Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2931 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-29
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 61 minutes

DVD Description
The Sarah Jane Adventures was written by the multi award-winning Russell T Davies for CBBC, starring Doctor Who's companion Sarah Jane Smith. The series features thrilling stories for children. Big adventures, superb effects, wicked comedy.

Sarah Jane Smith is a truly remarkable woman. She inhabits a world of mystery, danger and wonder. A world where aliens are commonplace and the Earth is constantly under threat. A world that Maria Jackson - a seemingly ordinary girl - can only dream of until she moves in next door. Nothing will ever be ordinary again.

In the first adventure, there's a new drink taking the world by storm - Bubbleshock! Everyone's drinking it. When Maria's dragged along to the factory tour by her new friend, Kelsey - a girl with an opinion on everything - she's plunged into the sinister world of Bubbleshock and the mysterious Mrs Wormwood. There's something terrible behind the hype - something Sarah Jane's interested in too...

Synopsis
Maria Jackson's boring life collides with the excitement of that of Sarah Jane Smith, when the pair find themselves living next door to one another. Sarah inhabits a world of intrigue and adventure and Maria is about to tag along for the ride...

Customer Reviews

Great!
I've seen the series on tv but never saw the pilot episode so it was interesting to see how Luke had come about, being an archetype created by the Bane, an alien species that had infiltrated a soft drink being marketed as organic, everyone who drank it become affected, in a brainwashed kind of way, trying to get other people to drink it too. It was a great story and I loved the menu section of the dvd, which scanned the interior of Sarah Jane's apartment. The dvd also had a history of Sarah Jane section, showing some of the earlier Doctors. I have been wanting to obtain the whole series on dvd ever since it finished its run on tv, I don't know why it's taking so long. All the stories were fantastically good, especially the one with the nuns, which was very creepy. I hope they don't make us wait too long!

flippin` fantastic!
OK,let`s get this straight:This is the first episode of a brand new series
starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith.{But i`ll let you in to a secret:For a first episode,I think it`s fantastic!}The Bane where brilliant monsters and it was a great way to set a alien plot:having the aliens in the form of a new fizzy drink.Whoever wrote this must be genius!

Great Children Entertainment
My son who is only 5 is a Doctor Who fan and totally caught on to SJA. SJA is a great children's version of Doctor Who but I don't think the quality is diminished. My son totally loved it. A great first series, I think it is more cost effective as a 2 series compilation, but a 40 minute episode is just the correct amount of time as an after school treat, it has just the right amount of action telling the story and introducing the characters and enough for children to understand and keep their attention. I enjoyed it too, though my son is the one who can watch it time and time again.