Sarah Jane Smith: investigative journalist; Dr Harry Sullivan: UNIT operative. Together, they journeyed to the stars with the Doctor. But when the adventures end, what can they do?
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Reunited in the chaos of 1980s London, Sarah and Harry find danger and darkness lurking beneath the metropolitan veneer of wealth and technology. With trusty super-computer K9 and the brilliant Lavinia Smith alongside, new adventures are just beginning...
1. The Caller by Tim Foley
As the government prepares to sell off the telecommunications network to the highest bidder, including Starling Industries, Sarah investigates a spate of unexplained deaths in phone boxes across the capital. Elsewhere, Harry is vetting the bidding companies on behalf of UNIT, delighted when the assignment converges with his old friend - and her robot dog!
Sarah and Harry realise they are investigating the same thing - why is government minister Sir Gordon Carmichael covering up the ‘phone box murders’, and what alien power is Violet Starling preparing to unleash?
2. Union of the Snake by Roland Moore
Self-made millionaire Eric Chen inexplicably went from working in a sawmill to designing a revolutionary computer chip that has made billions. He had no training or education in electronics. How did he do it?
His new PA - Sarah Jane Smith - is determined to find the answer.
3. Blood Type by Simon Guerrier
Busier than ever with so many cases, Sarah has little time to write up her cases for publications. But taking shortcuts risks making mistakes, as a journalist and as an investigator.
When an old adversary reappears, the pressure reaches boiling point. But can Sarah rely on her closest friends in this crisis?
Recorded on: 10 June, 19-20 August 2024
Recorded at: The Soundhouse
Producer Mark Wright said: "I was so happy to take on producing duties for a trip back to the 1980s with Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan. These characters meant so much to me as a three-year old discovering Doctor Who for the very first time in 1974, so to be reuniting them for new adventures is a privilege – as is working with this incredible cast.
"In Sadie Miller and Christopher Naylor, we have two actors who have grown together as Sarah and Harry, paying tribute to the memories of Sadie’s mum Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter with a great deal of love in their wonderful performances. With national treasure John Leeson joining the team as K9 and Annette Badland stepping into the shoes of Aunt Lavinia, something very magical happened in studio on our first day.
"Our three stories for Reunited plunge Sarah and Harry into the dark corners of London’s metropolitan underworld. Extra-terrestrial artefacts are traded, technology is perverted, and sinister forces wait in the shadows of other dimensions..."
Director Jonathan S Powell said: "Sarah and Harry are just such fantastic characters. It's amazing that these stories and these characters that mean so much to so many people can keep going. And we just hit the ground running – it's like we’ve never been away from them, but it's also this whole exciting new direction to take them all on."
Script editor Peter Anghelides added: "Mark Wright and I sat at the back of the booth watching and smiling and laughing as the scenes were performed, because it was exactly what we'd hoped for, the interactions between the two leads. It's so exciting and so, so thrilling.
"They’ve been through a lot – Harry's been away and come back, Sarah has had those experiences with the Doctor. And so we want them to be central to what's going on. They’re not going to go rushing off to UNIT or Torchwood, for example. They're going to rely on their own skills and connections and expertise to solve the challenges that get thrown at them."
Sadie Miller and Christopher Naylor
