# RIP Sarah Jane :-( **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996 "2011-04-19T20:31:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/41 "2011-04-20T21:52:33Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Damn. My first Doctor Who adventures were the ones shown here on PBS. With Tom Baker & Sarah Jane. > > The [Tin Dog heard from](http://www.dorktower.com/images/comics/DorkTower942.gif). Ditto. Sadness reigns. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/42 "2011-04-20T22:05:16Z")
Everything has its time, and everything comes to an end. O, this is sad, everyone after Sarah Jane was “the new companion” to me, and none of them quite measured up. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/43 "2011-04-20T22:16:13Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J_EK76-Zpkw/hqdefault.jpg "DOCTOR WHO tom baker SARAH JANE elizabeth sladen -NEVER MET AGAIN") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_EK76-Zpkw) I think I have something in my eye… ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/44 "2011-04-20T23:58:45Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Damn. My first Doctor Who adventures were the ones shown here on PBS. With Tom Baker & Sarah Jane. > > The [Tin Dog heard from](http://www.dorktower.com/images/comics/DorkTower942.gif). Why is that the one thing that made me tear up? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/45 "2011-04-21T00:09:07Z")
I didn’t realize Liz had children. She married several years before appearing on Doctor Who. 43 years to the same guy. > [@](#): > > Sladen was married to actor Brian Miller from 1968 until her death. Their daughter, Sadie Miller, appeared with her in the range of Sarah Jane Smith audio plays by Big Finish Productions. As a child, Sadie appeared along-side Sladen in the 1996 documentary, Thirty Years in the TARDIS, wearing a replica of the Andy Pandy overalls Sladen wore in The Hand of Fear. > **[Elisabeth Sladen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Sladen)** > > Elisabeth Clara Heath-Sladen (1 February 1946 – 19 April 2011) was an English actress. She became best known as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who, appearing as a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprising the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-offs, K-9 and Company (1981) and The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011). > Sladen was interested in ballet and theatre from childhood, and be... ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/46 "2011-04-21T01:48:43Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J\_EK76-Zpkw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_EK76-Zpkw) > > I think I have something in my eye… Man, Tom Baker sure was funny-looking for such a sexy guy. Wait. Man, Tom Baker sure was sexy for such a funny-looking guy. Hmmm… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/47 "2011-04-22T01:16:12Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _The Sarah Jane Adventures_ is squarely aimed at kids, and the first couple of seasons are a little bit dodgy and overly earnest, but it soon finds its feet and last year’s series was excellent fun with some really good bits. Shame SciFi/Syfy gave up on it after a single season (not sure if was made up of one series or two, sometimes UK shows get shown in the US in funny ways like that). What I did see wasn’t bad. Yeah, a little kiddie, but hey, made a good counterpoint to the waaaaaaaaaaaaay adult only Torchwood. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/48 "2011-04-22T02:28:17Z")
Tom Baker was technically my first Doctor. I watched the show on PBS on occasion but I never saw them in any kind of order. So I vaguely remembered Sarah Jane when I saw her on the new Who with Tennant. Last night I watched an old Tom Baker Who episode with Sarah Jane on Netflix in her memory. Might watch another tonight. RIP ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/49 "2011-04-22T02:54:16Z")
I wish they’d release a dvd collection of Sarah Janes best episodes with Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee. Back then the companion often didn’t have much to do. But, I recall there were a few great episodes where Sarah Jane played a bigger role. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996/50 "2011-04-22T04:28:18Z")
> **[Mistress?...](https://doctorwho.livejournal.com/7430821.html)** > > Coming out of lurk status to post a quick pencil sketch I did tonight. Sometimes you just need a good cry to get it all out and this image popped into my head and it sure did the trick (along with some of the great fic and tributes I've been... another cartoon with K9 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sarah-jane/578996.md?page=2)