K9 & Company

Michael Bater@GreenLeftie Do we need to wear 1980's jogging gear & drive a Austin Metro whilst watching #K9andCompany?

It'd be rude not to. 

Okey dokey, put down those glasses of wine and get ready...

K9! K9! Doo doo doo do-doo! K9! K9!

Come on, you all know the words!

Michael Bater@GreenLeftie We'd also have to balance our selves on a dry stone wall saying "K9!" 

like we don't do that every weekend anyway... 

AS IF this would sound any better with an orchestra.

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker don't think the intro could be any more 80s!

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer Don't forget the 80's style haircut! ;-)

Steve Powner@StevePowner  K9 and Company is it Christmas Eve already? Lol

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker yeah, you've been asleep longer than you thought! you've only got today to do all your Christmas shopping - best get moving!

I always forget about the "A Girl's Best Friend" subtitle. 

Looks like we're in The Stones Of Blood territory here. 

Goat face needs to speak up. Far too muffled. 

Aunt Lavinia, we meet at last! 

People do tend to forget that this was a Christmas special (Coming, as it did, between Logopolis and Castrovalva)



On Sarah: "She's like a butterfly, never in one place long enough to lick a stamp!" 

"Brendon?" "He's my ward, I decided to get one after watching too much 60s Batman."  

SJS bumps into Stamper; it's Colin Jeavons! Wonderful actor. 

"Welcome to Moreton Harwood - you'll never leave!" 

Tim@parks8472 LOL That's what we need; a#DoctorWho/#LeagueOfGentlemen crossover!

Sarah's hair looks great. Her floaty cape dress thing not so much. 

Brendon's hanging around a phone box in Chipping Norton. You have been warned. 

Come back Adric, all is forgiven. Well most. Some. Actually, you stay away too. 

"What do you know about market gardening?" 

General Grugger's dog is some kind of ventriloquist. That growl's dubbed on. 

Sarah's got work to do. General Grugger puts that in his pipe and smokes it. 

Sarah gets a dirty phonecall from her aunt's friend who acts like the villain of the piece but actually isn't. 

What's in the box? 

It's K9! 

"What do you think it does?" 

"Mistress!" 

"Don't muck about! Brendan, stop honking!" 

Nick Mellish@nickmellish He honks! He geeks! He knows a bit about soil! OKCupid would be *right* up his street. 

K9 is a Christmas present from the Doctor! Sarah certainly doesn't carry on like she thinks he's dead. 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker 

 must've assumed in following years when didn't hear from again. 

Okay, we'll go with that :-)

"I bet he's got a holographic memory!" 

"That does it, I am going out!" Sarah needs a glass of vino. 

Pretty sure Aunt Lavinia's botany only extended as far as grapes, too.

Doctor Who is 51@atruedrwhofan grapes and tabacco leaves if how much she smokes is anything to go by

The locals think the black art of witchcraft makes the crops grow. 

"K9's done a complete soil analysis all over the place!" Clean up in aisle 2.

They're all shitfaced at this Christmas party; he spills that punch all over the shop. 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker 

 Understandable when a part of this. Probably why an Xmas special - need to be inebriated to watch! 

Earth Adric hears something go bump in the night and is grabbed by a biker and Stamper. 

K9 zaps the biker, so Earth Adric starts tying him up. Any excuse. 

Stamper hides in the greenhouse, so K9 nudges a gnome. 

General Grugger is more worried about the state of the greenhouse than Brendan being attacked. 

Stamper threatens biker Peter into keeping mum... 

...and kidnapping Brendan. For reals this time. 

Brendan's bed's not been slept in. The phone's dead. So K9 decides to play hide and seek. 

Peter Tracey was kicked out of the Thunderbirds after his suspended sentence for housebreaking. 

I love Peter Howell's music on Doctor Who, particularly on The Five Doctors, but it's really incongruous on K9 and Company. 

Yet Roger Limb's score on The Box of Delights is gorgeous. 

KrynoidPodCast@KrynoidPodCast  Yes, lovely music in The Box of Delights but I keep expecting Nyssa to appear :)

"I'm compus mentus and a qualified journalist!" 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker 

the journalist bit doesn't help her sanity argument!

Brendan languishes in a dungeon... or possibly some student digs, I dunno.

...while Stamper menaces the local bobby. 

 Sarah's on the snoop. 

 The peeler doesn't last the night. 

Someone's got his goat!  

The locals prepare another sacrifice. 

Ta ra, Peter! 

Sarah changes into a grey tracky/furry sleeveless cardigan/black leather gloves combo. Really quite something. 

Juno Baker notches up another bizarrely creepy chat. 

K9 checks out the map of the local area to figure out where Brendan's being held. 

Juno Baker's on the phone AGAIN. Dude, leave it, she's just not that into you! 

It's the tractor of doom from Planet Of The Spiders, back for revenge! 

Sarah races to stop the sacrifice, and Brendan is saved! 

Damn. 

Mark Walker@Mark_Walker  K9 going laser mad is probably the best bit of the whole thing! 

Not Sarah's Venusian Aikido? 

Turns out, incredibly, the only ones not in on it are Juno Baker and her fella. 

Lavinia, dolled up in her best Dallas gear, rings up to wish Sarah a sozzled Christmas. 

K9 sings Christmas carols, clearly shitfaced. 

Hurrah! As in, hurrah, it's over! 

Simon Pittman@LibraryPlayer Remember watching it when I got the DVD and quite disappointed about resolution to what happened to Aunt Lavina! :-)

Everyone join in now; K9! K9! Doo doo doo do-dooooooooooo! Oh, give over.  

Definitely felt myself nodding off during that. 

TTFN! K.

(And a Merry Christmas to all of you at home!)

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