| Number: | 03 |
| Serial Name: | Eye of the Gorgon |
| Show: | TSJA |
| Type: | story |
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| Director: | Alice Troughton |
| Script Editor: | Lindsey Alford |
| Producer: | Matthew Bouch |
| Executive Producer: | Phil Collinson Russell T Davies Julie Gardner |
| Composer: | Sam Watts |
| Production Code: | 1.3 and 1.4 |
| Series: | Series 1 |
| Length: | 2 episodes, 25 minutes each |
| Preceding: | Revenge of the Slitheen |
| Following: | Warriors of Kudlak |
Eye of the Gorgon is the second serial of the first series of the British science fiction television series The Sarah Jane Adventures. It first aired in two weekly parts on the CBBC channel on 1 and 8 October 2007. The episode makes references to classical mythology.
Sarah Jane, Luke Smith, and Clyde investigate claims of sightings of a ghostly nun at Lavender Lawns Rest Home. One of the residents that saw the nun, former adventurer Bea Nelson-Stanley, gives Luke an ancient talisman, to prevent the ancient sisterhood now based at the St Agnes Abbey from getting hold of it. The sisters intend to use the talisman to connect Earth with the world of the Gorgons 100 million light-years away, an incorporeal parasitic race that inspired the Greek myth of the ugly woman with snakes for hairs, and take over the bodies of humanity. The Gorgon, the last survivor of the three based on Earth, has spent 3,000 years passing from host to host, and now controls the body of the abbess of the abbey. Because of Bea's advanced age and Alzheimer's disease, she fails to explain to Luke who is after the talisman.
After the talisman is brought to her house, Sarah Jane brings Maria along to speak to Bea. According to Bea, her archaeologist husband Edgar unearthed the talisman decades ago. Bea warns them that the nuns are protecting the Gorgon. Meanwhile, when Luke and Clyde refuse to give the talisman to the nuns, the nuns hold them hostage at the abbey until Sarah Jane gives them the talisman. The nuns take the talisman by force, and the Gorgon turns Maria's dad Alan to stone as he enters Sarah Jane's house, though it will take 90 minutes until the effect is permanent.
As the process to connect Earth with the Gorgon world begins, the Gorgon chooses Sarah Jane as its next host. Chatting with Bea, Maria discovers that the talisman can revert those turned to stone to flesh and blood. Bea gives Maria a mirror, which she uses at the abbey to revert the transfer and turn the Gorgon and its host body to stone, freeing the nuns of mind control. Maria disconnects the talisman and the portal shuts down forever. The talisman brings Alan back to flesh and blood.
| Eye of the Gorgon | |
| Series: | The Sarah Jane Adventures #3 |
| Author: | Phil Ford |
| Published: | 1 November 2007 Penguin Books |
| Isbn: | 1-405-90399-6 |
| Pages: | 128 |
| Preceded By: | Revenge of the Slitheen |
| Followed By: | Warriors of Kudlak |
This was the third of eleven Sarah Jane Adventures serials to be adapted as a novel. Written by Phil Ford, the book was first published in Paperback on 1 November 2007.[1]