K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend (1981)
December 28, 1981Release Date
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend (1981)
December 28, 1981Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Elisabeth Sladen
Sarah Jane Smith
John Leeson
K-9
Bill Fraser
Commander Bill Pollock
Jose Prieto
Commander Bill Pollock
Ian Sears
Brendan Richards
Colin Jeavons
George Tracey
John Black
Director
Sean Chapman
Peter Tracey
Terence Dudley
Writer
Mary Wimbush
Aunt Lavinia
John Nathan-Turner
Producer
Linda Polan
Juno Baker
Phil Wilson
Cinematographer
Gillian Martell
Lilly Gregson
Neville Barber
Howard Baker
Nigel Jones
ProductionDesigner
John Quarmby
Henry Tobias
Nigel Gregory
Sergeant Vince Wilson
Stephen Oxley
PC Carter
Yvonne Collins
Production Assistant
Eric Saward
Script Editor
Antony Root
Script Editor
Mat Irvine
Visual Effects Designer
Dick Mills
Special Sound Effects
Peter Howell
Original Music Composer
Susie Bancroft
Makeup Artist
Michael Lomas
Editor
Ann Arnold
Costume Design
Bob Cosford
Graphic Designer
David Hughes
Sound
Nigel Jones
Production Design
Michael Williams
Camera Operator
Dave Brinicombe
Sound
Robert Gabriel
Production Manager
Barry Hill
Lighting Director
Nick Moore
Visual Effects
John Burkill
Editor
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K-9 and Company is a one-episode television pilot, for a proposed 1981 television spin-off of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features former series regulars Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist played by Elisabeth Sladen, and K9, a robotic dog voiced by John Leeson. Both characters had been companions of the Fourth Doctor, but they had not appeared together before. The single episode, "A Girl's Best Friend", was broadcast by BBC1 as a Christmas special on 28 December 1981, but was not taken up for a continuing series.
"A Girl's Best Friend" is set in the fictional English village of Moreton Harwood in 1981. In the programme, Sarah and K9 investigate the disappearance of Brendan Richards (Ian Sears), the ward of Sarah's Aunt Lavinia (Mary Wimbush), in the wake of increasing reports of witchcraft.
Under a different production team, the overall concept of a Sarah Jane and K9 series did eventually come to fruition: The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011), featuring both of these key characters and actors (though K9 and Leeson only appear in some episodes).