The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British television series and a spin-off of the popular series Doctor Who. The series was produced between 2006 and 2011 by BBC Wales for children's channel CBBC. The concept of the series is derived, as well as in the other branch of Torchwood, Russell T Davies, the creative head of the series Doctor Who. Unlike Doctor Who, which works as a classic family television, and Torchwood, which is aimed at an adult audience, The Sarah Jane Adventures was produced specifically for younger viewers.

Prehistory

The main character of the series is Sarah Jane Smith, who works as a freelance investigative journalist since the 1970s - among other things, on behalf of the magazine " Metropolitan ". In the course of their investigations they met an alien time traveler who calls himself " The Doctor ". With him, she traveled for several years through time and space, and experienced various adventures. Ultimately, however, parted their ways and the doctor went on without her. As a consolation for the abrupt parting she got from him a "pet " sent - a mobile computer in the shape of a brassy dog named K- 9th

Action

After the trips to the doctor they will initially difficult to cope with their new, old life. The journalistic work she is indeed gone, but not before she met the Doctor again - as part of their investigation into the Deffry Vale School ( Doctor Who episode 2-03: "Class Reunion ( School Reunion ) " ) - can Sarah Jane finally with the past the site. Then she turns back to the many aliens visiting Earth.

The pilot episode of the new series, " Invasion of the Bane " was broadcast as a so-called Holiday Special on 1 January 2007 on BBC1. The complete first season ran with 10 episodes from the end of September 2007 on the children's channel CBBC Channel. From March 2008, a second season with 12 episodes produced.

A fifth was to be completed in 2011, but lead actress Elisabeth Sladen passed away in April 2011. The BBC announced on 4 May 2011 officially announced that the six already shot episodes are broadcast as a tribute to Sladen as last season, but the series has officially ended and no further episodes longer be rotated.

Occupation

Episodes

Reception

" " The Sarah Jane Adventures " were the epitome of a state of the art family entertainment - both emotionally and intellectually stimulating, exciting, imaginative, witty, with great social awareness. Everything you could want from a successful family series only. "

Awards

RTS Programme Award

  • 2008: Nomination in the category Children's Drama
  • 2009: Nomination in the category Children's Drama
  • 2010: Nomination in the category Children's Drama
  • 2011: RTS Award in the category Children's Drama

British Academy Children's Awards

  • 2008: Nomination in the category Drama
  • 2009: Nomination in the category Drama
  • 2010: Nomination in the category Drama
  • 2010: nomination for BAFTA Kids' Vote - Television
  • 2010: nominated in the category for Writer Phil Ford

BAFTA Cymru Awards

  • 2010: BAFTA Cymru Award in the Interactive category for the BBC website about the series ( )
Spin-off (media) CBBC (TV channel)
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