Elisabeth Sladen

Born: 1948-02-01

Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen (1 February 1946 - 19 April 2011) was an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who. She was a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprised the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.


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Downtime

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1995-02-03

Retired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the...

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Silver Dream Racer

as Bank Secretary
Released: 1980-06-13

David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother,...

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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1983-11-25

Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in...

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Doctor Who: Logopolis

as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
Released: 1981-03-21

After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an...

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Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-04-12

The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure...

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The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 2007-01-01

There's a new drink taking the world by storm - Bubbleshock! Everyone's drinking it. When...

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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1993-11-27

All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end...

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K9 Unleashed

as uncredited
Released: 2000-04-10

Documentory looking at the Doctors Robot Dog K9 which appeared in the Dr who series between...

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Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-11-15

In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt,...

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Ferry Cross the Mersey

as uncredited
Released: 1965-02-10

Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp...

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Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1974-04-27

The Doctor returns to Peladon fifty years after his last visit, to find Queen Thalira, daughter...

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Talking Doctor Who

as Self / Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
Released: 2023-11-01

As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back...

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Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1974-01-05

When scientists start to go missing in the 20th century, the Doctor is called in by the...

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Serial Thrillers

as uncredited
Released: 2004-03-01

In 2004 a documentary was commissioned by the BBC looking back at the Philip Hinchcliffe era of...

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Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS

as Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage)
Released: 2013-09-24

While sleeping over, the TARDIS decides to play a prank on Clara, much to her displeasure.

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Doctor Who: Robot

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-01-18

The newly-regenerated Doctor helps UNIT battle a sentient robot being manipulated by a corrupt...

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Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1974-03-16

An energy drain traps the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith on the planet Exxilon with its...

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Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-02-15

In the distant future, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find a space station preserving the future of...

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Adventures in Space and Time

as Herself
Released: 1999-11-13

A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew,...

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Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-03-01

Sontaran Field Major Styre is conducting experiments on the survivors of future Earth in...

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The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

as uncredited
Released: 1995-01-01

Climb aboard the HMS Belfast and enter Pinewood Film Studios for a fascinating and humorous...

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Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1974-02-16

The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because...

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Hitler: The Comedy Years

as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2007-05-10

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

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Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-05-10

Arriving on Space Station Nerva in its distant past, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find its crew...

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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1976-01-31

When scientists in the Antarctic uncover a mysterious seed pod, the Doctor is called in to...

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Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-10-18

Picking up a distress call from the edge of the known universe, the Doctor and Sarah Jane find...

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Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-11-22

The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and...

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Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1976-01-24

Mad scientist Mehendri Solon is building a body from spare parts to house the disembodied brain...

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Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1974-06-08

The blue crystal that the Doctor took from Metebelis III in a previous adventure is desperately...

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Our Sarah Jane – Elisabeth Sladen Tribute

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-05-04

A feature-length look at the life and career of Sarah Jane Smith, played by Elisabeth Sladen.

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Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1976-09-25

An alien intelligence hitches a ride onboard the TARDIS to 15th century Italy, where a deranged...

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The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years

as uncredited
Released: 2017-09-18

This is the definitive set of interviews with the team of actors who brought the TOM BAKER era...

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K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1981-12-28

Sarah Jane Smith arrives at the home of her Aunt Lavinia in the cozy village of Moreton Harwood,...

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The Story of Doctor Who

as uncredited
Released: 2003-12-30

Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series.

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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1976-10-23

When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand,...

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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

as uncredited
Released: 2008-03-03

Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth...

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Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 1975-09-20

When the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry arrive in Scotland, having received an urgent request for...

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Name for the Day

as Jo
Released: 1980-12-16

Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive...

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David Tennant's Video Diary

as Herself
Released: 2007-11-05

David Tennant records behind the scenes interviews and glimpses into the production behind his...

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Myth Makers 50: Elisabeth Sladen

as Sarah Jane Smith
Released: 2000-01-01

Recorded at locations used for her first "Doctor Who" story, "The Time Warrior", Elisabeth talks...

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Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

as uncredited
Released: 1997-06-01

The Doctor is everyone’s favourite Time Lord. And Tom Baker is everyone’s favourite Doctor. ...

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Built for War: The Sontaran Story

as uncredited
Released: 2006-10-09

The genesis and development of the Sontaran race through the history of the series, as told by...

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Doctor Who

as Sarah Jane Smith
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Coronation Street

as Anita Reynolds
First aired: 1960-12-09

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them...

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Doctor Who

as Sarah Jane Smith
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Play for Today

as Jo
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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The Bill

as Mrs Preston
First aired: 1984-10-16

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...

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Public Eye

as Policewoman
First aired: 1965-01-23

Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...

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Doctor Who Confidential

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-03-26

Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation...

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Peak Practice

as Dr. Pat Hewland
First aired: 1993-05-10

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...

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Dempsey and Makepeace

as Mrs. Barrett
First aired: 1985-01-11

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for...

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The Sarah Jane Adventures

as Sarah Jane Smith
First aired: 2007-01-01

A British science fiction television programme that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC,...

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Doomwatch

as Sarah Collins
First aired: 1970-02-09

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on...

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GMTV

as Self
First aired: 1993-01-01

GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee,...

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Tales of the Tardis

as Sarah Jane Smith
First aired: 2023-11-01

Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage...

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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-02-15

Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic,...

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Totally Doctor Who

as Herself
First aired: 2006-04-13

A look at everything Doctor Who, with exclusive behind-the-scenes clips, interviews with the...

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Doctor Who Greatest Moments

as Self
First aired: 2009-08-20

Takes viewers on a journey through time and space to relive all the action from the sci-fi show,...

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Gulliver in Lilliput

as Lady Flimnap
First aired: 1982-01-03

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its...

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Sarah Jane's Alien Files

as Sarah Jane Smith
First aired: 2010-10-11

Sarah Jane's Alien Files is a BBC series based on The Sarah Jane Adventures. It features Sarah...

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K-9 and Company

as Sarah Jane Smith
First aired: 1981-12-28

A one-episode television pilot for a proposed 1981 spin-off of the British science fiction...

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