13 Bannerman Road is where Sarah-Jane Smith lives, and it’s home to things way beyond your imagination! Sarah-Jane Smith was one of the Doctor’s most important companions. She played a key role in the history of Doctor Who.

After travelling with the Third and Fourth Doctors, Sarah-Jane decided to stay behind on Earth.

The Doctor later gifted her a version of K-9 to show that he never forgot her!

Many years passed and Sarah-Jane was finally reunited with the Tenth Doctor whilst investigating a school full of Krillitanes!

This presented the Doctor’s then companion Rose Tyler with some challenging questions about her own place in the Doctor’s long lives.

After defeating these bat-like monstrosities, Sarah-Jane parted ways with the Doctor again, this time with a new version of K-9 (the previous model sacrificed himself to defeat the Krillitanes).

Sarah-Jane decided to have adventures of her own on Earth. She was an investigative journalist who lived at 13 Bannerman Road in Ealing, London.

After adopting her Bane-created, genius son Luke, Sarah-Jane continued to have adventures on Earth with Luke Smith’s teenage friends Maria Jackson, Clyde Langer, Rani Chandra (a possible reference to the Rani from The Mark of the Rani, Time and the Rani, The Interstellar Song Contest and Wish World/The Reality War). and later Sky (whom Sarah-Jane also adopted). Sarah-Jane and her friends often had to rely on her alien supercomputer Mr Smith in her attic or her robot dog K-9 for help. The Bannerman Road gang fought dozens of aliens and monsters with bravery and resourcefulness throughout The Sarah Jane Adventures. The most dangerous foe that Sarah-Jane Smith faced was the Trickster, a being with powers over time who attempted to alter Sarah-Jane’s life in lots of despicable ways. Bannerman Road is possibly a reference to Delta and the Bannerman.

Sarah-Jane and her friends encountered the Doctor a few more times and also met up with other former companions including U.N.I.T heroes Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Jo Jones. Sarah-Jane battled further galactic menaces and encountered more domestic issues like single parenting and divorce. Sarah-Jane Smith was an example to us all, she was kind, feisty, resourceful and intelligent. She was the quintessential Doctor Who companion and the actress Elizabeth Sladen who played her so brilliantly is sorely missed. And the story goes on… forever.

Sadly, I never had the pleasure of meeting the extraordinary Elizabeth Sladen, but her daughter Sadie Miller was absolutely lovely! If I had been going to the Doctor Who conventions regularly since I was 16, I would have met the late, great Elizabeth Sladen (although I met her daughter); Nicholas Courtney, Caroline John (although I met her daughter), Mary Tamm, Philip Madoc, Geoffrey Hughes, Bernard Horsfall, Richard Briers, Raymond Cusick, Louis Marks, Alan Bennion, Michael Gough, Graham Crowden, T P McKenna, Elspet Gray, Philip Latham, Dinah Sheridan, Ingrid Pitt, Norman Jones, David Spenser, Derek Martinus, Kate O’Mara, Christopher Barry, Martin Friend, Jerome Willis, Michael Hayes, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Pip & Jane Baker, Lynda Bellingham, Bernard Kay, Rex Robinson, Edward Burnham, Derek Ware, Anthony Read, Robert Banks Stewart, Terry Wogan, John Hurt, Deborah Watling, Trevor Baxter, Victor Pemberton, Peter Sallis, Geoffrey Bayldon, Dudley Simpson, Jeremy Wilkin, Ken Dodd, Graham Strong, Helen Griffin, Mona Hammond, Barry Newbury, Fiona Cumming, Shane Rimmer, William Morgan Sheppard, Wendy Williams, Olaf Pooley, Geoffrey Palmer, Mark Eden, Louis Mahoney, Stewart Bevan, Roy Skelton, Peter Halliday, David Fisher, Derrick Sherwin, June Whitfield, Gareth Thomas, Jacqueline Pearce, Paul Darrow, Graeme Curry, Stephen Thorne, Terrance Dicks, Clive Swift, Nicholas Parsons, David Collings, Malcolm Tierney, Yolande Palfrey, Honor Blackman, Dame Diana Rigg, Philip Martin, John Sessions, David Prowse, Jeremy Bulloch, Myra Frances, David Bailie, Michael Ferguson, Bernard Holley, Cynthia Grenville, Arthur Cox, Helen McCrory, Roy Scammell, Jackie Lane, Damaris Hayman, Tony Selby, John Challis, June Brown, Lynda Baron, Bernard Cribbins (who I tried to meet), Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln, David Warner, Peter Bowles, Sonny Caldinez, Chris Boucher, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Gambon, Pamela Salem, William Russell (although I met his son), David Graham, Ysanne Churchman, Colin Fay, Arnold Yarrow, Barbara Clegg, Mary Peach, Jean Marsh, Prentis Hancock, Christopher H Bidmead and many more heroes that are sadly no longer with us. William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton died before I was born, but I have met Patrick’s sons David and Michael Troughton. Jon Pertwee died when I was almost two, but I have met his son Sean Pertwee. I was born on the 7th August 1994 and I was introduced to Doctor Who as a ten-year-old child by my parents when the series returned in 2005, so I grew up with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant. Doctor Who was created in 1963 as a family show and it is not just for kids. Doctor Who is the best TV show ever made!