''Enemy of the Bane'' is the sixth and final serial of the second series of the British science fiction television series ''

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''. It first aired in two weekly parts on the

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channel on 1 and 8 December 2008. This story was originally intended to be a crossover with the modern ''

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'' series;

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, an executive producer of ''Doctor Who'' and creator of ''

'' reveals in his non-fiction book '' Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale'' that former companion

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was intended to appear in the two-parter, but had to be replaced with classic series character

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, generally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', created by writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and p ...

(

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) "at the last minute" due to

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's role in the

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series '' Law & Order: UK'', making this the last episode to have Courtney as the Brigadier prior to his death in 2011.

Plot

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is now a fugitive from her people, the

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kindred, after being blamed for the death of the Bane Mother and the failed invasion of Earth. She is searching for the body of Horath, an immortal cyborg that was defeated and had its consciousness separated and placed at opposite ends of the galaxy 3,000 years ago. Tricking Sarah Jane and her friends into finding the portal that leads to the body of Horath, Wormwood tells them that the Bane have the consciousness, when it is actually in the possession of the disgraced

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commander Kaagh, now working for Wormwood as a mercenary following his defeat. Aided by Sarah Jane's old friend,

, Sarah Jane and Rani sneak into the

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Black Archive, a secure storehouse of alien artefacts, to get the Tunguska scroll, which can find the Neolithic stone circle leading to the dimension where the body of Horath is kept. When the Bane find Wormwood in Sarah Jane's house, Kaagh arrives, and he and Wormwood kill them. Kaagh forces Sarah Jane to give up the scroll to Wormwood by threatening Sarah Jane's friends. Wormwood and Kaagh take

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to the stone circle, which is protected by a force field that can only be crossed by a human. Wormwood forces Luke to enter and place the scroll on the central stone, which opens the portal to the dimension where the body of Horath is located. Luke rejects his creator Wormwood's assertion that he will join her as co-ruler of the universe. Kaagh, ashamed of his submission to Mrs Wormwood, pushes her into the portal and is dragged in with her as it closes. Sarah Jane destroys the scroll to ensure that the portal remains permanently closed.

Continuity

Mrs Wormwood last appeared alongside the

in the series one episode "

Invasion of the Bane "Invasion of the Bane" is the first episode of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It was written by series creator Russell T Davies with Gareth Roberts and was directed by Colin Teague. It was originally ...

". Commander Kaagh last appeared in the series two story ''

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''. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart last appeared in the ''

'' serial ''

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'', although he had a brief cameo in the charity special ''

Dimensions in Time ''Dimensions in Time'' is a charity special crossover between the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and the soap opera ''EastEnders'' that ran in two parts on 26 and 27 November 1993. It was filmed on location at Greenwich ...

''. This is the first time that Sarah Jane and the Brigadier have met on screen since ''

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'', almost exactly 25 years earlier (aside from the 1995 direct-to-video, ''

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'').

Notes

References

External links

The official BBC ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' websitePress Pack information regarding ''Enemy of the Bane''
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* {{Sontaran stories The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes 2008 British television episodes UNIT stories Doctor Who crossovers