The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures
GenreScience fiction
Created byRussell T Davies
ShowrunnersRussell T Davies
Gareth Roberts
Phil Ford
Starring
Voices of
Theme music composerMurray Gold
Composers
  • Sam Watts
  • Dan Watts
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes53 (27 serials) + 1 short (list of serials)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
Running time
  • 60 minutes (New Year's Day special)
  • 25–30 minutes (series)
  • 5 minutes (Comic Relief special)
Production companyBBC Cymru Wales
Original release
Network
Release1 January 2007 (2007-01-01) –
18 October 2011 (2011-10-18)
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The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television programme produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies, and starring Elisabeth Sladen. The programme is a spin-off of the long-running BBC science fiction programme Doctor Who, and the second primarily targeted towards children after Totally Doctor Who. It focuses on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist living in Ealing, London, who, as a young woman, had numerous adventures across time and space with the Doctor. The show ran for five years until Sladen's death in 2011.

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. 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 programme won a Royal Television Society 2010 award for Best Children's Drama.

As of 2024, all episodes are on BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom and HBO Max in the United States until July 31, 2025.