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The Sarah
Jane Adventures
– The Complete First Season starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith,
Yasmin
Paige as Maria Jackson, Tommy Knight as Luke Smith, and Daniel Anthony as
with
Alexander Armstrong as the voice of Mr. Smith and John Leeson
as the voice of K9.
The Sarah Jane
Adventures – The Complete First Season is
as the name describes, the entire first season
of the series (and the 1-hour Pilot episode) where Sarah Jane Smith
continues investigating alien activity
on Earth with help from some young neighborhood friends.
This season is the one that recently aired on The Sci-Fi Channel in the
of Doctor Who, only the episodes there were edited to fit
commercial breaks. The episodes in this
DVD set
are the original full-length BBC versions.
This is a 4-disc set. It
contains:
On every disc:
-
Graphical menus,
episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
-
Stereo sound on
all episodes.
- “Sarah’s PC” A facsimile of Sarah’s desk computer
with three sub-folders:
- “Character Profiles” Text files about all the main characters
we’ve met up to this point.
- “Investigating Tools” Text files about all of Sarah Jane’s
hardware we’ve seen to this point.
- “Alien Profiles” Text files about the alien creatures
we’ve met so far.
On each
disc, each sub-folder is added to with the new characters, tools, or aliens
we’ve met
in
the episodes on that disc.
On Disc 1:
Story One: Invasion of the Bane (60-minute pilot episode)
Maria Jackson moves in across
is taking the world
suspiciously by storm. Could aliens be
behind Bubble Shock? Even if it’s
organic?
Even if it contains
Bane? (yes, of course they’re behind it, you
sillies)
-
“Telescope” Graphics of the telescope in Sarah’s
attic leading to two trailers, one for the pilot
episode that was
used on the BBC’s website, and one
for the Doctor Who Complete Third
Series Box Set.
- “Mr. Smith” Sarah’s super-computer opens up to
reveal links to the following featurettes:
- “Sarah Jane Smith: From Journalist to Time
Traveller and Beyond”
A
collection of clips from Sarah’s episodes of Doctor Who, telling the story of
her
friendship with the Doctor. Stories that
are highlighted are The Time Warrior,
Planet
of the Spiders (where we see the Third Doctor regenerate into the Fourth),
Robot, The Sontaran
Experiment, The Hand of Fear, The Five Doctors,
School
Reunion, and finally The Sarah Jane
Adventures: Invasion of the Bane.
Each
starts with some explanatory text.
- BBC Norfolk Web TV: Interview with
Elisabeth Sladen.
A 7-minute interview with the star.
- Blue Peter Footage. A 5-minute segment from children’s
magazine show Blue Peter
where they go behind-the-scenes on
the sets and talk with Elisabeth Sladen,
Yasmin
Paige, and Samantha Bond (Mrs. Wormwood)
- Behind the Scenes. A collection of still photos taken during
production.
-
When booting up, this disc plays a trailer
for the movie Journey to the Center of
the Earth and
another one for BBC America. These are skippable
with your remote.
On Disc 2:
Story Two: Revenge of the Slitheen
(2 30-minute episodes)
Sarah Jane, Maria, and Luke are joined by a
new friend, Clyde, as all become embroiled in a new
scheme by the worst crime family from Roxacoricofallipatorius to destroy the world.
Story Three: Eye of the Gorgon (2 30-minute episodes)
A woman with Alzheimer’s is the keeper
of a strange pendant that an evil sisterhood desires to
restore their goddess: the ancient Gorgon.
-
When booting up,
this disc plays a trailer for the BBC’s Robin Hood series. It is skippable with
your
remote.
On Disc 3:
Story Four: Warriors
of Kudlak (2 30-minute episodes)
Luke and Clyde join a laser tag team while
Sarah Jane and Maria investigate child disappearances.
Could Luke and Clyde be the next to
disappear? (Well, of course they could be or else there
wouldn’t be much of an adventure, now would there?)
Story Five: Whatever
Happened to Sarah Jane? (2 30-minute
episodes)
Maria wakes up one day to find Sarah Jane
missing – and that she is the only one who remembers
her ever having existed!
-
When booting up,
this disc plays a trailer for Doctor Who
– The Complete Fourth Series box set.
It is skippable with your remote.
On Disc 4:
Story Six: The
Last Boy (2 30-minute episodes)
Sarah and the others are shocked to see a
missing child appeal on television that shows Luke!
He is returned to his real parents, and the
others begin to pick up the pieces… until Clyde
finds a terrible
secret about those so-called parents…
(They’re
Slitheen!)
-
“The Sofa
Area”: A graphic of Sarah’s
sofa, where a book sits on the nearby coffee table. This
book opens to
display text synopses of every episode in the series.
- “Telescope” Graphics of Sarah’s telescope again
leading to two trailers for the series used on
CBBC, one
of 20 seconds and one of 40 seconds.
-
“Mr.
Smith” More super-computer links
to the following featurettes:
-
“Blue
Peter TV Spot: Making of a Slitheen Mask”
A 4-minute segment from Blue Peter
where Elisabeth Sladen is interviewed and where Yasmin
Paige, Tommy Knight, and
Daniel Anthony
try to make a Slitheen mask.
-
“BBC
Breakfast News TV Spot: Interview with Elisabeht Sladen” An 8-minute interview
with Elisabeth Sladen from 2006 just before her reappearance in the School Reunion
episode of Doctor Who.
-
Audio Adventures
Two 1-minute
audio-only trailers for two Sarah Jane
Adventures talking books that available
Elsewhere: The
Thirteenth Stone and The Glittering
Storm.
-
Photo
Gallery. A collection of still photos
taken during the production.
-
Quiz
Area…. Leading to Outtakes.
You’re asked some multiple choice questions about the
episodes. Get five of them in a row right, and
you’ll be played fifteen different outtakes
from the series,
totaling about four minutes.
This is a standard-definition DVD release, though it is still in
anamorphic widescreen (16:9).
The pilot episode aired on the 1st of January, 2007 on
BBC1. The rest of the season followed in
the autumn
of 2007.