Maria Jackson

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Maria Jackson was a teenage girl who assisted Sarah Jane Smith. and her friends in combating alien menaces.

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Adventures with Sarah Jane , Luke and Clyde

Maria spies on Sarah Jane and the Star Poet (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)

When Maria was thirteen, her parents Alan and Chrissie Jackson divorced. Alan and Maria moved to 12 Bannerman Road (as referenced several times in the first series but changed to 36 Bannerman Road in the second series) in Ealing. The first night Maria made the life-changing discovery about her neighbour, Sarah Jane Smith, when she witnessed her conversing with a glowing winged alien. The very next day, she and a new friend from the neighourhood went to the Bubble Shock! factory, encountered other, unfriendly aliens and with Sarah Jane, Kelsey and a young artificial Human, Luke (at that time known only as "the Archetype"), banded together to defeat the Bane invasion. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane) One week later the now fourteen year old Maria met the "cool" Clyde Langer at school (Park Vale Comprehensive School), who joined with the others. (SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen)

After a number of other adventures, Maria helped Sarah Jane after the Trickster made it so that she had never existed. In this reality, Luke also did not exist and she barely knew Clyde Langer. With the original timeline restored, however, Maria's father stumbled in on the existence of Sarah Jane's activities. Alan told Maria that they were moving away, concerned for his daughter, but Alan recanted and decided to stay in their old home when Maria convinced him that not all aliens were evil. (SJA: The Lost Boy)

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Maria and the gang(SJA: The Last Sontaran)
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Sarah jane saying her last goodbye to Maria (SJA: The Last Sontaran)

During the Dalek theft of Earth, Maria was staying in Cornwall with her father. (DW: The Stolen Earth)

When Alan got a new job offer in America, Maria and Alan made the decision that he should accept the offer.They then moved to Washington, D.C. (SJA: The Last Sontaran) She still stayed in contact with Luke via email. (SJA:

Maria helped to find information on the Berserker to help Luke and Rani

The Day of the Clown) She and her dad also helped to find information on the Berserker. (SJA: The Mark of the Berserker)

Some time later, she was helping aliens hide from the American government. (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

Soon after she was invited to Sarah Jane's wedding but could not attend because she was taking exams. (SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

Alternate Realities

Donna's World

If Donna Noble had turned right for a job interview instead of turning left, Maria would have investigated the Royal Hope Hospital with Sarah Jane, Clyde and Luke. Since, as it was moved to the moon, the oxygen ran out it caused every one in the hospital, including Maria, to die of suffocation. (DW: Turn Left)

The Trickster's World

In The Trickster's World, Maria Jackson was erased from time by Krislok and then sent to Limbo. Because she was protected from the Trickster by the Verron soothsayer puzzle box, she was the only person who knew about the meteorite that was heading towards the Earth.

Personality

Maria had a patient, tolerant, and inquisitive personality. The divorce of her parents made her somewhat moody, and she was much less worldly-wise and trendy than Clyde though she was also braver and more sensitive. Clearly, Maria looked up to Sarah Jane, and Sarah Jane trusted her more than anyone in the world. (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)

Key Life Events

Behind the scenes

  • Although Maria technically left the series in The Last Sontaran, each story for the remainder of Series 2 included some on-screen reference to her, with Maria herself making a cameo in The Mark of the Berserker. Maria was again referenced several times in Series 3, though she did not appear.
  • Revenge of the Slitheen places Maria's birthday sometime in the last week of August as she had to be fourteen before the 1st of September to be in year 10 with Luke and Clyde. (SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen)


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