Sarah Jane Adventures Episode Titles & News

Sarah-Janes website reports some interesting news, Penguin, publishers of the SJA novelisations, have updated their website with the titles of two forthcoming Season 2novelisations! We now know the names of the first and second two-parters!

Episodes 1 and 2: The Last Sontaran
Episodes 3 and 4: Day of the Clown

The novelisations will be released on 3rd November 2008, and you can watch the episodes themselves sometime in early Autumn.

SFX has some snippets of news for us, some is new, some we already know;

Maria Jackson and her family are only in the first story (episodes one and two). The Jackson family will then move out of their house.

Moving in will be the Chandra family, with their daughter, Rani. She wants to be a journalist and looks up to Sarah Jane.

If Rani's name is an in-joke (the Rani being an evil female Time Lord in the classic Doctor Who series) Nikki Smith knew nothing about it. Which rather suggests that Rani is not eventually revealed as the Rani (bad luck to all you conspiracy theorists).

A rogue Sontaran will feature in both the first and final stories.

Mrs Wormwood (from the pilot episode) is back in the final story, once again played by Samantha Bond.

We meet Clydes parents in a mid-season story. They’ll be played by Gary Beadle (EastEnders) and Jocelyn Jee Esien from Little Miss Jocelyn.

Bradley Walsh plays an alien with three identities.

The bulk of the FX work is now being handled in-house at BBC Wales with the Mill provided a few of the more complex FX sequences (including the return of the Sontaran spaceship).

And when asked if the Doctor will make an appearance, all Nikki would say is, Watch this space.

Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart returns in the final story.