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|featuring            = Alan Jackson
|featuring            = Alan Jackson
|featuring2          = Chrissie Jackson
|featuring2          = Chrissie Jackson
|enemy                = [[The Abbess (Eye of the Gorgon)|The Abbess]], [[Helena (Eye of the Gorgon)|Sister Helena]]
|enemy                = [[The Abbess (Eye of the Gorgon)|The Abbess]]
|setting              = [[Lavender Lawns]] and [[Ealing]], [[2008]]
|setting              = [[Lavender Lawns]] and [[Ealing]], [[2008]]
|writer              = [[Phil Ford]]
|writer              = [[Phil Ford]]
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|clip3                = The Gorgon Turns to Stone! The Eye of the Gorgon The Sarah Jane Adventures
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'''''Eye of the Gorgon''''' was the second serial of [[Series 1 (SJA)|series 1]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. It was written by [[Phil Ford]] and directed by [[Alice Troughton]]. It featured [[Elisabeth Sladen]] as [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Yasmin Paige]] as [[Maria Jackson]], [[Tommy Knight]] as [[Luke Smith]], [[Daniel Anthony]] as [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Alexander Armstrong]] as [[Mr Smith]].
'''''Eye of the Gorgon''''' was the second serial of [[Series 1 (SJA)|series 1]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. It was written by [[Phil Ford]] and directed by [[Alice Troughton]]. [[Alan Jackson]] had his first encounter with alien life in this episode, but, due to Sarah Jane's insistence, he was made to believe he had dreamt the whole thing.
 
It consisted of the third and fourth episodes of the series. [[Alan Jackson]] had his first encounter with alien life in this episode, but, at Sarah Jane's insistence, he was made to believe he dreamt the whole thing up.


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
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=== Cultural references to the real world ===
=== Cultural references to the real world ===
* Sarah Jane Smith, while attempting to guess where the abbey is, mentions [[Agatha Christie]] and her creation Miss [[Marple]].
* Sarah Jane, while attempting to guess where the abbey is, mentions [[Agatha Christie]] and her creation Miss [[Marple]].
* [[Barbara Shelley]] and [[Christopher Lee]] appeared in a movie about Gorgons.
* [[Barbara Shelley]] and [[Christopher Lee]] appeared in a movie about Gorgons.
* ''[[On A Slow Boat To China]]'' is Bea and Edgar Nelson-Stanley's song.
* ''[[On A Slow Boat To China]]'' is Bea and Edgar Nelson-Stanley's song.
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=== Objects ===
=== Objects ===
* Mrs Randall has a [[Toby jug]] collection.
* Mrs. Randall has a [[Toby jug]] collection.


=== Locations ===
=== Locations ===
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=== Spacecraft ===
=== Spacecraft ===
* There is a silhouette/scale drawing of a [[Jagaroth]] ship on the wall in Sarah's attic.
* There is a silhouette/scale drawing of a [[Jagaroth]] ship on the wall in Sarah Jane's attic.
* Sarah and Maria want to watch a [[Viszeran Royal Fleet]].
* Sarah Jane and Maria want to watch a [[Viszeran Royal Fleet]].


=== Species ===
=== Species ===
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== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
* The building used as [[Lavender Lawns]] is the same building used as the hotel where [[Donna Noble]], her mother [[Sylvia Noble]] and her grandfather [[Wilfred Mott]] were staying when [[London]] was destroyed on [[Christmas]] [[2008]] in ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]''.
* Clyde voices his intention to one day place his brain inside a robot body to achieve immortality, which Sarah Jane briefly looks at in for. Clyde's pan is not unlike the nature of the [[Cybermen]], a species Sarah Jane had encountered in her travels with the Doctor.


=== Ratings ===
=== Ratings ===
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Sarah has met the [[Sontaran]]s twice before. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
* The [[Gorgon]]'s attack on [[Alan Jackson]] resembles [[Petrifold Regression]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'')
* The [[Second Doctor]] encountered a fictionalised version of [[Medusa]], another Gorgon, in the [[Land of Fiction]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]'')
* The [[sonic lipstick]] does not work on wood, similar to [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'')
* The nuns hiding the Gorgon is similar to when a [[The Brethren|Brethren]] of [[monk]]s hid a [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform|werewolf]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')
* The [[First Doctor]] encountered a different type of Gorgon in the company of [[John Who|John]] and [[Gillian Who|Gillian]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Gaze of the Gorgon (comic story)|The Gaze of the Gorgon]]'')
* The [[First Doctor]] encountered a different type of Gorgon in the company of [[John Who|John]] and [[Gillian Who|Gillian]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Gaze of the Gorgon (comic story)|The Gaze of the Gorgon]]'')
* In an alternate timeline where Sarah Jane died prematurely, the Trickster diverted the Gorgon from Earth so that the planet would ultimately be destroyed by a [[meteor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'')
* Sarah Jane has met the [[Sontaran]]s at least twice before. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'')
* Maria later tells her father about the Gorgon turning him to stone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]'')
* Shortly before parting Sarah's company, Maria recalls the Gorgon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]'')


== Home video releases ==
== Home video releases ==
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