The
lowdown: 'The Sarah Jane Adventures' is a Doctor
Who spin-off featuring Elisabeth Sladen defending the Earth
in much the same way that
the Doctor himself has for the last four decades or so. Sarah is armed
with a sonic lipstick
and a watch that can detect
alien life forms, and assisted by a supercomputer named Mr Smith, a member
of an alien
race called the Xylok, who
is hidden in her attick, as well as her genetically-engineered son Luke
and two local children
who soon learn that Sarah
is more than just a journalist, and join her in fighting aliens and saving
Earth from invasion.
The first series featured
Sarah's 13-year neighbour, Maria Jackson, and 14-year-old Clyde Langer,
but the character of
Maria was written out of
the show at the start of the second series. She was replaced by Rani Chandra,
a 15-year-old
whose parents buy the Jacksons'
house, and aspires to be a journalist like Sarah Jane. The series debuted
on BBC1
on 1 January 2007, with
a one-hour special called 'Invasion of the Bane'. The first series
began on 24 September 2007,
and a total of 35 episodes
have been broadcast to date.
The
episode: 'The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith' is the
third story of the third season, and it was broadcast on 29-30
October 2009. Sarah Jane
reveals to her young friends that she has been dating Peter Dalton (Nigel
Havers), and brings
him home to meet Luke.
Sarah accepts Peter's marriage proposal, and he gives her a strange engagement
ring which
glows when he puts it on
her finger. Clyde and Rani are suspicious of Peter, fearing that
he may be an alien, although
K9 has scanned him to confirm
that he is human. They go to his house and find that it has not been
lived in for some
time. The wedding day arrives,
and the Doctor bursts into the room and tries to stop the wedding, but
the Trickster (first
seen in a first-season story
called 'Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?') appears. The Trickster,
Sarah and the guests
vanish, leaving the Doctor
alone with Luke, Clive and Rani. He soon discovers that the world outside
the hotel no longer
exists, and they are trapped
in one second of time, while Sarah is trapped in another second of time
with Peter and the
Trickster. It is then revealed
that Peter had died when he fell down the stairs in his home, but the Trickster
had appeared
(with Peter thinking it
was a angel) and offered him the chance to live again. However, it is part
of the Trickster's scheme
to leave Earth open for
invasion, as Sarah Jane would give up her alien-fighting lifestyle if she
marries Peter. She realises
that in order for her friends
to return to the real world, Peter must renege on his deal with the Trickster
and die. He does
so and noramlity is restored,
and only Sarah Jane and her friends remember the Doctor and the Trickster.
Video
clips: Stop the wedding!
4.9mb Interdimensional
shift 5.0mb
Time loop
4.1mb
Video
clips: The
Trickster
5.0mb Goodbye
again
6.4mb |
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