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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.
