History TearJerker / TheSarahJaneAdventures

* Sarah Jane's narration in "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS3E11E12TheGift The Gift]]". It's a tearjerker that requires some context, but after everything we've seen so far, after watching so much [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersofMars death]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime destruction]] in ''Series/DoctorWho'' and after the frankly chilling events of ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'', hearing Sarah Jane who has seen so much of it saying hopefully that perhaps one day "earth can be a shining example to the universe" can draw a sad smile. Maybe we adults should heed more of what we teach our children.

* Had the series carried on beyond 2011, Creator/TomBaker would have returned as the Fourth Doctor. Just imagine that! The quintessential names of mid-70s ''Doctor Who'' back on our screens, together after so long. Who wouldn't have loved the TARDIS to have materialised in the attic and for Sarah Jane to expect Creator/DavidTennant's or Creator/MattSmith's Doctor to stroll out, only to be greeted with that unmistakable voice: ''"Hello Sarah Jane..."''. Just one more thing that we'll never see now.

** How can you conceivably watch this show, that's meant to be so child friendly and uplifting, and not ''break down'' in the knowledge that Sarah Jane Smith will ''never again'' tell us that everything will turn out okay? No, all we have now is ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s message that everyone you love will eventually slip loose this mortal coil, and unrelenting evidence from ''Series/DoctorWho'' that, as a species, ''we're not worth saving.''

* Sarah Jane's narration in "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS3E11E12TheGift The Gift]]". It's a tearjerker that requires some context, but after everything we've seen so far, after watching so much death and destruction in ''Series/DoctorWho'' and after the frankly chilling events of ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'', hearing Sarah Jane who has seen so much of it saying hopefully that perhaps one day "earth can be a shining example to the universe" can draw a sad smile. Maybe we adults should heed more of what we teach our children.

*** Luke ''is now an orphan.'' Both Mrs Wormwood and Sarah Jane are gone - he has no parents anymore... and he's only in his ''twenties.''

** Luke's nightmares from the episode's first part are not only utterly heart-wrenching by themselves but also painfully relevant to anyone who's ever been suffering from self-esteem issues.

** Luke's nightmares are not only utterly heart-wrenching by themselves but also painfully relevant to anyone who's ever been suffering from self-esteem issues.

** The fact it ended up being the ''last'' adventure the Doctor and Sarah Jane ever had on screen, due to Lis Sladen's untimely death.

* Sarah Jane forgetting the Doctor's name.

* Lord Marchwood continuously searching for his children in vain. When he tells Sarah Jane about how much of a curse that Erasmus Darkening has brought upon himself and his family by taking his children away from him in the blink of an eye, you can see he's close to tearing up and it's genuinely heart-breaking to watch. Even seeing his children plead for him is sad.

* Sarah Jane parts ways with her best friend - K9, who she asks to go to Oxford with Luke to protect him.

* "Farewell Sarah Jane" (the special minisode released in 2020 that tells the story of Sarah Jane's funeral) in its entirety. It's very obvious that the actors involved are speaking about Elisabeth Sladen just as much, if not more than they are speaking about her character.

** Sarah Jane losing her fiancé. Who is, to boot, a perfectly {{nice guy}] who truly does love her.

* At the end of ''Eye of the Gorgon'', when Bea [[spoiler: hears the voice of her dead husband one last time.]]

* ''Whatever Happened To Sarah Jane?'', when Andrea Yates tearfully says "But it's my birthday".

* "The Lost Boy":

* Sarah Jane and Luke's separation in ''The Lost Boy''. Full stop.

* The climax of "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" when her parents tell her how much they love her. [[spoiler: Then they get into their car and drive away, knowing that they're going to be killed in a car crash.]]

** Sarah Jane losing her fiancé. Who is, to boot, a perfectly nice guy who truly does love her.
* Sarah Jane's narration at the end of series three. It's a tearjerker that requires some context, but after everything we've seen so far, after watching so much death and destruction in ''Series/DoctorWho'' and after the frankly chilling events of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}: Children of Earth'', hearing Sarah Jane who has seen so much of it saying hopefully that perhaps one day "earth can be a shining example to the universe" can draw a sad smile. Maybe we adults should heed more of what we teach our children.

* "Death of the Doctor": From Sarah Jane asking if the Doctor's last body was in pain when she last saw him, to Jo Grant finding out the Doctor's travelling with a married couple and remarking she only left him because she got married and wondering if he thought she was stupid, to Jo mentioning the Time Lords... there's a lot of little beats like this.

** A happy, happy tearjerker - Ace, a delinquent teenager, has apparently turned her life around and is running a charity with Mel and has raised ''billions''.[[note]]According to the Novelisation, anyway. In the show, Mel isn't mentioned.[[/note]]. The Doctor ''did'' work wonders on her.

* Parts of "Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith" are just heartbreaking... particularly the idea that the MonsterOfTheWeek began its attack by, in essence, [[spoiler:''giving Sarah Jane Alzheimer's''.]]
* Sarah Jane forgetting the Doctor's name in ''Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith''.

* The end of ''The Curse of Clyde Langer''. Basically,[[spoiler: Clyde is dragged away by Sarah Jane, Rani and Sky in order to stop the totem pole from destroying the world. He leaves Ellie without saying goodbye, hoping to find her afterwards. He ends up searching all over Ealing for her, only to find out that she had left town, AND her real name wasn't Ellie Faber, meaning it would almost be impossible to find her again. What's worse is that wherever she is she'll never know why Clyde left her.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3L2r3Z9D2s This teaser]] for the last story, ''The Man Who Never Was''.

--->"So we sat at a picnic table and Lis asked me how I would end The Sarah Jane Adventures and I said that she couldn't just retire, could she? I said, 'She'd do something magnificent, and then she'd make sure the kids were fine, and then she'd go...up!' 'What d'you mean, up?' asked Lis, and she was laughing. 'You mean, into the sky?' 'Yes!' I said. 'She'd go up. Onwards. Outwards. Into the stars. Just...up! D'you fancy that?' 'Oh yes,' said Lis. 'That sounds nice.'" - Creator/RussellTDavies
** Sarah Jane's reunion with [[Creator/NicholasCourtney The Brigadier]] after so very long in ''Enemy of the Bane''. Let's face it, it ''sucked'' to be a ''Who'' fan in 2011. ''Series/DoctorWho'' lost two of its brightest stars within ''weeks'' of each other; to see them onscreen together is almost too much to bear.

* Had the series carried on beyond 2011, Creator/TomBaker would have returned as the Fourth Doctor. Just imagine that! The quintessential names of mid-70s ''Doctor Who'' back on our screens, together after so long. Who wouldn't have loved the TARDIS to have materialised in the attic and for Sarah Jane to expect David's or Matt's Doctor to stroll out, only to be greeted with that unmistakable voice: ''"Hello Sarah Jane..."''. Just one more thing that we'll never see now.