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* This episode ends with Sarah Jane narrating. This closes the first series, just as a narration by her opened the series in ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]''. This carried on throughout the remaining four series. | * This episode ends with Sarah Jane narrating. This closes the first series, just as a narration by her opened the series in ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]''. This carried on throughout the remaining four series. | ||
[[File:Sarah Jane's UNIT file.jpg|thumb|The UNIT file on [[Sarah Jane Smith]] recycles text from [[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT History: Fighting the unknown (short story)|UNIT History: Fighting the unknown]]''.]] | [[File:Sarah Jane's UNIT file.jpg|thumb|The UNIT file on [[Sarah Jane Smith]] recycles text from [[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT History: Fighting the unknown (short story)|UNIT History: Fighting the unknown]]''.]] | ||
* When the inspector questions Sarah, a page of her confidential [[UNIT]] file is visible on screen. The text is taken from the short story ''[[UNIT History: Fighting the unknown (short story)|UNIT History: Fighting the unknown]]'' from the BBC's [[U.N.I.T. ( | * When the inspector questions Sarah, a page of her confidential [[UNIT]] file is visible on screen. The text is taken from the short story ''[[UNIT History: Fighting the unknown (short story)|UNIT History: Fighting the unknown]]'' from the BBC's [[U.N.I.T. (tie-in website)|''U.N.I.T.'' tie-in website]] and includes the in-joke that UNIT's activities span "the sixties, the seventies and some would say the eighties". This is the first on-screen reference to the [[UNIT dating controversy]] in the entire ''Doctor Who'' television franchise. | ||
** Additionally, the usage of the text from ''UNIT History: Fighting the unknown'' doesn't actually reference Sarah Jane, ''at all''. | ** Additionally, the usage of the text from ''UNIT History: Fighting the unknown'' doesn't actually reference Sarah Jane, ''at all''. | ||
* Clyde was originally going to confront the embodiment of Mr. Smith in the void.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/sarahjane/2007jk.html</ref> | * Clyde was originally going to confront the embodiment of Mr. Smith in the void.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/sarahjane/2007jk.html</ref> | ||
