Sarah Jane Adventures.

[caddyman]

It seems that my ultimate ambition of never growing up is still on track one month short of my 48th birthday.

Having missed it on New Year's Day, I have just torrented and watched The Sarah Jane Adventures. It is clearly aimed at the 8-14 market and none the worse for that. I may have reservations about "sonic lipstick", but that apart it was a ripping adventure yarn of the style we used to enjoy when I was a kid, but which, as far as I can see, has all but disappeared from modern telly. Some nice little references to the past (photo of the Brigadier, names suggested for the kid being Alistair and Harry, plus the sketch of the TARDIS), without swamping the show. I am also glad that K9 made a brief appearance, but will not be in the main show as, overall, tis a silly beast.

The show appealed to my inner 10 year old very much and Lis Sladen is as lovely as ever.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

It was enjoyable in a slightly breathless "come on kids, the monsters are this way!" kind of fashion.

[pipsytip.livejournal.com]

I am smacking myself on the forehead for missing it and have decided to torrent itonce I have finished downloading the vicar of dibley xmas special for the moomah

[lucyas.livejournal.com]

I agree. I thought it was OK as a kids' TV series too.

[jadeent.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. I agree that it was nice to see K-9 in a cameo appearance but not as a regular character. I suspect his brief appearance was solely there for us old fogies and not the kids, who expect something a little more impressive from their robots and special effects.

[binidj.livejournal.com]

Ignore the shooty dog thing

[sack-boy.livejournal.com]

I will need to rootle about on the interweb, but I recall seeing that some european (Dutch?) [children's] TV company is planning to do a CG K9 series. I'm not sure how they can do this as surely there would be rights issues. If it is true then, perhaps the "shooty dog thing" is allowed out elsewhere.

[sack-boy.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4939144.stm

http://www.jetixeurope.com/site/press_office/press_releases/k9.html

OK - from Park Entertainment:

K9 – The Series

Doctor who’s favourate companion returns in his own live action and CGI series .

GENRE: Comedy
Running Time: 26 x 1/2 hr episodes

PREMISE
Somewhere in the future…

An old Prairie class spacecraft is drifting towards distant stars. She is The “ Platte ” once used for the colonisation of Asteroids.

On board are:-
SLOCUM - mid-thirties, rugged, taciturn who thinks of himself as a dealer in valuable commodities - others would say he just collects junk! He is a loner – a space gypsy! It's the only way he knows. He's in no hurry to get anywhere and he stays well off the beaten track.

DJINN - a V997 (F), an overactive computer module in the shape of an attractive young woman. She was programmed by the ship's previous owners to provide stimulating conversation. Something that SLOCUM would happily change if only he had knowledge of her operating codes!

Together they discover an apparently abandoned battle cruiser. Whereupon they meet K-9!

The adventures begin...

http://www.parkentertainment.com/images/K9.jpg

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I pretty much agree with you entirely. I enjoyed it.

That sassy kid annoyed me, but she doesn't seem to be one of the main characters so hopefully will be eaten by something green and tentacled soon.