List of The Sarah Jane Adventures serials

The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science-fiction television programme that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC. Created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen, it is a spin-off of the long-running BBC science-fiction programme Doctor Who and is aimed at a younger audience, in comparison to Doctor Who which is family-orientated.

The programme focuses on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist who, as a young woman, had numerous adventures across time and space (as seen in Doctor Who). Now middle-aged and living in Ealing, London, she investigates extra-terrestrial matters and battles aliens intent on bringing harm to Earth. Smith is accompanied by her adopted son, an artificially-created human named Luke, neighbour Maria Jackson and their friend Clyde Langer. She is later joined by new neighbour Rani Chandra and newly-adopted daughter Sky Smith.

The first episode, a 60-minute special, premiered on 1 January 2007. The following first series comprised five two-part stories (10 episodes)^[1] and aired between 24 September to 19 November 2007.^[2] The following three series, Series 2-4, each consisted of six two-part serials^[3] and aired annually between 29 September–8 December 2008, 15 October–20 November 2009 and 11 October–16 November 2010, respectively. A fifth series of twelve episodes (6 two-part serials) was commissioned for broadcast in 2011,^[4] but only the first three serials were completed prior to the death of Elisabeth Sladen, the series' lead actress.^[5] They aired between 3–18 October 2011.

For the first two series, the first episode was aired on BBC One, followed by the second episode on CBBC. For subsequent episodes, the date is when it first aired on CBBC, immediately after the previous episode was aired on BBC One.

Series overview

Series		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	Special			1 January 2007
	1	10		24 September 2007	19 November 2007
	2	12		29 September 2008	8 December 2008
	Special			19 March 2009
	3	12		15 October 2009	20 November 2009
	4	12		11 October 2010	16 November 2010
	5	6		3 October 2011	18 October 2011

Episodes

New Year's Day special (2007)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions) [6]
1	–	"Invasion of the Bane"	Colin Teague	Russell T Davies & Gareth Roberts	1 January 2007	1.X	2.92

Series 1 (2007)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions) [6]
2	1	Revenge of the Slitheen	Alice Troughton	Gareth Roberts	24 September 2007	1.1 1.2	1.40 1.55
3	2	Eye of the Gorgon	Alice Troughton	Phil Ford	1 October 2007 8 October 2007	1.3 1.4	1.47 1.44
4	3	Warriors of Kudlak	Charles Martin	Phil Gladwin	15 October 2007 22 October 2007	1.5 1.6	1.43 1.60
5	4	Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?	Graeme Harper	Gareth Roberts	29 October 2007 5 November 2007	1.7 1.8	1.61 1.73
6	5	The Lost Boy	Charles Martin	Phil Ford	12 November 2007 19 November 2007	1.9 1.10	1.77 1.86

Series 2 (2008)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions) [7]
7	1	The Last Sontaran	Joss Agnew	Phil Ford	29 September 2008	2.1 2.2	0.82 1.18
8	2	The Day of the Clown	Michael Kerrigan	Phil Ford	6 October 2008 13 October 2008	2.3 2.4	1.11 1.28
9	3	Secrets of the Stars	Michael Kerrigan	Gareth Roberts	20 October 2008 27 October 2008	2.5 2.6	1.42 1.21
10	4	The Mark of the Berserker	Joss Agnew	Joseph Lidster	3 November 2008 10 November 2008	2.7 2.8	1.43 1.53
11	5	The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith	Graeme Harper	Gareth Roberts	17 November 2008 24 November 2008	2.9 2.10	1.18 1.39
12	6	Enemy of the Bane	Graeme Harper	Phil Ford	1 December 2008 8 December 2008	2.11 2.12	1.36 1.26

Comic Relief special (2009)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions) [8]
–	–	From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love	Joss Agnew	Gareth Roberts & Clayton Hickman	13 March 2009	–	8.30

Series 3 (2009)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions) [9]
13	1	Prisoner of the Judoon	Joss Agnew	Phil Ford	15 October 2009 16 October 2009	3.1 3.2	0.73 0.82
14	2	The Mad Woman in the Attic	Alice Troughton	Joseph Lidster	22 October 2009 23 October 2009	3.3 3.4	0.75 0.84
15	3	The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith	Joss Agnew	Gareth Roberts	29 October 2009 30 October 2009	3.5 3.6	1.59 1.47
16	4	The Eternity Trap	Alice Troughton	Phil Ford	5 November 2009 6 November 2009	3.7 3.8	1.14 0.93
17	5	Mona Lisa's Revenge	Joss Agnew	Phil Ford	12 November 2009 13 November 2009	3.9 3.10	1.12 0.92
18	6	The Gift	Alice Troughton	Rupert Laight	19 November 2009 20 November 2009	3.11 3.12	0.95 0.89

Series 4 (2010)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions) [10]
19	1	The Nightmare Man	Joss Agnew	Joseph Lidster	11 October 2010 12 October 2010	4.1 4.2	0.59 0.67
20	2	The Vault of Secrets	Joss Agnew	Phil Ford	18 October 2010 19 October 2010	4.3 4.4	0.73 0.61
21	3	Death of the Doctor	Ashley Way	Russell T Davies	25 October 2010 26 October 2010	4.5 4.6	0.92 0.96
22	4	The Empty Planet	Ashley Way	Gareth Roberts	1 November 2010 2 November 2010	4.7 4.8	0.99 0.81
23	5	Lost in Time	Joss Agnew	Rupert Laight	8 November 2010 9 November 2010	4.9 4.10	0.98 0.68
24	6	Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith	Joss Agnew	Gareth Roberts & Clayton Hickman	15 November 2010 16 November 2010	4.11 4.12	0.81 0.82

Series 5 (2011)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions) [11]
25	1	Sky	Ashley Way	Phil Ford	3 October 2011 4 October 2011	5.1 5.2	0.53 0.53
26	2	The Curse of Clyde Langer	Ashley Way	Phil Ford	10 October 2011 11 October 2011	5.3 5.4	0.79 0.73
27	3	The Man Who Never Was	Joss Agnew	Gareth Roberts	17 October 2011 18 October 2011	5.5 5.6	0.71 0.60

See also

• List of unmade The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes
• Doctor Who
  • List of Doctor Who serials
• K-9 and Company
  • List of K-9 and Company episodes
• Torchwood
  • List of Torchwood episodes
• K-9
  • List of K-9 episodes
• Class
• Sarah Jane's Alien Files

References

1. "Sarah's Adventures". Doctor Who Magazine (375): 4. 8 November 2006.
2. "Russell T Davies creates new series for CBBC, starring Doctor Who's Sarah Jane Smith" (Press release). BBC. 14 September 2006. Retrieved 14 September 2006.
3. Dowell, Ben (25 November 2008). "BBC signs up for more of Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
4. "Releases Sarah Jane returns to CBBC for two further series of adventures" (Press release). BBC Press Office. 4 March 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
5. Doctor Who Magazine issue 423
6. "Sarah Jane Adventures – Series 1". TheDoctorWhoSite. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
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8. Global Episode Opinion Survey. "GEOS - The Sarah Jane Adventures - From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love". geos.tv.
9. "Sarah Jane Adventures – Series 3". TheDoctorWhoSite. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
10. "Sarah Jane Adventures – Series 4". TheDoctorWhoSite. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
11. "Sarah Jane Adventures – Series 5". CBBC News. Retrieved 28 January 2015.