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rainbowstevie, you went and got me all curious about The X-Files when I was so sure I didn't need another new fandom. It's high time I returned the favor. :DAnyway, since picspams are always more interesting than wikis (and because I was bored), here is The Prelude To The Story of Classic Sarah Jane - in pictures! I'm afraid it's a bit of a bare-bones version, but it's roughly what you'd need to know in order to catch up on Classic canon and have Sarah Jane's episodes make any sense.
(Okay, I lied - I didn't really set this up all just for you, since that'd be a little creepy. I just wanted an excuse to make a multi-Doctor picspam, and here one was.)
Perhaps after the Prelude I shall post some Recap Picspams of my personal favorite Sarah Jane episodes. Maybe.
Anyway, let us go forth!
Meet Sarah Jane Smith.
Hello, Sarah Jane Smith.
Miss Smith is a journalist, a companion, and an all-around awesome human being. But as awesome as Miss Smith is, we shall have to return to her later, for we've many years of canon to cover.
This is the Third Doctor. (He's the one on the right. ;D)
The Third Doctor was the first Doctor that Sarah Jane ever met.
Before he was the Third Doctor, however, he was...
The Second Doctor.
And these are two of his companions, Jamie and Zoe. Strictly speaking you don't need to know who they are, but they are awesome and get their own picture because I say so.
(And no, Two's clothes don't normally look like that. There was an incident involving killer foam earlier in the episode.)
The Second Doctor, near the end of his run, was put on trial by the Time Lords for interfering with established events, which they’re not supposed to do under any circumstances.The Doctor was convicted, but given a lenient sentence because he only interfered when he thought it would do good.
The ‘lenient’ sentence the Time Lords gave was to take his companions away from him, wipe their memories of him, and drop them back in their own timelines. They then broke his TARDIS so it couldn’t travel, erased his own memory of how to make it work, forced him to regenerate, and stuck him on Earth in exile. This was Very Very Tragic and I get all wibbly inside just thinking about it.
Anyhow, the Doctor woke up looking remarkably like Jon Pertwee. Funny how that works.
He was found by this fellow - Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, officer of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). The two had met before back when Three was Two. UNIT is an international organization, dedicated to defending the Earth from alien threats.
The Doctor reluctantly became UNIT’s scientific advisor, in exchange for the funds and equipment he needed to try to repair his TARDIS. Oh, and a roadster.
I'm not even making that up.
The Third Doctor had two companions before Sarah Jane:
Liz Shaw, a fellow scientific advisor and the smartest person in any room,
and Jo Grant, the Doctor's assistant and the first Three-era companion to travel in his newly-repaired TARDIS. (The TARDIS is repaired at the end of The Three Doctors, after Doctors One Through Three save the Time Lords from the vengeful renegade Omega.) She bid goodbye to the Doctor at the end of The Green Death, which brings us to...
Sarah Jane!
Sarah Jane first appeared because she was investigating the disappearance of a scientist. She had to sneak into UNIT by pretending to be her aunt.
She also flat-out refused to make the Doctor coffee. Sarah Jane is quite independent and does not make coffee at the behest of strange men in frills.
She later stowed away aboard the TARDIS, and was still aboard it when the Doctor took it back to medieval times to investigate the scientist's disappearance.
Which led to The Time Warrior, Sarah’s first serial, and the beginning of her long and illustrious era as a companion.
Images are from the Tragical History Tour,
wiccagirl24's caps, and my own caps.*whew*
tired
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