The Sarah Jane Adventures

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The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures title card
Genre Science fiction
Fantasy
Created by Russell T Davies
Starring Elisabeth Sladen
Tommy Knight
Daniel Anthony
Anjli Mohindra
Yasmin Paige
Sinead Michael
Alexander Armstrong
Theme music composer Murray Gold
Composer(s) Sam Watts
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 5
No. of episodes 53 episodes + 1 short (list of serials)
Production
Executive producer(s) Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Phil Collinson
Piers Wenger
Nikki Wilson
Producer(s) Brian Minchin
Nikki Wilson
Matthew Bouch
Susie Liggat
Running time 60 min (New Year's Day special)
25-30 min (series)
5 min (Comic Relief special)
Release
Original network CBBC
Repeats
BBC One
BBC One HD (2010–2011)
BBC HD (2009–2011)
Picture format SDTV (576i) (2007–2008)
HDTV (1080i) (2009–2011)
Original release 1 January 2007 – 18 October 2011
Chronology
Preceded by K-9 and Company
Related shows Sarah Jane's Alien Files
Doctor Who
Torchwood
K9
Wizards vs Aliens
External links
Website

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 starring Elisabeth Sladen. The programme is a spin-off of the long-running BBC science fiction programme Doctor Who and is aimed at a younger audience than Doctor Who. It focuses on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist who, as a young woman, had numerous adventures across time and space.

The series debuted on BBC One with a 60-minute special, "Invasion of the Bane", on 1 January 2007, and broadcast through to 2011. It was nominated for a British Academy Children's Award in 2008 in the Drama category, and for a BAFTA Cymru in 2009 in the Children's Drama category.[1][2] The programme won a Royal Television Society 2010 award for Best Children's Drama.[3]

Series

A full series of ten 25-minute episodes began on 24 September 2007.[4] The first series consisted of five two-part stories,[5] and a second series, comprising six two-part stories, began airing on 29 September 2008.[6][7] A third series, once again comprising six two-part stories to make a total of twelve episodes, with Russell T Davies serving as executive producer, aired from 15 October 2009[8] to 20 November 2009.

The fourth series was aired from 11 October 2010.[9] An episode of another spin-off series, Sarah Jane's Alien Files, was shown immediately after each of the first episodes of the stories.[10] Filming for three of six two-part serials planned for the fifth series was completed prior to Elisabeth Sladen's death on 19 April 2011. Although some UK media, including the Sun, reported in early May 2011 that production of the series was to continue,[11] the BBC has stated explicitly that no further episodes will be filmed.[12] The fifth series was broadcast starting 3 October 2011 on Mondays and Tuesdays.[13] It finished just two weeks later on 18 October 2011.[14]

Background and development

In 2006, Children's BBC expressed an interest in producing a Doctor Who spin-off. Their initial idea was "a drama based on the idea of a young Doctor Who", but Russell T Davies vetoed this. "Somehow, the idea of a fourteen-year-old Doctor, on Gallifrey inventing sonic screwdrivers, takes away from the mystery and intrigue of who he is and where he came from," said Davies. He suggested instead a series based on the Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith.[15]

The character of Sarah Jane Smith, played by Sladen, appeared in Doctor Who from 1973 to 1976, alongside Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor and later Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. A pilot episode for another Doctor Who spin-off series, K-9 and Company, made in 1981, featured Sarah Jane and the robot dog K-9; however, a full series was never commissioned.[16] Sarah Jane and K-9 returned to Doctor Who in various media many times over the years, most notably in the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors (1983), and in episodes School Reunion (2006), The Stolen Earth / Journey's End (2008) and The End of Time (2010).

Sarah Jane is frequently voted the most popular Doctor Who companion by both Doctor Who fans and members of the general public.[17] The prospect of a new television series focusing on Sarah Jane was first rumoured in The Sun in March 2006, prior to the airing of "School Reunion"; the report at that time suggested that Sarah Jane and K-9 would both appear in the series.[18] The fact that a Sarah Jane series was being developed was first confirmed in the BBC's in-house newsletter, Ariel, in early August 2006.[19][20][21] These early rumours were associated with the working title Sarah Jane Investigates.[19]

K-9's only appearances in the show's first two series were a cameo in the special and an appearance in the last episode of the first series.[22][23] This was due to the concurrent development of the independently produced children's series, K-9, which features a remodelled version of K-9 with only indirect nods to Doctor Who.[24] However, in 2009 the robot appeared with the Sarah Jane Adventures cast in a sketch for Comic Relief, and K-9 appeared in 6 episodes of the third series,[25] followed by two more appearances in the fourth series. He did not appear at all in Series 5.[26]

Production

Production on the full series began in April 2007.[27] Two of the five two-part stories were scripted by the special's co-writer Gareth Roberts. Bad Girls and New Captain Scarlet writer Phil Ford wrote two stories and Phil Gladwin wrote one. Creator and executive producer Russell T Davies was going to write one story but was forced to drop out due to other work commitments.[28]

Cast and crew

Main cast of series 1 (left to right) Maria Jackson, Luke Smith, Sarah Jane Smith and Clyde Langer

In addition to Sladen, the first series of the programme stars Yasmin Paige as Maria Jackson, Sarah Jane's 13-year-old neighbour in Ealing, west London, and Tommy Knight as a boy named Luke, who is adopted by Sarah Jane at the conclusion of the introductory story. The third member of Sarah Jane's young entourage is 14-year-old called Clyde Langer, played by Daniel Anthony, who is introduced in the first episode of the proper series. Actress Porsha Lawrence Mavour briefly played Maria's friend, Kelsey Harper, in the 2007 New Year's Day special Invasion of the Bane which was created before the start of the series.[29] Maria and her family are written out of the series in the first story of the second series, The Last Sontaran, but Maria and her father return briefly in the second part of The Mark of the Berserker. In the second story of that series, The Day of the Clown, several new regular cast members are introduced: Rani Chandra and her parents, Haresh, and Gita (played by Anjli Mohindra, Ace Bhatti, and Mina Anwar, respectively).[30]

Main cast of series 2–5 (left to right) Rani, Luke, Sarah Jane, Clyde and Sky (series 5 only)

Joseph Millson appears throughout the first series as Maria's recently separated father, Alan, with Chrissie Jackson, Maria's mother, played by Juliet Cowan. One other regular is Alexander Armstrong of comedy duo Armstrong and Miller, who provides the voice of Mr Smith, an extraterrestrial computer in Sarah Jane's attic.The 2007 special featured Samantha Bond as the scheming villain Mrs Wormwood and Jamie Davis as her PR agent Davey. The first series included among its guest cast Jane Asher as Sarah Jane's childhood friend Andrea Yates, Floella Benjamin as Professor Rivers, who returned in Series 2, Series 3 and Series 5, and Phyllida Law as Bea Nelson-Stanley. The second series guest starred Bradley Walsh as an evil alien clown in the story The Day of the Clown and Russ Abbot as a sinister astrologer in Secrets of the Stars.[30] Also appearing in the second series were Gary Beadle and Jocelyn Jee Esien, who portrayed Clyde's parents Paul and Carla in The Mark of the Berserker; Esien reprised her role briefly in Series 4 and more prominently in series 5. Nicholas Courtney guest starred in Enemy of the Bane as classic Doctor Who character Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart,[31] and Samantha Bond also returned as Wormwood for the episode.

The original executive producers for The Sarah Jane Adventures were Phil Collinson, Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner. Susie Liggat produced the pilot, but Matthew Bouch worked as producer of the series. Co-writer Gareth Roberts, writing in Doctor Who Magazine, said, "We're all determined that this will be a big, full-blooded drama; that nobody should ever think of it as 'just' a children's programme."[32] Sue Nott was the executive producer of the second series for CBBC.[33]

In December 2007, the BBC released a statement that Julie Gardner would be replaced by Piers Wenger as executive producer for Doctor Who in January 2009, but that she would continue to executive-produce Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures through 2008.[34]

The fourth series in 2010 was executive produced by Russell T Davies and Nikki Wilson, and the producers were Brian Minchin and frequent writer Phil Ford.[10] During this series, Cyril Nri was introduced as a new recurring character called The Shopkeeper. The production team remained in place for the completed episodes of Series 5,[35] which were shot concurrently with Series 4. The show's abbreviated fifth and final series introduced a new main character named Sky, played by Sinead Michael.[34] The episode that introduced Sky also featured a return appearance by the Shopkeeper, but the fact that the second half of the series was never produced left his story arc, as well as other ongoing plot points, unresolved. A special edition of Doctor Who Magazine, The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 3, published in August 2012, detailed the plotlines of the three unfilmed stories.[36]

Main cast

Actor Character Duration Episodes
Elisabeth Sladen Sarah Jane Smith 2007–11 All episodes
Tommy Knight Luke Smith 2007–11 "Invasion of the Bane" to The Nightmare Man (except The Eternity Trap), The Vault of Secrets, Death of the Doctor, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, Sky and The Man Who Never Was
Sinead Michael Sky Smith 2011 Sky to The Man Who Never Was
Yasmin Paige Maria Jackson 2007–08 "Invasion of the Bane" to The Last Sontaran and The Mark of the Berserker
Daniel Anthony Clyde Langer 2007–11 All episodes except "Invasion of the Bane".
Anjli Mohindra Rani Chandra 2008–11 The Day of the Clown to The Man Who Never Was
Alexander Armstrong (voice) Mr Smith 2007–11 All stories except The Eternity Trap.
John Leeson (voice) K-9 2007, 2009–10 "Invasion of the Bane", The Lost Boy
The Mad Woman in the Attic to The Nightmare Man (except The Eternity Trap) and Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith

Recurring cast

Actor Character Duration Episodes
Joseph Millson Alan Jackson 2007–08 "Invasion of the Bane" to The Last Sontaran (except Warriors of Kudlak), and The Mark of the Berserker
Juliet Cowan Chrissie Jackson 2007–08 "Invasion of the Bane" to The Last Sontaran (except Warriors of Kudlak)
Floella Benjamin Professor Celeste Rivers 2007–09, 2011 The Lost Boy, The Day of the Clown, The Eternity Trap and Sky
Ace Bhatti Haresh Chandra 2008–11 The Day of the Clown to The Curse of Clyde Langer (except The Mad Woman in the Attic, The Eternity Trap, The Gift, The Nightmare Man and Lost in Time).
Mina Anwar Gita Chandra 2008–11 The Day of the Clown to Sky (except The Mark of the Berserker, The Mad Woman in the Attic, The Eternity Trap, Mona Lisa's Revenge, The Gift, The Nightmare Man, Death of the Doctor, The Empty Planet and Lost in Time)
Jocelyn Jee Esien Carla Langer 2008, 2010–11 The Mark of the Berserker, The Empty Planet and The Curse of Clyde Langer
Paul Marc Davis The Trickster 2007–09 Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith and The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
Samantha Bond Mrs Wormwood 2007–08 "Invasion of the Bane" and Enemy of the Bane
Jimmy Vee Krislok the Graske 2007–08 Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
Anthony O'Donnell Commander Kaagh 2008 The Last Sontaran and Enemy of the Bane
Huw Higginson Mr Cunningham 2008 The Day of the Clown and The Mark of the Berserker
Elijah Baker Steve Wallace 2008, 2011 The Day of the Clown, The Mark of the Berserker and The Curse of Clyde Langer
Mark Goldthorp Androvax 2009–10 Prisoner of the Judoon and The Vault of Secrets
Cyril Nri Shopkeeper 2010–11 Lost in Time and Sky

Doctor Who characters

Including K-9 and Sarah Jane, some characters from the past or current run of Doctor Who have appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Actor Character Duration Episodes
Lachele Carl Trinity Wells 2007–08 Revenge of the Slitheen and Secrets of the Stars
Nicholas Courtney Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart 2008 Enemy of the Bane
David Tennant The Tenth Doctor 2009 The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
Katy Manning Jo Jones (née Grant) 2010 Death of the Doctor
Matt Smith The Eleventh Doctor 2010 Death of the Doctor

Numerous others have been referenced in dialogue. Several former companions of the Doctor are referenced in the story Death of the Doctor, and the episode also includes brief on-screen flashbacks showing the Third, Fourth and Tenth Doctors. Companion Harry Sullivan is referenced separately in dialogue on several occasions and a photograph of the character is visible in one episode. In an issue of Doctor Who Magazine, Sophie Aldred was read an email from Russell T. Davies, in which he declared his plans to bring Ace into a story had the show continued.[37] The episode Sky was originally to have featured the Eleventh Doctor, but Matt Smith was not available.[38]

Episodes

The Sarah Jane Adventures was first seen by its original British audience in the form of a 60-minute New Year's Day special in 2007, titled "Invasion of the Bane", which was co-written by Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts.[21] "Invasion of the Bane" was not a pilot, although the story does contains many conventional introductory elements common to pilots. Creator Russell T Davies has commented upon the exceptional broadcast situation, saying "Sarah Jane Adventures is slightly unusual in that it was commissioned before we'd written the script. If we'd written a load of rubbish, they'd still have had to make it." He refers to "Invasion of the Bane" simply as the "first episode".[39] The story focused on Sarah Jane's investigation of a popular and addictive soft drink called Bubble Shock!.

Series one of the show aired in September of that year, consisting of five two-part half-hour stories. Individual half-hour episodes aired once a week on BBC One, with episodes airing a week ahead on children's digital channel CBBC. The final part aired in November 2007. The second series started in September 2008 using the same format, with six stories instead of five, ending the series in December. The third series started 15 October 2009, twice weekly (Thursdays and Fridays) on BBC One from 15 October to 20 November.[40] The fourth series aired from 11 October 2010. The first of each story pair was accompanied by an episode of Sarah Jane's Alien Files, a set of 25-minute episodes in which a member of the cast updates Mr. Smith's database about certain aliens. It accompanied series 4 of the programme.[41][42][43][44]

Due to the illness of Elisabeth Sladen, and her subsequent death on 19 April 2011, filming for the second half of the fifth series, which was due to air in the autumn of 2011, was postponed and later cancelled.[45] Filming for three stories of the fifth series had been finished, and thus post-production on these stories was completed.[46] The final series was aired from 3 to 18 October 2011 on CBBC and ended with a tribute to Elisabeth Sladen in the form of a video montage of scenes from the series and Doctor Who.[13]

Critical response

The Sarah Jane Adventures has been generally well received by critics and the viewing public.[47] At the end of the first series, Abi Grant of The Daily Telegraph wrote: "With the debate about the future of children's TV still rumbling on, this is what the BBC does best, and despite lacking the production values of Doctor Who, it's still top tea-time programming."[48] Daniel Martin of The Guardian described the show as looking very promising and more convincing than another Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood.[49] Review website DVD Talk called the series "wonderful", "thoughtful" and "imaginative children's entertainment" that was highly recommended.[50] The series also received praise for its willingness to tackle "darker themes [such as] Alzheimer's, homelessness and loss."[51]

"It's not often that you get a character who appeals across the generations. What SJA gets absolutely right is that Sarah Jane remains immediately recognisable as this tenacious reporter of old, but with an added maternal touch that enchants its target audience. Its absence in the schedules is going to be keenly felt."

— David Brown of Radio Times on the last series.[52]

At Metacritic, the first series received an generally favourable score of 66 out of 100 based on five critics.[53] As the series progressed reviews became slightly more positive with DVD Talk reviewer David Cornelius saying that the "second series is even better than the first."[54] However Eric Profancik from DVD Verdict stated that the second series suffered from "poor scripts and horrible acting", criticising it for having "simple plots, too many conveniences and having corny humour."[55] Series three is described by Guy Clapperton of review site ScreenJabber.com as being slightly braver than its predecessors,[56] while Bullz-eye.com described it as "a sweet, fun little show, with some neat ideas" with "its heart very much in the right place."[57] Reviews for the final series were sympathetic for the series' end and the unavoidably incomplete nature of the series (following the death of Elisabeth Sladen) and its story arcs. Stephen Kelly from The Guardian said that it was "a fitting tribute to Elisabeth Sladen" and has occupied a "unique place in the Whoniverse".[58]

Awards and nominations

Year Ceremony Category Outcome Notes
2008 Royal Television Society Children's Drama Nominated [59]
British Academy Children's Awards Drama Nominated [60]
2009 British Academy Children's Awards Drama Nominated [61]
Royal Television Society Children's Drama Nominated [62]
2010 British Academy Children's Awards Drama, Writer, BAFTA Kid's Vote Nominated [63]
Royal Television Society Children's Drama Nominated [64]
BAFTA Cymru Interactive Won [65]
2011 British Academy Children's Awards Drama, Writer, BAFTA Kid's Vote Nominated [66]
Royal Television Society Children's Drama Won [67]
BAFTA Cymru Children’s Programme Won [68]
2012 British Academy Children's Awards BAFTA Kid's Vote, WriterNominated [69]
BAFTA Cymru Children’s Programme Nominated [70]
Royal Television Society Children's Drama Nominated [71]

International broadcast

The BBC's children's channel BBC Kids began broadcasting The Sarah Jane Adventures with "Invasion of the Bane" on 13 January 2008, airing the rest of the series back-to-back on Sundays thereafter.[72] The South African channel SABC 2 started airing the series beginning on 9 February 2008.[73] The Hong Kong channel ATV World, which has also aired Doctor Who and Torchwood, aired this series starting 17 February 2008.[74] The first series began airing on Sci Fi in the USA beginning on 11 April 2008,[75] but this is the only series broadcast on American television as of Summer 2010, though later series have continued to be released on DVD in America without a prior television broadcast. In Australia, The Sarah Jane Adventures started on 31 October 2008 on Nickelodeon Australia.[76] In Brazil, the show started airing on 19 November 2012 on TV Cultura, right after their broadcast of Doctor Who series 6 ended.[77] It also screens in New Zealand on Nickelodeon New Zealand, and in Belgium on Ketnet.[78][79] In 2013 the show started airing on JeemTV in Arabic.[80]

Merchandising

Toys

Character Options have been awarded a licence to produce Sarah Jane Adventure play sets, action figures, and a 'Sonic Lipstick' toy.[81] Four 2-figure sets have been released: Sarah Jane and Star Poet; Sarah Jane and General Kudlak; Sarah Jane and Child Slitheen and Sarah Jane and Graske. Also released are Sarah Jane's Sonic Lipstick with Watch Scanner and Alien Communicator.[82] Character Options have now discontinued the range due to lack of customer interest.[83][84][85]

Audio adventures

Ten audiobooks have been released on CD, all but the last two read by the series lead, Elisabeth Sladen, who read them in the first person in character as Sarah Jane Smith. The final two books, released in November 2011 after Sladen's death, were read by Daniel Anthony and Anjili Mohindra, respectively, though not as their characters.

The first two were the first time that BBC Audiobooks had commissioned new content for exclusive release on audio.[86]

A 20 minute mini-episode in two parts called "The Monster Hunt" written by Trevor Baxendale and read by Anjli Mohindra was made especially for the Monster Hunt game on the Sarah Jane Adventures website.[87]

Title Author Release date Reader
The Glittering Storm[88] Stephen Cole 5 November 2007Elisabeth Sladen
The Thirteenth Stone[88] Justin Richards
The Time Capsule[89] Peter Anghelides 13 November 2008
The Ghost House[89] Stephen Cole
The White Wolf[90] Gary Russell 3 September 2009
The Shadow People[90] Scott Handcock
Deadly Download[91] Jason Arnopp 7 October 2010
Wraith World[92] Cavan Scott & Mark Wright
Children of Steel[93] Martin Day[94] 10 November 2011 Daniel Anthony[95]
Judgement Day[96] Scott Gray[94] Anjili Mohindra[94]
The Sarah Jane Adventures Collection
(Complete Audio Collection)[97] 		Stephen Cole
Justin Richards
Gary Russell
Cavan Scott
Mark Wright
Peter Anghelides
Jason Arnopp
Martin Day
Scott Gray 		24 November 2011 Elisabeth Sladen
Daniel Anthony
Anjili Mohindra

Novelisations

The Sarah Jane Adventures merchandising revived the concept of the novelisation, which had been part of the Doctor Who franchise from the 1970s to the 1990s (principally under the editorship of author and former Who script editor Terrance Dicks). The first series and most of the second were adapted in this way, but later series saw only a few releases and a transition from print to e-books.

Title Author Release date
Invasion of the Bane Terrance Dicks 1 November 2007[98]
Revenge of the Slitheen Rupert Laight1 November 2007[99]
Eye of the Gorgon Phil Ford1 November 2007[100]
Warriors of Kudlak Gary Russell1 November 2007[101]
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? Rupert Laight6 November 2008[102]
The Lost Boy Gary Russell 6 November 2008[103]
The Last Sontaran Phil Ford 6 November 2008[104]
The Day of the Clown Phil Ford 6 November 2008[105]
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith Gareth Roberts5 November 2009[106]
The Nightmare Man (E-book only) Joseph Lidster25 November 2010[107]
Death of the Doctor (E-book only) Gary Russell25 November 2010[108]

Magazines and Books

Although there has never been a Sarah Jane Adventures magazine there have been three special editions of the Doctor Who Magazine, focussed on the Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as regular mentions in the standard editions of Doctor Who Magazine.[109][110][111][112]

Title Publisher Release date
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Quiz Book Penguin Character Books Ltd 5 November 2009[113]
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on
Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures 		Cambridge Scholars Publishing 1 May 2010[114]

Home media

DVD

Release name UK release date
(region 2)		 Australian release date
(region 4)		 North American release date
(region 1)		 Notes/extras
Invasion of the Bane 29 October 2007[115] 12 January 2009
Re-released 2 March 2010 [116]		 Released with Series 1 not
released separately		 Trailers,Character And Alien Profiles, Elisabeth Sladen Interview,
Blue Peter Visits The Set, Behind The Scenes Photo Gallery,
Timeline: Chart Sarah Jane Smith's Journey From Journalist To Time Traveller.[117]
The Complete First Series
Also includes "Invasion of the Bane"		 10 November 2008[118] 4 June 2009[119]
Re-released 5 January 2010 		7 October 2008[120] Quiz, Outtakes, Audio clips from Glittering Stone
and The Thirteenth Stone, Trailers, Characters,
Tools and aliens profiles, Interviews, Blue Peter set visit, Behind-the-scenes photo gallery.[121]
The Complete Second Series 9 November 2009[122] 3 June 2010[123]
Re-released 2 March 2011 		10 November 2009[124] Character, Tools & Alien profiles, Me & my movie with Tommy Knight
(behind the scene clips), Photo galleries, Quiz, Comic Relief 2009 special,
Trailers, Audio clip from the Time Capsule.[125]
The Complete Third Series 1 November 2010[126] 2 March 2011[127]
Re-released 2 June 2011 		4 January 2011[128] Despite being filmed in HD no Blu-ray release[129] Audiobook clip: The Sarah Jane Adventures: The White Wolf.[130]
The Complete Fourth Series 31 October 2011[131] 1 March 2012[132] 6 December 2011[133] UK release includes Pyramids of Mars as a bonus feature
as a tribute to Elisabeth Sladen.[134]
The Fifth Series 6 February 2012[135] 5 July 2012[136] 12 June 2012[137] Goodbye Bannerman Road - Remembering Elisabeth Sladen.
A tribute to Elisabeth Sladen.[138]
The Complete Series 1-5 6 February 2012[139] Not Released Not Released Includes all of the features that are included in Series 1,2,3,4 and 5 boxsets.
Doctor Who: The Green Death
(Special Edition)		 5 August 2013[140] 7 August 2013[141] 13 August 2013[142] The Special Edition release of this Doctor Who serial contains The Sarah Jane Adventures story Death of the Doctor as a bonus feature with commentary by creator Russell T. Davies and actress Katy Manning.[143]

Blu-ray

Release name UK release date
(region B)		 Australian release date
(region B)		 North American release date
(region A)		 Notes/extras
The Complete Fourth Series 31 October 2011[131]
Region Free		 Not released Not released First Blu-ray release.
UK release includes Pyramids of Mars
as a bonus feature as a tribute to Elisabeth Sladen however this in Standard Definition[134]
The Fifth Series 6 February 2012[144]
Region Free		 Not released Not released Goodbye Bannerman Road - Remembering Elisabeth Sladen.
A tribute to Elisabeth Sladen.[138]

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