Character
Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who (2005), played by Elisabeth Sladen.
Sarah Jane Smith arrives at UNIT posing as her own aunt, a journalist chasing a story she suspects is being covered up. Sharp-tongued and impatient with condescension, she talks her way into danger rather than away from it, determined to get the truth whether or not anyone in a lab coat wants her to have it.
She was written as an answer to decades of companions who mostly screamed and got carried, and Elisabeth Sladen makes the correction feel like a whole personality rather than a point being scored. Her curiosity is a professional instinct, not a plot device, and her exasperation with being patronised is funny precisely because she's usually right.
She was one of the few people the Doctor considered one of his best friends. She reunited with him in his tenth incarnation and had adventures with him in his eleventh incarnation. Sarah met nine of the Doctor's incarnations in total: those already mentioned and the first, second, fifth, seventh, and eighth.
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Doctor Who2005