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{{Short description|2007 Sarah Jane Adventures story}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox Doctor Who episode
| number = 02
| serial_name = Revenge of the Slitheen
| show = TSJA
| type = story
| image = [[File:Revenge of the Slitheen.png|250px]]
| caption = The [[Slitheen]] adult and child chasing [[Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Luke]], [[Clyde Langer|Clyde]] and [[Maria Jackson|Maria]]

| cast =
*[[Elisabeth Sladen]] – [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
*[[Yasmin Paige]] – [[Maria Jackson]]
*[[Tommy Knight]] – [[Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Luke Smith]]
*[[Daniel Anthony (actor)|Daniel Anthony]] – [[Clyde Langer]]
*[[Alexander Armstrong]] – [[Mr Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Mr Smith]]
| guests =
*[[Joseph Millson]] – [[List of The Sarah Jane Adventures minor characters#Alan Jackson|Alan Jackson]]
*[[Juliet Cowan]] – [[List of The Sarah Jane Adventures minor characters#Chrissie Jackson|Chrissie Jackson]]
*Martyn Ellis – Blakeman
*[[Ian Midlane]] – Jeffrey
*Pamela Merrick – Wendy
* [[Imogen Bain]] – Janine
*Anton Thompson McCormick – Carl
*[[Jimmy Vee]] – [[Slitheen|Carl Slitheen]]
*[[Paul Kasey]] – Jeffrey/Blakeman/Janine Slitheen
*[[Lachele Carl]] – American Newsreader
| director = [[Alice Troughton]]
| writer = [[Gareth Roberts (writer)|Gareth Roberts]]
| script_editor = [[Lindsey Alford]]
| producer = [[Matthew Bouch]]
| executive_producer = [[Phil Collinson]]<br/>[[Russell T Davies]]<br/>[[Julie Gardner]]
| composer = [[Sam Watts]]
| production_code = 1.1 and 1.2
| series = [[List of The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes#Series 1 (2007)|Series 1]]
| length = 2 episodes, 25 minutes each
| date = {{Start date|2007|9|24|df=y}}
| preceding = "[[Invasion of the Bane]]"
| following = ''[[Eye of the Gorgon]]''
}}
'''''Revenge of the Slitheen''''' is the first serial of the first series of the British [[science fiction television]] series ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', and the second story of the show overall following the special episode "[[Invasion of the Bane]]". The first part aired on [[BBC One]] on 24 September 2007,<ref name="Radio TimesWeb">{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/shows/the-sarah-jane-adventures/|title=The Sarah Jane Adventures|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=2007-09-18|accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref><ref name="Radio Times2">{{Cite journal|title=[[Radio Times]]|pages=79|date=22–28 September 2007}}</ref> with the second premiering immediately after the first on the [[CBBC]] channel. This serial is notable for introducing [[Clyde Langer]] into the cast – he would remain for the rest of the series.

==Plot==
[[Maria Jackson]], [[Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|Luke Smith]], and [[Clyde Langer]] begin their first day at Park Vale School. Maria and Clyde have recently moved to Ealing, and Luke, having been artificially created the previous day, has never attended school before.{{refn|group=N|Maria moving into her new road and Luke's creation are both depicted in the 2007 episode "[[Invasion of the Bane]]".}} After discovering the food is mouldy and the school's new technology block has a strange metallic smell, [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] investigates a company that has created the school's new technology block the next day, discovering the same rotting of fresh food and the smell happened at buildings in several other countries.

At lunchtime, Luke unknowingly helps members of the [[Slitheen]] family, disguised as teachers and a student, solve a problem in an unstable capacitor system that can switch off the sun by converting its heat and light into energy. Seeking revenge on Slitheen members that were killed on Earth,{{refn|group=N|As depicted in the 2005 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[World War Three (Doctor Who)|World War Three]]".}} they intend to have the atmosphere "snatched away", and profit off the remains of the planet while remaining safely inside a secret room in the technology block buildings. After hours, Maria and Luke investigate the technology block in their school, and are followed by Clyde, who finds them to be strange. Maria and Clyde are hunted by Slitheen disguised as the teacher Mr Jeffrey and genius pupil Carl. Sarah Jane is attacked by a Slitheen who disguised herself as a company secretary, Janine. Luke finds the secret room and is confronted by the Slitheen commander, his headmaster Blakeman.

Sarah Jane escapes and saves Maria, Luke, and Clyde, sealing the Slitheen in the school. Luke figures out that the school is only part of the capacitor that reaches around the world, and Clyde figures out that the Slitheen are negatively affected by vinegar. The team heads off back to the school with squeezy bottles of vinegar. After Maria uses the vinegar to blow up Blakeman, they then head over to the secret room. As Luke did not predict they were using the capacitor on the Sun, the Slitheen are forced to reset the system. Luke overloads the system with Sarah Jane's sonic lipstick, electrocuting Janine and Jeffery to death, while some of the other Slitheen teleport away. Later, Sarah Jane informs her friends that UNIT are clearing up the technology in the secret room. She accepts Clyde into the team.

==Continuity==
Upon realising who she's dealing with, Sarah Jane quotes [[Rose Tyler]]'s remarks on "Slitheen in [[Downing Street]]" from the episode "[[School Reunion (Doctor Who)|School Reunion]]".

The Headteacher says 'For the Love of Clom', referring to Raxacoricofallapitorius's twin Planet first mentioned in "[[Love & Monsters (Doctor Who)|Love & Monsters]]". He also mentions the Blathereen, another family from their planet who would later be seen in the series in the episode "[[The Gift (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|The Gift]]".

==Cast notes==
The American Newsreader played by Lachele Carl previously appeared in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episodes "[[Aliens of London]]", "[[World War Three (Doctor Who)|World War Three]]", "[[The Christmas Invasion]]" and "[[The Sound of Drums]]".

==Novelisation==
{{Infobox book|
|name=Revenge of the Slitheen
|series=[[the Sarah Jane Adventures#Novelisations|The Sarah Jane Adventures]] #2
|image=
|author=Rupert Laight
|published=2007 ([[Penguin Books]])
|cover_artist=
|isbn= 1-405-90398-8
|pages=128
|preceded_by= [[Invasion of the Bane#Novelisation|Invasion of the Bane]]
|followed_by= [[Eye of the Gorgon#Novelisation|Eye of the Gorgon]]
|}}

This was the second of eleven Sarah Jane Adventures serials to be adapted as a novel. Written by Rupert Laight, the book was first published in paperback on 1 November 2007.<ref name="Revenge of the Slitheen – Sarah Jane Adventures – From The Makers of Doctor Who. No.2 – BBC Childrens Books [paperback]'">{{cite book|title=Revenge of the Slitheen – Sarah Jane Adventures – From The Makers of Doctor Who. No.2 – BBC Childrens Books [Paperback]|id={{ASIN|1405903988|country=uk}} }}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{wikiquote|The Sarah Jane Adventures}}
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sja/ Sarah Jane Adventures homepage]
*{{IMDb episode|1030453}}

===Novelisation===
*{{Isfdb title|id=870017|title=Revenge of the Slitheen}}

{{Slitheen stories}}
{{The Sarah Jane Adventures serials|1}}

[[Category:The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Gareth Roberts (writer)]]
[[Category:Slitheen television stories]]
[[Category:2007 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Television episodes set in schools]]

Revenge of the Slitheen - Revision history

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