Episode: Series Two, Episode Three and Four
Name: The Day of the Clown
Written by: Phil Ford
Running Time: Part One - 25 minutes, Part Two - 25 minutes
Broadcast Date: Part One - 6th Oct, Part Two - 13th Oct 2008
Preceded by: The Last Sontaran
Followed by: Secrets of the Stars
Aliens Featured: Jeggorabax Energy Entity
Starring:

• Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith
• Tommy Knight – Luke Smith
• Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer
• Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra
• Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith
• Bradley Walsh – Odd Bob / Elijah Spellman / The Pied Piper
• Mina Anwar – Gita Chandra
• Ace Bhatti – Haresh Chandra
• Floella Benjamin – Professor Rivers
• Yasmin Paige – Maria Jackson (voice)
• Jem Brownlee – David Finn
• Elijah Baker – Steve Wallace
• Aaron Showsanya – Tony Warner
• Huw Higginson – Mr Cunningham
• Jessica Mogridge – Young Sarah Jane
• Alan Ruscoe – Clown
• Sean Palmer – Clown

Part One: New girl in Bannerman Road, Rani Chandra, is being haunted by a sinister clown – does it have anything to do with the local children that have gone missing? When Clyde's friend disappears the trail leads them to a strange circus museum – and the legend of the Pied Piper!

Part Two: Sarah Jane's investigation into Spellman and Odd Bob the Clown takes her to a meteorite at the Pharos Institute. But Spellman's plot to make all of Park Vale's pupils vanish leads Sarah Jane into a confrontation with her own childhood fears in a bid to save Luke?