The Sarah Jane Adventures/Tear Jerker

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  • At the end of Eye of the Gorgon, when Bea 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 climax of The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith when her parents tell her how much they love her. Then they get into their car and drive away, knowing that they're going to be killed in a car crash.
  • Pretty much the whole of Sarah Jane and the Doctor's conversation at the end of The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith.
    • Especially:

The Doctor: Don't forget me, Sarah Jane.
Sarah Jane: No one's... ever going to forget you.

  • 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.
  • The end of The Curse of Clyde Langer.
  • Pretty much everything about the series, following Elisabeth Sladen's untimely death. No one will ever forget YOU, Lis.

"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.'" - Russell T. Davies

    • Sarah Jane's reunion with The Brigadier after so very long in Enemy of the Bane. Let's face it, it sucked to be a Who fan in 2011. Doctor Who lost two of its brightest stars within weeks of each other; to see them onscreen together is almost too much to bear.
  • Sarah Jane and Luke's separation in The Lost Boy. Full stop.
  • Parts of Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith are just heartbreaking... particularly the idea that the Monster of the Week began its attack by, in essence, giving Sarah Jane Alzheimer's.
  • 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 Doctor Who and after the frankly chilling events of 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.
    • Elisabeth Sladen is dead. 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 Torchwood's message that everyone you love will eventually slip loose this mortal coil, and unrelenting evidence from Doctor Who that, as a species, we're not worth saving.
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