The Gift (TV story)

The Gift is the sixth and final story in The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3.

The Gift
Featuring:	Sarah Jane Smith Luke Smith Clyde Langer Rani Chandra K-9 Mark IV
Main enemy:	Slitheen Blathereen
Key crew
Writer:	Rupert Laight
Director:	Alice Troughton
Producer:	Nikki Smith
Release details
Release number:	19
Premiere broadcast:	19 November 2009 (part 1) 20 November 2009 (part 2)[1]
Format:	2 - 30 minute episodes

Synopsis

When the Slitheen's latest scheme is halted, the Blathereen arrive - can they be trusted?When the gift runs riot, Sarah Jane faces the battle of her life to save Luke.

Plot

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Cast

• Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
• Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
• Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
• Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
• Mr Smith - Alexander Armstrong
• Voice of K-9 - John Leeson
• Voice - Miriam Margolyes
• Voice - Simon Callow
• Blathereen - Paul Kasey
• Blathereen - Ruari Mears
• Chris - Calvin Dean
• Slitheen - Jimmy Vee
• Dave - Edward Judge
• Miss Jerome - Sarah Paul

Crew

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References

A Blathereen explodes in the attic covering the team with it's remains, Clyde says "Why does this always happen to me?" referencing when a Slitheen exploded on him in SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen and a Bane in SJA: Enemy of the Bane

Story Notes

• A CBBC literature statement confirmed both the Slitheen and Blathereen would appear in the series.
• In an interview with Nikki Wilson for SFX she confirmed the Blathereen as appearing in these episode. A series preview by Digital Spy also confirmed the Blathereen as appearing in the Finale
• The Blathereen and Slitheen both appeared in the book NSA: The Monsters Inside. The Gift is the first appearance of the Blathereen in a TV story.
• The Slitheen leader referred to the Blathereen in SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen.
• This episode marks the return of the Slitheen in the Sarah Jane Adventures. They previously appeared in SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen, The Lost Boy, From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love
• The Blathereen are supposedly orange compared to their green cousins.
• Simon Callow previously played Charles Dickens in DW: The Unquiet Dead

Ratings

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Myths

• The Judoon will appear. This is a rumour, because in the previous two series the alien from the first episode appeared the the finale.This is not strictly true because it has been the villain from the opening story so the Slitheen in Revenge of the Slitheen in Series One and Kaagh the Sontaran in The Last Sontaran in Series 2. If the pattern of the previous two series were repeated for Series 3 (Which is unlikely because of the appearence of the Slitheen and Blathereen ) then Androvax from Prisoner of the Judoon would have returned but the Judoon could still make an appearence since the Slitheen have previously mentioned the Judoon. On the 30.10.09 a CBBC spokesperson for the show said that the Judoon were spotted by fans with a gun at a slitheen/blathereen in human form, this scene would not have fitted in Prisoner of the Judoon as it took place outside the Pharos Institute.

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

• If the Blathereen are orange then why didn't the Ninth Doctor or Rose Tyler reference this in NSA: The Monsters Inside? It was not important at the time
• If the Blathereen are orange, then why were they confused with green Slitheen in NSA: The Monsters Inside? Because the Doctor and Rose didn't know much about Raxacoricofallapatorians and may have just thought their skin colour can vary. But, in World War Three, the Doctor uses the fact that the Slitheen are green to narrow down their possible homeworld, suggesting that the Doctor knows Raxicoricofalipatorians as being green. However, his knowledge of them does seem to be limited. The Doctor may not have actually found their skin colour useful, but pretended to to preserve morale and keep Rose and company firing useful suggestions at him. Most of the stuff they say he already knew anyway and so the scene itself is either flawed, or it was just The Doctor being a goof in the middle of a crisis as he sometimes is.

Continuity

• The Blathereen first appeared in NSA: The Monsters Inside.
• The Slitheen first appeared in DW: Aliens of London / World War Three, and SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen SJA: The Lost Boy and SJA: From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love.

Timeline

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External Links

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