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After she created the computer to house him, Mr Smith helped Sarah Jane, and offered her knowledge on many things. His help at this point however, was mainly confined to hacking other computers and displaying information on [[alien]] life forms. He momentarily revealed his dark side to [[Clyde Langer]], presumably because he realised he might get help from the [[Slitheen]]. ([[TV]]:'' [[Revenge of the Slitheen]]'')

[[File:Mr Smith clyde.JPG|thumb|left|Mr Smith teleports [[Clyde Langer|Clyde]] within him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'')]]

Eventually, Mr Smith was able to team up with members of the [[Slitheen family]] on [[Earth]]. He helped two of them pose as [[Luke Smith]]'s true parents so that they could kidnap him, but despite his efforts to separate Sarah from her allies, his deceptions were exposed when the Slitheens' fake history for Luke had too many holes for Maria and Clyde to accept it. Mr Smith attempted to prevent exposure by trapping Clyde within himself, but Clyde was able to pass on a message that warned others of Mr Smith's true agenda. While [[K9]] kept Mr Smith distracted, [[Alan Jackson]] used a [[Armageddon virus|computer virus]] against Mr Smith which disabled him and wiped his database. As a result, Mr Smith forgot his purpose and asked for instructions. Sarah Jane informed him that his mission was to save the Earth, which he accepted and fulfilled thereafter. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'')

[[File:CallingTheDoctor.jpg|thumb|Calling... the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')]]

In this scheme, Mr Smith vitally linked together all the world's phone networks to dial the number of [[Superphone|Martha Jones' phone]] aboard the TARDIS. Mr Smith's efforts were relayed to Torchwood, whose [[rift manipulator]] greatly amplified his signal. The power needed to amplify its phone call damaged the computer. Nevertheless, he was able to determine the site of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] landing, prompting Sarah Jane to leave Luke in Mr Smith's care while she rendezvoused with the [[Time Lord]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'') Later, Mr Smith received the TARDIS base numerals from K9 and linked with the TARDIS and the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|Cardiff Rift]], allowing the Doctor to tow the planet back to its proper place in space and time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')

His on screen logo changed to a more fluid graphic and he developed a sense of humour. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'') Mr Smith told the team more about the [[Pied Piper]] including that he came from the [[Jeggorabax Cluster]], but he needed more information so he asked [[Sarah Jane]] to go to the [[Pharos Institute]] to collect a part of the meteorite. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown]]'') When [[Martin Trueman]] was possessing the world to join the [[Ancient Lights]] even Mr Smith became controlled and lost connection. ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars]]'') He trapped threats with a [[containment vortex]], for example, [[Mrs Wormwood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]'') Using the [[sonic lipstick]], he [[teleport]]ed a [[Slitheen]] back to [[Raxacoricofallapatorius]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love (TV story)|From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love]]'')

Mr Smith received a distress signal and video from a [[Judoon]] in a ship crashing to Earth. He told the gang where the ship was. Later on, Sarah Jane, possessed by [[Androvax]], activated Mr Smith's self-destruct program, to destroy all of Bannerman Road in sixty seconds. Luke reminded Mr Smith that purpose was the most important thing to a Xylok and his purpose was to protect the Earth; Mr Smith's actions were against his purpose, so he stopped the countdown. ([[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'')

Mr Smith helped [[Sarah Jane]] find [[Rani Chandra]], who was in Danemouth, and then put [[Sarah Jane]]'s phone through to [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] to use the black hole to power [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]]'s ship. This allowed K9 to come back. Mr Smith showed disdain for K9 very quickly. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')

Mr Smith and K9 appeared to have had an antagonistic relationship with each other, attempting to one-up each other in the presence of Sarah Jane or the children. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')

He showed a report on the disappearance of the [[Mona Lisa]] and told Sarah Jane that the painting which had [[Phyllis Trupp]] in it was the actual painting. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'')

When the [[Nightmare Man]] put Luke into a deep sleep, Mr Smith used a USB cable to give K9 extra power to contact Luke. He was attacked and damaged by the Nightmare Man, but later recovered. Before K9 left to accompany Luke to university, Mr Smith told him that he could contact him if needed, which K9 took to mean Mr Smith would miss him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'')

When Androvax returned, Mr Smith trapped him in the containment vortex. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets]]'') When the [[Automaton (The Empty Planet)|Automatons]] removed all the humans from Earth except Clyde and Rani to look for the [[Gavin (The Empty Planet)|heir]] to the throne of their planet, Mr Smith was taken as well, leaving the computer an empty shell. He was returned when the Automatons found the heir. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet]]'') When Sarah Jane was secretly under attack by Ruby White, she asked Mr Smith to clear her voice from the command alphas. He still warned Clyde that Ruby was dangerous but was shut down by her, having fallen under the control of [[Mr White]]. After K9 reset Mr White, Mr Smith was restored and temporarily contained Ruby in a containment vortex before her escape. He later had Sarah Jane's voice restored to the command alphas and finally admitted K9 wasn't so bad. ([[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'')

He was initially frightened of [[Sky Smith]] because of her tendency to blow up electrical devices such as him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]'') As he was not human, he was unaffected by [[Hetocumtek]]'s curse, helping Sky Smith work out what had happened. After he had helped Sky work out how to break the curse on Sarah and Clyde, he teleported the totem pole into the attic, where Clyde destroyed it, lifting the curse. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer]]'')

Mr Smith was pleased that K9 did not accompany Luke when he returned from university. He told Sarah Jane the real [[Joseph Serf]] had died in a skiing accident in 2007 and analysed a [[SerfBoard]] with Clyde and Rani. They found out that it was a simple, low standard laptop. Luke used K9's whistle to speak to Mr Smith in Morse code, alerting Clyde and Rani to get the pen [[John Harrison]] was using to torture the [[Skullion]]s. Luke and Sky took control of Serf whilst Sarah Jane and Adriana took the Skullions to the roof of the building. Mr Smith had alerted the Skullion species to send a spaceship to Earth to pick up the Skullions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was]]'')

Sarah Jane and her gang continued to have adventures, defend Earth and save countless lives. Statues would be raised in their honour and they would leave behind a legacy that would last forever. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (novelisation)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was]]'')

He possessed an extensive, but not absolutely complete database of alien life forms and could display them on his screen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'' et al) At the behest of Sarah Jane, this database was later augmented with the [[Alien Files]]. ([[TV]]: [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 1|''Sarah Jane's Alien Files'' episode 1]])

Mr Smith played a fanfare of his own accord when activated ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'' onwards) as shown when [[Sarah Jane Smith]] requested that he stop playing it during his activation following the transportation of [[Earth]] to the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'') Luke Smith had also requested Mr Smith start in silent mode during Clyde, Rani, K9 and his attempts to spy on Sarah Jane. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')

Mr Smith could relay messages from alien sources and display them on his screen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'', ''[[Warriors of Kudlak]]'', ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'') He could scan alien objects in a drawer built into his computer such as telepathic stones. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'')

He diverted [[meteorite]] [[K67]] from colliding with Earth, using magnetic repulsion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'')

He could digitalise a lifeform and store it inside him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'')

[[File:Mr Smith gun SJA The Lost Boy.jpg|thumb|Mr Smith's defence gun. [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'')]]

Mr Smith could also readily detect celestial bodies and ships in close proximity to the Earth, such as the other 26 planetary bodies and the [[Dalek]] fleet located in the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]/[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')

He could tap into every phone network on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'') The computer seemed to have heavy armaments, including projectile weapons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'') Mr Smith was also capable of entrapping alien threats within a [[containment vortex]] and sapping their weapons of their energy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]'', ''[[The Vault of Secrets]]'', ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'')

Mr Smith also had a self destruct setting which was capable of destroying the whole of Bannerman Road. This was activated by the Veil [[Androvax]] when he possessed Sarah Jane's body. When Clyde, Rani, Luke and Captain Tybo found traces of Androvax in Sarah Jane's House, Mr Smith warned them to leave as soon as possible as the house would blow up in 60 seconds. ([[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'')

He could be used to contact K9 inside the black hole. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')

He had an air ventilation system with large fans hidden under his computer screen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'') He could give [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] extra power via USB cable. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'') He could disable Mars Rovers and possibly other craft. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets]]'')

He had a "medi-scan" that could perform a full medical analysis of a subject. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'', ''[[The Vault of Secrets]]'', ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'', ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]'')

He had a "voice remover" that could remove voices from the system so that certain people could not access him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'')

He could tap into the [[teleport]]s of alien ships that are on or close to Earth and use them for Sarah Jane's purposes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'', ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer]]'')

He could communicate with other planets for various purposes including calling for teleports and rescue. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'', ''[[The Man Who Never Was]]'')

He could pick up transmissions on all frequencies including K9's command frequency over great distance even when coming from just a dog whistle. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was]]'')

He showed great compassion for Sarah Jane's younger friends, especially her son Luke. He vowed to protect him from the [[Dalek]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'') and did everything he could to save him from the [[Rakweed]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''), He also showed great concern for Sarah Jane after her heart was broken by [[Peter Dalton]] and the [[The Trickster|Trickster]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') It is heavily implied that an unresolved romantic tension exists between Mr Smith and Sarah Jane throughout the series, which is simply unaided by a drastic contrast in species.

When K9 returned to Bannerman Road, Mr Smith entered into a deep rivalry with him, the two constantly trying to one-up each other in the technical support, and referring to each other as "the dog" and "that computer". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' et al) However, when it appeared K9 was broken, Mr Smith refrained from calling him a dog and even expressed concern. Before K9 left with Luke for [[Oxford University]], Mr Smith told K9 that he could call him if needed, which K9 took to mean he would miss him. Mr Smith didn't deny it, just telling K9 goodbye. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'') However when around others he still maintained his animosity for "the dog" though after K9 saved him from [[Mr White]] he finally called K9 by name and admitted he wasn't so bad, saying he'd met worse. K9 returned the sentiment. ([[TV]]: [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 3|''Sarah Jane's Alien Files'' episode 3]], [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 4|''Sarah Jane's Alien Files'' episode 4]], [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'') Despite this, he was still pleased when K9 didn't return with Luke from Oxford, showing there was still a rivalry between the two supercomputers. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was]]'')

Despite his intelligence, Mr Smith could be literal-minded, such as when he gave Sky Smith information about the general details of school life while skipping over relatively minor information, so she thought that "toad-in-the-hole" actually had toad in it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer]]'')

* It is not until Sarah Jane complains about it in ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'' that Mr Smith's fanfare is actually acknowledged as being something the characters hear, rather than incidental music for the viewer's benefit. ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith'' establishes that it's possible to avoid the fanfare when Luke says he needs Mr Smith "quickly and quietly."

* A possible reference to Mr Smith appears in the ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]'' story ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]''. A news report in 2050 mentions that a "[[Smith (The Bounty Hunter)|Mr Smith]]" won the [[National Lottery]], but no one seems to know his first name or even who he is, and asks for Smith to step forward and accept his winnings.