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The
Sarah Jane Adventures
– The Complete Second Season starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah
Jane Smith, Tommy Knight as Luke Smith,
Daniel Anthony as
Rani Chandra, Alexander Armstrong as the voice
of Mr. Smith, and guest starring Yasmin Paige
as Maria Jackson, Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
and John Leeson as the
voice of K9.
A 3-disc box set of all 12 episodes (6 two-part stories) of the second
season of this series.
On all three discs, you will find:
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Graphical menus,
episode and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.
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Sarah’s
PC. A menu leading to three sections of
text files:
o Character Profiles (bios of all the regular
characters seen so far on the disc in question)
o Investigating Tools (descriptions of alien
artifacts and gear seen so far)
o Alien Profiles (descriptions of the alien
creatures seen so far)
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Mr. Smith. Sarah Jane’s super-computer opens up
to play the extra videos for you. See below.
On Disc 1:
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Episode 1: The Last Sontaran and Episode 2: Day of the Clown
In The Last Sontaran,
a sole survivor of the Sontaran attack force (from
the Doctor Who story
The Sontaran
Stratagem) crash-lands on Earth and it’s up to Sarah Jane and her friends
to stop him!
In Day of the Clown, new neighbor Rani is immediately sucked into the mystery of how missing
children tie in to the appearances of a sinister
clown.
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The Sofa
Area. We visit a virtual book near Sarah
Jane’s sofa and read a synopsis of the
episodes from the first season.
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Mr. Smith
Videos: “Blue Peter Footage”
5 minutes of chat on BBC magazine show Blue Peter
with Tommy
Knight, Daniel Anthony, and Anjli Mohindra.
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Audio
Adventures: A five-minute extract from a
Sarah Jane Adventures audio book
called
“The
Time Capsule,” read by Elisabeth Sladen.
On Disc 2:
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Episode 3: Secrets
of the Stars and Episode 4: The Mark of the Berserker
In Secrets of the Stars, a television
astrologer makes contact with alien forces that seek to use him
to find a way into our world.
In The Mark of the Berserker,
an alien medallion that can control minds.
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Mr. Smith
Videos: “Me and My Movie
Monday” Three different segments
from a CBBC
magazine series.
Two are
is a 2-minute visit with Sound Engineer
Julian Howarth.
On Disc 3:
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Episode 5: The
Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith and
Episode 6: Enemy of the Bane
In The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, the
Trickster returns with a new trap for Sarah Jane:
the temptation to change history by saving the
lives of her parents who died when she was a baby.
In Enemy of the Bane, Mrs. Wormwood returns
to try to retake control of Luke, with the help
of another hidden old enemy.
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The Sofa
Area. We visit a virtual book near Sarah
Jane’s sofa and read a synopsis of the
episodes of the second season.
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Telescope. Plays two videos: Season 2 Cinema Advertisement (
(
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Mr. Smith
Videos: Series Scenes (a 1-minute photo
gallery from the episodes) and
Behind the Scenes
(a 1-minute photo gallery from behind-the-scenes)
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Quiz Area. You are presented with five multiple choice
questions about the episodes on these
discs, and if you get all five correct, you will
see an extra video. (Get it wrong and
you have
to start over with a different set of
questions.)
The video is a
5-minute special mini-episode called From
Raxacoricofallapatorius With
Love
that ran as part of the BBC’s
“Comic Relief” charity telethon in March 2009.
This is a standard-definition DVD release, though it is still in
anamorphic widescreen (16:9).
Episodes originally transmitted in the Autumn
months of 2008.