The Sarah Jane Adventures

Series 2 will be starting this autumn, and is the only salvation we have, what with there being a limited amount of Doctor Who and Torchwood (*sob*)

Series begins: September 29th

TV Trailer


Cinema Trailer


Returning Characters:
Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde, Maria, Mr Smith

New Characters:

• Rani Chandra - 15, inquisitive, smart and sassy. Wants to be a journalist, and thus idolises Sarah Jane just a little. In return, Sarah Jane takes her happily on her investigations. She gets on well with her parents, although she's always embarrassed that her dad is Head Teacher
  
  
• Gita Chandra - a strong-willed, independent businesswoman, who runs her own flower shop called Bloomin' Lovely. She likes Sarah Jane and appreciates the fact she wants to help Rani be a journalist. Gita is a lovely person, although she can occasionally be a little overpowering and tends to burst into things uninvited, not taking the hint.
  
  
• Haresh Chandra - The new Head Teacher of Park Vale and Rani's dad, he can be prone to slight pomposity, due to the authority at the school. A great cook, he adores Rani and is very pleased that she has befriended Luke. He's decidedly less impressed by her friendship with Clyde, who he sees as trouble.
  
  
• Clyde's parents: Carla and Paul
  
  
• The Brigadier
  

Monsters and Aliens:

• The Sontarans
• Clowns
• A psychic
• A Graske
  
• The Bane
  

ONE: THE LAST SONTARAN
Written by Phil Ford, directed by Joss Agnew

Part One - Reports of strange lights around the Tycho Radio Telescope lead Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria into a terrifying forest encounter – and Sarah Jane comes face to face with her oldest enemy. Meanwhile Maria wrestles with a huge decision when her dad is offered a new job in America.


Part Two - Sarah Jane and the gang have only 40 minutes to save Earth as Sontaran Commander Kaagh plots to bring the world's orbiting satellites crashing down on nuclear installations across the world. And Maria's Mum finally gets to the truth from Alan – but will they be in time to save Maria?

TWO: DAY OF THE CLOWN
Written by Phil Ford, directed by Michael Kerrigan

After Maria leaves, the Chandra family then move in. The daughter, Rani, likes journalism so she looks up Sarah Jane. These episodes feature Clowns (with possible multiple identities and the ability to "transform") and "Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus".

Part One - New girl in Bannerman Road, Rani Chandra, is being haunted by a sinister clown – does it have anything to do with the local children that have gone missing? When Clyde's friend disappears the trail leads them to a strange circus museum – and the legend of the Pied Piper!


Part Two - Sarah Jane's investigation into Spellman and Odd Bob the Clown takes her to a meteorite at the Pharos Institute. But Spellman's plot to make all of Park Vale's pupils vanish leads Sarah Jane into a confrontation with her own childhood fears in a bid to save Luke.

Set Report
Note: I'm unsure if this is from this episode
Filming has been going on at Bannerman Road with full cast - SJS, Luke, Clyde & Rani


- Rani's mum and dad walk over to her and SJS and say "Where do you think you've been, you should know better than to get involved"
- SJS and Rani's mum discuss something outside the house, something to do with looking over an article or something.

THREE: SECRETS OF THE STARS
Written by Gareth Roberts, directed by Michael Kerrigan

These episodes feature a Psychic, Martin Trueman (Russ Abbott) doing a show at the 'East Acton New Theatre'.

Set report
A chain people stand around the front of the theatre, holding hands and staring at the sky.

SJA, Luke, Clyde and Rani approach and talk to a blond haird woman who holds up her hand.
After some words, the woman and a tall dark-haired man parted hands and stepped aside to let the awesome foursome go inside.

Rani turned round as they walked in, looking mistrustingly at the woman.

FOUR: THE MARK OF THE BERSERKER
Written by Joseph Lidster, directed by Joss Agnew

For this episode Clyde takes centre-stage and his family are intoduced (Paul & Carla) Paul seems affluent, and the two are "an unbeatable combination", according to producer Nikki Smith. "It's powerful and compelling stuff, and promises to be one of our strongest stories yet."
Clyde's dad has been seen to be "possessed" in the trailer.

Set Report
Note: I'm unsure if these are from this episode
It showed the gang all running to SJs car and jumping in while SJ drives off

A second scene involved the UNIT base inside the Toys R Us car park, and they were filming a scene involving Luke and Clyde in a red Porche behind the building, looking out onto Penarth Marina. In a different scene, Clyde's dad was also there, so speculation suggests that he may be wealthy and own the car

Later on, the filming moved to a yacht club, so perhaps Clyde's dad owns a boat as well?!

There was also a small filming unit in a park. Clyde's Dad was sitting on a swing, while Clyde talked animatedly to him, then they both ran off


FIVE: THE TEMPTATION OF SARAH JANE SMITH
Written by Gareth Roberts, directed by Graeme Harper

Appears to be the story in which Sarah and Luke time-travel to 1951, via a "fissure in time". Sarah is in 50s dress, and Luke is dressed in modern clothes.

Set reports

1st report of filming
Set dressing included posters for the "Foxgrove Village Fete, 18 August" as Sarah & Luke appear


Some dialogue was caught, something along the lines of:
Sarah: I don't understand this mystery
Luke: it's too late now.

While walking around the fete, they hear a mother at a stall say to her crying baby "there there , Sarah-Jane". SJ & Luke introduce themselves, under the false name of Beckham and the mother says she's Barbara Smith. Sarah's father also turns up and says he parked his car in front of a war memorial

As its a 'guess the number of gobstoppers in a jar' stall, Luke has a go. And because its Luke, we can assume that he gets it spot on, and Sarah's mother wonders how he came to that number. A complicated mathematical explanation is given.

The filming then moved to the village square. Sarah and Luke spot her fathers car next to the war memorial, Sarah is clutching a newspaper and we somehow find out that her parents died in a car accident.

Despite the wise words of Luke, Sarah decides to change history in order to save her parents. Out comes the sonic lipstick, and nothing bad appears to happen. However, later in the day Sarah's mum is running around with Luke chasing clues... wonder where Sarah has gone?

Since this episode appears to be about time travel, it is quite probable that this is where the Graske will feature. Plus there were rumors about a blue box on set...

SIX: ENEMY OF THE BANE
Written by Phil Ford, directed by Graeme Harper

The finale will consist of the return of many known faces!And from the title, we can already see what one of them is!

Supposedly Mr. Smith begins to receive information that an attack on Earth is imminent - at the same time, Luke begins to experience strange dreams, with a familiar female foe haunting him.

Coincendentally, Sarah-Jane is receiving a visit from an old friend at the same time: Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart - formerly Brigadier of U.N.I.T (or at least, the U.N.I.T of the old days...)

Sir Alistair is now semi-retired, having fallen out with the M.O.D over their treatment of U.N.I.T in recent years.

There's apparently a "lovely scene" with Sarah, the Brigadier and Luke up in Sarah's attic. It's a trip down memory lane; especially when Sir Alistair sees a picture of Harry Sullivan...

1st report of filming
Well, apparently a florists plays an important role within the story and that makes sense considering the scenes that were filmed here:

Well, despite Sir Alistair telling Sarah that warfare isn't always the answer, he does apparently have a gun concealed in his cane, and is getting involved with events.


And whats all this about a flower shop? Whats this attack that was picked up my Mr Smith?


Only the Sontarans! Having formed an alliance with someone very familiar, they want "blood revenge" for their defeat in "The Sontaran Stratagem"

Mrs Wormwood!

2nd report of filming
With everyone present methinks, including the Brigs car!

And Mrs Wormwood was hanging around as well

And the Sontarans, though I have no idea where they fit into all this

SJ slams a car door and shouts "Luke! I told you to stay away from her!". Mrs Wormwood then said something in reply. As well as this Rani is heard saying "It's hardly a stealth operation, half of UNIT is on its way right now!", and Sir Alistair said something like "Miss Chandra's right, we should leave".

We also saw Wormwood stepping out onto the driveway towards the Bane, taking off her ring and saying something like "Bane Kindred, humans are off the menu".

And then this also happens:

Speculation is that the goo is from some explosion (rather like when the Slitheen go boom) so perhaps the Mrs Wormwood in her Bane form has finally met her end?

Info/Rumours:

> It's not clear what episode this may be in, but apparently Julian Bleach may be making a cameo as Davros, appearing in "unseen footage from journey's end, and post journey's end. Apparantly Sarah Jane has nightmares of davros surviving the finale, and new footage was filmed, possibly showing davros teleporting and cursing over the Doctor etc."

> Paul Marc Davies (The Trickster from Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?) has revealed that he will be doing more work on SJA - does that mean the return of the Trickster? The Graske are back.... (thanks to themyrka)

An interview with Nikki Smith (new producer of SFX magazine)

• Nikki doesn't know whether or not Rani's name is an in-joke. This makes the suggestion that Rani is The Rani totally false.
• The bulk of the FX work is now being handled in-house at BBC Wales with the Mill provided a few of the more complex FX sequences (including the return of the Sontaran spaceship).
• When asked about the Doctor's appearance in SJA, Nikki says, "watch this space".

(Much thanks to everyone who provided information from the DWF. We are indebted to you!)