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:''This article refers to the webisode and television series. For the in-universe Alien Files, see [[Alien Files]].''

 

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'''''Sarah Jane's Alien Files''''' (also known as '''''SJA Alien Files''''', formerly '''''The Alien Files'''''<ref>The programme's title is listed as "Sarah Jane's Alien Files" in BBC websites, programme guides, and the iPlayer. As displayed in the logo on-screen, however, the title reads "SJA Alien Files." The former title is in more general use. The programme is an expanded version of what was originally a feature on the official ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' website called "The Alien Files."</ref>) was a series spun off from ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]].'' It started during the programme's [[Series 3 (SJA)|third series]] as a series of webisodes on the programme's website, similar to the ''[[Monster Files]]''. During [[Series 4 (SJA)|''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' Series 4]], it became a half-hour spin-off show featuring more thorough detail of past ''Sarah Jane Adventures'' aliens and recaps of the episodes in which they appeared.

The original version of the series was ''The Alien Files,'' a series of five [[webcast]]s presented by [[Mr Smith]] with [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]]. The webisodes, each under three minutes in length, featured Rani, Clyde, or both accessing Mr Smith's video vaults to review aliens they had encountered previously.

* ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'': [[Androvax]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/androvax.shtml Alien File]

* ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'': [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/eve.shtml Alien File]

* ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'': [[The Doctor]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/characters/pages/doctor.shtml?video=p00h3wsx Alien File]

* ''[[The Eternity Trap]]'': [[Erasmus Darkening]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/erasmus.shtml Alien File]

* ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'': [[Mona Lisa]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/monalisa.shtml Alien File]

* ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'': [[Blathereen]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/blathereen.shtml Alien File]

Alongside [[Series 4 (SJA)|Series 4 of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'']], ''The Alien Files'' was expanded to a weekly television programme to complement the ''Sarah Jane Adventures'' and recap its previous series.  Now known as ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files,'' the six-episode series was presented by the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] as "the ultimate guide of everything you could possibly need to know when facing hostile aliens."<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/09_september/30/sja.shtml]</ref>  The series was broadcast on [[CBBC]] Monday evenings, immediately following part one of that week's two-part ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' story.

The series portrayed the [[Alien Files]] as a database started by [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Mr Smith]], collecting what she and her companions have learned about the aliens they've dealt with, in order to serve as a permanent record of their knowledge for future generations.  Each episode featured Sarah Jane or one of her gang in the attic of [[13 Bannerman Road]], recounting their past adventures and the aliens involved to Mr Smith.  Mr Smith uploads the resulting data about the aliens into the Alien Files.  Their narration was illustrated by clips from the relevant episodes of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures.'' While the original ''Alien Files'' webisodes each focused on events from a single ''Sarah Jane Adventures'' story, the television episodes of ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files'' featured material from and references to multiple stories in which the aliens being discussed appeared.

The programme was not continued after Series 4 of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures.''

* [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 2]]: [[Pied Piper]], [[Ship]] and [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]]