Just when you thought Russell T. Davies was finished with The Doctor...
The BBC has released a press release for the upcoming series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, the Doctor Who spinoff staring Elisabeth Sladen as former companion Sarah Jane Smith, which is to include an episode featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor reuniting with Sarah Jane to combat an alien foe. The episode will be penned by Russell T. Davies, his first project in the Doctor Who universe since stepping down as Head Writer and Executive Producer of the flagshow's revival. The press release also announced the return of actress Katy Manning to her role of Jo Grant, another former companion of the Doctor, who will appear in the episode, as well.
This isn't the first time that the Doctor made an appearance on Sarah Jane Adventures. David Tennant's Tenth Doctor made an appearance in the Series Three episode, titled "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith", before passing the role over to Matt Smith. The character of Jo Grant hasn't appeared in the Doctor Who universe since her departure in the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) serial, "The Green Death."
Wonder if they will discuss the time lapse between the two shows' timelines, with SJA currently taking place fourteen years prior to the current series of Doctor Who's setting. Given that these shows do indeed feature time travel, it basically wouldn't matter. Although, it could provide a great clue to why the TARDIS is acting weird with its lapse in time currently, since the Eleventh Doctor thought he left Amy Pond for a few minutes to be surprised that fourteen years had past. Just a thought...
The episode is slated to air this Fall on CBBC in the UK.
Source: BBC Press Office
just curious as to why you think Amy Pond is from a future 14 years in the future? When he met Amy, could it not just have easily been 14 years ago?here is no indication one way or the other, except for small clues like young Amy's older clothes and suitcase, and all the mobile phones in older Amy's time. Still, not conclusive one way or the other. As you said, "it's all about time-travel", so what difference does it make. Especially now as it seems there have been important changes to the time line Ie why can't Amy remember Planets or Daleks in the sky? meh, I'm being pedantic! Lets just enjoy the show :)
I thought that since they made such a big deal about it in the dialogue that it could mean something significant to this year's overall arc. The Doctor usually knows how much time has passed between each trip and whatnot so him being perplexed is an eye-raiser. As for the latter part of your post, 1) it might be considered an American spoiler and 2) I think that Amy might have something to do with the crack in the universe, but doesn't know it.
the last episode it mentioned that amy's time was 2010, if that helps at all :D
Yea, I saw that this weekend, but as Deej Rogers reminded me, the show is all about time travel, so I worried for nothing, lol. But I wouldn't mind knowing what Amy's part is in everything. It reminds me too much of the emphasis that Donna was supposedly "the big picture" during RTD's run.