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A spin-off of Doctor Who featuring Sarah Jane Smith, a journalist who fights alien threats with her adopted son and friends. IMDb provides cast and crew information, episode guide, user and critic reviews, trivia, and more for this TV series.
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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 is a spin-off of the long-running BBC science fiction programme Doctor Who and is aimed at a younger audience than Doctor Who .
- 1 January 2007 –, 18 October 2011
- Murray Gold
- 53 (27 serials) + 1 short (list of serials)
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The show followed Sarah Jane Smith sometime after she met the Tenth Doctor in School Reunion. Like UNIT and Torchwood, Sarah Jane had decided to deal with aliens in her own way. She was assisted by teenagers from her neighbourhood who unknowingly involve themselves in her life, such as Maria Jackson, Clyde Langer, and Rani Chandra. Also, through he...
The development of SJA never attracted the same level of minute coverage of its parent programme. Whereas the production of individual Doctor Who stories was often known in great detail, behind-the-scenes information about SJAwas considerably harder to come by. The project appeared to have started in 2006, slightly prior to the broadcast of School ...
Producers
The original executive producers for The Sarah Jane Adventures were Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner. Susie Liggat produced Invasion of the Bane, but Matthew Bouch took over for Liggat for series 1 "proper". Phil Collinson held the title of "Series Producer" during the first year. Gareth Roberts— a sort of "uncredited producer" — said of the initial series, Bouch remained a producer through series 2. For the following year, Nikki Wilson replaced him, and Piers Wenger, Julie Gardner's replac...
Other departments
The writing staff was fairly stable throughout the programme's run. The job of the head writer was effectively shared between Phil Ford, Gareth Roberts and Russell T Davies for most of the five years — though none of these men actually got a credit as "head writer". Davies did intend to write more stories for the show but on different occasions was forced to pull out being busy with writing Torchwood and Doctor Who, this meant he only ever was credited for writing two stories. Joseph Lidster,...
Main
Ordered in terms of most number of appearances, the main cast consisted of 1. Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen 2. Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony 3. Mr Smith - Alexander Armstrong 4. Luke Smith - Tommy Knight(series 1-3; recurring 4-5) 5. Maria Jackson - Yasmin Paige(series 1; recurring 2) 6. Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra(series 2-5) 7. K9 Mark IV - John Leeson(series 3; recurring 1 and 4) 8. Sky Smith - Sinead Michael(series 5)
Recurring
1. Haresh Chandra - Ace Bhatti(series 2-5) 2. Gita Chandra - Mina Anwar(series 2-5) 3. Alan Jackson - Joseph Millson(series 1-2) 4. Chrissie Jackson - Juliet Cowan(series 1-2)
Casting decisions were not routinely discussed in the press with anything like the ferocity that Doctor Whocasting announcements were. As a result, many cast changes were often the subject of fan speculation more than fact.
SJA debuted on BBC One with a 60-minute special on 1 January 2007. A full series of ten 30-minute episodes followed later in the year. The second series had twelve 30-minute episodes and aired in the autumn of 2008, followed by a third in late 2009. A mini-episode for charity also aired in early 2009. Meanwhile, series four went into production in ...
Series 1 aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US and BBC Kids in Canada in 2007. In January 2010, Series 2 began airing on BBC Kids. No US broadcast of anything past series 1 ever occurred, and Canada never saw any episode past the second series. Invasion of the Bane was broadcast in Australia on ABC1. Nevertheless, in both Australia and New Zealand,...
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Watch the special and five series of the spin-off show featuring Sarah Jane Smith, a former companion of Doctor Who. She and her friends face various alien threats on Earth.
From the universe of Doctor Who, welcome to the official Sarah Jane Adventures channel! Sarah Jane Smith, who once travelled across time and space as the Doctor's companion, now spends her...
Series 5: Best Moments | The Sarah Jane Adventures59.9K Views- "The Story Goes On... Forever" | Final TV Scene | The Man Who Never Was | The Sarah Jane Adventures85.8K Views
- Rani and Clyde's New Identities! | The Man Who Never Was | The Sarah Jane Adventures30.9K Views
- Joseph's True Identity is Revealed! | The Man Who Never Was | Sarah Jane Adventures22.4K Views
- Luke Returns Home! | The Man Who Never Was | The Sarah Jane Adventures55.7K Views
- Clyde is Found! | The Curse of Clyde Langer | The Sarah Jane Adventures56.1K Views
- Sarah Jane and Rani Disown Clyde! | The Curse of Clyde Langer | The Sarah Jane Adventures33.7K Views
- Will Sky Use her Powers for Evil? | Sky | The Sarah Jane Adventures33.1K Views
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Visiting Sarah Jane Maria is shocked to find her place taken by Andrea, a woman of the same age group who has apparently lived in the house for years. A newspaper from over forty years earlier reveals that Sarah Jane, then 13, fell to her death from a pier where she and Andrea were playing.
The Sarah Jane Adventures. Top-rated. Fri, Oct 30, 2009. S3.E6. The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith: Part Two. Sarah Jane and Peter end up in a white room, a void where Peter tells her that he nearly died but the Trickster saved him and struck up a deal if he married Sarah Jane. He had no idea that any harm would be done to her or her friends.
