| Solo Sarah Jane Smith on Audio |
 The ever-popular 1975 companion and everyone's favourite
intrepid investigative journalist
Sarah
Jane Smith, played by Elisabeth Sladen, returns for a thrilling series of
solo adventures.
These five brand-new doctorless audio adventures for release
starting monthly from July 2002 will take Sarah into the darker realms of
international espionage and the world of the paranormal... Big Finish
Productions, are intending to create something completely different then that
tried with the 1981's Sarah Jane-starring television pilot "K9 and Company".
Big Finish executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery explains:
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| "Right from Day One, we've had numerous requests to bring
Sarah - but we wanted to use her in her own right, rather than just put her in
one Doctor Who story opposite an unfamiliar Doctor. We're all fans of both the
character and of Elisabeth Sladen, and it's going to be a lot of fun satisfying
people's demands to revisit Sarah." |
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Big Finish are going to develop a background intended to
focus much more on Sarah as a human being who, having seen the universe, is
trying to come to terms with being confined to just one planet in one time
zone.
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One thing
which is clear is there will be no K9 and no access to friends in high places,
like those she had in UNIT, that can be called upon for help. And she'll need
help, because in the course of her work she'll have uncovered some unpleasant
truths about today's world - and someone out there wants her kept quiet.
Big Finish intend for this series to be slightly more earthy,
more gritty and character-led than you might expect and they want to focus on
Sarah using her wits and her strengths rather than science or technology to get
her out of trouble. Of course, those getting her into trouble in the first
place may have no end of technological resources at their command.
The five plays
were recorded early in 2002 for a staggered release later in the year. Terrance
Dicks has written the first story and Barry Letts has done the second. David
Bishop, Rupert Laight and Peter Anghelides have written the subsequent
stories.
So far no precise details have been released yet except that
the official title of the series will simply be: "Sarah Jane Smith" and that
the plays will be released one a month beginning in July 2002.
Big Finish
Productions had previously announced that they had included the character of
Samantha Jones, former companion to the Eighth Doctor in BBC Publishing's run
of novels, in the first three stories. However, they have decided to drop this
character as having another ex-companion of The Doctor's brought into play too
many questions about Sarah and Sam. Juliet Warner, the actress due to play Sam,
has been given a new character, called Ellie Martin, who is someone more
specific to the Sarah Jane Smith series and who wouldn't carry so much
"baggage".
Please click
here for further details on this exciting new Doctor Who spin-off audio
adventure.
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Sarah Jane Smith: Comeback
(Terrance
Dicks) |
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Sarah Jane Smith: The TAO
Connection
(Barry Letts) |
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Sarah Jane Smith: Test of Nerve
(David
Bishop) |
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Sarah Jane Smith: Ghost Town
(Rupert
Laight) |
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Sarah Jane Smith: Mirror, Signal,
Manoeuvre
(Peter Anghelides) |
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