It was really weird – me and Phil Ford said “Let’s go to dinner and cook up a new show.” Now that never works. Let’s make a new show, and then if that’s successful we can make both series at once.” So we were nicely ambitious. And so we literally cooked this up because we had a gap in production, and we thought “Well, we’re supposed to be making six episodes of Sarah Jane this year and we can’t - that’s got to be delayed until next year, so let’s make six episodes anyway. We knew Lis was ill, but we thought she’d get better – how sad was that. Initially we all thought Sarah Jane would come back one day.
Was Wizards And Aliens always intended as a direct replacement for Sarah Jane Adventures ?
