Product Description
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Originally created for the 1977 Doctor Who episode "The
Invisible Enemy" by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, K9 has long been
an iconic television character. But now K9 stars in his own
brand-new adventure series! Blasting back into action via a space
time manipulator, everyone's favorite robot dog arrives in late
21st-century London, now red by alien intrusion and
government rule through their cybernetic force. With the
assistance of teenagers Jorjie, Darius, drifter Starkey and
Professor Gryffen, K9 becomes Earth's front-line defence against
dangers threatening from any place—and anytime—in the galaxy!
They will have a lot of fun, action, adventure, and some jolts
along the way, saving the earth from alien creatures, y
monsters and more than a few nasty humans! Mixing live action
characters with stunning visual-effects, K9 is a children's
sci-fi/adventure series combining comedy, action and suspense.
Imagine a mash-up of X-Files and Men in Black with a zany dash of
Ghostbusters and then add one magnificent metallic mutt, and
there you have K9!
Bonus Content:
- The Making of K9 Documentary
- Exclusive Interview with K9
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An amusing footnote in the Doctor Who universe, K-9: The
Complete Series gives the spotlight to the faithful robot canine
companion of the British science fiction icon for its own
kid-friendly adventures. Conceived by writer Bob Baker for the
1977 Doctor Who serial The Invisible Enemy, the crisp-toned,
perspicacious K-9 (voiced, both then and now, by John Leeson) has
remained one of the Doctor's most popular sidekicks over the
course of his five-decade career, appearing site both Tom
Baker and David Tennant's Doctors as well as Elisabeth Sladen in
the Sarah Jane Adventures, the premise of which also seems to
provide the template for K-9--supporting Who character helps kids
in Who-lite encounters with aliens. Here, K-9 meets his new human
companions through a space-time manipulator created by Professor
Gryffen (Robert Moloney) and his two teenage friends (Keegan
Joyce and Philippa Coulthard). After self-destructing in order to
defeat an extraterrestrial menace also caught in the professor's
portal, K-9 rebuilds himself into a sleeker model (a CG creation)
with the ability to fly. The quartet's subsequent adventures have
the right a of action and exotic aliens, none of whom should
be particularly frightening to young viewers over kindergarten
age, and K-9 remains a charming central figure, with the
qualities that made him a favorite on Doctor Who--cute, smart,
unconditionally loyal, and equipped with a small battery of
futuristic gadgetry--also minting him an ideal hero for a
children's show: a best friend-cum-bodyguard with a solution for
every situation. Who fans will find that there is very little
from the original series present in K-9 save for brief glimpses
of some familiar extraterrestrial menaces (images of a Sea Devil,
an Alpha Centauran, and a Mandrel in "Curse of Anubis"), which is
due to the BBC's ownership of Doctor Who and the original K-9
design, which required Baker (who owns the K-9 character) and his
Australian series coproducers to keep Who references to a bare
minimum while also providing a new design for their titular
protagonist. The absence of Whovian continuity will probably
bother only adult viewers; younger audiences, for whom the show
is clearly intended, will simply enjoy the program for its own
merits. The four-disc K-9 set contains all 26 episodes of the
series in anamorphic transfers, as well as a pair of brief,
lightweight extras: an "interview" with K-9 and a very bare-s
making-of featurette. --Paul Gaita