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STORY PLACEMENT
THIS SERIES TAKES END" AND THE TV STORY "THE DAY OF THE CLOWN."
WRITTEN BY PHIL FORD
DIRECTED BY JOSS AGNEW
RATINGS 0.8 MILLION
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BLURB 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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