Series 5 (SJA)

Series 5 of The Sarah Jane Adventures aired on CBBC in 2011. On 4 March 2010, the BBC announced that it had officially commissioned both a fourth and fifth series of the spin-off. Part of the series was planned to film in 2010 alongside Series 4 and it was later announced that half the series had been completed as planned. With the death of Elisabeth Sladen in April 2011, the BBC announced that no new episodes will be made. Three stories (six episodes) of series 5 were completed. The final episodes aired between 3 October 2011 and 18 October 2011.

Recurring

 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
 * Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
 * Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
 * Sky Smith - Sinead Michael
 * Luke Smith - Tommy Knight

Guest

 * Miss Myers - Christine Stephen-Daly
 * Lionel Carson - Peter Bowles
 * John Harrison - James Dreyfus

Stories
The series consisted of 3 two-part serials. The series began on the 3 October. Luke Smith made appearances in the first and third stories, but this was the only SJA season in which K9 Mark IV did not appear. A new ongoing character, Sky Smith, was introduced for the season.

Three more stories were planned for the series before Sladen's death. These were:

DVD and Blu-ray releases

 * DVD and Blu-ray release occurred in the UK on 6 February 2012 in a single-disc edition that includes the featurette "Goodbye Bannerman Road: Remembering Elisabeth Sladen". A North American release, on DVD only, occurred on 12th June 2012 with the same bonus feature.