Continuity
"School Reunion" is the first appearance of Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 since The Five Doctors. It answers the question of where Sarah was left at the end of The Hand of Fear: Aberdeen. The bragging match between Sarah and Rose also references other stories: Sarah has met the Daleks, "lots of robots", anti-matter monsters, mummies, dinosaurs, and the Loch Ness Monster, whereas Rose has met ghosts, "Slitheen in Downing Street", the Dalek Emperor, gas-masked zombies, and a werewolf. The phrase "Slitheen in Downing Street" was later used in Revenge of the Slitheen by Sarah.
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