He suggested instead a series based on the Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith. '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. Their initial idea was 'a drama based on the idea of a young Doctor Who', but Russell T Davies vetoed this. In 2006, Children's BBC expressed an interest in producing a Doctor Who spin-off. It finished just two weeks later on 18 October 2011. The fifth series was broadcast starting 3 October 2011 on Mondays and Tuesdays. The BBC stated that no further episodes would be filmed. 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. An episode of another spin-off series, Sarah Jane's Alien Files, was shown immediately after each of the first episodes of the stories. The fourth series was aired from 11 October 2010. 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 to 20 November 2009.

The first series consisted of five two-part stories, and a second series, comprising six two-part stories, began airing on 29 September 2008. Series Ī full series of ten 25-minute episodes began on 24 September 2007. Īs of 30 November 2022, all of the series are on BBC iPlayer. The programme won a Royal Television Society 2010 award for Best Children's Drama. 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.

The series debuted on BBC One with a 60-minute special, ' Invasion of the Bane', on 1 January 2007, and broadcast until Sladen’s death in 2011. Following Sladen's sudden death from cancer, the BBC confirmed that the show would not return for a sixth series. It focuses on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist who, as a young woman, had numerous adventures across time and space with the Doctor. 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. 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, and starring Elisabeth Sladen.

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