Lost in Time (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

23 – Lost in Time
The Sarah Jane Adventures story
Cast
Starring Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra
Others Cyril Nri – Shopkeeper Amber Beattie – Queen Jane Elizabeth Rider – Mistress Ellen Fiona Hampton – Lady Matilda Richard Wisker – George Woods Tom Wlaschiha – Lt. Koenig Gwyneth Keyworth – Emily Morris Lucie Jones – Gemma Morgan-Faith Hughes – Katy Llewcus Oaten – Ben Rowena Cooper – Angela Price
Production
Directed by	Joss Agnew
Written by	Rupert Laight
Script editor	Gary Russell
Produced by	Brian Minchin Phil Ford (co-producer)
Executive producer(s)	Russell T Davies Nikki Wilson
Production code	4.9 and 4.10
Series	Series 4
Length	2 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	8 & 9 November 2010
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Empty Planet Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
List of The Sarah Jane Adventures serials

Lost in Time is a two-part story of The Sarah Jane Adventures which has been broadcast on CBBC on 8 and 9 November 2010. It is the fifth story of the fourth series.

Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde are lured by a newspaper article to a shop where an alien has been sighted. When they arrive, they are met by the mysterious Shopkeeper and his parrot. The Shopkeeper says he needs their help to save the Earth. They must find three objects made of chronosteen, a metal forged in the Time Vortex that can reshape destiny, before it is too late. They can be found at key points of the Earth's history. The Shopkeeper is able to open a time window, into which Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde are forced. They are transported in time to three different eras, and each must face danger alone.

Rani ends up in the Tower of London on 19 July 1553, to be a lady-in-waiting from the East to Lady Jane Grey, who is about to be usurped by Mary I. It is, Rani realises, the final day of her reign. Rani and Lady Jane easily become friends, but meanwhile Mary's army have reached London. Rani discovers a plot by Lady Matilda to kill Lady Jane that very night.

Clyde ends up in an English coastal village in Norfolk in 1941 during World War II. He meets George, an adolescent London evacuee, who has spotted three Waffen-SS soldiers on the beach. They are led by an SS-Obersturmfuhrer from the 1st SS Panzer Division 'Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler'. They are now the only people who can save Britain from an invasion. They hide in the church, but are found and held captive; Clyde is enraged by the Nazis' racist slur. The invaders have a strange metal hammer - the Führer believes it to be Thor's Hammer itself – and with the power from this, they can block radar systems and start the invasion of Britain.

Sarah Jane ends up in a house supposedly haunted by ghosts in 1889. She meets a girl, Emily Morris, who is looking for the ghosts having recently lost her mother. At eight o'clock the 'haunting' begins. They hear a woman talk and children playing with fire. Sarah soon determines that the 'ghosts' are not from the past, however, but the future – where a fire will start and kill the children. Sarah Jane and Emily must find a way to prevent this from happening. Back in the present day, though, the Shopkeeper notes that the sands of time in his hourglass are fast running out and the others will be trapped in the past forever.

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