Trivia / The Sarah Jane Adventures S3 E5-E6 "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith"

• What Could Have Been:
  • The Brigadier was supposed to appear in this episode, but Nicholas Courtney sadly suffered a stroke and couldn't make it. Thus, we were denied the chance of the Brigadier meeting the Tenth Doctor.
  • There was originally a Framing Device in which Clyde commented on the events of the story from limbo. The Brigadier and his wife Doris both appeared, with the Brigadier counselling Clyde about his resistance to change in the first episode, before joining the Doctor and the Bannerman Road gang in opposing the Trickster during the concluding installment. At this point, Sarah Jane's fiance was called Peter Cawston, while the Registrar (unnamed in the broadcast version) was Yvonne Pritchard. The creature in the parcel was called a Metracton at this stage; this part of the plot was drawn from a discarded element of "Invasion of the Bane", involving an alien Gloor. In the end, the Metracton was replaced by Travast Polong, previously seen in "The Mark of the Berserker".
  • When discussing the Pantheon of Discord, the Doctor originally referenced various other members he had encountered during his adventures. These included the Guardians, the Graskes, the Reapers and the Time Beetles.
• You Look Familiar: The Registrar is played by Zienia Merton, who appeared as Ping-Cho in the fourth ever Doctor Who serial "Marco Polo" 45 years earlier!

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