Sky (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

2011 Sarah Jane Adventures story

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2011 Doctor Who story

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The Sarah Jane Adventures story

Official Poster from the BBC Website.

Cast

Starring

* Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith
* Tommy Knight – Luke Smith
* Daniel Anthony – Clyde Langer
* Anjli Mohindra – Rani Chandra
* Sinead Michael – Sky
* Alexander Armstrong – Mr Smith

Others

* Mina Anwar – Gita Chandra
* Ace Bhatti – Haresh Chandra
* Christine Stephen-Daly – Miss Myers
* Gavin Brocker – Caleb
* Paul Kasey – The Metalkind
* Chloe Savage, Ella Savage, Amber Donaldson, Scarlet Donaldson – Baby Sky
* Floella Benjamin – Professor Rivers
* Peter-Hugo Daly – Hector
* Will McLeod – Voice of The Metalkind

Production
Directed by| Ashley Way
Written by| Phil Ford
Script editor| Gary Russell
Produced by| Brian Minchin
Phil Ford (co-producer)
Executive producer(s)| Russell T Davies
Nikki Wilson
Music by| Sam Watts
Production code| 5.1 and 5.2
Series| Series 5
Running time| 2 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast| 3 October 2011 (2011-10-03)
Last broadcast| 4 October 2011 (2011-10-04)
Chronology
| ← Preceded by
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith | Followed by →
The Curse of Clyde Langer

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Sky is a two-part story of The Sarah Jane Adventures which was broadcast on CBBC on 3 and 4 October 2011.[1] It is the first story of the fifth and final series. In this episode, Sinead Michael joins the main cast.

## Plot

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### Part 1

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A meteor crashes in a junk yard, revealing a metal man. At the same time, Sarah Jane discovers a baby on her doorstep who can create power surges. She and Rani travel to the site of the meteor crash—leaving the baby with Clyde—and are met by Professor Rivers, who investigates the site with them. They find a homeless man who saw the crash and describes the metal man, who they discover is heading to Bannerman Road.

Meanwhile, an alien woman named Miss Myers appears at a nuclear power station and locates the power surge on Bannerman Road. She heads to Sarah Jane's garden where Clyde and the baby named Sky are being attacked by the metal man. Miss Myers saves Clyde and Sky and reveals that she is Sky's mother and an alien. However, Clyde does not trust her and refuses to hand Sky over.

Mr Smith locates Clyde at the power station, and Sarah Jane and Rani make their way there to find Clyde, Sky and Miss Myers, who reveals that her species, the Fleshkind are fighting a war against the Metalkind. Sky is a weapon who will end the war. The Metalkind walks in, and Sky transforms from a baby into a twelve-year-old girl.

### Part 2

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Miss Myers induces Sky to release a burst of energy that knocks over the Metalkind. Miss Myers reveals that Sky was "grown" in a Fleshkind laboratory as a weapon against the Metalkind. Unwilling to allow Sky to be used as a weapon, Sarah Jane and the gang escape with her. Miss Myers has the Metalkind wired to the nuclear core. Back at Bannerman Road, Mr Smith concludes that Sky's metamorphosis was caused by her synthetic DNA and was done to maximize her effectiveness as a bomb.

At Sky's insistence, Sarah Jane and the team return to the power station. Sarah Jane goes inside, looking for Miss Myers, and Sky follows. Sarah Jane learns that the damaged Metalkind has been programmed to summon other Metalkind, believing he is calling his comrades to victory over all flesh kind, including Earth's inhabitants. Miss Myers explains that Sky will be activated automatically upon the Metalkind's arrival on Earth.

Stating that she must save Earth, Sky heads to the nuclear core room, where a portal that will allow the Metalkind to arrive begins to open. Clyde and Rani head to the control room, where they discover how to retract the fuel rods and shut down the reactor. The portal shuts abruptly, inducing another power surge. The energy backlashes on Sky, destroying her genetic programming and leaving her as a normal, harmless child. Miss Myers does not want Sky anymore, as she is no longer a weapon. The Metalkind, who saved some of the portal's energy, breaks loose and takes Miss Myers back to his home planet.

Sarah Jane explains Sky's appearance to Gita and Haresh at Bannerman Road. When Sarah Jane's car's lights flicker, Clyde and Rani suspect that Sky's powers aren't entirely gone. In the attic, Sarah Jane finds the Shopkeeper and the Captain, previously met in Lost in Time. He reveals that he placed infant Sky on her doorstep. Sky chooses to stay with Sarah Jane as her adoptive daughter.

## Broadcast

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This was the first The Sarah Jane Adventures story to be aired following the death of Elisabeth Sladen. The first part was broadcast on Monday 3 October 2011 on CBBC while the second was broadcast on the following day, Tuesday 4 October 2011, on CBBC. The two parts were then again broadcast on Thursday 10 November and Friday 11 November 2011 on BBC One and for the first time in HD on BBC One HD.

Footage from this story of Clyde trying to make baby Sky laugh was featured in the BBC adaptation of Mr Stink.

## References

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1. ^ "The Sarah Jane Adventures – Sky" (Press release). BBC Press Office. Retrieved 15 September 2011.

## External links

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* Sky (TV story) on Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who Wiki
* "Sky: Part 1" at IMDb
* "Sky: Part 2" at IMDb

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The Sarah Jane Adventures

Serials|

| Series 1|

* "Invasion of the Bane"
* Revenge of the Slitheen
* Eye of the Gorgon
* Warriors of Kudlak
* Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
* The Lost Boy

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Series 2|

* The Last Sontaran
* The Day of the Clown
* Secrets of the Stars
* The Mark of the Berserker
* The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
* Enemy of the Bane

| Supp.|

"From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love"

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Series 3|

* Prisoner of the Judoon
* The Mad Woman in the Attic
* The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
* The Eternity Trap
* Mona Lisa's Revenge
* The Gift

Series 4|

* The Nightmare Man
* The Vault of Secrets
* Death of the Doctor
* The Empty Planet
* Lost in Time
* Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith

Series 5|

* Sky
* The Curse of Clyde Langer
* The Man Who Never Was

Characters|

| Main|

* Sarah Jane Smith
* Luke Smith
* Rani Chandra
* K9

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Guests|

* Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
* The Doctor
* Tenth
* Eleventh
* Jo Jones

See also|

* Slitheen
* Sontarans
* Judoon

Related|

| Whoniverse|

* Doctor Who
* "School Reunion"
* "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End"
* "The End of Time"
* K-9 and Company
* K9
* Sarah Jane's Alien Files

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Other|

* Sonic lipstick
* UNIT
* The Sarah Jane Adventures Collection

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