Maria Jackson

Maria Jackson was a teenage girl who assisted Sarah Jane Smith. and her friends in combating alien menaces.

Adventures with Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde
When Maria was thirteen, her parents Alan and Chrissie Jackson divorced. Alan and Maria moved to 12 Bannerman Road (as referenced several times in the first series but changed to 36 Bannerman Road in the second series) in Ealing. The first night Maria made the life-changing discovery about her neighbour, Sarah Jane Smith, when she witnessed her conversing with a glowing winged alien. The very next day, she and a new friend from the neighourhood went to the Bubble Shock! factory, encountered other, unfriendly aliens and with Sarah Jane, Kelsey and a young artificial Human, Luke (at that time known only as "the Archetype"), banded together to defeat the Bane invasion. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane) One week later the now fourteen year old Maria met the "cool" Clyde Langer at school (Park Vale Comprehensive School), who joined with the others. (SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen)

After a number of other adventures, Maria helped Sarah Jane after the Trickster made it so that she had never existed. In this reality, Luke also did not exist and she barely knew Clyde Langer. With the original timeline restored, however, Maria's father stumbled in on the existence of Sarah Jane's activities. Alan told Maria that they were moving away, concerned for his daughter, but Alan recanted and decided to stay in their old home when Maria convinced him that not all aliens were evil. (SJA: The Lost Boy)

During the Dalek theft of Earth, Maria was staying in Cornwall with her father. (DW: The Stolen Earth) When Alan got a new job offer in America, Maria and Alan made the decision that he should accept the offer.They then moved to Washington, D.C. (SJA: The Last Sontaran) She still stayed in contact with Luke via email. (SJA: The Day of the Clown) She and her dad also helped to find information on the Berserker. (SJA: The Mark of the Berserker)

Some time later, she was helping the American government hide aliens. (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

Soon after she was invited to Sarah Jane's wedding but could not attend because she was taking exams. (SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

Donna's World
If Donna Noble had turned right for a job interview instead of turning left, Maria would have investigated the Royal Hope Hospital with Sarah Jane, Clyde and Luke. Since, as it was moved to the moon, the oxygen ran out it caused every one in the hospital, including Maria, to die of suffocation. (DW: Turn Left)

The Trickster's World
In The Trickster's World, Maria Jackson was erased from time by Krislok and then sent to Limbo. Because she was protected from the Trickster by the Verron soothsayer puzzle box, she was the only person who knew about the meteorite that was heading towards the Earth.

Personality
Maria had a patient, tolerant, and inquisitive personality. The divorce of her parents made her somewhat moody, and she was much less worldly-wise and trendy than Clyde though she was also braver and more sensitive. Clearly, Maria looked up to Sarah Jane, and Sarah Jane trusted her more than anyone in the world. (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)

Key Life Events

 * Parents Chrissie and Alan divorced. (Mentioned SJA: Invasion of the Bane)
 * Spies on Sarah Jane and sees an alien for the first time (Invasion of the Bane)
 * Meets Sarah Jane Smith and Luke and defeats the Bane. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)
 * Meets K-9 & Mr. Smith (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)
 * Meets Clyde Langer at school. (SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen)
 * Defeats a Slitheen with Vinegar (SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen)
 * Deafats a Gorgon (SJA: (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)
 * Leaves Earth for the first time (strongly implied). (SJA: Warriors of Kudlak)
 * Finds out that she is person Sarah Jane trusts the most in the world (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)
 * Briefly travels in time to the year 1964. (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)
 * Captured by a Graske and sent to Limbo (SJA:Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)
 * Tells Alan about aliens and her adventures with Luke, Cylde and Sarah Jane (SJA: The Lost Boy)
 * Meets a Sontaran named Kaagh. (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
 * Alan gets a job in America (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
 * Tells Luke, Clyde and Sarah Jane about America (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
 * Says her last goodbye to Sarah Jane (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
 * Moves to America with Alan. (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
 * Meets Rani Chandra. (SJA: The Mark of the Berserker)
 * Helps Luke and Rani find Clyde Langer. (SJA: The Mark of the Berserker)
 * Becomes a government agent and helps hide aliens . (Mentioned SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)
 * Temporarily turned into The Master along with the rest of the human race. (DW: The End of Time)

Behind the scenes

 * Although Maria technically left the series in The Last Sontaran, each story for the remainder of Series 2 included some on-screen reference to her, with Maria herself making a cameo in The Mark of the Berserker. Maria was again referenced several times in Series 3, though she did not appear.


 * Revenge of the Slitheen places Maria's birthday sometime in the last week of August as she had to be fourteen before the 1st of September to be in year 10 with Luke and Clyde. (SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen)