The Nightmare Man (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

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The Sarah Jane Adventures story
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Official Poster from the BBC Website.
Cast
Starring
Others
Production
Directed by Joss Agnew
Written by Joseph Lidster
Script editor Gary Russell
Produced by Brian Minchin
Phil Ford (co-producer)
Executive producer(s) Russell T Davies
Nikki Wilson
Music bySam Watts
Production code4.1 and 4.2
Series Series 4
Running time2 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast11 October 2010 (2010-10-11)
Last broadcast12 October 2010 (2010-10-12)
Chronology
 Preceded by
The Gift
Followed by 
The Vault of Secrets
List of serials

The Nightmare Man is a two-part story of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series The Sarah Jane Adventures , which was first broadcast on CBBC on 11 and 12 October 2010.

Contents

Plot

Four days before Luke leaves for Oxford University a year early, he starts having nightmares about leaving for university, something that was thought to be impossible since the Bane did not include dreaming in his genetic makeup. In his nightmares, he sees the Nightmare Man, who tells Luke that he cannot tell anyone about him.

On Luke's last night home, the Nightmare Man forces Luke, Clyde, and Rani to have nightmares relating to Luke leaving for university, and begins entering the real world and reaching into the dreams of other humans. Luke's dream is full of red doors similar to his school. He deduces that he, Clyde and Rani are in the same reality and calls to them, telling them to imagine a red door and to walk through it. The three of them are now in the same dream, stopping the Nightmare Man's powers. The Nightmare Man returns to the dream reality. Luke, Clyde and Rani join hands, and the Nightmare Man is forced into Clyde's nightmare, where he is trapped into listening to Sarah Jane talk about Luke. The next morning, Luke drives off with K9 to university.

Cast notes

Julian Bleach has previously appeared in the Torchwood episode "From Out of the Rain" as the Ghostmaker and Davros in the Doctor Who episodes "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End" (both of which also featured Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith) making him one of very few actors to appear in all three shows.[ citation needed ]

Production

The BBC had originally approached Russell T. Davies and asked him to make a character gay in the show. Davies planned for this character to be Luke, and intended to begin foreshadowing it from The Nightmare Man. However, Davies chose to cut one line which hinted more explicitly at this more development. The line which is cut is from the scene in which Luke saying goodbye to Sarah Jane as he departs for university. [1] [2] [3]

Sarah Jane: Have a lovely time at university. You’ll grow up, you’ll find a girlfriend.
Luke: (off-handedly) Oh, could be a boyfriend!
Sarah Jane: Well, as long as it’s not a Slitheen, I don’t care!

Cut lines from "The Nightmare Man," as remembered by writer Russell T Davies. [1]

Novelisation

The Nightmare Man
Author Joseph Lidster
Series The Sarah Jane Adventures #10
Published25 November 2010
BBC Children's Books
Pages128
ISBN 978-1-405-90808-5
Preceded by The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith  
Followed by Death of the Doctor  

This was the tenth of eleven Sarah Jane Adventures serials to be adapted as a novel. Written by Joseph Lidster, the book has only been published as an E-book on 25 November 2010. [4]

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References

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