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Tributes have been pouring in for Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen who died yesterday following a battle with cancer aged 63. Leading them was former Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, who brought her back to Doctor Who, and said it was 'an honour to have worked with her'.
Speaking this morning, he said: 'It's devastating, it's no age at all is it? All of us who worked on Doctor Who and Sarah Jane are just reeling at the moment.'It's so sad. It was a joy to know the woman and an honour to have worked with her, I loved her.'
Liverpool-born Sladen played the Doctor's assistant Sarah Jane Smith, first alongside Jon Pertwee in 1973, and stayed on with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor, until 1976.
She returned as the character for a spin-off series K9 and Company in 1981 and Davies, 47, brought Sladen back into the Doctor Who fold in 2006 when she starred in an episode alongside the then Doctor, David Tennant.
Davies told BBC News: 'When I worked on Doctor Who I thought there was this big secret that was the talent of Lis Sladen and I wanted to put her back on screen because I knew in all my heart, and what every Doctor Who fan knew, there was this great great woman and a great actor that was sitting there not working.
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