Reports of strange lights in the sky over the creepily named village of Goblin's Copse - the site of a radio telescope scanning the skies for friendly aliens - draw Sarah Jane Smith and her team of young helpers away from the security of Bannerman Road.
At the same time, Maria (Yasmin Paige) has discovered that her dad, Alan (Joseph Millson) has been offered a job in America and she is trying to summon up the courage to tell the others.
They quickly discover that the lights were caused by Commander Kaagh (altogether now: "KAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!"), the last survivor of the 10th Sontaran Battlefleet's unsuccessful attempt to invade Earth in The Poison Sky.
Kaagh's pod was just leaving the mothership when it was destroyed by The Doctor and so he crashed down to Earth and has, since then, been scheming of a way to seek vengeance for the defeat of the Sontaran battlefleet.
His fiendish scheme involves using the radio telescope to take-over the hundreds of satellites in Earth orbit and bring them down on Earth's nuclear arsenal - thus obliterating all life on the planet and guaranteeing himself immortality in the annals of Sontaran history.
The only thing is, he didn't reckon on the meddling of Sarah Jane and her band of merry "half-forms".
Luckily for our heroes, the commander (Anthony O'Donnell) is as accurate a shot as an Imperial Stormtrooper, so despite being a senior soldier of one of the galaxy's most militaristic races he is still given the runaround by a bunch of kids as he chases them around tunnels under the observatory and through the woods.
The Last Sontaran was a fantastic start to the new season of The Sarah Jane Adventures, with a cracking turn from an established old school Doctor Who alien race.
It's a shame that this story marked the departure of Maria and her father from Bannerman Road - just as her dad had come to terms with the exotic and dangerous lifestyle she was involved with, thanks to Sarah Jane - but if the series runs for many more years the door was left well and truly open for the return of the Jacksons.
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Did both halves of the story air last night or only the first half?
I've seen the first half...am wondering if I should go hunting for the second yet.
The second half was on the Children's BBC channel, at 5.15pm last night, which we get on Freeview/Sky Satellite. It will then be 'repeated' on BBC1 next Monday.
This means, as last year, I can watch a full story every fortnight, rather than watch an episode and wait a week for the second part of the story.
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