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Elizabeth Sladen made Sarah Jane Smith the quintessential medico Who associate and her appearances reflected the serial ' evolution .
While we ’re wait for more news about the next time of year ofDoctor Who , the BBC brought outanother videoof Sarah Jane Smith ( Elizabeth Sladen ) , the Best Companion . She was n’t the first companion , but she ’s become the quintessential companion , the template from which every companion after her is drawn with variations . She ’s also the companion in canyon , ie the TV series , who has meet the most Doctors of them all .
Doctor Who: The 1970s Were Both Good and Bad Times for Sarah Jane
Sarah Jane ’s appearance onDoctor Whoare like a prism for the continued evolution of the series . When she first blagged her way into a story and her first meeting with The Third Doctor ( Jon Pertwee ) , she was boast as a " feminist , " an independent career woman who has to fight the sexism of the men she met , including the Doctor ’s . That ’s correct , even the Doctor in the early seventies was a sexist jerk who condescended to his comrade all the clock time . you’re able to seek to retcon it in your headcanon by allege he was testing her , butall the time?No , The Third Doctor was a sexist jerk , and so were the writers at the time .
By the meter the Fourth Doctor ( Tom Baker ) came along , their relationship was on an equal footing ; though The Doctor still messed with her a lot , it was more of a brother and sister vibe now because Baker and Sladen were closer in age . Her line of mischief made her a better hydrofoil for the Baker ’s prickly puerility more than Pertwee ’s patrician disdainfulness . The writing did n’t always do her many favors since it often banish her to damsel - in - distress condition , and she certainly get intellect - check by the baddie a lot . It was said that the original architectural plan for her release was for her to die in The Doctor ’s blazon when she was shot by outlander in the middle of a war . That story was scrapped for various reasons , belike budgetary , and her final story was " The Hand of Fear " instead . The scene where The Doctor and Sarah Jane parted elbow room was said to have been compose by Baker and Sladen and is view one of the classic by devotee .
The 1980s and Beyond
Sarah Jane appear in the 1984 crossing peculiar " The Five Doctors " without escape a beat and in the pilotK-9 and Company , where she and a young K-9 enquire mysteries together . Being a journalist made her the perfect eccentric for engender Science Fiction history . When the series was canceled in 1989 , Sarah Jane seem in several unofficial non - canon spinoffs and some of the spinoff audio frequency dramas where she and other former companions encountered honest-to-goodness baddies and monsters from the serial .
Russell T. Davies ' 2005 revitalisation of the series also brought back Sarah Jane because she was always the sports fan ’s favorite companion , and to give her closure from their parting . Her appearance on the show was so democratic that Davies create her spinoff seriesThe Sarah Jane Adventures , where she worked with K-9 , her borrow alien son , two kids , and a supercomputer key out Mr. Smith to conflict alien villain . She reunify with the 10th MD again ( David Tennant ) and even encounter both the Third Doctor ’s familiar Jo Grant ( Katy Manning ) and the 11th Doctor ( Matt Smith ) . Doing right by Sarah Jane and Sladen was the start of Davies ' campaign to rehabilitate past fellow traveler who were handle badly by the show and its author . She was no longer the demoiselle in distress , asking what was travel on . She was the drawing card , the female parent , and the teacher now .
Elizabeth Sladen passed away in 2011 , which put an remnant to any more appearances by Sarah Jane on TV . There was even a short tarradiddle write during the COVID Lockdown , which suffice as an epilogue toThe Sarah Jane Adventures . Sarah Jane ’s bequest lives on , with Rani continuing to investigate alien invasion and appearing in other spinoff audio dramas . Sladen ’s daughterSadie Millernow play Sarah Jane in the new Big Finish audio dramatic play coif during the Fourth Doctor ’s earned run average . Sarah Jane forever .
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