Post by matthewsee on Feb 26, 2013 1:10:07 GMT -5
The Battle of Bannerman Road was the unproduced story that intended to end what turned out to be the final season of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
DWM in its The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 3 looked at the making of the final SJA season including the stories that was prevented to go into production by Lis Sladen’s death. The Battle of Bannerman Road was one of the three stories, the others being Meet Mr Smith & The Thirteenth Floor, that did not make it into production.
However as noted by Andrew Pixley who wrote the pieces in this special issue of DWM that unlike Meet Mr Smith & The Thirteenth Floor, The Battle of Bannerman Road never reach into scripted or storyline form.
All that existed from The Battle of Bannerman are ideas which never got to be cobbled to become one coherent story.
Russell T Davies when being interview here about The Battle of Bannerman Road could only talk about these ideas and whether they could have come to fruition.
Along with the ideas Davies also talked about the prospect of cast departures with this story as both Daniel Anthony (Clyde) and Anjli Mohindra (Rani) were ready to move on from SJA but Davies wanted to keep on to them as long as possible.
If Lis Sladen hadn’t die at the time that she did it would have been curious to see how Clyde and Rani would have exited the series.
Having featured her in his 2011 story Death of the Doctor, Davies was hoping to bring back Katy Manning as former companion Jo in The Battle of Bannerman Road in which her opening scene was a direct riff on an early scene of Damien: Omen II. Frankly I am not sure it was a good idea that for a children’s programme that a scene that makes allusion to a movie that kids are not supposed to see.
I mean I remember having seen bits of Damien: Omen II when I was a kid while I was with my family staying at the home of relatives in Canada and was terrify by what I saw of that movie. Wonder if that scene from The Battle of Bannerman Road have the same effect on children had it been made.
If it wasn’t for the timing of Lis Sladen it would have been revealed on-screen that Sky is the daughter of the Trickster and can imagine I would have been shocked to see this revelation on-screen.
With this story being the intended season finale, Davies had envisaged the climax being the explosion of 13 Bannerman Road. I can imagine that this explosion would have been more spectacular than Martha’s place in The Sound of Drums.
Based on what the ideas for The Battle of Bannerman Road were, it could have easily been the greatest season finale, if not the greatest story overall, SJA never had.
DWM in its The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 3 looked at the making of the final SJA season including the stories that was prevented to go into production by Lis Sladen’s death. The Battle of Bannerman Road was one of the three stories, the others being Meet Mr Smith & The Thirteenth Floor, that did not make it into production.
However as noted by Andrew Pixley who wrote the pieces in this special issue of DWM that unlike Meet Mr Smith & The Thirteenth Floor, The Battle of Bannerman Road never reach into scripted or storyline form.
All that existed from The Battle of Bannerman are ideas which never got to be cobbled to become one coherent story.
Russell T Davies when being interview here about The Battle of Bannerman Road could only talk about these ideas and whether they could have come to fruition.
Along with the ideas Davies also talked about the prospect of cast departures with this story as both Daniel Anthony (Clyde) and Anjli Mohindra (Rani) were ready to move on from SJA but Davies wanted to keep on to them as long as possible.
If Lis Sladen hadn’t die at the time that she did it would have been curious to see how Clyde and Rani would have exited the series.
Having featured her in his 2011 story Death of the Doctor, Davies was hoping to bring back Katy Manning as former companion Jo in The Battle of Bannerman Road in which her opening scene was a direct riff on an early scene of Damien: Omen II. Frankly I am not sure it was a good idea that for a children’s programme that a scene that makes allusion to a movie that kids are not supposed to see.
I mean I remember having seen bits of Damien: Omen II when I was a kid while I was with my family staying at the home of relatives in Canada and was terrify by what I saw of that movie. Wonder if that scene from The Battle of Bannerman Road have the same effect on children had it been made.
If it wasn’t for the timing of Lis Sladen it would have been revealed on-screen that Sky is the daughter of the Trickster and can imagine I would have been shocked to see this revelation on-screen.
With this story being the intended season finale, Davies had envisaged the climax being the explosion of 13 Bannerman Road. I can imagine that this explosion would have been more spectacular than Martha’s place in The Sound of Drums.
Based on what the ideas for The Battle of Bannerman Road were, it could have easily been the greatest season finale, if not the greatest story overall, SJA never had.