18 – The Gift | |||
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Directed by | Alice Troughton | ||
Written by | Rupert Laight | ||
Script editor | Gary Russell | ||
Produced by | Nikki Wilson Phil Ford (co-producer) | ||
Executive producer(s) | Russell T Davies Julie Gardner Piers Wenger | ||
Music by | Sam Watts | ||
Production code | 3.11 and 3.12 | ||
Series | Series 3 | ||
Running time | 2 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
First broadcast | 19 November 2009 | ||
Last broadcast | 20 November 2009 | ||
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The Gift is the sixth and final serial of the third series of the British science fiction television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. It first aired in two parts on CBBC on 19 and 20 November 2009.
The story features Tree and Leef Slitheen-Blathereen, descendants of an offshoot branch of the Slitheen family of Raxacoricofallapatorius that the protagonist Sarah Jane Smith has faced several times before in the series. They gift Sarah Jane and the Earth a Rackweed plant that spreads spores to both quickly grow and wipe out humanity for profit.