Sarah Jane's Alien Files: Difference between revisions

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
No edit summary
 
(65 intermediate revisions by 25 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
:''This article refers to the webisode and television series.  For the in-universe Alien Files, see [[Alien Files]].''
{{cleanup|This article conflates two similarly named but separate series of different media types with seemingly no official throughline, and should thus be split.}}
{{title dab away}}
{{real world}}
{{real world}}
'''''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>) is a series spun off from ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]].'' It started during the programme's [[Series 3 (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|third series]] as a series of webisodes on the programme's website, similar to the ''[[Monster Files]]''. At the start of [[Series 4 (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 clips from the episodes in which they appeared.
{{Infobox Merchandise
|image        = SJA Alien Files1.jpg
|aka          = SJA Alien Files, The Alien Files
|designer    =
|publisher    =
|type        = Webcast series
|price        =
|release date = 11 October 2010 - 15 November 2010
}}{{you may|Alien Files|n1=Sarah Jane's database}}{{Big toc}}
'''''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.


==Online version==
== Online version ==
===Format===
The original version of the series was ''The Alien Files,'' a series of six [[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.
The original version of the series was ''The Alien Files,'' a series of five short [[webcast]]s presented by [[Mr Smith]] with [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]]. The webisodes featured Rani, Clyde, or both accessing Mr Smith's video vaults to review previous aliens they had encountered.


The webisodes were streamed via the official ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' website. As with other video content on BBC websites, the webisodes are "geofenced" due to licensing and are technically not allowed to be viewed outside of the UK.
The webisodes were streamed via the official ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' website. As with other video content on BBC websites, the webisodes were "geofenced" due to licensing and are technically not viewable outside of the UK.


===Webisodes===
=== Webisodes ===
*''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'': [[Androvax]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/androvax.shtml Alien File]
* ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]'': [[Androvax]] [https://archive.is/20130622094245/www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/androvax.shtml Alien File]
**Presenter: [[Rani Chandra]]
** Presenter: [[Rani Chandra]]
*''[[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 Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'': [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]] [https://archive.is/20130622094311/www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/eve.shtml Alien File]
**Presenter: [[Clyde Langer]]
** Presenter: [[Clyde Langer]]
*''[[The Eternity Trap]]'': [[Erasmus Darkening]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/erasmus.shtml Alien File]
* ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'': [[The Doctor]] [https://archive.is/20130622094329/www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/characters/pages/doctor.shtml?video=p00h3wsx Alien File]
**Presenter: Clyde Langer
** Presenter: Rani Chandra
*''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'': [[Mona Lisa]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/monalisa.shtml Alien File]
* ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]'': [[Erasmus Darkening]] [https://archive.is/20130622094232/www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/erasmus.shtml Alien File]
**Presenters: Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra
** Presenters: Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra
*''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'': [[Blathereen]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/blathereen.shtml Alien File]
* ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'': [[Mona Lisa]] [https://archive.is/20130622094258/www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/monalisa.shtml Alien File]
**Presenter: Clyde Langer
** Presenters: Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra
* ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'': [[Blathereen]] [https://archive.is/20130622094224/www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sja/aliens/pages/blathereen.shtml Alien File]
** Presenter: Clyde Langer


==Television version==
== Television version ==
===Format===
[[File:sja alien files title.jpg|thumb|right|Opening title card television version.]]
Beginning with [[Series 4 (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Series 4 of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'']], ''The Alien Files'' was expanded to a weekly television series to complement the ''Sarah Jane Adventures'' series proper and recap its previous series.  Now known as ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files,'' the 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 is broadcast on [[CBBC]] Monday evenings, immediately following part one of that week's two-part ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' story.


The series portrays 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 features 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 is 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 episodes of ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files'' feature material from and references to multiple stories in which the aliens being discussed appeared.
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 [[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.


===Episodes===
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.
*[[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 1]]: [[The Trickster]] and [[Krislok]] the [[Graske]]
**Presenter: [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
*[[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 2]]: [[Pied Piper]], [[Ship]] and [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]]
**Presenter: [[Rani Chandra]]
*[[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 3]]: [[Sontaran]]s, [[Wormwood (Bane)|Wormwood]] and the [[Bane Mother]]
**Presenter: [[Luke Smith]]
*[[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 4]]: ''[[Slitheen family|Slitheen]], [[Blathereen family|Blathereen]] and [[Rakweed]]
**Presenter: Sarah Jane Smith


==Canonicity==
The programme was not continued after Series 4 of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures.'' There have not been repeat broadcasts, and the series did not follow its parent ''Sarah Jane Adventures'' onto home video or VOD releases.
Unlike the ''[[Monster Files]]'' and other web-originated content, the canonicity of ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files'' is certain.  The only aliens mentioned are those which the children had encountered before on-screen, and no information contradicts the [[The Sarah Jane Adventures|main series]].  The TV edition also features new material taking place within ''Sarah Jane Adventures'' continuity, and establishes the [[Alien Files]] as an in-universe database created and maintained by the characters.


==Timeline==
=== Episodes ===
The exact time-placement of ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files'' episodes in continuity is unclear; due to being broadcast between parts of two-part ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' stories they cannot be placed alongside that series in strict airing order.  Based upon references made to events in [[Series 4 (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Series 4]] preceding their airing, ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files'' episodes can generally be assumed to take place sometime near airing order, either before or after the ''Sarah Jane Adventures'' story in progress.
* [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 1]]: [[The Trickster]] and [[Krislok]] the [[Graske]]
** Presenter: [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
* [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 2]]: [[Pied Piper]], [[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]] and [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]]
** Presenter: [[Rani Chandra]]
* [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 3]]: [[Sontaran]]s, [[Wormwood (Invasion of the Bane)|Wormwood]] and the [[Bane Mother]]
** Presenter: [[Luke Smith]]
* [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 4]]: [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]], [[Blathereen family|Blathereen]] and [[Rakweed]]
** Presenter: Sarah Jane Smith
* [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 5]]: The [[Berserker]]s and the [[Mona Lisa]]
** Presenter: [[Clyde Langer]]
* [[Sarah Jane's Alien Files episode 6]]: The [[Judoon]], [[Mister Dread]] and [[Androvax]]
** Presenter: Luke Smith


==Footnotes==
== External links ==
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p00h3vdx Alien File: Androvax] on the BBC Website
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p00h3wb0 Alien File: Eve] on the BBC Website
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p00h3wsx Alien File: The Doctor] on the BBC Website
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p00h3q71 Alien File: Erasmus Darkening] on the BBC Website
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p00h3r2c Alien File: Mona Lisa] on the BBC Website
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/p00h3trl Alien File: Blathereen] on the BBC Website
 
== Footnotes ==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}
[[Category:BBC]]
{{SJAwebcasts}}
[[Category:In-universe websites]]
{{TitleSort}}
 
[[Category:Webcasts]]
[[Category:Webcasts]]
[[Category:Television shows with Doctor Who connections]]
[[Category:SJA]]
[[Category:The Sarah Jane Adventures]]
[[Category:Television overviews]]

Latest revision as of 02:42, 23 March 2024

This article needs a big cleanup.

This article conflates two similarly named but separate series of different media types with seemingly no official throughline, and should thus be split.

These problems might be so great that the article's factual accuracy has been compromised. Talk about it here or check the revision history or Manual of Style for more information.

RealWorld.png

You may be looking for Sarah Jane's database.

Sarah Jane's Alien Files (also known as SJA Alien Files, formerly The Alien Files[1]) was a series spun off from The Sarah Jane Adventures. It started during the programme's third series as a series of webisodes on the programme's website, similar to the Monster Files. During 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.

Online version[[edit] | [edit source]]

The original version of the series was The Alien Files, a series of six webcasts 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.

The webisodes were streamed via the official The Sarah Jane Adventures website. As with other video content on BBC websites, the webisodes were "geofenced" due to licensing and are technically not viewable outside of the UK.

Webisodes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Television version[[edit] | [edit source]]

Opening title card television version.

Alongside 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 BBC as "the ultimate guide of everything you could possibly need to know when facing hostile aliens."[2] 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. There have not been repeat broadcasts, and the series did not follow its parent Sarah Jane Adventures onto home video or VOD releases.

Episodes[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 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."
  2. ↑ [1]
v • e
SJA webcasts and spin offs
Alien Files (Web)
Alien Files (TV)
SJAF 1 • SJAF 2 • SJAF 3 • SJAF 4 • SJAF 5 • SJAF 6
SJA Special (Web)
Other
Retrieved from "https://tardis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Jane%27s_Alien_Files&oldid=3745708"