The names of the six new narratives comprising Series Four of “The Sarah Jane Adventures”, as usual running over twelve episodes, have been detailed as follows…
4.1 & 4.2 “The Nightmare Man”
by Joseph Lidster
4.3 & 4.4 “The Vault of Secrets”
by Phil Ford
4.5 & 4.6 “Death of the Doctor”
by Russell T Davies
4.7 & 4.8 “The Empty Planet”
by Gareth Roberts
4.9 & 4.10 “Lost in Time”
by Rupert Laight
4.11 & 4.12 “Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith”
by Gareth Roberts & Clayton Hickman
The series is expected to be the biggest and best yet (don’t they always say that?), due to the support from CBBC, and hosts some brand new villains including The Nightmare Man, The Dark Horde, Men in Black, Tudors and Nazis!
Julian Bleach, who appeared in “Doctor Who” as Davros, two years ago, and previously played The Ghostmaker in “Torchwood”, guest stars in the opening story of “The Sarah Jane Adventures” as The Nightmare Man. This new character is rumoured to be his scariest villain to date (again, don’t they always say that?)!! Will Julian be the only actor to have appeared in all three titles?
4.1 & 4.2 “The Nightmare Man”
by Joseph Lidster
4.3 & 4.4 “The Vault of Secrets”
by Phil Ford
4.5 & 4.6 “Death of the Doctor”
by Russell T Davies
4.7 & 4.8 “The Empty Planet”
by Gareth Roberts
4.9 & 4.10 “Lost in Time”
by Rupert Laight
4.11 & 4.12 “Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith”
by Gareth Roberts & Clayton Hickman
The series is expected to be the biggest and best yet (don’t they always say that?), due to the support from CBBC, and hosts some brand new villains including The Nightmare Man, The Dark Horde, Men in Black, Tudors and Nazis!
Julian Bleach, who appeared in “Doctor Who” as Davros, two years ago, and previously played The Ghostmaker in “Torchwood”, guest stars in the opening story of “The Sarah Jane Adventures” as The Nightmare Man. This new character is rumoured to be his scariest villain to date (again, don’t they always say that?)!! Will Julian be the only actor to have appeared in all three titles?
3 comments:
I never get the time to see SJA, one of the reasons being that I'm still at work when it's on, and it's over by the time I get home! I actually have the boxset of Series One and haven't even watched it properly!
However I have for the most part enjoyed the episodes I've caught...
Interesting that Julian Bleach has crossed over from T-Wood to DW and now SJA!
One observation I want to make is that Liz Sladen plays it very "serious" as Sarah Jane in this, compared to the more fun-loving Sarah of "old" DW - whilst she is still a very decent actress and one of my all time favourite companions I think she could do with lightening up a bit...
My feelings anyway!
"SJA" is on too early for me, also, but I took advantage of the CBBC catch-ups which, if I remember, went out on Sunday mornings. For that matter, "Doctor Who" is on too early, as well, not to mention broadcast at the wrong time of year!
I can't think of another actor, besides Julian Bleach, who has worked on all three shows. Director Alice Troughton has, and justifiably so.
It should be interesting to see how RTD writes for the new Doctor, to see how he acknowledges all of Matt's idiosyncrasies.
Sarah Jane could do with being a little less preachy. The third series suffered from this more than the first two I thought.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Simon, much appreciated.
Preachy is the word!
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