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Directed by | Joss Agnew | ||||
Written by | Phil Ford | ||||
Script editor | Gary Russell | ||||
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Nikki Wilson Phil Ford (co-producer) |
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Executive producer(s) |
Russell T Davies Julie Gardner Piers Wenger |
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Production code | 3.1 and 3.2 | ||||
Series | Series 3 | ||||
Length | 2 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||||
Originally broadcast | 15 & 16 October 2009 | ||||
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Prisoner of the Judoon is the first serial of the third series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. It was first broadcast on the 15 and 16 of October 2009. It features the Judoon, the intergalactic police introduced in the 2007 Doctor Who episode "Smith and Jones".
Sarah Jane Smith continues to live her life on Bannerman Road. Investigating a nanotechnology company, she is thrown out and goes back to her house, when suddenly, an alien space pod crashes into a building. Sarah Jane and the gang take a trip to the building, where Judoon Captain Tybo is shooting at an alien escaped prisoner, Androvax, a Veil, who soon possesses a little girl. Luke and Rani team up with the Judoon Captain, while Sarah Jane and Clyde meet the little girl. Sarah Jane becomes possessed and Clyde is put out of focus. Luke, Rani and Captain Tybo locate him and he is awakened.
Meanwhile, Gita and Haresh (Rani's parents) pay a visit to the nanotech company to help improve Gita's flower business but they are arrested. The Judoon Captain, Clyde, Luke and Rani arrive at Bannerman Road to discover that the possessed Sarah Jane Smith has ordered Mr Smith (Sarah Jane's supercomputer) to self-destruct with a one-minute countdown.
Luke talks Mr Smith out of self-destructing ; the team heads over to the nanotechnology laboratory to save Sarah Jane and for Captain Tybo to bring in Androvax who must be executed for the destruction of 12 planets. The evil Sarah Jane Smith has released the nanoforms, to build a spacecraft for Androvax, threatening to destroy the Earth in the process. Gita and Haresh are arrested by the guards. They easily escape and are then confronted, scanned and catalogued by newly arrived Judoon troopers. Androvax/Evil Sarah Jane explains that the spaceship design is based on the crashed Roswell spaceship, and then reveals that he wants to destroy everything, since he was upset when his planet's sun burnt out and wants to destroy all inhabited worlds believing that destruction is the way of the Universe.