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Sarah Jane Smith was a journalist who travelled with the Doctor in his third and fourth incarnations and was also acquainted with his tenth and eleventh. Together with her friends she met and battled aliens that came to Earth.
At age 23, when working for Metropolitan magazine, Sarah posed as her aunt, a famous virologist, in order to infiltrate a UNIT-controlled facility where some scientists had gone missing. She met Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT's unpaid scientific advisor, the Third Doctor. Suspicious of the Doctor's activities, Sarah Jane stowed away in the Doctor's TARDIS and traveled back in time with him to 13th century England, to defeat a Sontaran known as Linx, who had kidnapped the scientists.
Along with another human companion, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane and the Doctor traveled off on other adventures in time and space. The Doctor, in his new incarnation, had less interest in Earth, yet he seemed to have a closer relationship with Sarah Jane herself. She was present on the planet Skaro during the creation of the Daleks by Davros and the Doctor's attempt to change or prevent it.
Finally, after many trips with him, the Doctor received a summons to return to Gallifrey, his home world; as a human, she could not accompany him. The Doctor attempted to deposit her near her flat in South Croydon, but mistakenly left her in Aberdeen, Scotland, instead.
As a companion, Sarah Jane was confident, inquisitive and possessed a sharp mind and a sharp tongue. She was also something of a feminist; she was infuriated when the Third Doctor asked her to make coffee and she often verbally sparred with fellow companion Harry Sullivan over his chauvinistic and unintentionally patronising attitude towards her. Her feminism was more practical than fanatical, and did not get in the way of forming close friendships with Harry, or later with the Doctor himself. She shared a strong rapport with the Doctor, and her subsequent life has been shaped by her finding him a tough act to follow; she stops short of saying that she had fallen in love with the Doctor, though several of her exchanges with him after their reunion, in addition to the context of one of her conversations with Rose, strongly implies that she indeed had developed feelings for him. Despite the passage of time she maintained her can-do personality, and since reuniting with him, remained a close friend of the Doctor.
Rani once pointed out to the Tenth Doctor that Sarah Jane doesn't like being called just "Sarah", though he replied that "she does by me." Indeed, during her years traveling in the TARDIS the Doctor, along with a few other individuals such as Harry, and even Mike Yates, referred to her numerous times simply as "Sarah". To date, the Doctor remains the only person to still regularly call her this without her objection.
Sarah received training in evasion tactics from her UNIT days, which she never forgot, she stated "U.N.I.T training, never forgot it, just getting a bit older". She gained superb leadership skills from her time with the Doctor and was very good with her Sonic lipstick. She was intelligent and very knowledgeable about many types of aliens.
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Sarah Jane is absolutely superb throughout this story and Lis Sladen put in one of her best performances. I am not the biggest SJS fan in the world, but credit where it is due, she was near perfect to me in this.
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I really liked her in this. Her character is growing on me more and more every time I see her. I particularly like how playful she is, especially with the Doctor. Winding him up about things and making silly voices etc. Its a nice side to her.
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Quote from: Tardis-Console on July 26, 2011, 10:20:31 am
I really liked her in this. Her character is growing on me more and more every time I see her. I particularly like how playful she is, especially with the Doctor. Winding him up about things and making silly voices etc. Its a nice side to her.
I totally agree. She was perfect in this story. The more I see of her in the classics, the more I think I prefer her there to what we got in SJA and the new series
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I think she was brilliant in this. Even when she got a bit whiney (she had a pretty good reason for it, after all) she was whiney in a fun way.
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Yea I agree with Nyki. Oftentimes you get a whiney companion who makes you want to mute the dvd, but LS has a sort of charm where the whinier she is, the funnier she makes it seem. LS gave a brilliant, seemingly effortless performance in this
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I think it helps that it was around this time that they were writing the character more consistently than they had before. Although she was always good, she changed from story to story being funny in one or whiney in the other, or a feminist in another. By this point they had brought all those traits together and we were seeing snippets of everything in each story which to me at least, made her seem more real
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Another fantastic performance from LS in this serial, and like others have said, one of her best. During this time in the shows run, the pairing of companion and Doctor I don't think had ever been so brilliantly matched
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