The Sarah Jane Adventures - The Last Sontaran

STORY PLACEMENT

THIS SERIES TAKES
PLACE BETWEEN THE
DOCTOR WHO TV
EPISODE "JOURNEY'S

END" AND THE TV

STORY "THE DAY OF

THE CLOWN."

WRITTEN BY

PHIL FORD

DIRECTED BY

JOSS AGNEW

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What are the strange

lights emanating

from the Tycho Radio

Telescope? Sarah

Jane, Luke, Maria and

Clyde's investigations

lead them to a

terrifying forest

encounter with one of

Sarah Jane's oldest

enemies who, as

usual, is plotting the

destruction of the

earth. Meanwhile,

Maria faces a

difficult decision

when her dad is

offered a new job in

America.

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29TH SEPTEMBER 2008

(2 EPISODES)

Phil Ford’s Last Sontaran is about as exciting and as enthralling an opening to

the season as one could have hoped for. Not only do the Sontarans pack much more of a punch than most of the villains featured in the first season, but Sarah Jane’s personal history

makes their use here feel all the more fitting.

Now although this story is ostensibly a sequel to the Doctor Who two-parter The Sontaran Stratagem, it has much more in common with the older stories The Time Warrior (in which Sarah Jane made her first appearance) and The Sontaran Experiment, in that rather than dealing with an all-out invasion force here we have just a lone Sontaran – Kaagh ‘the Aven-ger’ – operating in a much more constricted environment.

“This is too big for us…”

Kaagh, who is played marvellously by Anthony O’Donnell, is certainly memorable too. His scarred face (which represents beautifully his scarred psyche), stealth capabilities, and

even the cool way in which he activates his battle helmet really set him apart from the rank and file (no small feat, given that Sontarans are all clones!)

Less positively, I was sad to see Maria and her family leave the series. I was particularly

fond of both her parents, Alan and Chrissie, who each injected a hell of a lot of heart and humour into the first series. Still, at least Ford wrote them out in style – Kaagh defeated by one of Chrissie’s size five’s being shoved into his probic vent! Absolute gold.

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