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The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge Of The Slitheen

Revenge Of The Slitheen Sarah Jane's second adventure, and the opening instalment of the first series, also stands as a sequel to the Doctor Who Series 1 serial Aliens Of London/World War Three . Like that story, and as the title of this adventure implies, the main protagonists are members of the Raxacoricofallapatorian Slitheen family - gangster-like aliens who disguise themselves by wearing the skins of fat humans they've murdered. Much like in their first appearance, much is made in the first episode of their habit of farting - a result of the compression software they use to fit in the Human skins - which feels a lot more at home in a kids show than in the parent series (although I didn't mind it so much as the early two-parters of the rebooted Doctor Who  always felt more squarely aimed at a younger audience than the two-parters shown later in the series'). The early scenes featuring the murder of a slightly obese science teacher (who you later see a Slitheen shed