Sarah Jane Smith (audio drama series)
Appearance
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Sarah Jane Smith was a Big Finish Productions series of audio plays based on Sarah Jane Smith from the television series Doctor Who. Sarah Jane was voiced by the original actor Elisabeth Sladen.[1]
Episodes
[edit]Series 1 (2002)
[edit]No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |
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1 | "Comeback[2]" | Gary Russell | Terrance Dicks | Sarah Jane, Josh, Natalie | July 2002 | |
Six months after the last part of her investigative television series for Planet 3 Broadcasting went out, Sarah Jane Smith is running scared. Meeting new friend Josh Townsend, she finds herself investigating mysterious events in the village of Cloots Coombe. | ||||||
2 | "The TAO Connection[3]" | Gary Russell | Barry Letts | Sarah Jane, Josh, Natalie | August 2002 | |
After the body of one of Josh's friends is found floating in the Thames, Sarah Jane heads towards West Yorkshire to investigate the Huang Ti Clinic. | ||||||
3 | "Test of Nerve[4]" | Gary Russell | David Bishop | Sarah Jane, Josh, Natalie | September 2002 | |
The London Underground will suffer a horrific terrorist attack unless Sarah Jane can stop it. Will she have to sacrifice a close friend in order to save a city? | ||||||
4 | "Ghost Town[5]" | Gary Russell | Rupert Laight | Sarah Jane, Josh | October 2002 | |
Sarah Jane arranges for Juno Baker to sell the property at Morton Harwood, which she inherited from Aunt Lavinia, to finance her ongoing investigations. As a first step, Sarah Jane travels to Romania to meet an old journalist friend at an international peace conference, whose delegates are being literally scared to death. But she finds to her dismay that someone is trying to do the same to her. Attempting to discover the truth behind the Project CIA conspiracy, she encounters the mysterious Dimitri: a man with no name and no past, who has complete amnesia. | ||||||
5 | "Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre[6]" | Gary Russell | Peter Anghelides | Sarah Jane, Josh, Natalie | November 2002 | |
Sarah Jane's past catches up with her in the shape of Hilda Winters, who manipulates her into visiting a remote island in the Indian Ocean to investigate a bio-warfare scandal from the 1940s. Sarah Jane disregards her usual instinct to trust no one, and consequently finds herself set up to take the fall when Miss Winters determines to implicate her as the person responsible for the release of the biological warfare virus, which will kill millions. |
Series 2 (2006)
[edit]No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featuring | Released | |
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1 | "Buried Secrets[7]" | John Ainsworth | David Bishop | Sarah Jane, Josh, Natalie, Will | January 2006 | |
Sarah Jane learns of the death of Hilda Winters, then receives a letter from her from beyond the grave. The letter speaks of a 16th-century manuscript known as The Book of Tomorrows which foretells the future, and which is being urgently sought by the mysterious Keeper. When Sarah Jane's friend Natalie is arrested in Florence on a murder charge whilst taking part in an archaeological dig, Sarah Jane rushes to her assistance; Natalie has uncovered information about the manuscript, which has been missing for centuries. It predicts an alien invasion of the Earth, in which the key figure will be a person named Sarah Jane, with the initials SJS... | ||||||
2 | "Snow Blind[8]" | John Ainsworth | David Bishop | Sarah Jane, Josh, Will | February 2006 | |
A sequel to Buried Secrets, Sarah Jane travels to Antarctica to visit Will Sullivan, Harry Sullivan's brother, who she had met by chance previously, and his science research team — unaware that one of the team is a murderer. The Crimson Chapter are secretly using the Antarctic base as a front for their fundraising activities, and the Keeper is manipulating events to lure Sarah Jane to a lonely spot in order to ensure her death. | ||||||
3 | "Fatal Consequences[9]" | John Ainsworth | David Bishop | Sarah Jane, Josh, Will | March 2006 | |
The Crimson Chapter, a doomsday cult who Sarah Jane encountered in Buried Secrets, believe that she is the Herald, whose presence portends the end of the world, because of a manuscript written centuries ago by a duke who Sarah Jane encountered in the 15th century. The Crimson Chapter have given up waiting for the Cult of Demnos to destroy the world, and have determined to fulfill their own prophesy of armaggedon by releasing a banned biological weapon that will destroy all life on Earth. | ||||||
4 | "Dreamland[10]" | John Ainsworth | David Bishop | Sarah Jane, Josh, Natalie | April 2006 | |
Sarah Jane faces one more shock as Josh stands revealed as her secret guardian angel. When the truth behind the Duke's manuscript emerges, the dying Sir Donald offers her a place on the world's first commercial flight into space from the Nevada launch site codenamed Dreamland, which is the key to the White Chapter's plan to intercept the rapidly approaching Mandragora comet. She accepts, but she wonders whether she will find what she has been searching for, out among the stars. Following a sabotage attempt on take-off, Sarah Jane is marooned in space. But something is approaching the spacecraft. |
References
[edit]- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith - Ranges - Big Finish".
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:Comeback". Big Finish Productions. July 2002. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:The TAO Connection". Big Finish Productions. August 2002. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:Test of Nerve". Big Finish Productions. September 2002. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:Ghost Town". Big Finish Productions. October 2002. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre". Big Finish Productions. November 2002. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:Buried Secrets". Big Finish Productions. January 2006. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:Snow Blind". Big Finish Productions. February 2006. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:Fatal Consequences". Big Finish Productions. March 2006. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Sarah Jane Smith:Dreamland". Big Finish Productions. April 2006. Retrieved 20 September 2024.