K-9 and Company was a proposed television spin-off of the original series run of Doctor Who (1963-1989, 2005-present). It was to feature former series regulars Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist played by Elisabeth Sladen, and K-9, a robotic dog. Both characters had been companions of the Fourth Doctor, but they had not appeared together before. A single episode, "A Girl's Best Friend", was produced as a pilot for a proposed series, bu...
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K-9 and Company was a proposed television spin-off of the original series run of Doctor Who (1963-1989, 2005-present). It was to feature former series regulars Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist played by Elisabeth Sladen, and K-9, a robotic dog. Both characters had been companions of the Fourth Doctor, but they had not appeared together before. A single episode, "A Girl's Best Friend", was produced as a pilot for a proposed series, but the series was not taken up. A Girl's Best Friend was broadcast by BBC1 as a Christmas special on December 28, 1981. The story was released on DVD on June 16, 2008 as a double pack with K-9's first Doctor Who story The Invisible Enemy.
Following the successful revival of Doctor Who in 2005, Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 reappeared in the episode "School Reunion", which aired in 2006. This became the basis for another series featuring the two characters, The Sarah Jane Adventures, which debuted in 2007, although K-9 only occasionally appears in...
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