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Series Name:    The Sarah Jane Adventures Format: TV Series IMDB: IMDB Page Years: 2007 - 2011 Country:   UK Language: English Genre: Science Fiction, Children & Family Rating: 8.5  Rate Collection:   Seen It     Wishlist  Community:  7 Have Seen » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

Selected Cast	Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith
	Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer
	Tommy Knight as Luke Smith
	Yasmin Paige as Maria Jackson
	Anjli Mohindra as Rani Chandra
	Alexander Armstrong as Mr. Smith (voice)
	Joseph Millson as Alan Jackson
	Juliet Cowan as Chrissie Jackson
	Ace Bhatti as Haresh Chandra
	Mina Anwar as Gita Chandra
	John Leeson as K-9 Mk. IV (voice)
	Sinead Michael as Sky

Notes

Spinoff of Doctor Who, and several episodes featured David Tennant and Matt Smith guest starring as the Doctor.

Production of the series was halted due to the death of lead actress Elisabeth Sladen in the spring of 2011.

Preceded in 1981 by K-9 & Company, a planned spin-off series featuring Sarah Jane and K-9. Only a pilot episode was ever produced and broadcast.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Season 1 - Warner Home Video - USA (2008)

DVD

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Season 2 - Warner Home Video - USA (2009)

DVD

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Season 3 - Warner Home Video - USA (2011)

Blu-ray

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Season 4 - 2 Entertain - UK (2012)

Comments and Reviews

23skidoo 25th May 2015		@biffbampow. Even more heartbreaking is the fact Russell T Davies had signed off on allowing Elisabeth Sladen to reprise the role of Sarah Jane opposite Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor for a series of Big Finish audio dramas (to go with the ones being produced with Louise Jameson's Leela and Mary Tamm's Romana). The approval was given apparently just days before Sladen died at it was still hoped she'd be well enough to do the but sadly that wasn't to be. As for the broadcast, I think CBBC expected RTD to provide them with a kiddie show but he went ahead and gave them something that might have been Doctor Who Lite but still had all the same production values as the main series. I do believe one of the main BBC networks did rebroadcast the series later, though, though in North America at least for a while the only way you could find it was on channels like BBC Kids, and I think the US saw most of the episodes for the first time on their DVD release.
biffbampow 25th May 2015		I honestly couldn't fully understand why they aimed this at kids and broadcasting it in the kids TV spot since like you say, it was really no different in style to it's parent show and maybe lost a few viewers as a result - broadcast in a later spot, I'm sure it would had been just as successful and gotten more viewers. Hence why it's been dismissed by some. Sadly, I couldn't get into it for the same reasons as 21st Century DW, but it was lovely to see Lis looking radiant and reviving this much loved character, winning a whole new generation of fans and admirers. Her death was a cruel shock, way too young. The idea of Tom Baker playing a new character sounds amusing and a shame that never got to happen. Knowing how well Sladen and Baker got along I'm sure the results would had been fun.
23skidoo 25th May 2015		Very underrated series that was unfairly dismissed as "just for kids" when it came out even though in many respects it was no different than its parent series. Sladen picked up where she left off 30 years earlier as Sarah Jane, there were plenty of references to older characters to keep longtime fans happy (including the final-ever appearance of Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier in one episode, the return of Katy Manning as Pertwee-era companion Jo Grant, and appearances by the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors). It even followed the multi-part format of the original show. Sadly, production was cut short when Sladen died and, for obvious reasons, the series was retired, though several plot elements were left unresolved. According to Doctor Who Magazine, had the series continued producer Russell T Davies was planning a live Halloween-related episode, an episode in which Ace was to have returned, and there was also talk of Tom Baker appearing as a new character. Also according to DWM the Time Lord-like character "The Shopkeeper" who appeared late in the series and whose identity was never confirmed due to the cancellation, was originally planned to be the Eleventh Doctor but Matt Smith's schedule filming Doctor Who (by this point different production teams made the two shows) made him unavailable so a new character was created. One, possibly two episodes of the later series Wizards vs. Aliens were adaptations of scripts written for SJA's fifth season that were left unfilmed.

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