded on a Moon Base.
  • The Brigadier is mentioned as being stranded in Peru, an ongoing mission.
  • Jo has 7 children and 12 grandchildren with a 13th on the way.
  • Tegan is mentioned to be fighting for aborigional rights.
  • Ben Jackson and Polly Wright are mentioned to be running an orphanage in India.
  • Harry Sullivan is said to be working with vaccines and has saved thousands of lives.
  • Ian and Barbara Chesterton are mentioned to be professors at Cambridge and haven't aged since the sixties.
  • Ace is mentioned indirectly and is said to have raised billions of pounds through her charity "A Charitable Earth".

Planets

Races and species

  • Tia Karim mentions that the Groske are just like the Graske but blue and tame. The Groske were stranded on the Earth in 2006.

Story notes

Ratings

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Myths

  • Amy and Rory will appear. This rumour was false, but a reason was given for why they didn't appear (see Continuity)

Filming locations

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Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

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Continuity

Timeline

For Sarah Jane Smith

For the Doctor

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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See also

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External links

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