Elisabeth Sladen
Birthday: Born in 1948-02-01 in Liverpool, England, UK
Deathday: 2011-04-18
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.
TV Credits
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
A British science fiction television programme that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen. It was a spin-off of the long-running science fiction show Doctor Who and focused on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist who, as a young woman had numerous adventures across time and space with the Doctor....
Doctor Who Confidential
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Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode was broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly television episode on BBC One. The running time of the first two series was 30 minutes, being extended to 45 minutes in the third. BBC Three also broadcast a cut-down edition of the programme, lasting 15 ...
K-9 and Company
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
A one-episode television pilot for a proposed 1981 spin-off of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features former series regulars Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist played by Elisabeth Sladen, and K9, a robotic dog voiced by John Leeson. Both characters had been companions of the Fourth Doctor but they had not appeared together before. The single episode, A Girl's Best Friend was broadcast by BBC1 as a Christmas special on 28 December 1981 but was not taken u...
The Bill
Character: Mrs Preston
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters....
Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Mrs. Barrett
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals....
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
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Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic, well-meaning... and disaster-prone....
Doomwatch
Character: Sarah Collins
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999....
Play for Today
Character: Jo
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration....
GMTV
Character: Self
GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010....
Doctor Who
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
Sarah Jane's Alien Files
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane's Alien Files is a BBC series based on The Sarah Jane Adventures. It features Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra entering data on aliens they have encountered during their adventures into Mr Smith, Sarah Jane's extraterrestrial computer, to benefit humanity in the event that Sarah Jane is no longer capable of defending the Earth against alien threats. Each episode is a clip show summarising the events of episodes in which the featured aliens appeared. The onl...
Totally Doctor Who
Character: Herself
A look at everything Doctor Who, with exclusive behind-the-scenes clips, interviews with the programme's stars and competitions....
Doctor Who
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs....
Peak Practice
Character: Dr. Pat Hewland
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based...
Public Eye
Character: Policewoman
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous ...
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Character: Self
Takes viewers on a journey through time and space to relive all the action from the sci-fi show, featuring exclusive interviews with key actors offering unique insights on the classic moments....
Tales of the Tardis
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time....
Coronation Street
Character: Anita Reynolds
The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap....
Gulliver in Lilliput
Character: Lady Flimnap
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu....
Movie Credits
K9 Unleashed
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Documentory looking at the Doctors Robot Dog K9 which appeared in the Dr who series between 1977-1981 the series includes interviews with cast and crew as well a showreel for a so far unmade K9 TV series....
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and woods stalked by white-clad figures....
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character: Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special....
Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
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The Doctor is everyone’s favourite Time Lord. And Tom Baker is everyone’s favourite Doctor. With his manic grin, his wild hair and his mile long scarf, Baker became the definitive Doctor. His wicked sence of humour and naturally gentle personality added whole new dimensions to the character. This video includes a highly revealing interview with Baker that’s never been seen on television or video. Margarita in hand, he soaks up the California sunshine and talks openly about his time as the Doct...
Talking Doctor Who
Character: Self / Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the Doctor’s classic era....
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
When scientists in the Antarctic uncover a mysterious seed pod, the Doctor is called in to investigate. He soon realises it is extraterrestrial and extremely dangerous. At the same time, however, ruthless millionaire plant-lover Harrison Chase has learned of the find and decides he must have the pod for his collection of rare and beautiful flora. Meanwhile the pod itself harbours intelligent life with sinister plans of its own......
Myth Makers 50: Elisabeth Sladen
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Recorded at locations used for her first "Doctor Who" story, "The Time Warrior", Elisabeth talks to Nicholas Briggs about the series, her life, career and family in one of the most open, frank and revealing interviews she has ever given....
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
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Climb aboard the HMS Belfast and enter Pinewood Film Studios for a fascinating and humorous insight into the making of SHAKEDOWN — Return of the Sontarans. Includes all new interviews with the stars — Jan Chappell, Brian Croucher, Carole Ann Ford, Sophie Aldred, Rory O’Donnell, Toby Aspin and Tom Finnis — writer Terrance Dicks, director Kevin Davies, composer Mark Ayres and much more! PLUS Highlights from Dreamwatch 94'...
Downtime
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Retired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the mysterious time traveler the Doctor, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart faces the toughest battle of his military career when he is embroiled in a plot unwittingly set in motion by university chancellor Victoria Waterfield, herself a former companion of the Doctor, to take over the Earth by an evil alien entity called the Great Intelligence, aided by its ferocious robot Yeti cohorts. Can the Brigad...
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Character: Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage)
While sleeping over, the TARDIS decides to play a prank on Clara, much to her displeasure....
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
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This is the definitive set of interviews with the team of actors who brought the TOM BAKER era of DOCTOR WHO to life! This documentary includes the best in-depth interviews with TOM BAKER (the Fourth Doctor), ELISABETH SLADEN (Sarah Jane), IAN MARTER (Harry), LOUISE JAMESON (Leela), MARY TAMM (Romana) and JOHN LEESON (Voice of K9)!...
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
In the distant future, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find a space station preserving the future of mankind. But the insect Wirrn have got there first......
David Tennant's Video Diary
Character: Herself
David Tennant records behind the scenes interviews and glimpses into the production behind his three series of Doctor Who....
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
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......
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt, has been replaced by a sinister Egyptian. Cloth-wrapped Mummies roam the grounds, killing people. Beneath a pyramid, the last of the Osirans — Sutekh the Destroyer — waits to be freed, to at long last bring his gift of death to all who live....
Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death
Character: Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Doctor and Ruby Sunday have faced the Bogeyman, fought against Maestro, and survived the battlefield of Kastarion 3. In the epic two-part season finale, The Doctor and Ruby arrive at UNIT headquarters on a top-secret mission and a long-buried secret awaits…...
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Arriving on Space Station Nerva in its distant past, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find its crew threatened by a mysterious plague. Discovering that things are not as they seem, they uncover a Cyberman plot to destroy Voga, planet of gold....
Doctor Who: Robot
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
The newly-regenerated Doctor helps UNIT battle a sentient robot being manipulated by a corrupt scientific organization....
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
When the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry arrive in Scotland, having received an urgent request for assistance from the Brigadier, they discover that the mysterious force which has destroyed three oil rigs has left giant teeth marks on the wreckage. The mystery deepens, leading them to the shores of Loch Ness where they find that the legendary monster really does exist – and is the murderous tool of the Zygons, aliens intent on overpowering the planet. The Doctor, his companions and UNIT must find...
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Mad scientist Mehendri Solon is building a body from spare parts to house the disembodied brain of the evil Time Lord Morbius. He fancies the Doctor's head as the final piece......
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. It turns out the dinosaurs are being brought to London via a time machine to further a plan to revert London to a pre-technological level....
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
The Doctor returns to Peladon fifty years after his last visit, to find Queen Thalira, daughter of the late King Peladon, on the throne. A tense labour dispute between Pel nobility and miners is worsened when apparitions of their deity Aggedor attack and kill several miners. The Galactic Federation desperately needs trisilicate for its war against Galaxy 5 and sends in brutal Ice Warrior troopers to ensure production. The Doctor discovers a devious plot at the heart of Aggedor's appearances....
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
An energy drain traps the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith on the planet Exxilon with its hostile natives, causing the travellers to make an uneasy alliance with a Marine Space Corps expedition and a squadron of Daleks. The key to escape for all of them lies at the heart of a powerful and mysterious lost city, but only after a series of deadly traps....
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
When scientists start to go missing in the 20th century, the Doctor is called in by the Brigadier to investigate. His investigations lead him to deduce that they are being kidnapped through time and he sets off in pursuit, unknowingly kidnapping journalist Sarah Jane Smith in the process. Arriving in the middle ages, the Doctor and Sarah find themselves caught up in the machinations of the robber baron Irongron and his man from the stars. The alien, a Sontaran named Linx, is arming him with mod...
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
The blue crystal that the Doctor took from Metebelis III in a previous adventure is desperately sought by the Eight Legs, a race of mutated spiders, as the final element in their plan for universal domination. With help from an old mentor, the Doctor realises the only way to foil the plot is to make the ultimate sacrifice. The Doctor must risk death to return to the cave of the Great One and save the universe....
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Sontaran Field Major Styre is conducting experiments on the survivors of future Earth in preparation of a full-scale Sontaran invasion of the planet. Can the Doctor defeat Styre and save the world?...
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
An alien intelligence hitches a ride onboard the TARDIS to 15th century Italy, where a deranged astrologer attempts to harness its power....
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure yet — to prevent the creation of the Daleks....
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Picking up a distress call from the edge of the known universe, the Doctor and Sarah Jane find themselves on Zeta Minor where a geological team has run afoul of some strange goings on......
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive......
Silver Dream Racer
Character: Bank Secretary
David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone....
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith arrives at the home of her Aunt Lavinia in the cozy village of Moreton Harwood, only to find that Lavinia is nowhere to be found and that the Doctor has left her a parting gift in K·9 Mark III. With the help of K·9 and Lavinia's young ward Brendan Richards, Sarah Jane starts investigating her aunt's disappearance. In the process, they discover that Moreton Harwood is home to a coven worshipping the pagan god Hecate and preparing for a human sacrifice......
Adventures in Space and Time
Character: Herself
A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, transmitted as part of "Doctor Who Night" on BBC2....
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Character: Sarah Jane Smith
Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon....
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
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Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission of 'The Five Doctors', the media interest and the BBC Enterprises' event at Longleat House. Featuring actors Peter Davison, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Mark Strickson, Janet Fielding, Carole Ann Ford, John Leeson, Richard Franklin and Caroline John, writer Terrance Dicks, director Peter Moffatt, visual effects designer Mike Kelt, new serie...
Serial Thrillers
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In 2004 a documentary was commissioned by the BBC looking back at the Philip Hinchcliffe era of British Television Series Doctor Who and what made those years some of the most popular in the series history....
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
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The genesis and development of the Sontaran race through the history of the series, as told by some of the actors and production team involved. This specially produced documentary includes contributions from Terrance Dicks, Elisabeth Sladen, Anthony Read, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Bob Baker, Eric Saward and Stuart Fell....
The Story of Doctor Who
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Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series....
Ferry Cross the Mersey
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Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp through the early-1960s Liverpool Beat Scene. Art students by day and musicians by night, the boys' big break comes by winning a local talent contest. But first, they must retrieve their instruments, which have been mistakenly carried to the airport....
Our Sarah Jane – Elisabeth Sladen Tribute
Character: Self (archive footage)
A feature-length look at the life and career of Sarah Jane Smith, played by Elisabeth Sladen....
Name for the Day
Character: Jo
Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive does something that makes her realise he means it....
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Character: Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe....
Summer Session
Character: Herself
Rob Brydon auditions to be the Doctor, whilst some Daleks escape to an auction in Wales....