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The Gift (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
''The Gift'' is the sixth and final serial of the third series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It first aired in two parts on CBBC on 19 and 20 November 2009. The story features Tree and Leef Slitheen-Blathereen, descendants of an offshoot branch of the Slitheen family of Raxacoricofallapatorius that the protagonist Sarah Jane Smith has faced several times before in the series. They gift Sarah Jane and the Earth a Raxacoricofallapatorian plant that spreads spores to both quickly grow and wipe out humanity for profit. Plot Tree and Leef Slitheen-Blathereen, who are descendants of an inter-clan marriage of the Slitheen and Blathereen families of Raxacoricofallapatorius many generations ago, stop the plans of two other Slitheen that try to compress the Earth and teleport them away to be executed. Claiming to be law-abiding bounty hunters, Tree and Leef offer a plant called Rakweed as a gift over dinner with Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Clara Heath-Sladen (1 February 1946 – 19 April 2011) was an English actress. She became best known as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series ''Doctor Who'', appearing as a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprising the role many times in subsequent decades, both on ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs, ''K-9 and Company'' (1981) and ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' (2007–2011). Sladen was interested in ballet and theatre from childhood, and began to appear on stage in the mid-1960s, although she was more often a stage manager at this time. She moved to London in 1970 and won several television roles, with her acting in the police drama ''Z-Cars'' leading to her being recommended for the role in ''Doctor Who''. After leaving the series, she had other roles on both television and radio before semi-retiring to bring up a family in the mid-1980s. Sladen returned to the public eye in the 2000s with more ''Doctor W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Vee
James Vee (born 3 February 1959) is a Scottish actor, puppeteer and stunt performer. He is best known for playing a number of ''Doctor Who'' monsters and aliens including Bannakaffalatta in the 2007 Christmas special ''Voyage of the Damned'', as well as the Graske in the ''Doctor Who'' spin-off series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. He is also well known as the actor for R2-D2 in '' Star Wars: The Last Jedi'', replacing the late Kenny Baker, who died in August 2016. Career Vee started his career as a stunt double/performer for various small actors and extras in films such as ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. Vee also starred as Cheeky the dwarf in the King's Theatre, Glasgow adaptation of '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarves''. Vee originally auditioned for R2-D2 R2-D2 () or Artoo-Detoo is a fictional robot character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise created by George Lucas. He has appeared in ten of the eleven theatrical ''Star Wars'' films to date. At various p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nightmare Man (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
''The Nightmare Man'' is a two-part story of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', which was first broadcast on CBBC on 11 and 12 October 2010. Plot Four days before Luke leaves for Oxford University a year early, he starts having nightmares about leaving for university, something that was thought to be impossible since the Bane did not include dreaming in his genetic makeup. In his nightmares, he sees the Nightmare Man, who tells Luke that he cannot tell anyone about him. On Luke's last night home, the Nightmare Man forces Luke, Clyde, and Rani to have nightmares relating to Luke leaving for university, and begins entering the real world and reaching into the dreams of other humans. Luke's dream is full of red doors similar to his school. He deduces that he, Clyde and Rani are in the same reality and calls to them, telling them to imagine a red door and to walk through it. The three of them are now in the same dream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Lisa's Revenge
''Mona Lisa's Revenge'' is the fifth serial of the third series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It first aired in two parts on CBBC on 12 and 13 November 2009. Plot Luke enters Clyde's painting for a competition and Clyde wins first prize. The prize is a trip for Clyde and his class to see the first showing of Leonardo da Vinci's ''Mona Lisa'' in Britain. Due to her proximity to her "brother", a painting known as the Abomination that was painted with the same kind of sentient paint in the same neighbourhood, Mona Lisa comes to life and steps out of her frame. She asks the curator Lionel Harding to find the Abomination, which is locked away in a box in the gallery's basement. Seeing the coverage of the supposed theft of the painting on television, Sarah Jane arrives at the gallery, encounters Mona Lisa and insists she release those transferred into paintings. Instead, Sarah Jane herself is trapped in a painting. The key to the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Sarah Jane Adventures Episodes
''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, it is a spin-off of the long-running science fiction programme ''Doctor Who''. 53 episodes and 1 short were produced between 2006 and 2011 across five series. In comparison to ''Doctor Whos family-orientated viewership, ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' is aimed at a younger audience generally aged between 6–12 years old. The programme focuses on Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), an investigative journalist and former companion to the Doctor, an alien time traveller whom Smith had numerous adventures with in her youth. Now living in modern-day Ealing, London, she investigates extraterrestrial matters and protects Earth against alien threats with a group of teenage accomplices: her adopted son Luke Smith, neighbour Maria Jackson and friend Clyde Langer. New neighbour Rani Chandra and adopted daughter Sky Smith later join t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piers Wenger
Piers Wenger is a British television executive who serves as controller of BBC drama commissioning. Early life Wenger was born Piers John Wenger in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England on 29 June 1972. Career Wenger was appointed as controller of BBC drama commissioning in 2016, after four years as head of drama at Channel 4. Prior to Channel 4, he was head of drama at BBC Wales and an executive producer on ''Doctor Who''. As a producer, he closely collaborated with Victoria Wood over a decade on her dramatic projects. He produced her BAFTA and RTS award-winning dramatization of Nella Last's diary ''Housewife, 49,'' collaborated with her on '' Loving Miss Hatto'', Wood's dramatization of the life of classical pianist Joyce Hatto and co-executive produced ''Eric and Ernie'', Peter Bowker's biopic of the young Morecambe and Wise in which Wood also starred. In his time at Channel 4, he managed a number of popular dramas. In February 2015, ''Indian Summers'', a period drama chron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Gardner
Julie Ann Gardner (born 4 June 1969) is a Welsh television producer. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of '' Doctor Who'' and its spin-off shows ''Torchwood'' and ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. She worked on ''Doctor Who'' from 2003 to 2009 before moving to Los Angeles to work at BBC Worldwide. In 2015, Gardner co-founded the production company Bad Wolf, best known for the BBC TV series ''His Dark Materials'', on which Gardner also serves as an executive producer. Early life Gardner was born in Neath and grew up in the Pont Walby area of Glynneath, where her parents ran a local shop. She attended Llangatwg Comprehensive and Neath Port Talbot College, where she was an outstanding student of A Level English, History and Drama. She read English at Queen Mary University of London and initially worked as a teacher at Rhondda College, now part of Coleg Morgannwg, teaching English at GCSE and A Level, before in the mid-1990s she dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell T Davies
Stephen Russell Davies (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include '' Queer as Folk'', '' The Second Coming'', ''Casanova'', the 2005 revival of the BBC One science fiction franchise ''Doctor Who'', ''Cucumber'', ''A Very English Scandal'', '' Years and Years'' and ''It's a Sin''. Born in Swansea, Davies had aspirations as a comic artist before focusing on being a playwright and screenwriter. After graduating from Oxford University, he joined the BBC's children's department, CBBC, in 1985 on a part-time basis and held various positions, which included creating two series, '' Dark Season'' and ''Century Falls''. He eventually left the BBC for Granada Television, and in 1994 began writing adult television drama. His early scripts generally explored concepts of religion and sexuality among various backdrops: '' Revelations'' was a soap opera about organised religion and featured a lesbian vicar; '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Ford (writer)
Phil Ford is a British television writer and producer. He was head writer and co-producer from the second series of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', broadcast in 2008, co-wrote with Russell T Davies "The Waters of Mars", one of the 2009 special episodes of ''Doctor Who'',''Doctor Who Magazine'' #398 and wrote the majority of the 2010s video game series '' Doctor Who: The Adventure Games''. In 2012, with Davies, he created ''Wizards vs Aliens ''Wizards vs Aliens'' is a British science fantasy television programme produced by BBC Cymru Wales and FremantleMedia Enterprises for CBBC and created by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford. The series focuses on the exploits of 16-year-old wiz ...'', which ran for three series and gave him an executive producer credit. He won a Hugo Award, a Writers' Guild Award and was four-times BAFTA nominated. Selected filmography References External links *Episode 126 - Phil and Daninterview for Starburst magazine's podcast {{DEFAULTSORT:For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikki Wilson
Nikki Wilson (''née'' Smith) is a British television producer whose credits include ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-off ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. Her career had predominantly been as a script editor, in which capacity she worked on ''Trial & Retribution'' and ''Doctor Who''. Career In 2008, she became a producer on the Doctor Who spinoff ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' starting with "The Last Sontaran", and in 2010 following the departure of Julie Gardner, she was promoted to executive producer starting with " The Nightmare Man". In 2009, she produced the ''Doctor Who'' special "The Waters of Mars". In 2011, she became the new producer of the series ''Casualty'', taking over from previous producer Oliver Kent. Her first episode " Next of Kin" was aired on 3 December 2011 and her last episode "What You Believe" aired on 24 August 2013. In 2014 after five years away from the program, Wilson (alongside former producer Peter Bennett) returned to produce the eighth, ninth, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Russell
Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963) is a British freelance writer, producer and former child actor. As a writer, he is best known for his work in connection with the television series ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs in other media. As an actor, he is best known for playing Dick Kirrin in the British 1978 television series ''The Famous Five (1970s TV series), The Famous Five''. Biography Russell was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His on-screen acting career included leading roles in the BBC's adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel ''The Phoenix and the Carpet'' as Cyril, ITV (TV network), ITV's adaptations of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five (novel series), Famous Five novels (as Dick) and the BBC's ''Look & Read'' schools series, playing Lord Edward Dark in ''Dark Towers''. He also spent seasons performing with Prospect Theatre Company and the Royal National Theatre. He has written guide books, under the pseudonym Warren Martyn, to ''Frasier'' and ''The Simpsons'' for Virgin Publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Laight
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