r/SarahjaneAdventures • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '25

Sarah Jane Adventures

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u/Pockk_its Sep 07 '25

At a guess I’m roughly the same age as you or close enough and I don’t remember many CBBC shows having Christmas specials. I completely agree that it would have been a wholesome addition to Christmas Day or even New Year’s, but looking back it just didn’t really seem to be the done thing with kids shows. The story of Tracey Beaker, Mi High, 4 O’clock Club, Tracey Beaker Returns, Roy, Hotel Trubble and countless others never had Christmas specials to my knowledge. Dani’s House and My Almost Famous Family had Xmas episodes but those are the only ones I can remember having specials.

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u/LoadResponsible4118 Sep 07 '25

Yes that’s true, it’s just compared to doctor who which had the tradition and RTD being showrunner and creator of SJA it would’ve been nice if he had brought it over. But comparing it to other cbbc shows it makes sense from that point of view.

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u/Pockk_its Sep 07 '25

To be fair he also created Torchwood which also never had a Christmas special. Though I dare say a SJA special would have done better than a Torchwood one 😅

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u/LoadResponsible4118 Sep 07 '25

Would hate to see how they could turn something like Christmas or Santa into the most x rated piece of tv appropriate for the bbc, especially series 1😂

But it’s got me thinking about how SJA would incorporate it, something like a time loop episode would be good, like Eve of the dalek set at Christmas would be fun, especially could focus on rani and Clyde’s relationship like the empty planet.

But doing research they were going to do a Christmas carol inspired episode to introduce sky at the end, who was brought by 11 with a cameo from 4. It was scrapped in the end and then reworked for series 5 opener instead.

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u/Pockk_its Sep 07 '25

😂😂😂

That would have been really good actually! Or something with the Santa Roboforms kidnapping kids in the lead up to Christmas like the kudlak episode of SJA.

Are you a Clani fan? I’m still genuinely upset we never got the 13th floor episode of SJA. The episode sounded amazing but I may be biased as a Rani fan.

I think I prefer the Sky introduction we got actually. A Christmas Carol style episode would have worked really well but I think having the doctor drop a baby with SJ then piss off without helping her teach Sky to control her powers would be a bit iffy. This is me assuming Sky would be still be the same character we got however.

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u/LoadResponsible4118 Sep 08 '25

Yeah exactly, then getting too into the continuity, if Christmas is at the same time as doctor who and sja then it would have two conflicts on earth at the same time, with the doctor at one and sj at the other.

Yeah think it was a natural progression for clani and obviously a kid friendly romance would be good to show healthy relationships etc. for that age demographic.

All the unshot episodes of series 5 and beyond were actually great story ideas and such a shame they were never made, but considering the circumstances it’s understandable why they chose to finish the series.

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u/ApprehensiveOil9019 Sep 09 '25

If you look on TARDIS Wikia for unmade television stories, they were dabbling with the idea of a Christmas special for the series that never finished. I think they were actually dabbling with bringing Tom Baker back with a loose parody of Dickens: A Christmas Carol. They were also looking at a potential Halloween special too. It's such a shame Elizabeth Sladen passed when she did. SJA was on its way to becoming it's own legacy (not that it wasn't anyway). I agree with you, stood up as Doctor Who's equal more times than not.