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|main character  = Sarah Jane Smith
|starring        = Clyde Langer
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'''Series 3''' of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' ran between [[15 October (releases)|15 October]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] and [[20 November (releases)|20 November]] 2009. It starred [[Elizabeth Sladen]] as [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Tommy Knight]] as [[Luke Smith]], [[Daniel Anthony]] as [[Clyde Langer]], [[Anjli Mohindra]] as [[Rani Chandra]], [[Alexander Armstrong]] as [[Mr Smith]] and [[John Leeson]] as [[K9 Mark IV]]. The series opened with ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]'' and concluded with ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''.


[[Image:Sarah_Jane_Adventures_Logo.jpg|350px|centre]]
== Overview ==
The '''Third Series''' of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' is currently being broadcast by both [[CBBC]] and [[BBC One]], having debuted on [[15th October]] [[2009]]. The season consists of six stories of two episodes each.
It consisted of six stories and twelve episodes. In a change of broadcast format, two episodes aired each week, on Thursday and Friday, meaning the entire series aired over a six-week period, with a complete storyline told each week.


In a change of broadcast format, two episodes will air each week, on Thursday and Friday.<ref>http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/09/twice-weekly-sarah-jane.html</ref>
A minor change to the opening was made: Before the title sequence, Clyde would narrate the basic premise of the series over a montage of scenes.


Among notable appearances this season, [[K-9 Mark IV]] will appear in six of the twelve episodes and [[David Tennant]] appeared as the [[Tenth Doctor]] in the two-part story ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' which aired in late October.
Among notable appearances this series, [[K9 Mark IV]] appeared in six of the twelve episodes and [[David Tennant]] appeared as the [[Tenth Doctor]] in the two-part story ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' which aired in late October. Thanks in part to Tennant's appearance, the series scored higher-than-average ratings for children's programming, and also consistently scored high Appreciation Index ratings from viewers.
 
As with the [[Doctor Who|parent series]], ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' began being produced in high-definition in 2009. However, the 3D elements of the opening titles are upscaled from standard-definition - only the text elements, such as Elisabeth Sladen's credit, the episode title, and the "The" and "Adventures" from the logo, are rendered in true HD.{{Fact}}


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
=== Primary Cast ===
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]] - [[Elisabeth Sladen]]
*[[Sarah Jane Smith]] - [[Elisabeth Sladen]]
* [[Luke Smith]] - [[Tommy Knight]]
*[[Luke Smith]] - [[Tommy Knight]]
* [[Clyde Langer]] - [[Daniel Anthony]]
*[[Clyde Langer]] - [[Daniel Anthony]]  
* [[Rani Chandra]] - [[Anjli Mohindra]], [[Souad Faress]]
*[[Rani Chandra]] - [[Anjli Mohindra]]
* [[Mr Smith]] - [[Alexander Armstrong]] (voice)
*[[Mr Smith]] - [[Alexander Armstrong]] (voice)
* [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] - [[John Leeson]] (voice)
*[[K-9 Mark IV|K-9]] - [[John Leeson]] (voice)
 
=== Secondary Cast ===
*[[Haresh Chandra]] - [[Ace Bhatti]]
*[[Gita Chandra]] - [[Mina Anwar]]
 
===Guest cast===
*[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[David Tennant]]
*[[Celeste Rivers|Professor Celeste Rivers]] - [[Floella Benjamin]]
*[[Peter Dalton]] - [[Nigel Havers]]
*[[Harry (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Harry]] - [[Brian Miller]]
*[[Rani Chandra]] (older version) - [[Souad Faress]]
*[[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]] - [[Elenor Tomlinson]]
*TBA - [[Toby Parkes]]
*[[Registrar (The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)|Registrar]] - [[Zienia Merton]]
*TBA - [[Adam Gillen]]
*[[Erasmus Darkening]]  - [[Donald Sumpter]]
*TBA - [[Tony Boncza]]
*TBA - [[Amella Clarkson]]
*TBA - [[Callum Blue]]
*[[Mona Lisa (Character)|Mona Lisa]] - [[Suranne Jones]]
*TBA - [[Jeff Rawie]]
*TBA - [[Liza Sadovy]]
*TBA - [[Miriam Margolyes]]
 
== Episodes ==
*[[Prisoner of the Judoon]] (2 episodes)
*[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]] (2 episodes)
*[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]] (2 episodes)
*[[The Eternity Trap]] (2 episodes)
*[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]] (2 episodes)
*[[The Gift (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|The Gift]] (2 episodes)
 
==Audiobooks==
*[[The Shadow People]]
*[[The White Wolf]]
 
== Episode Notes ==
''These are all derived from the BBC Press Release and are not in story order''
*A chance for Sarah Jane to find personal happiness with someone who could be the perfect person to complete her family. <ref>[http://sarahjanetv.blogspot.com/2009/05/spoilers-ahoy.html BBC Press Release]</ref>
*There will be a living painting and the inhabitants of a supposedly haunted house
*Aliens who want to infect Earth with a strangely aggressive weed.
*An extraterrestrial girl that can make people play games against their will.
*An episode with the Judoon and their reptilian enemies, the Veil.
*An episode with the Doctor.
 
==Rumours and Announcements==
*On 26 May 2009, the BBC Press Office issued an announcement confirming the appearance of David Tennant. "It's more than just a cameo from the Tenth Doctor! He's a proper part of the story," said [[Russell T. Davies]]. He also added that the two-parter is ''"extraordinary, wild and powerfully moving,"'' cryptically adding, ''"let's just say that the wedding of Sarah Jane will be a day for everyone to remember!"''.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/05_may/26/sarah_jane.shtml BBC - Press Office - The Doctor to appear in CBBC drama The Sarah Jane Adventures] <small>accessed 10th August 2009</small></ref>
 
*K-9 will appear in 6 of the 12 episodes of the series. While this has yet to be confirmed, the BBC announcement regarding Tennant did confirm that K-9 appears in at least his two episodes.
 
*[[The Trickster]] will return.
 
*Rumor: [[Maria Jackson]] will return. {{fact}}
 
*Nigel Havers and Husband to [[Elizabeth Sladen]] Brian Miller have been confirmed to appear.{{fact}}
 
*A villain named Erasmus Darkening which has been described as ''one of the greatest and most chilling villain we've ever seen''. {{fact}}


*SFX Magazine confirmed that the [[Slitheen]]'s cousins the [[Blathereen]] will be in the finale.{{facts}}<!-- Which issue of SFX Magazine confirmed this?-->
=== Recurring ===
* [[Haresh Chandra]] - [[Ace Bhatti]]
* [[Gita Chandra]] - [[Mina Anwar]]
* [[Androvax]] - [[Mark Goldthorp]]
* [[Celeste Rivers|Professor Celeste Rivers]] - [[Floella Benjamin]]
* The [[Tenth Doctor]] - [[David Tennant]]
* [[The Trickster]] - [[Paul Marc Davies]]


*Information on the first episode has been revealed that a reptilian character called Androvax, a Veil. He's under arrest when one of the Judoon's life carriers crashes on Earth, so a Judoon's hunting down his prisoner who's escaped.{{fact}}
=== Guest ===
*Episode names for Series 3 were listed in [[DWM Issue 412]].
* [[Peter Dalton]] - [[Nigel Havers]]
* [[Harry Sowersby|Harry]] - [[Brian Miller (actor)|Brian Miller]]
* [[Adam Lloyd]] - [[Gregg Sulkin]]
* [[Samuel Lloyd]] - [[Toby Parkes]]
* [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]] - [[Eleanor Tomlinson]]
* [[Registrar (The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)|Registrar]] - [[Zienia Merton]]
* [[Toby Silverman]] - [[Adam Gillen]]
* [[Erasmus Darkening]] - [[Donald Sumpter]]
* [[Mona Lisa]] - [[Suranne Jones]]
* [[Lionel Harding]] - [[Jeff Rawle]]
* [[Phyllis Trupp]] - [[Liza Sadovy]]
* [[Tree Blathereen]] - [[Miriam Margolyes]]
* [[Leef Blathereen]] - [[Simon Callow]]


==Novelisations==
== Television stories ==
As of September 2009 only one story from this season has been announced for adaptation as a novelisation.
{| {{prettytable}}
!width="50"| Episodes || Title  || Writer(s) || Director || Notes
|-
|1
|''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]''
|[[Phil Ford]]
|[[Joss Agnew]]
|First appearance of [[Androvax]].
|-
|2
|''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'' 
|[[Joseph Lidster]]
|[[Alice Troughton]]
|First regular appearance of [[K9 Mark IV]], following the sealing of the [[black hole]] in [[Switzerland]].
|-
|3
|''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
|[[Gareth Roberts]]
|Joss Agnew
|Guest appearance by the [[Tenth Doctor]]. Final appearance of [[the Trickster]].
|-
|4
|''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]''
|rowspan=2|Phil Ford
|Alice Troughton
|
|-
|5
|''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]''
|Joss Agnew
|
|-
|6
|''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''
|[[Rupert Laight]]
|Alice Troughton
|Introduction of the [[Slitheen-Blathereen family]].
|}


* [[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (novelisation)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]
== Aliens and enemies ==
* [[Judoon]]
* [[Tybo|Captain Tybo]]
* [[Androvax]]
* [[Nanoform]]s
* [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]]
* [[Adam Lloyd|Adam]]
* [[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]]
* [[Travast Polong]]
* [[The Trickster]]
* [[Erasmus Darkening]]
* [[Mona Lisa]]
* [[The Dark Rider|Highwayman]]
* [[The Abomination (Mona Lisa's Revenge)|The Abomination]]
* [[Slitheen family]]
* [[Blathereen family]]


==Notes==
== Audiobooks ==
''to be added''
* ''[[The Shadow People]]''
* ''[[The White Wolf]]''


==Footnotes==
== Novels ==
The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 trailer
The only story of this series to be directly novelised was ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (novelisation)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''.
[[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ndt5j]]
Additionally, ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]'' was adapted as ''The Sarah Jane Adventures: Judoon Afternoon'', ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]'' was adapted as ''The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Haunted House'', ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'' was adapted as ''The Sarah Jane Adventures: Painting Peril'' and ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'' was adapted as ''The Sarah Jane Adventures: Blathereen Dream''.
{{reflist}}


== Home video releases ==
* The Complete Third Series boxset was released on [[BBC DVD]] on [[1 November (releases)|1 November]] 2010.
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* Both parts of ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' were released on Blu-ray as part of the US-exclusive box set [[The Complete David Tennant Collection]] on [[17 September (releases)|17 September]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]], with the same disc being later released on the Complete Specials steelbook in October 2019. This marked the first time any episodes from Series 3 were released in an high-definition format as it had not been before despite being shot in high-definition.


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Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures ran between 15 October 2009 and 20 November 2009. It starred Elizabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, Tommy Knight as Luke Smith, Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer, Anjli Mohindra as Rani Chandra, Alexander Armstrong as Mr Smith and John Leeson as K9 Mark IV. The series opened with Prisoner of the Judoon and concluded with The Gift.

Overview[[edit]]

It consisted of six stories and twelve episodes. In a change of broadcast format, two episodes aired each week, on Thursday and Friday, meaning the entire series aired over a six-week period, with a complete storyline told each week.

A minor change to the opening was made: Before the title sequence, Clyde would narrate the basic premise of the series over a montage of scenes.

Among notable appearances this series, K9 Mark IV appeared in six of the twelve episodes and David Tennant appeared as the Tenth Doctor in the two-part story The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith which aired in late October. Thanks in part to Tennant's appearance, the series scored higher-than-average ratings for children's programming, and also consistently scored high Appreciation Index ratings from viewers.

As with the parent series, The Sarah Jane Adventures began being produced in high-definition in 2009. However, the 3D elements of the opening titles are upscaled from standard-definition - only the text elements, such as Elisabeth Sladen's credit, the episode title, and the "The" and "Adventures" from the logo, are rendered in true HD.[source needed]

Cast[[edit]]

Recurring[[edit]]

Guest[[edit]]

Television stories[[edit]]

Episodes Title Writer(s) Director Notes
1 Prisoner of the Judoon Phil Ford Joss Agnew First appearance of Androvax.
2 The Mad Woman in the Attic Joseph Lidster Alice Troughton First regular appearance of K9 Mark IV, following the sealing of the black hole in Switzerland.
3 The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith Gareth Roberts Joss Agnew Guest appearance by the Tenth Doctor. Final appearance of the Trickster.
4 The Eternity Trap Phil Ford Alice Troughton
5 Mona Lisa's Revenge Joss Agnew
6 The Gift Rupert Laight Alice Troughton Introduction of the Slitheen-Blathereen family.

Aliens and enemies[[edit]]

Audiobooks[[edit]]

Novels[[edit]]

The only story of this series to be directly novelised was The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith. Additionally, Prisoner of the Judoon was adapted as The Sarah Jane Adventures: Judoon Afternoon, The Eternity Trap was adapted as The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Haunted House, Mona Lisa's Revenge was adapted as The Sarah Jane Adventures: Painting Peril and The Gift was adapted as The Sarah Jane Adventures: Blathereen Dream.

Home video releases[[edit]]

  • Region 2 cover

    Region 2 cover

  • Both parts of The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith were released on Blu-ray as part of the US-exclusive box set The Complete David Tennant Collection on 17 September 2019, with the same disc being later released on the Complete Specials steelbook in October 2019. This marked the first time any episodes from Series 3 were released in an high-definition format as it had not been before despite being shot in high-definition.
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