84-405: The Eternity Trap is a two-part story of The Sarah Jane Adventures which was first broadcast on CBBC on 5 and 6 November 2009. It is the fourth serial in the third series. The story involves the scientific investigation of a haunted house. In the 17th century, Lord Marchwood employed Erasmus Darkening, an alien trapped on Earth, to make gold out of base metals. Erasmus was secretly working on
168-658: A Doctor Who spin-off. Their initial idea was "a drama based on the idea of a young Doctor Who ", but Russell T Davies vetoed this. "Somehow, the idea of a fourteen year old Doctor , on Gallifrey inventing sonic screwdrivers , takes away from the mystery and intrigue of who he is and where he came from," said Davies. He suggested instead a series based on the Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith. The character of Sarah Jane Smith, played by Sladen, appeared in Doctor Who from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee as
252-602: A 60-minute special, " Invasion of the Bane ", on 1 January 2007, and broadcast until Sladen's death in 2011. It was nominated for a British Academy Children's Award in 2008 in the Drama category, and for a BAFTA Cymru in 2009 in the Children's Drama category. The programme won a Royal Television Society 2010 award for Best Children's Drama. As of 2024, all of the series are on BBC iPlayer and also Max (streaming service) in
336-401: A MP3 audio track was available to download of the comics. An online version of The Silver Bullet , presented, in full, a comic written and drawn by Clyde and briefly seen in, the episode The Curse of Clyde Langer . The Sarah Jane Adventures merchandising revived the concept of the novelisation, which had been part of the Doctor Who franchise from the 1970s to the 1990s (principally under
420-452: A cameo in the special and an appearance in the last episode of the first series. This was due to the concurrent development of the independently produced children's series, K9 , which features a remodelled version of K9 with only indirect nods to Doctor Who . In 2009, K9 appeared with The Sarah Jane Adventures cast in a sketch for Comic Relief , and K9 appeared in six episodes of the third series, followed by two more appearances in
504-469: A character who appeals across the generations. What SJA gets absolutely right is that Sarah Jane remains immediately recognisable as this tenacious reporter of old, but with an added maternal touch that enchants its target audience. Its absence in the schedules is going to be keenly felt." — David Brown of Radio Times on the last series. At Metacritic , the first series received a generally favourable score of 66 out of 100 based on five critics. As
588-541: A leading lady. She also got the occasional part on Radio Leeds and Granada Television , eventually appearing as barmaid Anita Reynolds in 1970 in six episodes of the long-running soap opera Coronation Street . In 1969, she and her husband appeared in the play How the Other Half Loves ; when in the autumn of 1970 the play moved to London , the couple also moved there. Her first television role in London
672-527: A new main character named Sky, played by Sinead Michael. The episode that introduced Sky also featured a return appearance by the Shopkeeper, but the fact that the second half of the series was never produced left his story arc, as well as other ongoing plot points, unresolved. A special edition of Doctor Who Magazine , The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 3 , published in August 2012, detailed the plotlines of
756-662: A positive reception from BBC executives, the pilot was not picked up for a series due to "logistics and changes in BBC management". Sladen's next appearance in the role was in the 20th anniversary special " The Five Doctors " (1983). She reprised the role in the 1993 Children in Need special Dimensions in Time , and in the 1995 independently produced video Downtime alongside former co-star Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield. This
840-419: A scientific investigation of ghost sightings at Lord Marchwood's manor. They are joined by Sarah Jane , Clyde , and Rani . A mysterious poltergeist-like entity begins manipulating objects, including writing the message "get out" on a mirror; this is Lord Marchwood trying to scare everyone off to avoid a similar fate. Erasmus uses the accelerator to take Professor Rivers, though she is yet to be fully absorbed by
924-463: A second 12-episode series in late 2008, which carried that same format for the show's third and fourth series up until November 2010. A fifth series originally comprising 12 episodes was commissioned for a late 2011 broadcast, with 6 of the episodes being filmed alongside the show's fourth series, but due to Sladen's unexpected death in April 2011, the latter half never reached production, officially ending
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#17327835716281008-441: A transdimensional accelerator to create a portal to his own galaxy. While Marchwood's children spied on Erasmus, he used the accelerator to trap them between dimensions. Lord Marchwood confronted Erasmus and attacked the machine, causing it to malfunction. To maintain immortality, Erasmus used the energy from people he had trapped over the centuries with his technology. In the present, Professor Rivers and her assistant Toby perform
1092-483: A tribute to Elisabeth Sladen . During this story, it was implied that Sarah Jane had been killed while preventing an alien invasion. As such, a memorial service was held, attended by Luke, Clyde, Rani, Sky and Maria, accompanied by their friends and families (among them several of the Doctor's former companions). Apart from an interruption from, and final confrontation with, the Trickster, the memorial went smoothly, and
1176-484: A tribute to Elisabeth Sladen in the form of a video montage of scenes from the series and a couple of episodes of Doctor Who and the ending text "And the story goes on... forever." The script of the unfilmed Sarah Jane Adventures episode "The Thirteenth Floor" was rewritten and broadcast as an episode of Wizards vs Aliens . On 19 April 2020 a special 13-minute webcast mini episode entitled Farewell, Sarah Jane aired on Doctor Who 's social media channels as
1260-581: A two-year stint as a presenter for the children's programme Stepping Stones , a lead role with Miller playing her husband in ITV drama Send in the Girls , a BBC Play for Today , a role as a stand-up comic's spouse in Take My Wife , and a small part in the film Silver Dream Racer as a bank secretary in 1980, only her second film appearance. In 1981, former Doctor Who producer Barry Letts cast her as
1344-463: Is 14-year-old Clyde Langer, played by Daniel Anthony , who is introduced in the first episode of the full series. Actress Porsha Lawrence Mavour briefly played Maria's friend, Kelsey Hooper , in the 2007 New Year's Day special Invasion of the Bane which was created before the start of the series. Maria and her family are written out of the series in the first story of the second series, The Last Sontaran , but Maria and her father return briefly in
1428-498: Is a spin-off of the long-running BBC science fiction programme Doctor Who and is aimed at a younger audience than Doctor Who . It focuses on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith , an investigative journalist who, as a young woman, had numerous adventures across time and space with the Doctor . Following Sladen's death in 2011, the BBC confirmed that the show would not return for a sixth series. The series debuted on BBC One with
1512-401: Is frequently voted the most popular Doctor Who companion by both Doctor Who fans and members of the general public. That a Sarah Jane series was being developed was first confirmed in the BBC's in-house newsletter, Ariel , in early August 2006. These early rumours were associated with the working title Sarah Jane Investigates . K9's only appearances in the show's first two series were
1596-676: Is the only series broadcast on American television as of Summer 2010, though later series have continued to be released on DVD in America without a prior television broadcast. In Australia, The Sarah Jane Adventures started on 31 October 2008 on Nickelodeon Australia . In Brazil, the show started airing on 19 November 2012 on TV Cultura , right after their broadcast of Doctor Who series 6 ended. It also screens in New Zealand on Nickelodeon New Zealand, and in Belgium on Ketnet . In 2013
1680-569: The 2006 series , along with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor . Sladen worked a lot of the characterisation herself—in the lead-up to the broadcast of "School Reunion" she was quoted in the Daily Mirror as saying: "Sarah Jane used to be a bit of a cardboard cut-out. Each week it used to be, 'Yes Doctor, no Doctor', and you had to flesh your character out in your mind—because if you didn't, no one else would." She also spoke favourably of
1764-500: The Adventurer The Sarah Jane Adventures cards saw the series expanded once more by the inclusion of this popular spin-off series which frequently crossed-over to the parent series. The Adventurer series consisted of 10 individual Common cards referenced by the prefix SJA, cards also showed their individual series number 01-10 Ten audiobooks have been released on CD, all but the last two read by
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#17327835716281848-584: The Cheetah People of Survival in that each humanoid species looks superficially like a non-humanoid terrestrial mammal ( rhinoceros and cheetah , respectively). The series format was based upon the short "alien files" clips previously produced for the CBBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures website. The series is similar to the Doctor Who spin-off Monster Files . Elisabeth Sladen Elisabeth Clara Heath-Sladen (1 February 1946 – 19 April 2011)
1932-620: The Doctor Who Magazine , focused on the Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as regular mentions in the standard editions of Doctor Who Magazine . Sarah Jane's Alien Files is a BBC series based on The Sarah Jane Adventures . It features the characters Sarah Jane Smith , Luke Smith , Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra entering data on aliens they have encountered during their adventures into Mr Smith , Sarah Jane's extraterrestrial computer, to benefit humanity in
2016-516: The Fourth . She returned to the character of Sarah Jane Smith on several later occasions. In 1981, new Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner asked her to return to the series to ease the transition between Tom Baker and new Doctor Peter Davison . She declined but accepted his second offer of a pilot for a spin-off series called K-9 and Company , co-starring K-9 , the robot dog from Doctor Who . Although it won viewing figures of 8.4 million and
2100-665: The Liverpool Playhouse repertory company as an assistant stage manager. Her first stage appearance at the Playhouse was as a maid in Twelfth Night . A few months later, she played a corpse in The Physicists . However, she was scolded for giggling on stage due to her future husband Brian Miller whispering the words "Respiration nil, Aston Villa two" in her ear while he was playing a doctor. Sladen
2184-653: The Third Doctor and Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor . A pilot episode for another Doctor Who spin-off series, K-9 and Company , made in 1981, featured Sarah Jane and the robot dog K9 ; a full series was never commissioned. Sarah Jane and K9 returned to Doctor Who in various media many times over the years, most notably in the 20th anniversary special " The Five Doctors " (1983), and in episodes " School Reunion " (2006), " The Stolen Earth " / " Journey's End " (2008) and " The End of Time " (2010). Sarah Jane
2268-800: The 1993 documentary, Thirty Years in the TARDIS , wearing a replica of the Andy Pandy overalls Sladen wore in The Hand of Fear . Sladen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February 2011 and died on 19 April 2011; she had previously fought the disease in 1999. She was 65. Her death was widely reported in the UK—on the BBC Ten O'Clock News; as one of the rolling headlines of the BBC News channel for
2352-465: The Bane " on 13 January 2008, airing the rest of the series back-to-back on Sundays thereafter. The South African channel SABC 2 started airing the series beginning on 9 February 2008. The Hong Kong channel ATV World , which has also aired Doctor Who and Torchwood , aired this series starting 17 February 2008. The first series began airing on Sci Fi in the USA beginning on 11 April 2008, but this
2436-591: The Bane" simply as the "first episode". The story focused on Sarah Jane's investigation of a popular and addictive soft drink called Bubble Shock! Series one of the show aired in September of that year, consisting of five two-part half-hour stories. Individual half-hour episodes aired once a week on BBC One , with episodes airing a week ahead on children's digital channel CBBC . The final part aired in November 2007. The second series started in September 2008 using
2520-406: The Bane" was not a pilot, although the story does contains many conventional introductory elements common to pilots. Creator Russell T Davies has commented upon the exceptional broadcast situation, saying " Sarah Jane Adventures is slightly unusual in that it was commissioned before we'd written the script. If we'd written a load of rubbish, they'd still have had to make it." He refers to "Invasion of
2604-485: The Doctor (2010). The latter episode also guest stars Katy Manning as Jo Jones (née Grant) , reprising the role she played alongside the Third Doctor ( Jon Pertwee ) between 1971 and 1973. The episode Sky was originally to have featured Smith, but scheduling prevented his appearance. Nicholas Courtney appears as Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in Enemy of the Bane (2008), his final appearance as
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2688-550: The Future , and appeared in 15 episodes of the BBC schools programme Numbertime , which was repeated annually for around ten years. This was her last television acting appearance until the 2006 Doctor Who episode " School Reunion ". In 2008 and 2009, Sladen appeared in a pantomime production of Peter Pan at the Theatre Royal Windsor , playing Mrs. Darling and a beautiful mermaid . Sladen's last fan event
2772-489: The US. A full series of ten 25-minute episodes began on 24 September 2007. The first series consisted of five two-part stories, and a second series, comprising six two-part stories, began airing on 29 September 2008. A third series, once again comprising six two-part stories to make a total of twelve episodes, with Russell T Davies serving as executive producer, aired from 15 October 2009 to 20 November 2009. The fourth series
2856-481: The character prior to his death in 2011. Various newsreader characters who appear across Davies' tenure as Doctor Who showrunner also appear in The Sarah Jane Adventures , namely Lachele Carl and Trinity Wells , Jason Mohammad and Anthony Debaeck. Numerous others have been referenced in dialogue. Several former companions of the Doctor are referenced in the story Death of the Doctor , and
2940-536: The characterisation in the new series. Sladen won best guest appearance in the annual Cult TV Awards. Following her successful appearance in the series, Sladen later starred in The Sarah Jane Adventures , a Doctor Who spin-off focusing on Sarah Jane, produced by BBC Wales for CBBC and created by Russell T Davies . A 60-minute special aired on New Year's Day 2007, with a 10-episode series commencing broadcast in September 2007, followed by
3024-477: The day; featuring prominently on many commercial television news reports (including Granada which serves her native Liverpool); on the front page of the Daily Mirror and the Liverpool Echo ; and in the obituary features of almost every UK newspaper. The first episode of the sixth series of Doctor Who , " The Impossible Astronaut ", aired on the following Saturday, and opened with a screen dedicating
3108-447: The editorship of author and former Who script editor Terrance Dicks). The first series and most of the second were adapted in this way, but later series saw only a few releases and a transition from print to e-books. In September 2010, Pearson Education published four simplified novelisations based on stories from the third series: Although there has never been a Sarah Jane Adventures magazine there have been three special editions of
3192-455: The episode also includes brief on-screen flashbacks showing the Third , Fourth and Tenth Doctors. Companion Harry Sullivan is referenced separately in dialogue on several occasions and a photograph of the character is visible in one episode. In an issue of Doctor Who Magazine , Sophie Aldred was read an email from Russell T. Davies, in which he declared his plans to bring Ace into a story had
3276-498: The episode to her memory. A special programme - My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen - was aired on CBBC immediately afterwards. In 2012 the new companion, Jenna Coleman 's character, was named Clara . This was interpreted by some fans as a tribute to Sladen, as her middle name was Clara. The Hand of Fear was also shown on BBC Four as a tribute. At the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , during
3360-584: The event that Sarah Jane is no longer capable of defending the Earth against alien threats. Each episode is a clip show summarising the events of episodes in which the featured aliens appeared. The only new footage is the framing and narration, shot entirely on the series' standing attic set. Occasionally, brief clips from Doctor Who are included for context, such as in Episode 6 when the Judoon are compared to
3444-667: The female lead in the BBC Classics production of Gulliver in Lilliput . The character of Lady Flimnap was written for Sladen, and she said it was her favourite role. She continued to appear in various television adverts and in another Letts production, Alice in Wonderland (playing the Dormouse). After the birth of her daughter Sadie in 1985, Sladen went into semi-retirement, placing her family first, but found time for
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3528-912: The first series as Maria's recently separated father, Alan, with Chrissie Jackson , Maria's mother, played by Juliet Cowan . One other regular is Alexander Armstrong of comedy duo Armstrong and Miller , who provides the voice of Mr Smith , an extraterrestrial computer in Sarah Jane's attic. The 2007 special featured Samantha Bond as the scheming villain Mrs Wormwood and Jamie Davis as her PR agent Davey . The first series included among its guest cast Jane Asher as Sarah Jane's childhood friend Andrea Yates , Floella Benjamin as Professor Rivers , who returned in Series 2, Series 3 and Series 5, and Phyllida Law as Bea Nelson-Stanley . The second series guest starred Bradley Walsh as an evil alien clown in
3612-458: The first three stories featuring Clyde Langer ( Daniel Anthony ) as well as Gita Chandra ( Mina Anwar ), Rani's mother. On 28 March 2023, Big Finish Productions additionally announced a sequel boxset set to release in January 2024 titled The Revenge of Wormwood with Mrs Wormwood ( Samantha Bond ) to reprise her role as the villain from the television series. The second boxset will also feature
3696-510: The fourth series. He did not appear at all in Series 5. Production on the full series began in April 2007. Two of the five two-part stories were scripted by the special's co-writer Gareth Roberts. Bad Girls and New Captain Scarlet writer Phil Ford wrote two stories and Phil Gladwin wrote one. Creator and executive producer Russell T Davies was going to write one story but was forced to drop out due to other work commitments. For
3780-548: The group prepare to leave 13 Bannerman Road once more. Rani, however, stays behind, and, in her final conversation with Mr. Smith, expresses her hopes that Sarah Jane is travelling with the Doctor (who was absent, since her death would have broken both his (or her) hearts, according to Jo Grant) once again. It was written by Russell T Davies. The story acted as an epilogue to the series narrated by Jacob Dudman and featured Tommy Knight , Daniel Anthony , Anjli Mohindra , Katy Manning , Mina Anwar all in their respective roles from
3864-474: The manor. Lord Marchwood slays a creature that came to the manor during one of Erasmus' unsuccessful experiments. Aided by Lord Marchwood's sword as a conductor, Sarah Jane comes up with a plan to stop Erasmus by turning him into electricity. Erasmus is destroyed and Professor Rivers is returned. Sarah Jane destroys Erasmus' machine with the sonic lipstick . While Erasmus' victims were assumed to have been destroyed as well, Lord Marchwood and his children appear in
3948-402: The mid-1960s, although she was more often a stage manager at this time. She moved to London in 1970 and won several television roles, with her acting in the police drama Z-Cars leading to her being recommended for the role in Doctor Who . After leaving the series, she had other roles on both television and radio before semi-retiring to bring up a family in the mid-1980s. Sladen returned to
4032-745: The occasional television appearance. In 1991, she starred as Alexa opposite Colin Baker in The Stranger audio adventure The Last Mission for BBV Audio. Sladen also appeared in a Bernice Summerfield audio drama, Kate Orman 's Walking to Babylon . Following the audio production of The Paradise of Death in 1993, Sladen restarted her regular public appearances in the United Kingdom. In 1995, she played Dr Pat Hewland in four episodes of Peak Practice . In 1996, she played Sophie in Faith in
4116-461: The other would signal a thumbs-up. The role of Sarah Jane Smith was originally given to comic actress April Walker , but allegedly during rehearsals for debut story The Time Warrior , doubts over the pairing of Walker and Pertwee surfaced and the part was recast with Sladen. She stayed on Doctor Who for three-and-a-half seasons, alongside Pertwee as the Third Doctor and Tom Baker as
4200-639: The pilot, but Matthew Bouch worked as producer of the series. Co-writer Gareth Roberts , writing in Doctor Who Magazine , said, "We're all determined that this will be a big, full-blooded drama; that nobody should ever think of it as 'just' a children's programme." Sue Nott was the executive producer of the second series for CBBC . In December 2007, the BBC released a statement that Julie Gardner would be replaced by Piers Wenger as executive producer for Doctor Who in January 2009, but that she would continue to executive-produce Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures through 2008. The fourth series in 2010
4284-505: The presence of Brian Miller, Sadie Miller , Tom Baker and Terrance Dicks . The BBC released an audio CD version of the book, read by fellow Doctor Who alumna Caroline John , on 1 December 2011. The foreword for the book was written by fellow Doctor Who actor David Tennant , who portrayed the Tenth Doctor . Sladen married actor Brian Miller on 8 June 1968 in Liverpool. Their daughter, Sadie Miller , appeared alongside Sladen in
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#17327835716284368-402: The present day, released in 2002 and 2006. Her husband, Brian Miller, appeared in the story Ghost Town . Her daughter Sadie appeared in the audios. Sladen also contributed interviews and DVD commentaries to many of the classic Doctor Who serials she co-starred in. Following the successful revival of Doctor Who in 2005, Sladen guest starred as Sarah Jane in " School Reunion ", an episode of
4452-420: The programme. Due to the illness of Elisabeth Sladen, and her death on 19 April 2011, filming for the second half of the fifth series, which was due to air in the autumn of 2011, was postponed and later cancelled. Filming for three stories of the fifth series had been finished, and thus post-production on these stories was completed. The final series was aired from 3 to 18 October 2011 on CBBC and ended with
4536-550: The public eye in the 2000s with more Doctor Who related appearances, which culminated in taking a regular lead role in The Sarah Jane Adventures . In 2010, the show earned the Royal Television Society Award for Best Children's Drama. She also made regular guest appearances on the main television series and provided voice-over commentaries and interviews for its releases to DVD. She died of cancer on 19 April 2011. Elisabeth Clara (or Claira) Heath-Sladen
4620-482: The range due to lack of customer interest. The Adventurer The Sarah Jane Adventures series of Doctor Who: Battles in Time trading cards was a bonus set of 10 limited edition, additional cards (plus one cover card) released exclusively with Issue 62 and packaged in a clear plastic wrap. With the Doctor Who: Battles in Time (magazine) being extended beyond its original number of proposed issues,
4704-468: The return of Luke Smith ( Tommy Knight ). The Sarah Jane Adventures has been generally well received by critics and the viewing public. At the end of the first series, Abi Grant of The Daily Telegraph wrote: "With the debate about the future of children's TV still rumbling on, this is what the BBC does best, and despite lacking the production values of Doctor Who , it's still top tea-time programming." Daniel Martin of The Guardian described
4788-584: The right place." Reviews for the final series were sympathetic for the series' end and the unavoidably incomplete nature of the series (following the death of Elisabeth Sladen) and its story arcs. Stephen Kelly from The Guardian said that it was "a fitting tribute to Elisabeth Sladen" and has occupied a "unique place in the Whoniverse ". BBC Worldwide's children's channel in Canada, BBC Kids , began broadcasting The Sarah Jane Adventures with " Invasion of
4872-534: The same format, with six stories instead of five, ending the series in December. The third series started 15 October 2009, twice weekly (Thursdays and Fridays) on BBC One from 15 October to 20 November. The fourth series aired from 11 October 2010. The first of each story pair was accompanied by an episode of Sarah Jane's Alien Files , a set of 25-minute episodes in which a member of the cast updates Mr. Smith's database about certain aliens. It accompanied series 4 of
4956-650: The second part of The Mark of the Berserker . In the second story of that series, The Day of the Clown , several new regular cast members are introduced: Rani Chandra and her parents, Haresh , and Gita (played by Anjli Mohindra , Ace Bhatti , and Mina Anwar , respectively). This happened as the character Alan Jackson ( Joseph Millson ) left the series, along with Chrissie ( Juliet Cowan ) and Maria Jackson ( Yasmin Paige ). Joseph Millson appears throughout
5040-466: The series and also included Sophie Aldred , who portrayed Ace, a companion to the Seventh Doctor . On 19 July 2022, it was announced that Big Finish Productions would produce an audio spin-off of The Sarah Jane Adventures set to release in April 2023, which features Rani Chandra ( Anjli Mohindra ) as the protagonist. The audio spin-off is set 15 years after the events of the series with
5124-501: The series lead, Elisabeth Sladen, who read them in the first person in character as Sarah Jane. The final two books, released in November 2011 after Sladen's death, were read by Daniel Anthony and Anjli Mohindra, respectively, though not as their characters. The first two were the first time that BBC Audiobooks had commissioned new content for exclusive release on audio. A 20-minute mini-episode in two parts called "The Monster Hunt" written by Trevor Baxendale and read by Anjli Mohindra
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#17327835716285208-621: The series progressed reviews became slightly more positive with DVD Talk reviewer David Cornelius saying that the "second series is even better than the first." However Eric Profancik from DVD Verdict stated that the second series suffered from "poor scripts and horrible acting", criticising it for having "simple plots, too many conveniences and having corny humour." Series three is described by Guy Clapperton of review site ScreenJabber.com as being slightly braver than its predecessors, while Bullz-eye.com described it as "a sweet, fun little show, with some neat ideas" with "its heart very much in
5292-656: The series. The first 6 episodes were broadcast as originally intended in tribute to Sladen in October 2011. The programme won a Royal Television Society 2010 award for Best Children's Drama. Sladen also read original audio stories on CD for The Sarah Jane Adventures , which were released in November 2007: The Glittering Storm and The Thirteenth Stone . This was the first time that BBC Audiobooks had commissioned new content for exclusive release on audio. Further pairs of audio stories were released every year until 2010, all read again by Sladen. Sladen returned to Doctor Who in
5376-407: The show as looking very promising and more convincing than another Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood . Review website DVD Talk called the series "wonderful", "thoughtful" and "imaginative children's entertainment" that was highly recommended. The series also received praise for its willingness to tackle "darker themes [such as] Alzheimer's , homelessness and loss." "It's not often that you get
5460-467: The show continued, and she was alluded to at the end of The Death of the Doctor when the fates of Harry Sullivan, Ian Chesterton , Barbara Wright , Ben Jackson , Polly , Tegan Jovanka , and Ace are revealed. The Sarah Jane Adventures was first seen by its original British audience in the form of a 60-minute New Year's Day special in 2007, titled " Invasion of the Bane ", which was co-written by Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts . "Invasion of
5544-711: The show started airing on JeemTV in Arabic. Various seasons of the series has also been broadcast multiple times on the Swedish children's Channel 'Barnkanalen' in Swedish. Character Options have been awarded a licence to produce The Sarah Jane Adventure play sets, action figures , and a 'Sonic Lipstick' toy. Four 2-figure sets have been released: Sarah Jane and Star Poet; Sarah Jane and General Kudlak; Sarah Jane and Child Slitheen and Sarah Jane and Graske. Also released are Sarah Jane's Sonic Lipstick with Watch Scanner and Alien Communicator. Character Options have now discontinued
5628-587: The show's fourth series in the concluding episodes " The Stolen Earth " and " Journey's End " and was credited in the title sequence of both episodes. Her final appearance in Doctor Who was a scene in the concluding part of " The End of Time ", Tennant's last episode as the Tenth Doctor. Just before her death, Sladen had also been interested in being involved in the Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Big Finish series. While Sladen
5712-719: The story The Day of the Clown and Russ Abbot as a sinister astrologer in Secrets of the Stars . Also appearing in the second series were Gary Beadle and Jocelyn Jee Esien , who portrayed Clyde's parents Paul and Carla in The Mark of the Berserker ; Esien reprised her role briefly in Series 4 and more prominently in series 5. Samantha Bond returned as Wormwood in Enemy of the Bane . The original executive producers for The Sarah Jane Adventures were Phil Collinson , Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner . Susie Liggat produced
5796-609: The tenth anniversary of the show, an event was held 29 July 2017 at Cardiff University Students' Union, with proceeds going to Ty Hafan Hospice for Children . A total of £6643.35 was raised by the sale of tickets to the event and merchandise. Members of the cast and crew that took part in the event were Tommy Knight , Anjli Mohindra , Yasmin Paige , Sinead Michael, Mina Anwar , Katy Manning , Paul Marc Davis , Phil Ford , Gary Russell , Joe Lidster , Sam Watts, Richard Wisker , Cheryl Rowlands, Scott Handcock , Brian Miller , John Leeson , Mat Irvine and Chris Johnson . The event
5880-672: The three unfilmed stories. As well as Sarah Jane, some characters from the past or current run of Doctor Who appear in The Sarah Jane Adventures . K9 , voiced by John Leeson , guest stars in the New Year's special as well as the series 1 finale , appears regularly in the third series, and makes two further appearances in series 4. The Doctor appears twice in the series, with David Tennant featuring in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (2009), and his successor Matt Smith in Death of
5964-455: The window of the manor. Pearson Education published a simplified novelisation of this episode by Trevor Baxendale under the title The Haunted House for school literacy programs in September 2010. The Sarah Jane Adventures The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television programme that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC , created by Russell T Davies , and starring Elisabeth Sladen . The programme
6048-792: Was a primary school contemporary of future politician Edwina Currie , appearing in at least one school production with her. She went on to secondary school and attended Aigburth Vale High School for Girls . Sladen attended the Elliott-Clarke Drama School. In 1965, she made her first film appearance in Ferry Cross the Mersey as an uncredited extra. Sladen then joined the Hillbark Players, for their open-air production of Much Ado About Nothing , playing Hero. After two years at drama school, Sladen began work at
6132-566: Was aired from 11 October 2010. An episode of another spin-off series, Sarah Jane's Alien Files , was shown immediately after each of the first episodes of the stories. Filming for three of six two-part serials planned for the fifth series was completed prior to Elisabeth Sladen 's death on 19 April 2011. The BBC stated that no further episodes would be filmed. The fifth series was broadcast starting 3 October 2011 on Mondays and Tuesdays. It finished just two weeks later on 18 October 2011. In 2006, Children's BBC expressed an interest in producing
6216-536: Was an English actress. She became best known as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who , appearing as a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker , and reprising the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-offs, K-9 and Company (1981) and The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011). Sladen was interested in ballet and theatre from childhood, and began to appear on stage in
6300-607: Was at the British Film Institute on 12 October 2010, where there was a special showing of The Death of the Doctor , followed by a Q&A session. Her last public appearance was at the EA British Academy Children's Awards on 28 November 2010. Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography was released posthumously on 7 November 2011, by Aurum Press Ltd. The book was launched at 'The Doctor Who Experience', Kensington Olympia on 26 November 2011, in
6384-704: Was born 1 February 1946 in Liverpool , England. Sladen was the only child of Tom Sladen (1900–1994), who fought in the First World War and served in the Home Guard during the Second World War , and Gladys (1902–1978) (née Trainer). She developed an interest in performing at an early age, beginning dance lessons when she was five, and dancing in one production with the Royal Ballet . She
6468-408: Was executive produced by Russell T Davies and Nikki Wilson, and the producers were Brian Minchin and frequent writer Phil Ford. During this series, Cyril Nri was introduced as a new recurring character called The Shopkeeper. The production team remained in place for the completed episodes of Series 5, which were shot concurrently with Series 4. The show's abbreviated fifth and final series introduced
6552-525: Was her last on-screen appearance as Sarah Jane Smith before 2006. Sladen played Sarah Jane in several audio plays . Two of them were produced for BBC Radio , The Paradise of Death ( Radio 5 , 1993), and The Ghosts of N-Space ( Radio 2 , 1996), together with Jon Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney . In 1997, Sladen won Hall of Fame Actress in Cult TV Awards. Big Finish Productions produced two series of Sarah Jane Smith audio adventures set in
6636-502: Was in Doctor Who , she attended numerous public events to publicise the programme. Following her departure, she largely stopped attending related events as she felt it could be seen as bad manners to the new cast. After her initial run in Doctor Who ended in 1976, she returned to Liverpool with her husband and performed in a series of plays. This included a two-hander with Miller in Mooney and his Caravans . Subsequent appearances include
6720-406: Was in a two-part story of Z-Cars . These two episodes of Z-Cars have since been wiped and are listed as missing episodes by the BBC 's archive library. She then appeared as a terrorist in an episode of Doomwatch , followed by guest roles in further episodes of Z-Cars , Public Eye , Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and Special Branch . In 1973, Doctor Who actress Katy Manning , who
6804-669: Was made especially for the Monster Hunt game on the Sarah Jane Adventures website. Two more comics were released "Return of the Krulius" and "Defending Bannerman Road". All comics were available as a pdf and a free mp3 download on the official Sarah Jane Adventures website. Five The Sarah Jane Adventures comics were released on the official Sarah Jane Adventures website. Four of them were comic adventures with audio narration by Anjli Mohindra . A pdf document and
6888-491: Was playing the Third Doctor 's assistant Jo Grant opposite Jon Pertwee , was leaving the series; Z-Cars producer Ron Craddock gave Sladen an enthusiastic recommendation to Doctor Who producer Barry Letts . Sladen arrived at the audition not knowing it was for the new companion role, and was amazed at Letts's thoroughness. She was introduced to Pertwee, whom she found intimidating at the time. As she chatted with Letts and Pertwee, each time she turned to look at one of them
6972-488: Was recorded and was released onto DVD and Blu-ray and could be bought exclusively through the event's website. In addition to Sladen, the first series of the programme stars Yasmin Paige as Maria Jackson, Sarah Jane's 13-year-old neighbour in Ealing , west London, and Tommy Knight as a boy named Luke , who is adopted by Sarah Jane at the conclusion of the introductory story. The third member of Sarah Jane's young entourage
7056-710: Was such a good assistant stage manager that she did not get many acting roles, a problem that was solved when she accidentally made a mistake on one occasion. An earlier interview indicated that she deliberately made mistakes on several occasions. As a result, she began to get on-stage roles again. She eventually moved into weekly repertory work, travelling to various locations in Britain. Sladen and Miller moved to Manchester , in 1966, spending three years there. They married on 8 June 1968. She appeared in numerous roles, most notably as Desdemona in Othello , her first appearance as
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