K9 and Company – A Girl’s Best Friend



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 basic premise of a series centred on Sarah Jane Smith was reused in The Sarah Jane Adventures just over 26 years later, although K-9 only occasionally appears in that series. 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.



Part 1