I wonder if she had any idea just how many lives she touched." Jenjenpen said: "It feels as though the internet is crying. On Twitter, DrTweeterE said she was a "TV Hero", KrisTheScript just said it was "heartbreaking", frostmourned said she was "devastated", CDSorter was shocked and saddened and said Sladen was "truly a companion that bridged the Dr Who generations". Social networking sites have made it easy for people without blogs or semi-official outlets to leave their own messages. Sladen would often attend fan events both small and big, and would patiently sign autographs and pose for photographs, treating everyone with absolute courtesy. While many fans were surprised by Sarah Jane's return to delight a modern generation, with hindsight it was an obvious decision.
The editor of Doctor Who magazine said he felt "drained" and regretted not getting the chance to say goodbye, and SFX Magazine's blog said: "Many of us had met Lis over the years and she was always charming, funny, generous and, simply, a completely lovely person."Įlisabeth Sladen with her Sarah Jane Adventures co-stars Photograph: BBC Fan sites and their owners' Twitter feeds went into overdrive. David Bishop said she chose one of his scripts to perform: "She sent me a lovely, handwritten letter of thanks afterwards, one of few mementoes I've bothered to keep."īut the biggest outpouring has been from people who watched her on TV. Writers of her audio series also piled in online. "Lis was a genuinely fantastic person … someone who cared passionately about her character, her work, her family, her friends and her colleagues," he says. Radio and audio producer Neil Gardner also stressed her professionalism on his Hokusbloke blog. For so many of us, she was the ultimate Doctor Who companion." Nicholas Briggs, the modern-day voice of the Daleks on TV, said: "Only yesterday I was filming a DVD extra in which I was talking with such heartfelt passion about how she was so 'luminous' on screen and how brilliant she was as Sarah Jane Smith.
Her entry into the series coincided with the introduction of a more gothic, horror-oriented approach from the production team for which the early Tom Baker era is fondly remembered. Sarah Jane was a journalist who knew her own mind and would on occasion rescue the Doctor as well as scream to be rescued herself. Photograph: Allstar/BBC/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane, with Tom Baker as the Doctor, in the 1974 story Robot.
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