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The Curse of Clyde Langer

The Curse of Clyde Langer was a Sarah Jane Adventures story from its final series. Atypical for its downbeat ending, Langer gave additional definition to its titular character, and therefore emphasised actor Daniel Anthony's acting abilities. It was notable for its mature yet sensitive handling of the difficult issue of child homelessness, while simultaneously introducing romance to the hitherto completely chaste series. So well-received was the script that it was considered 2012's best script for children's television by the Writer's Guild of Great Britain.

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The Day of the Clown

The Day of the Clown was the second story of the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. It introduced Rani, Gita and Haresh Chandra as the new occupants of the Jacksons' home on Bannerman Road. It established that Sarah had been afraid of clowns since childhood and thereby centred the story on the nature of fear itself.

The story also contained some important character beats that were carried on throughout the series. Hanging over Rani's introduction was the fact that Luke keenly missed Maria, and that Rani knew that she was a kind of "replacement" for Jackson. Additionally, the hostility between Haresh Chandra and Clyde Langer began here, as did the notion that Rani was a budding journalist who needed professional mentoring by Sarah Jane. All of these themes would continue for the rest of the series, and were even prominent as late as the final story.

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Invasion of the Bane

Invasion of the Bane was the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, but it was not a pilot of any kind, since the whole of series 1 was commissioned simultaneously. (DWMSE 23) Indeed, the BBC One continuity announcement immediately following transmission proclaimed, "That was a taster for a brand new series that comes to CBBC later this year." Even so, it is frequently called "the pilot" in the fan community, and even occasionally by Doctor Who Magazine. The production team also occasionally think of it as something "other" than series 1, since it comprised a production block of its own, several months prior to principal photography on the rest of the series.

The episode re-introduced Sarah Jane Smith, then-familiar to BBC Wales audiences after her appearance on Doctor Who a few months earlier in School Reunion. Simultaneously, it wrote out K9 Mark IV, whom audiences would have expected to see with Sarah Jane because of his appearance in the precedent Doctor Who story. Bob Baker, co-creator and owner of the concept of K9, was interested in getting K9 a show of his own, and so didn't want to dilute enthusiasm for the character by allowing his heavy use in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

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Elisabeth Sladen

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Elisabeth Sladen (1 February played Sarah Jane Smith on Doctor Who and the spin-offs K9 and Company and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Sladen stayed on Doctor Who from the start of Season 11 to midway through Season 14. She worked with Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor and Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, receiving popular and critical acclaim. When she left the series in 1976, it made front page news - previously only a change of Doctors had received such attention. Writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin intentionally left Sarah's departure scene in The Hand of Fear unwritten; Sladen and Tom Baker co-wrote it themselves. She later returned for The Five Doctors, and then at Russell T Davies' behest for School Reunion. This then led to her headlining her own CBBC series for five years.

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The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures — often abbreviated as simply SJA — was a spin-off series of Doctor Who, produced by BBC Wales for CBBC. It ran from 2007 to 2011, over the course of five series. All stories except for the the initial one were presented in a serial format, with each serial being comprised of two, 25-minute episodes. Created by Russell T Davies after a positive experience working with Elisabeth Sladen on the Doctor Who episode School Reunion, it concerned itself with Sarah Jane's life after her initial encounter with the Tenth Doctor. The series featured regular appearances by several teenaged cast members, their parents, a computer named Mr Smith, and K9. Aimed at a younger audience than Doctor Who, its UK timeslot was typically around 16:30 on Mondays and Tuesdays.

The show followed Sarah Jane Smith some time 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 her adventures, Sarah Jane entered motherhood by adopting former alien-created tools, such as her son Luke Smith and daughter Sky Smith. She was assisted in knowledge of alien life and technology by her super-computer, Mr Smith and robot dog K9 Mark IV.

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Death of the Doctor

Death of the Doctor was the third story in the fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. It contained the first televised meeting between classic-era companions Sarah Jane and Jo Grant (through her marriage, now known as Jo Jones), and the first televised appearance of Jo since her 1973 swansong. It also contained the only appearance of the Eleventh Doctor on SJA, since he was never included in any flashbacks during the remaining serials the programme had yet to broadcast.

It was also narratively important for the changes it made to other stories. It added to The End of Time by stating that the Tenth Doctor had visited all his former companions, not just the original-to-BBC Wales companions seen in that story. It established something not strongly asserted in Sarah's first season: the Third Doctor and members of UNIT had vividly described Jo, such that Sarah was able to recognise her in this story without ever having met her before.

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The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith

The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith was notable for the appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and well known British actor Nigel Havers as Sarah's would-be suitor. It was the first time that the Doctor had appeared in any of the spin-off, but David Tennant's last performance as the Doctor during his original tenure. It was essentially filmed in the same production block as his final episode of Doctor Who, albeit in a different corner of the Upper Boat Studios.

The Trickster also returned for a third time. It would turn out to be his last appearance on the series, and his only direct confrontation with the Doctor, although he would be obliquely referenced in Turn Left and Torchwood: Miracle Day.

The show was due to feature Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier, but his ill health prevented him from appearing. The Brig nevertheless does feature in the novelisation, offering a tantalising glimpse of what would have been the character's only televised meeting with a 21st century incarnation of the Doctor.