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The Sarah Jane Adventures
Logo of The Sarah Jane Adventures
Genre	Science Fiction Drama
Created by	Russell T. Davies
Starring	Elisabeth Sladen Yasmin Paige Thomas Knight Daniel Anthony
Theme music composer	Murray Gold
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	1 (to date) (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 min (specials) 30 min (series)
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One CBBC Channel
Picture format	PAL (576i)
Original run	1 January 2007 – Present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales for CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen and created by Russell T. Davies. The programme is a spin-off of the long-running BBC science fiction programme Doctor Who, and focuses on the adventures of investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith. The series debuted on BBC One with a 60-minute special, entitled "Invasion of the Bane", on 1 January 2007. A full series of ten 30-minute episodes^[1] will be broadcast in autumn 2007.^[2] The series will be made up of five two-part stories^[3] and is approximately set in contemporary West London. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links The_Sarah_Jane_Adventures_intro. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Russell T Davies, interviewed for the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential in 2005. ... Elisabeth Sladen (born February 1, 1948, Liverpool, England) is an English actress best known for her work as the character Sarah Jane Smith on the television series Doctor Who and related spin-offs. ... Yasmin Paige is a British child actress. ... Thomas Knight is a British actor born in Chatham, Kent in the UK on 22 Jan 1993. ... Daniel Anthony is a British televison, musical theatre and voice actor. ... Murray Gold (born 1969, Portsmouth, England) is a British composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This following is an episode list for the science fiction drama television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. ... BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ... The CBBC Channel is a British television service aimed at 6 to 13 year olds produced by the BBC. It complements the CBBC programming that continues to air on BBC One and BBC Two. ... Television encoding systems by nation. ... 576i is the shorthand name for a video mode. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... BBC Wales (Welsh: ) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. ... Current CBBC Logo CBBC - short for Childrens BBC - is the brand-name for the BBCs childrens television programmes aimed at children aged between 6 and 12 years old. ... Elisabeth Sladen (born February 1, 1948, Liverpool, England) is an English actress best known for her work as the character Sarah Jane Smith on the television series Doctor Who and related spin-offs. ... Russell T Davies, interviewed for the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential in 2005. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its related spin-offs. ... BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ... Invasion of the Bane is an episode of the British science fiction television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Satellite image of the inner part of West London Ayad Dibis is the best in West London. ...

Cast and crew

"Invasion of the Bane" cast (L>R): Mavour, Sladen, Paige and Knight

In addition to Sladen, the programme stars Yasmin Paige as Sarah Jane's 13-year-old neighbour Maria Jackson and Thomas Knight as a boy named Luke, who was adopted by Sarah Jane at the conclusion of the introductory story. Porsha Lawrence Mavour played Maria's friend, Kelsey Harper, in the special but has since been dropped from the show. A 14-year-old called Clyde Langer, played by Daniel Anthony, will be introduced in the first episode of the forthcoming series as her replacement.^[4][5] Image File history File links SarahJane2. ... Image File history File links SarahJane2. ... Yasmin Paige is a British child actress. ... The Sarah Jane Adventures is a forthcoming British childrens television series, produced by BBC Wales for CBBC, to star Elisabeth Sladen and created by Russell T. Davies. ... Thomas Knight is a British actor born in Chatham, Kent in the UK on 22 Jan 1993. ... Luke Smith is a fictional character played by Thomas Knight in the British childrens science fiction television programme The Sarah Jane Adventures. ... Porsha Lawrence Mavour is a British child actress. ... This is a list of minor characters from the television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. ... Clyde Langer is a fictional character played by Daniel Anthony in the British childrens science fiction television programme The Sarah Jane Adventures. ... Daniel Anthony is a British televison, musical theatre and voice actor. ...

The 2007 special also featured Samantha Bond as the scheming villain Mrs Wormwood and Jamie Davis as her PR agent Davey. Joseph Millson appeared as Maria's father. Samantha Bond (born November 27, 1962) is an English actress best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond films. ... This is a list of minor characters from the television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. ... Jamie Davis (18 April 1981, Pontefract, Yorkshire) is an English actor best known for his role as Harley Lawson on the popular British television series Footballers Wives and the spinoff, Footballers Wives: Extra Time. ... This is a list of minor characters from the television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

The executive producers for The Sarah Jane Adventures are Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner while Phil Collinson will act as series producer. Susie Liggat produced the pilot, but Matthew Bouch will work as producer of the series. She was born on September 3, 1981 in Richmond, Virginia. ... Phil Collinson is a British television producer. ... Susie Liggat is a British television producer. ...

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."^[6]
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Background and development

In 2006, Children's BBC expressed an interest in producing 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.^[7] Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The sonic screwdriver is a fictional tool in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Companion, in the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, is a term used to describe a character who travels with and shares the adventures of the Doctor. ...

The character of Sarah Jane, played by Sladen, appeared in Doctor Who from 1973 to 1976, alongside Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, and later Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. A pilot for another Doctor Who spin-off series, K-9 and Company, made in 1981, featured Sarah Jane and the robot dog K-9; however, the option to make a series was not picked up. Sarah Jane and K-9 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 the 2006 episode "School Reunion". For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor. ... The Third Doctor is the name given to the third incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... For other persons named Tom Baker, see Tom Baker (disambiguation). ... The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and K-9. ... K-9, or K9, is the name of several robotic dogs in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... The Five Doctors was a special movie-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced in celebration of the programmes twentieth anniversary. ... School Reunion is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Sarah Jane is frequently voted the most popular Doctor Who companion by both Doctor Who fans and members of the general public.^[8] The prospect of a new television series focusing on Sarah Jane was first rumoured in The Sun in March 2006, prior to the airing of "School Reunion"; the report at that time suggested that Sarah Jane and K-9 would both appear in the series.^[9] The fact that a Sarah Jane series was being developed was first confirmed in the BBC's in-house newsletter, Ariel, in early August 2006.^[10][11][12] These early rumours were associated with the working title Sarah Jane Investigates.^[10] This article is about a British tabloid. ...

K-9 briefly appeared in the special, but will not be in the series.^[13] This is due to the concurrent development of K-9, which is not associated with the BBC and will not feature any Doctor Who connections beyond K-9 himself.^[14] K-9 is a forthcoming 26-part comedy/adventure series focusing on the adventures of the robot dog K-9, done in a mixture of computer animation and live action. ...

Merchandising

Character Options have been awarded a license to produce Sarah Jane Adventure play sets, action figures, and a 'Sonic Lipstick' toy.^[15] Zarbon action figure of from Dragon Ball Z made by Bandai An action figure is a posable plastic figurine of a character, often from a movie, video game, or television program. ...

Story connections to the Doctor Who universe

Sarah Jane has her own sonic screwdriver, disguised as a lipstick, which she refers to as "sonic lipstick". The official website notes that the Doctor left the lipstick, along with a "watch that scans for alien life" for Sarah Jane hidden inside K-9 Mark IV.^[16] The watch is capable of identifying alien species and their home planets,^[17] and the sonic lipstick is apparently "useless as a lipstick".^[18] The sonic screwdriver is a fictional tool in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... K-9, or K9, is the name of several robotic dogs in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ...

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A clip on the BBC website shows that Sarah reported on various incidents from Doctor Who, including the events of "Invasion of the Dinosaurs", which were later "revealed" to be mass hallucinations caused by contaminants in the water supply, a reference to Torchwood character Rhys's explanation for the perceived Cybermen invasion. In the pilot episode, Maria's father attributed zombie-like behaviour to a chemical leak at the Bubble Shock! factory, triggering hallucinations. Invasion of the Dinosaurs is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from January 12 to February 16, 1974. ... For the eponymous fictional institute, see Torchwood Institute. ... The following is a list of minor characters in the BBC science fiction television series Torchwood, including supporting characters, and important human villains. ... The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ...

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Doctor Who monsters the Slitheen appear in episodes one and two of Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. ^[19] The Slitheen are a fictional family of massive, bipedal extraterrestrials from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and adversaries of the Doctor. ... This following is an story list for the science fiction drama television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. ...

New Year special

The Sarah Jane Adventures was first seen by its original British audience in the form of a 60-minute New Year's Day 2007 special, titled "Invasion of the Bane", which was co-written by Russell T. Davies and Gareth Roberts.^[12] Invasion of the Bane is an episode of the British science fiction television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. ...

Though it may have appeared so to the viewing audience, "Bane" was not a pilot. Instead, it was a holiday special. Nevertheless, because of the atypical broadcast order - holiday specials in Britain typically air after the regular run of the series to which they're attached - the story had 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 the Bane" simply as the "first episode"^[20]. A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ... // TV programming in the United Kingdom also includes an expanding holiday season. ...

The story focused on Sarah Jane's investigation of a popular and addictive soft drink called Bubble Shock!.

Sarah Jane is shown driving a Nissan Figaro car with pale green bodywork and white roof in 1950s styling, reminiscent of the grey Peugeot 403 car associated with famous TV detective Columbo. The Nissan Figaro is a small retro car manufactured by Nissan Motors using the underpinnings of their Micra supermini. ... The Peugeot 403 was an automobile produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1955 to 1966. ... Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. ...

Production

Production on the full series began in April 2007.^[20] Two of the five two-part stories will be scripted by the special's co-writer Gareth Roberts. Bad Girls and New Captain Scarlet writer Phil Ford will write two stories and Phil Gladwin will write 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^[21]. It has been suggested that Pat Kerrigan be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about the computer animated series from 2005. ...

According to Doctor Who Magazine Issue 385, The titles of the episodes are as follows: Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

• Episode 1/2- Title TBC
• Episode 3/4- Eye of the Gorgon
• Episode 5/6- Warriors of the Kudlak
• Episode 7/8- Whatever Happened To Sarah Jane?
• Episode 9/10- The Lost Boy

The two part episodes will have the same name rather than the differing titles of the two parters in the recent series of Doctor Who. Russell T Davies has also stated that the first episode title is being kept a secret as "it gives too much away". Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... Russell T. Davies, pictured in 2003. ...

Leaked storyline hints

• The episode "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?" revolves around Sarah Jane's pre-Doctor childhood and the story is said to be darker than the rest of the series.^[22]

References

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The Sarah Jane Adventures

• Official site; UK-only access
• BBC Norfolk webTV: Elisabeth Sladen previews the Sarah Jane Adventures
• A Brief History of Time (Travel): The Sarah Jane Adventures - News and information page concerning the new series
• The Sarah Jane Adventures at the Internet Movie Database