Elisabeth sladen autobiography6/2/2023 ![]() She remained with the programme for three and a half seasons (making her the second longest lasting companion in the show's entire history, and the longest by number of episodes), finally leaving two years into Tom Baker's run as the Fourth Doctor at the end of the serial The Hand of Fear. Sladen joined Doctor Who in 1973 as the new companion to Third Doctor Jon Pertwee, following the departure of Katy Manning as Jo Grant. Incidentally, she married that young actor in 1968 they had one daughter, Sadie Miller. She was subsequently scolded for giggling while onstage because the actor playing a doctor - one Brian Miller - whispered "respiration nil, Aston Villa two" in her ear. Eventually, however, her sights turned to acting, and she made her first stage appearance as a corpse at the Liverpool Playhouse. ![]() ![]() She got her start in primary school, although at the time her interest was ballet in fact, she danced in one production with the famed Royal Ballet Company. ![]() Elisabeth Clara Heath Sladen (1946-2011), frequently called "Lis", was a widely beloved English actress best known for her role as perennial favourite Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith. ![]()
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