Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British tv series starring Elisabeth Sladen and plays Sarah Jane Smith. It was created by Russell T. Davies. It was produced by BBC Wales for CBBC.

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 will be broadcast in late 2007 on the BBC.

Doctor Who 

History of Sarah Jane Smith

Sarah Jane Smith is a character from Doctor Who and its related spin-offs. Elisabeth Sladen has played all Sarah Janes. Sarah has been one of the longest serving companions on Doctor Who and she appears as a regular character in 18 stories over four series and is the first (human) companion to appear in a spin-off, the 1981 television pilot K-9 and Company. She is the central character in the ongoing series The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Sarah Jane Smith is an investigative journalist who is a companion of the third and fourth incarnations of the Doctor. She was a regular in the programme from 1973 to 1976 (seasons 11 – 14) and returned to Doctor Who several times since, most recently in the 2006 episode "School Reunion", opposite David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.

Where Sarah Jane Smith Character has appeared

Doctor Who

Season 11
The Time Warrior
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Death to the Daleks
The Monster of Peladon
Planet of the Spiders

Season 12

Robot
The Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
Revenge of the Cybermen

Season 13

Terror of the Zygons
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Android Invasion
The Brain of Morbius
The Seeds of Doom

Season 14

The Masque of Mandragora
The Hand of Fear

The Five Doctors: 20th anniversary Special

The Five Doctors was a special feature-length episode of Doctor Who, produced in celebration of the programme's twentieth anniversary. It originally aired in the UK on November 25, 1983.
 
Dimensions in Time: 30th anniversary special

Dimensions in Time is a charity special crossover between the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and the soap opera EastEnders that ran in two parts on November 26 and 27, 1993. It was filmed on the EastEnders 'Albert Square' set and features several of the stars of that programme at the time. Produced after the show's cancellation in 1989 for the Children in Need charity, this special was the only dramatisation broadcast in celebration of Doctor Who's 30th anniversary.

Doctor Who Series 2 (2006)
School Reunion is the third episode of series two of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who End of Time (2010)

In part 2 of the 2010 Doctor Who special The End of Time, the Tenth Doctor (played by David Tennant) briefly visits several of his old companions to deliver parting gifts and say goodbye prior to regenerating. His "gift" to Sarah Jane is to push her adopted son Luke out of the way of an oncoming car. Luke recognizes the Doctor and calls his mother, who sees the Doctor solemnly staring at her from outside the TARDIS.

K-9 and Company

"A Girl's Best Friend"

K-9 and Company was a tv spin-off of the original series run of Doctor Who (1963-1989). It featured Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and K-9, a robotic dog. Both characters had been companions of the Fourth Doctor, but this series was the first time they had ever appeared together. One episode, A Girl's Best Friend, was produced, as a pilot for a proposed series: this option was not taken up, but it was broadcast by BBC One as a Christmas special on December 28, 1981.

The Sarah Jane Adventures

"Invasion of the Bane"

"Invasion of the Bane" is the first episode of the British science fiction tv series 'The Sarah Jane Adventures'. It was originally broadcast on 1 January 2007. It was commissioned before the script for Bane was written.

The new series will consist of 10 parts (episodes)

4th Series

Series Four of The Sarah Jane Adventures is scheduled to air this Autumn 2010 on CBBC. The series is expected to be the biggest and best yet, due to the support from CBBC, and hosts some brand new villains including, The Nightmare Man, The Dark Horde, Men in Black, Tudors and Nazis!

The Third Doctor's former companion - and Sarah Jane's immediate predecessor - Jo Grant, portrayed by Katy Manning, and the Eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith, will appear in an episode of the fourth series.

The titles for the episodes in Series Four of The Sarah Jane Adventures:

4.1 / 4.2: The Nightmare Man
by Joseph Lidster

4.3 / 4.4: The Vault of Secrets
by Phil Ford

4.5 / 4.6: Death of the Doctor
by Russell T. Davies

4.7 / 4.8: The Empty Planet
by Gareth Roberts

4.9 / 4.10: Lost in Time
by Rupert Laight

4.11 / 4.12: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
by Gareth Roberts & Clayton Hickman


Julian Bleach who appeared in Doctor Who as Davros and as The Ghost Master in Torchwood, completes the set by appearing as The Nightmare Man, in what is set to be his scariest villain yet.

Did you know?

Torchwood was created by Russell T. Davies.