Sarah Jane Smith played by Elisabeth Sladen in Doctor Who

• Species: Human
• Planet: Earth

Sarah Jane Smith is a journalist. In the 1970’s she managed to infiltrate a top secret research facility to investigate why a number of top scientists had gone missing. The Doctor and U.N.I.T were there investigating the same thing. Sarah Jane managed to sneak into the TARDIS and travel back in time to discover that it was the Sontarans that were taking the scientists. She helped the Doctor defeat the Sontarans for the first time.

Travelling with the Doctor, Sarah Jane got to meet Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and U.N.I.T on a number of occasions. The Brigadier last appeared in ‘Enemy of the Bane’.

Sarah Jane learnt a lot travelling with the Doctor. She saw the birth of the Daleks, Davros their creator, the Cybermen, Sontarans. She also witnessed the 3rd to 4th Doctors regeneration.

When the Time Lords summand The Doctor back to his home planet Gallifrey he was forced to leave Sarah Jane behind on Earth as humans were forbidden to visit the planet.

The Doctor never forgot Sarah Jane, he even sent her a version of his dog K9 (Mark III) which she still has. She later met up with the 10th Doctor where she and K9 helped him, Mickey and Rose defeat the Krillitane. The Doctor left Sarah Jane some gadgets inside K9, like her sonic lipstick.

These days Sarah Jane Smith drives a Nissan Figaro and has a supercomputer called Mr Smith who is a Xylok, a crystalline race which crashed to Earth as a meteorite over 60 million years. She now lives in Bannerman Road with her adopted son Luke. Their friends Maria, Clyde and Rani are always close by to help them defend the Earth.

I have learned that life on Earth can be an adventure, too. You never know what you might find! In all the universe, I never expected to find a family.Sarah Jane

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