Series 1 (SJA)

Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures ran between 1 January 2007 and 19 November 2007. It starred Elizabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, Yasmin Paige as Maria Jackson, Tommy Knight as Luke Smith, Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer and Alexander Armstrong as Mr Smith. The series opened with Invasion of the Bane and concluded with The Lost Boy.

Overview
It consisted of six stories and eleven episodes. It was broadcast following the broadcast of a special 60-minute episode on 1 January 2007. The season proper aired between 24 September 2007 and 19 November 2007 and consisted of five two-part stories, with each episode running 25 minutes in length (the first time 25-minute episodes have been used in the Doctor Who franchise since the parent series ended in 1989).

A narrative trailer for the series aired, featuring Clyde discussing 13 Bannerman Road. As well as another trailer, generally advertising the series.

Cast

 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
 * Maria Jackson - Yasmin Paige
 * Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
 * Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
 * Mr Smith - Alexander Armstrong (voice)
 * Alan Jackson - Joseph Millson
 * Chrissie Jackson - Juliet Cowan

Recurring

 * K9 - John Leeson (voice)
 * Mrs Wormwood - Samantha Bond
 * Professor Rivers - Floella Benjamin
 * Trinity Wells - Lachele Carl
 * Carl / Nathan Goss - Anton Thompson McCormick, Jimmy Vee
 * The Trickster - Paul Marc Davis
 * Krislok - Jimmy Vee, Philip Hurd-Wood

Guest

 * Kelsey Hooper - Porsha Lawrence-Mavour
 * Andrea Yates - Jane Asher
 * Bea Nelson-Stanley - Phyllida Law
 * Sister Helena - Beth Goddard
 * Mark Grantham - Chook Sibtain
 * Jen - Nadiyah Davis
 * Jay Stafford - Jay Simpson
 * Heidi Stafford - Holly Atkins

Television stories
Although broadcast separately from the rest of the season, the BBC considers Invasion of the Bane to be part of Series 1, and released it as such to DVD.

Aliens and enemies

 * Bane
 * Mrs Wormwood
 * Bane Mother
 * Davey
 * Slitheen
 * Gorgon
 * Sister Helena
 * Uvlavad Kudlak
 * Mistress
 * Mark Grantham
 * Krislok
 * Mr Smith

Novels
Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures marked the first time since The Novel of the Film in 1996 that novelisations were commissioned for televised episodes of a Doctor Who franchise production. The first four novelisations were published in 2007, with the last two following in 2008.


 * Invasion of the Bane
 * Revenge of the Slitheen
 * Eye of the Gorgon
 * Warriors of Kudlak
 * Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
 * The Lost Boy

Audiobooks

 * The Glittering Storm
 * The Thirteenth Stone

Home video releases

 * Invasion of the Bane was released on a vanilla DVD on 29 October 2007.
 * It was the first Doctor Who related DVD to not be released by 2Entertain since 2005's Doctor Who Volume 2.
 * The Complete First Series (including Invasion of the Bane) was released on 10 November 2008.