Lost in Time (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
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Lost in Time is a two-part story of The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series, produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen...

which has been broadcast on CBBC
CBBC
CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...

 on 8 and 9 November 2010. It is the fifth story of the fourth series.

Part 1

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
Tower of London
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space...

 on 19 July 1553, to be a lady-in-waiting from the East to Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey , also known as The Nine Days' Queen, was an English noblewoman who was de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553 and was subsequently executed...

, who is about to be usurped by Mary I
Mary I of England
Mary I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547...

. 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 the racist Lady Matilda to kill Lady Jane that very night.

Clyde ends up in an English coastal village in Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

 in 1941 during World War II. He meets George, an adolescent London evacuee, who has spotted three Waffen-SS
Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. It constituted the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside...

 soldiers on the beach. They are led by an SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer 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 help 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
Thor's Hammer
Thor's Hammer may refer to:* Mjölnir, the hammer wielded by Thor in Norse mythology*Thor's Hammer , a garage rock band from Iceland*Thorr's Hammer, a death/doom band from Ballard, Washington...

 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 Shopkkeeper notes that the sands of time in his hourglass are fast running out and the others will be trapped in the past forever.

Part 2

Rani stops Lady Matilda from killing her with a dagger that is made of chronosteen. Matilda wanted to make Lady Jane a martyr to inspire the Protestants to rise up against Mary. Rani stays with Jane until the latter is taken to the keep. She promises Lady Jane that she will not be forgotten by history – or by her. Taking the dagger, Rani disappears through the time window. Jane believes that Rani to be an angel and, reasoning that angels speak only the truth, goes to her death confident that she will not die in vain and will be remembered.

Clyde gives an impassioned speech against the Nazi philosophy and distracts the Wehrmacht with his mobile phone, claiming it to be a sophisticated bomb; George is able to use that moment to snatch Thor's Hammer. The pair lock themselves in a chamber below the bell tower, and repeatedly chime the bell to alert the townsfolk and Home Guard of the emergency. The Germans dash back to the beach, but are captured by the Home Guard. George asserts his duty and desire to join the military as soon as he is of age, dismissing Clyde's request that he wait until 1945; Clyde implores him to be careful before disappearing into the time window. We later learn that George went to the beach and posed armed for a photograph with the German troops whose capture he and Clyde had facilitated.

Sarah Jane resets the clock to eight o'clock and the 'haunting' continues. This time, they see the future babysitter talking on an early mobile telephone. The children are locked in a room playing with a candle. Emily manages to call out to the children and they hear her; it is her fear from losing her mother that connects her with them. Emily uses this ability to turn the key in the lock and the children escape. Sarah Jane, now holding the Chronosteen key, starts disappearing through the time window, but Emily takes the key and won't let go. When Sarah Jane returns to the present, the time window has become critical and, without the key, the world will still be sucked into the Time Vortex. At this moment, though, a woman enters the shop with the key just in time. The time window closes. The Shopkeeper, without explanation of the whole affair, bids them farewell and disappears with the three items and his parrot, Captain, who is apparently the master of their operation!

The woman is Angela Price, a granddaughter of Emily. She has been told by Emily to come to the shop shown in the article on this exact day and give back the key. Sarah Jane takes Angela for a cuppa and a talk, and while walking out of the shop, Clyde compliments Rani's makeover into Tudor dress. Later, he looks up George online and finds that his friend went on to sign up to fight age 16, was decorated as a war hero and became a famous figure in the world of radar technology – recently decorated by the Queen at age 83. Meanwhile, Rani is similarly researching Lady Jane Grey and takes comfort from the doomed queen's letter to her sister affirming that she would go to her death with an unshakeable faith.

Continuity

  • The Shopkeeper seems to know all about Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde's previous adventures, noting that they have all travelled in time before (while he is "forbidden" to do so). Sarah Jane travelled with The Doctor
    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

    , of course, while Rani and Clyde slipped back into the past in The Eternity Trap
    The Eternity Trap
    The Eternity Trap is a two-part story of The Sarah Jane Adventures which was broadcast on CBBC on 5 and 6 November 2009. It is the fourth serial of the third series. The story involves the scientific investigation of a haunted castle.-Part 1:...

    and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
    The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
    The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith is a story of The Sarah Jane Adventures which was broadcast on CBBC on 17 and 24 November 2008. It is the fifth serial of the second series.-Part 1:...

    .
  • Rani confides in the married teenage Queen Jane that she does have a male friend, building on the affection that has formed between her and Clyde through the episodes of the series.
  • Rani is continually addressed as "Lady Rani" in the court of Queen Jane
    Lady Jane Grey
    Lady Jane Grey , also known as The Nine Days' Queen, was an English noblewoman who was de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553 and was subsequently executed...

    , being mistaken for a newly summoned lady-in-waiting. She was coincidentally created a lady at the end of the preceding episode, The Empty Planet
    The Empty Planet
    The Empty Planet is a two-part story of The Sarah Jane Adventures which has been broadcast on CBBC on 1 and 2 November 2010. It is the fourth story of the fourth series.-Part 1:Sarah Jane tells Mr Smith to do a maximum scan...

    , by an alien ruler known as Gavin.

Cultural references

When Clyde attempts to pass off his mobile
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

 as a bomb, it plays the opening bars of "Pass Out
Pass Out
Pass out may refer to:*"Pass Out" , by Tinie Tempah*"Pass Out", a song by Chris Brown from the album Graffiti*Passing out, completing a course by military and other service personnel*Syncope , the act of passing out...

" by Tinie Tempah
Tinie Tempah
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu , better known by his stage name Tinie Tempah, is a British rapper. He made his first mixtape in 2007 with 28 songs, freestyles and remixes, the album features Mz Bratt, Chipmunk and G-Unit...

.

Filming Location

When Clyde is sent back into World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he ends up hiding with a boy on a beach behind some sand dunes. The filming location here was in Freshwater West
Freshwater West
Freshwater West is a -long beach near Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire in south-west Wales. It lies along the B4319 road, adjacent to the Army Tank Ranges that use this part of the Pembrokeshire National Park....

, near Tenby
Tenby
Tenby is a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, lying on Carmarthen Bay.Notable features of Tenby include of sandy beaches; the 13th century medieval town walls, including the Five Arches barbican gatehouse ; 15th century St...

, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

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