The Gift (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

18 The Gift
The Sarah Jane Adventures story
Cast
Starring
Others
  • Miriam Margolyes – Voice of Leef Apple Glyn - Blathereen
  • Simon Callow – Voice of Tree Corn Acre - Blathereen
  • Paul Kasey – Leef Apple Glyn - Blathereen
  • Ruari Mears – Tree Corn Acre - Blathereen
  • Calvin Dean – Chris
  • Jimmy Vee – Chris Slitheen
  • Edward Judge – Dave
  • Sarah Paul – Miss Jerome
  • Nick Williams – Cameron Marsh (BBC Reporter)
Production
Directed byAlice Troughton
Written byRupert Laight
Script editorGary Russell
Produced byNikki Wilson
Phil Ford (co-producer)
Executive producer(s)Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Piers Wenger
Music bySam Watts
Production code3.11 and 3.12
SeriesSeries 3
Running time2 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast19 November 2009 (2009-11-19)
Last broadcast20 November 2009 (2009-11-20)
Chronology
 Preceded by
Mona Lisa's Revenge
Followed by 
The Nightmare Man

The Gift is the sixth and final serial of the third series of the British science fiction television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. It first aired in two parts on CBBC on 19 and 20 November 2009.

The story features Tree and Leef Slitheen-Blathereen, descendants of an offshoot branch of the Slitheen family of Raxacoricofallapatorius that the protagonist Sarah Jane Smith has faced several times before in the series. They gift Sarah Jane and the Earth a Rakweed plant that spreads spores to both quickly grow and wipe out humanity for profit.