Trivia / The Sarah Jane Adventures NYS "Invasion of the Bane"

• Edited for Syndication: The version released on BBC IPlayer is ludicrously bowdlerised to remove some scenes that aren’t particularly problematic.
• The Pete Best: Kelsey Hooper never appeared again and was replaced by the far more likable Clyde Langer.
• What Could Have Been: Doctor Who Magazine SE 23 gave readers an insight into some of the abandoned script ideas:
  • Sarah Jane and Maria would be living in Croydon.
  • Alan Jackson would be called Kevin.
  • Chrissie Jackson would be a lot nicer than she turned out to be.
  • Sarah's scanner watch would actually be a disc, like the one Jabe used in The End of the World.
  • Wormwood and Davey's real names would be Zalia and Elspatch.
  • The Bubble Shock! factory would be called Essia and the tours would be run under the impression it's keeping kids busy in the holidays.
  • Zalia and Elspatch would wonder if Sarah is a Time Agent or works for the Judoon, as she has three years of her life missing.
  • Sarah would fight off Lesley with Rutan nerve gas, which would make her nose go green.
  • The Archetype would be called the Seedling and be named Luke upon arrival at Sarah Jane's house.
  • Instead of Davey attacking Sarah in the attic, a creature called the Gloor would. The Gloor would be disguised in a parcel, brought in by Kevin. This idea was later used in "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith" with Travast Polong, though that alien wasn't hostile.
  • Chrissie, not Alan, would be taken over by Bubble Shock!
  • Sarah would recount fighting dinosaurs and mummies on Mars and seeing the human race billions of years in the future, frozen in an ark.

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