tmh@ihldt.UUCP (Tom Harris) (11/28/83)
If you will remember when Tom Baker drops off Sarah he gives her K-9 mark I. It K-9 mark II or III that is of the Romana vintage. I specifically remember this, becasuse I watched the later Baker/Romana shows first and wondered how he managed to get K-9 back. At the begining of the first post Sarah show he opens a large box with a second K-9 inside. Also in the twentith anniversary show the Doctor and Romana are on an English canal (near a university Oxford? or Cambridge?) not in Venice. Picky picky picky, Tom Harris
wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) (11/29/83)
Heard from the gallery is a resounding NO!
The k-9 robot was given originally to the Doctor by a xenobiologist in the
episode of which I don't remember the name, but the key phrase was
"Contact has been Made" and there was an alien hivemind that first
took over an asteroid mining site and then a hospital. And this
episode is after Sarah Jane Smith had left the show and Leela was
the companion.
k-9 mark I was given to Leela when she left the Doctor after the show
"Invasion of Time". She was on Gallifrey, no ifs, ands, or buts.
k-9 Mark II was therefor uncrated, and went with the Doctor and Romana
throught the Keys of Time season, and left with Romana when the
Doctor and Romana parted company after escaping from E-space in
the silly episode with the lionmen and the pirates. (The Gate of Time
or something like that was the title.)
In both cases k-9 was given to a special companion at the end of teir
travellings with the Doctor. While Sarah Jane is definately a special
companion, she was before k-9, and never recieved one.
To the side: later companions such as Adric and Tegan only deserved
what they ended up getting.
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Walt Pesch
Specialist in Removal of Oral Insertions of Feet
AT&T Western Electric
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