Not at first, by which I mean, not in the first five-and-a-half series of the show.
Sladen first appeared as Sarah Jane alongside the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, and stayed for three-and-a-half series, also working with Pertwee's successor, Tom Baker.
He returned for two second-half series before sitting out the rest of the game, finishing with 18 carries for 63 yards.
Moffat rubbished claims suggesting the BBC had commissioned only a half-series order of six episodes for 2017: "People just sit in rooms and make this s**t up.
This might be a bit bitchy, but can anybody now even remember that half-series when Jenna Coleman was paired with a departing Matt Smith and it just didn't really work at all?
He's been poet in residence on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe, had a panel show (BBC4's We Need Answers), a sketch show (the excellent, and far too brief, half-series Cowards), and carved out an acting career (you can find him popping up in One Day and The Double, in Shearsmith and Pemberton's Inside No 9, and in a forthcoming Sky Playhouse production alongside Matthew Perry).
In a way, half the series is set in Holmes's mind palace.
A year later the Museum of Modern Art bought half the series: all the even-numbered pictures.
Or you know, the conventional winter version complete with paper buying slave – read hunky man – eggs Benedict in bed, and half a series of House.
"It actually feels very modern, despite the fact that the first book was written almost 100 years ago," said Christopher Menaul, who directed the first half othe series.
