Warriors of Kudlak

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04 Warriors of Kudlak
The Sarah Jane Adventures story
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Mr. Kudlak in his office
Cast
Starring
Others
Production
Directed by Charles Martin
Written by Phil Gladwin
Script editor Lindsey Alford
Produced by Matthew Bouch
Executive producer(s) Phil Collinson
Russell T Davies
Julie Gardner
Music bySam Watts
Production code1.5 and 1.6
Series Series 1
Running time2 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast15 October 2007 (2007-10-15)
Last broadcast22 October 2007 (2007-10-22)
Chronology
 Preceded by
Eye of the Gorgon
Followed by 
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
List of serials

Warriors of Kudlak is the third 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 15 and 22 October 2007.

Contents

Plot

Sarah Jane investigates the disappearance of teenager Lance Metcalf three days ago. She discovers the day he disappeared, there was an unexpected but brief storm. Mr Smith cross-references 24 disappearances in the previous year with such weather conditions, all of them in towns and cities across the United Kingdom. Aided by Maria, Sarah Jane discovers shells that are the byproduct of teleportation, meaning that aliens abducted Lance.

Meanwhile, Clyde takes Luke to the laser tag centre Combat 3000 to help him understand what games are for. Using Combat 3000 as war games, Mr Grantham and his business partner, the wounded Uvodni general Uvlavad Kudlak, are kidnapping young humans as warriors to fight in an interplanetary war with the Malakh Empire. They follow the orders of the Mistress, an artificial intelligence on Kudlak's spaceship. Luke and Clyde pass two levels of Combat 3000, supposedly to qualify for the championships. They are instead teleported aboard the Uvodni ship in Earth's orbit, and free themselves and the other children, including Lance, from their crates.

Mr Smith uses a military satellite to trace the heart of the storm that took Lance to Combat 3000. Sarah Jane and Maria blackmail Mr Grantham into transporting them to the Uvodni ship, where they find and talk to the Mistress. When Kudlak brings the children to the Mistress, everyone is reunited. Preparing to kill them, Kudlak is stopped by Luke, who during his attempted escape has discovered a message made by the Uvodni Emperor ten years ago in the computer banks, revealing an armistice has been made with the Malakh. Not programmed to recognise "peace" as a concept, the Mistress had buried the message and kept leading in recruitments. With the truth revealed, Kudlak destroys the Mistress, releases the children and swears to do what he can to reunite all the surviving past recruits with their families.

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Outside references

Novelisation

Warriors of Kudlak
Author Gary Russell
Series The Sarah Jane Adventures #4
Published1 November 2007
Penguin Books
Pages128
ISBN 1-405-90400-3
Preceded by Eye of the Gorgon  
Followed by Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?  

This was the fourth of eleven Sarah Jane Adventures serials to be adapted as a novel. Written by Gary Russell, the book was first published in Paperback on 1 November 2007. [1]

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