Old Flames (short story)

Old Flames was the second short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips. It was written by Paul Magrs. It featured the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.

Summary
The Doctor and Sarah Jane are invited to Lady Huntingdon's ball. There The Doctor comes face to face with renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme and discovers that one of the guests may be an alien cat.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Iris Wildthyme
 * Captain Turner
 * Bella Huntingdon
 * Lady Huntingdon
 * Rector Adams

Continuity

 * Iris says of Sarah that, "she's not the one I didn't get on with". This may be a reference to the Christmas which she spent with the Doctor's fifth incarnation and his companions Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka in the TARDIS. She was not fond of Tegan, later describing her as "that shrill Australian woman." (BFA: Excelis Dawns)
 * Sarah recalls meeting the Exxilons. (DW: Death to the Daleks)
 * The Doctor mentions Metebelis III (DW: The Green Death, DW: Planet of the Spiders) and the Time Lords sending him to Solos (DW: The Mutants).
 * Iris would recall this encounter with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah when she met the Doctor's third incarnation and Jo Grant in England in the 1970s. (PDA: Verdigris)

For the Doctor

 * Old Flames occurs after DWM: The Naked Flame.
 * Old Flames occurs before BBCR: Exploration Earth.

For Iris Wildthyme

 * Old Flames occurs after EDA: Verdigris.
 * Old Flames occurs before BFA: Excelis Dawns.