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Post by matthewsee on Mar 4, 2010 14:23:26 GMT -5
The BBC has not only confirmed a fourth season of The Sarah Jane Adventures but a fifth season as well. Like the previous two seasons, the two new seasons will each consist of 12 half hour episodes. With plot details: www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/03_march/04/sarah_jane.shtml Writers for the season 4 includes co-producer Phil Ford, Joseph Lidster, Rupert Laight, Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman. |
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 19, 2010 15:29:33 GMT -5
Two special guests will be appearing in a story of season 4: The BBC Press Office has announced that a story for the upcoming season four of The Sarah Jane Adventures will feature both Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and the return of Katy Manning as the Doctor's former companion Jo Grant. Notwithstanding her appearances in the Big Finish audio dramas, this marks the first time that Katy will be playing Jo since leaving Doctor Who in 1973. www.doctorwhoworld.org.uk/sjas4news.html |
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 23, 2010 18:21:13 GMT -5
The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine has revealed the titles for season 4: 1: The Nightmare Man by Joseph Lidster 2: The Vault of Secrets by Phil Ford 3: Death of the Doctor by Russell T Davies 4: The Empty Planet by Gareth Roberts 5: Lost in Time by Rupert Laight 6: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman Since SJA has already been confirmed for a fifth season Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith is not the final story of the series. Guest stars in this season includes Julian Bleach (Davros), who is playing the Nightmare Man, Cheryl Campbell, Cyril Nri, Julie Graham (formerly the lead actor of the remake series of Terry Nation's Survivors and a co-star of Peter Davison in At Home With The Braithwaites; she has finally made it to the Whoniverse) and of course Matt Smith and Katy Manning as the Eleventh Doctor and Jo Grant respectively. |
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 5, 2010 19:37:04 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 23, 2010 19:07:26 GMT -5
Found out that season 4 will make its world debut in the UK with both episodes of a story to be shown on a weekly basis on Mondays and Tuesdays from Monday October 11.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 30, 2010 17:01:49 GMT -5
From DoctorWhoNews.com:
The BBC has announced a series of special shows that would accompany season 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Entitled Sarah Jane's Alien Files, it will have Sarah Jane and friends recounting their adventures each week.
Previously unmentioned guest stars in this season are Laila Rouass (Primeval), Lucie Jones, Doon Mackichan and David Bradley.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 4, 2011 17:51:59 GMT -5
From the Doctor Who News Page:
The three stories of the fifth and final season of The Sarah Jane Adventures have been revealed in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine:
Sky by Phil Ford, The Curse of Clyde Langer also by Phil Ford, and The Man Who Wasn't There by Gareth Roberts.
Guest stars for the final season include Peter Bowles, Christine Stephen-Daly and James Dreyfus.
Peter Bowles is a veteran British actor with countless credits to his name but this would be the first time that he has ever appeared in the Doctor Who universe.
Peter Bowles had previously worked with Alexander Armstrong (Mr Smith) in the 2007 Christmas Special of To The Manor Born in which Armstrong had played Bowles' nephew.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 5, 2011 20:56:46 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 15, 2011 13:54:45 GMT -5
The BBC Press Office has confirmed that the fifth and final season will make its world debut in the UK with both episodes of a story to be shown on a weekly basis on Mondays and Tuesdays from Monday October 4.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 21, 2011 7:19:02 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 14, 2011 18:59:39 GMT -5
Lis Sladen’s final regular appearance in “classic” Doctor Who was The Hand of Fear and the thing about hands is that they come in pairs. As that story only referred to one hand of fear, Gareth Roberts said in an interview in DWM 306 published in 2009 said that the other hand must still me out there and one day it will come knocking at Sarah Jane’s door.
Whether Roberts was being serious or in jest when he said about the other Hand of Fear, Sarah Jane Adventures has now come to an end and the other hand was not in any of the SJA stories including ones written by Roberts. It could be possible that Roberts may have written about the other hand in one of the three unproduced stories for the last season (as SJA came to an abrupt end with Lis Sladen’s passing) but whether this turns out to be true remains to be seen.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 15, 2012 18:17:51 GMT -5
From the Doctor Who News Page:
DWM has revealed what would have been the last three stories of Sarah Jane Adventures season 5 if it weren’t for Lis Sladen’s untimely passing.
In Volume Three of DWM’s The Sarah Jane Companion the last three stories of season 5 would have been Meet Mr Smith, The Thirteenth Floor & the season would have ended with The Battle For Bannerman Road.
Also in this Volume of The Sarah Jane Companion is the article The Untold Tales in which Russell T Davies and Phil Ford discussed how the series would have progressed into a sixth season.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 21, 2012 0:44:39 GMT -5
According to Andrew Pixley in DWM's Sarah Jane Companion Volume Three, the unmade Sarah Jane Adventures story The Thirteenth Floor, unmade due to Lis Sladen's passing, has been adapted as a story for SJA's successor in production terms Wizards vs Aliens. Probably good chances that elements of the other two unmade SJA season 5 stories Meet Mr Smith & The Battle of Bannerman Road have also being adapted for Wizards vs Aliens.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 3, 2013 20:41:35 GMT -5
Read in DWM’s The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 3 that an untitled story idea from Gareth Roberts for the 2010 season of The Sarah Jane Adventures which ultimately was not used involved the gang encountering the Russian equivalent of Torchwood (so not exactly the Russian branch of Torchwood). From what has written about this story idea there were two versions to it one of which had the Russian equivalent of Torchwood allying themselves to aliens and kidnap Sarah Jane in order to force Luke and K9 to come and work for them.
As revealed by Andrew Pixley in this magazine issue this version of the storyline was inspired by The Tomorrow People story Secret Weapon which had British intelligence wanting to exploit the telepathic and telekinetic powers of The Tomorrow People.
Gareth Roberts himself is a Tomorrow People fan and had co-written the first Big Finish audio story The New Gods.
Roberts’ first SJA story was when he co-wrote Invasion of the Bane which established the series familiar elements on Bannerman Road including the supercomputer Mr Smith. Mr Smith may have been modelled on TIM the supercomputer from The Tomorrow People.
As for Gareth Roberts coming up with the Russian equivalent of Torchwood I should point out that Roberts himself hasn’t written for the Torchwood series himself. Obviously opportunities for him to write for the Torchwood series hadn’t come this way and if Roberts is forever denied the chance to write for the Torchwood series then I guess the SJA story idea was the closest he ever got to write about Torchwood.
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Post by matthewsee on May 2, 2013 21:38:03 GMT -5
Read in DWM’s The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 3 about an unused story idea that Gareth Roberts came up for the 2010 season called Time Team.
Time Team was inspired by the Channel 4 archaeology series of the same name and Time Team would have been about an archaeological dig lifting Sarah Jane’s Nissan Figaro from where it had been buried…..thousands of years ago.
It isn’t mentioned in this special issue of DWM itself but the premise for Time Team is very similar to the Big Finish Doctor Who story The Fires of Vulcan featuring the Seventh Doctor and written by a different writer Steve Lyons.
The Fires of Vulcan began with an archaeological team at Pompeii finding the TARDIS buried there and the TARDIS has been there since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Just like Sarah Jane was not in her Nissan Figaro when it was found in the Time Team story idea, neither the Doctor nor his companion in The Fires of Vulcan were in the TARDIS when it got found.
The Fires of Vulcan then chronicled the events leading to the TARDIS being buried in Pompeii. I imagine the Time Team story idea would have followed the same lines of chronicling the events leading to the Nissan Figaro being buried at the site of the archaeological dig all those thousands of years ago.
Of course the Doctor, in his tenth self, would later return to Pompeii, again on the aforementioned fateful day in the TV episode The Fires of Pompeii written by yet another different writer James Moran.
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