@@treyowen9213 I think she had cancer but I am not sure. I know they were in the middle of filming the 5th season of the Sarah Jane Adventures when she passed away.
We can read in her autobiography that Elisabeth Sladen had various bad experiences making K9 and Company, and in particular never liked working with K9. Her comment on finding out that K9 and Company would be stopped after the initial episode: “On the plus side: at least I’d never have to set eyes on that bloody dog again!” Though of course she was fated to see the bloody dog again repeatedly in later years.
I love this scene. When K-9 relayed the Doctor's message "" Give Sarah Jane Smith my fondest love, tell her I shall remember her always "" It made me shed a tear, as 25yrs later, the Doctor, Sarah Jane & K-9 Reunited in a full episode ( School Reunion ), though I don't count the ( 5 Doctors or Dimensions In Space )..... No matter what, I think ( K-9 & Company ) will always be one of my favorites..Sarah Jane, The Greatest of all Companions & K-9, the only constants with the different Doctors.....❤👩🐶....
The 5 doctors counts but everyone forgets that event like it never happened because the timelines were out of sync, the only one who remembers is the 5th Doctor Dimensions In Time is considered Non Canon from my understanding Of course anyone could argue that everything is canon so 🤷
“Where are you from, K9?” “From the Doctor.” “From the Doctor?” “Affirmative.” “Well, you can’t mean the Doctor.” “My precise meaning, Mistress, a gift to you.” Sarah’s face changes completely in that moment.
Used to love the movie as a kid. Was always excited when it would randomly show up on the PBS. I had an old VHS tape where I just recorded the opening theme song so I could listen to it.
Sarah Jane Smith (played by the late Elisabeth Sladen) and K-9 (voiced by John Leeson) are both ADORABLE! Rest In Peace, Elisabeth Sladen! ... "Best Doctor Who Companion EVER!" ❤️
I wonder if Elizabeth Sladen realized how many lives she touched. Even today, almost a decade after her death, the thought that she's gone fills me with great sadness.
Sarah Jane was wise not to ask K-9 Mark 3 what happened to the other 2 models of him in front of Brendan because of all that she had been through travelling with the Doctor and encountering a lot of danger on and off Earth until she had been brought back to England after the Doctor got a telepathic call to return to his people.
@@pastorbri but the intention was that it would spawn a spin-off show from Who - this episode was essentially the pilot - but it never materialised. The Sarah Jane Adventures was then the 21st century version of what this show was meant to be.
How would Brendan have felt if Sarah Jane told him that the Doctor is a Time Lord from another planet and that he can regenerate,though the Doctor never told Sarah Jane that Time Lords regenerate their bodies 12 times? Would Brendan promise Sarah Jane to keep it a secret from the world if she asked him?
Loved DW, Loved Tom Baker, Loved Sarah Jane Smith, liked K9, loathed this special. It was a shocker. Lis Sladen was a beautiful kind soul and I would have watched this just to see her.
I did wonder how she got k9 cause she didn’t have him when she left him and I have only seen bits of classic who I love it even more now that I know he was a present from the doctor
The 4th Doctor,who made K-9 Mark 3 as a gift to Sarah Jane,should‘ve also said to tell K-9 to tell Sarah Jane to give his regards to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,Harry Sullivan & Benton.
@@yuranga4591 Yes, I did. Odd that Mike Yates probably didn't see Sarah Jane since he redeemed himself in the giant spiders adventure, which was the 3rd Doctor's last adventure.
Yes it solves the mystery. A couple of months ago, I got into a discussion about K9.... I thought he showed up with Leela (?) the girl in the skins.. who came after Sarah Jane... so how did Sarah Jane end up with K9 in school reunion.
@@andrewsmith8729It was K9 MK1 who first appears with Leela, and then chooses to remain with her on Gallifrey. The Doctor builds a MKII and MKIII, sending the latter to Sarah Jane while the former travels with him until he is left with Romana in e-space.
I started watching Doctor Who in the 1960s ..... right up to when Tom Baker morphed into Peter Davidson. Wikipedia has a page on K9. I cannot remember seeing K9 and Company back in 1981.... I might have... but it was 42 years ago...
If Sarah Jane told Brgadier Lethbridge-Stewart,Harry Sullivan and Benton about K-9 Mark 3,they would‘ve wanted to meet him and ask him if the Doctor changed his appearance again or not. But she probably wouldn‘t tell Mike Yates,who re-sgned from UNIT to avoid court-martial for betraying them and chose to move on,though he atoned for his betraying them.
Sarah Jane was wise not to ask K-9 if The Doctor's appearance changed after she last saw him or if it was still the same when he built K-9 Mark 3 and left it as a gift for her because of Brendan,who was in the house with her when she opened the crate that had K-9 Mark 3 in there.
Thanks.. cool dog! ... if you want the perfect relationship get yourself a dog 👍🐕.. OBTW Jon Pertweee visited NZ and gave a talk he was very nice... thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
@@sapphirehardy2378 Not really: Mk1 stayed with Leela and Mk2 with Romana. Mk3 would likely not have known of their ultimate fate, (Mk1 was destroyed and rebuilt with the loss of some memories and after Romana's time as President of Gallifrey Mk2 would continue to serve her successor).
Ir never made sense to me why they teamed k-9 and sarah jane together since they were never in dr who together--it would have made better sense to have had a show with him and leela--(which would have been boring with her and andred fighting all the time)--or with lalla ward's romana--(better--because they would have had some great adventures in e-space).
I don't think that 'cos it didn't lead to a series that the pilot failed, but it was probably not advertised as such and so viewers didn't know what to expect. Plus I think there was a bit of staff shuffling at the Beeb at the time so head of programmes didn't comission any new series based on a spin off, if anything it should be reclassified as a '80's DW Xmas Special...just without the Doc. 😉
@@julieeverett7442. If it was part of the 4th Doc's stories, it's not likely to be part of season 15 as it was shown after season 18 and set around the same period of time as the events of Logopolis. Or possibly between Meglos and Full Circle.
@@Nige031077 If you look at the list of stories for the 4th it is in season 15 after horror of fang rock, but since he is Mark3 its probably after Warriors gate and Romana stayed
@@julieeverett7442. I would love to see the list of stories, but I have 'temporaryly' been separated from my copies of the Program guide, (which I suggest and recommend you read), and you'll see when the story was originally transmitted.
@@Nige031077 I did check, the box set includes invisible enemy which WAS season 15 and k9 and co, the 81 special, it aired BEFORE Castrovalva so I STILL count it in Bakers run!
If Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had paid a visit to Sarah Jane then, he would‘ve been surprised to see K-9 Mark 3 and would‘ve guessed he came from the Doctor before K-9 Mark 3 got actitated.
no reason other than change in hierarchy in BBC at the time, the pilot did very well, a series was planned but a new head at the BBC came in and vetoed it
Look at the opening credits again. The show was under-conceptualized, bring Earthbound and with few supporting characters - and those weak. Basically not couldn’t decide if it was a SCI-fi show, a spy adventure, a wry comedy, a showcase for Liz’s bod, or what. After the pilot even SHE didn’t want to continue.
It would‘ve been good if a clip from the 4-episode Doctor Who story The Hand of Fear was in this spin-off, showing the scene in which Sarah Jane Smith remembers what the Doctor looked like when he had to say good-bye to her because he had received a call to return home and he couldn‘t take her with him because he felt it was too dangerous, which he later realized he was right.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 11 years since Elisabeth Sladen passed away. I wish she was still alive. Sarah Jane Smith was awesome.
How did she die?
@@treyowen9213 I think she had cancer but I am not sure. I know they were in the middle of filming the 5th season of the Sarah Jane Adventures when she passed away.
@@alanafowler3024 yh it was cancer sadly
I hear ya! Elisabeth Sladen was amazing!
"Who is the doctor?" "Affirmative"
Took me 2 seconds to realize what k9 meant and then I laughed my butt of
I've been quoting this for 30 years and then Missy goes and calls him Doctuur Whuuuuu and I'm like K-9 said that, but never knew where.
Vathorst i don't get it
Matheus21video It's a reference to the show name. Who is the Doctor. Doctor Who.
Digiphobia Ohh Yes! Thanks!
Nice catch.
K9: Give Sarah Jane Smith my fondest love and tell her, I shall remember her always!
Get's me every time :'( :'( :'(
We will love and remember her always.
It's been 13 years since Elisabeth Sladen passed and she's still highly cherished. Completely iconic, opened a door every Dr Who girl's gone through
It's amazing how Sarah Jane sounds the same then and now
I wish the actor was still with us.
Dude she died a year before you made this comment
I wish Lis Sladen was still alive. She passed away when I was 21.
I always get mega-chills when the Doctor Who theme plays as Sarah realizes who K9 is from.
We can read in her autobiography that Elisabeth Sladen had various bad experiences making K9 and Company, and in particular never liked working with K9. Her comment on finding out that K9 and Company would be stopped after the initial episode: “On the plus side: at least I’d never have to set eyes on that bloody dog again!” Though of course she was fated to see the bloody dog again repeatedly in later years.
The theme tune was abysmal, a but look beyond this and K9 and Comapny wasn't a bad show.
Yeah, it’s a great show. It would have been great if it had lasted beyond the first episode. But Sarah Jane got her due later on.
I love this scene. When K-9 relayed the Doctor's message "" Give Sarah Jane Smith my fondest love, tell her I shall remember her always "" It made me shed a tear, as 25yrs later, the Doctor, Sarah Jane & K-9 Reunited in a full episode ( School Reunion ), though I don't count the ( 5 Doctors or Dimensions In Space )..... No matter what, I think ( K-9 & Company ) will always be one of my favorites..Sarah Jane, The Greatest of all Companions & K-9, the only constants with the different Doctors.....❤👩🐶....
The 5 doctors counts but everyone forgets that event like it never happened because the timelines were out of sync, the only one who remembers is the 5th Doctor
Dimensions In Time is considered Non Canon from my understanding
Of course anyone could argue that everything is canon so 🤷
“Where are you from, K9?”
“From the Doctor.”
“From the Doctor?”
“Affirmative.”
“Well, you can’t mean the Doctor.”
“My precise meaning, Mistress, a gift to you.”
Sarah’s face changes completely in that moment.
Everytime I see this clip it makes me smile. I love K9! He needs to show up more in the show.
Affirmative.
K9 did get his own show
I love how they remembered this for the new series.
Used to love the movie as a kid. Was always excited when it would randomly show up on the PBS. I had an old VHS tape where I just recorded the opening theme song so I could listen to it.
“Whatever it is its very heavy”. Then they lift k9 out with two fingers.
The actual K-9 model was bigger than most reakize and would have been very heavy to lift.
Did Sarah Jane tell her aunt that the crate that was in an attic as a gift for her after being in it for 3 years contained a robot dog?
I had no idea the BBC tried a Sarah & K9 show before the SciFi Sarah Jane Adventures circa 2011.
Sarah Jane Smith (played by the late Elisabeth Sladen) and K-9 (voiced by John Leeson) are both ADORABLE!
Rest In Peace, Elisabeth Sladen! ... "Best Doctor Who Companion EVER!" ❤️
I wonder if Elizabeth Sladen realized how many lives she touched. Even today, almost a decade after her death, the thought that she's gone fills me with great sadness.
OH WELL SAID. She was proper dr who royalty.
So true! - Elisabeth Sladen was, for me, the ultimate Doctor's "assistant".
I so miss Sarah Jane.
RIP
Sarah Jane was wise not to ask K-9 Mark 3 what happened to the other 2 models of him in front of Brendan because of all that she had been through travelling with the Doctor and encountering a lot of danger on and off Earth until she had been brought back to England after the Doctor got a telepathic call to return to his people.
Dang, So Liz played the same role in 4 different shows.
Gallifreyan Buccaneer Four? Doctor Who, K-9 & Company, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and ???
I guess if you count the classic series as separate from the revival it's 4.
Actually, she played Sarah Jane in "Downtime" (1995), which also starred the Brigadier.
Plus the Big Finish Sarah Jane Smith series.
@@fivebearrugs Downtime
Good dog K-9🤖
That Doctor Who theme motif is just the best
I think it was a shame Harry could not have been in this film with Sarah Jane
I SEE K9 IN MY DREAMS
I recall this failed show.
it was no fail....it netted 8.1 million viewers.
@@pastorbri but the intention was that it would spawn a spin-off show from Who - this episode was essentially the pilot - but it never materialised. The Sarah Jane Adventures was then the 21st century version of what this show was meant to be.
@@stephenmcconnell1000 I get that. But thats not a fail with these huge ratings. The issue was a change of head managment at the BBC.
@@pastorbri Fair enough.
@@stephenmcconnell1000 it should have gone to series......what a waste.
How would Brendan have felt if Sarah Jane told him that the Doctor is a Time Lord from another planet and that he can regenerate,though the Doctor never told Sarah Jane that Time Lords regenerate their bodies 12 times? Would Brendan promise Sarah Jane to keep it a secret from the world if she asked him?
sadly he isn't a he anymore and not a time lord, its so sad.....
@@pastorbri He/She is still a Timelord
@@novawolf_gaming not followed this show have u......no he is no longer a time lord as he/she/it fell out of a void so it no longer makes any sense.
@@pastorbri Still a Timelord as theu still became one on Galifrey at the Academy
@@novawolf_gaming nope, more like a timethem then.....u should follow the show better before making these basic mistakes old chap.
the Dr never packed K9 very well did he.
It looked like those prepared meal kits one gets on scheduled delivery.
@@bleirdo_dude must be huge ones?
Loved DW, Loved Tom Baker, Loved Sarah Jane Smith, liked K9, loathed this special. It was a shocker. Lis Sladen was a beautiful kind soul and I would have watched this just to see her.
Love This moment
I did wonder how she got k9 cause she didn’t have him when she left him and I have only seen bits of classic who I love it even more now that I know he was a present from the doctor
Hard to believe this is 11 years old. I’m aging too fast 😢
I’m sorry to break it to you, but it was first broadcast in December 1981, so it’s more than 41 years old…
@@jonathan.palfrey oof. That’s a year older than I am! Jeez
I live in the US tho so we get these hinges a little late
@@LordThree 😄 I’m British and 69 years old; I first watched Doctor Who in 1964, soon after it started.
Having finally seen this, now it makes sense she has K9 when David Tenant shows up.
She has K9 in The Five Doctors too
@@stardustnation2480 same time frame as this
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart would've been surprised to see K-9 if he had visited Sarah Jane during this adventure.
The 4th Doctor,who made K-9 Mark 3 as a gift to Sarah Jane,should‘ve also said to tell K-9 to tell Sarah Jane to give his regards to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,Harry Sullivan & Benton.
You forgot Mike Yates.
@@yuranga4591 Yes, I did. Odd that Mike Yates probably didn't see Sarah Jane since he redeemed himself in the giant spiders adventure, which was the 3rd Doctor's last adventure.
If K9 was so useful, why didn't the Doctor make one to keep?
It may have been a failed pilot, but it at least explains why K-9 appears in the Five Doctors and eventually in School Reunion.
Yes it solves the mystery. A couple of months ago, I got into a discussion about K9.... I thought he showed up with Leela (?) the girl in the skins.. who came after Sarah Jane... so how did Sarah Jane end up with K9 in school reunion.
@@andrewsmith8729It was K9 MK1 who first appears with Leela, and then chooses to remain with her on Gallifrey. The Doctor builds a MKII and MKIII, sending the latter to Sarah Jane while the former travels with him until he is left with Romana in e-space.
I started watching Doctor Who in the 1960s ..... right up to when Tom Baker morphed into Peter Davidson.
Wikipedia has a page on K9.
I cannot remember seeing K9 and Company back in 1981.... I might have... but it was 42 years ago...
Love this in that it proves that the Doctor always cared for her!!
Hi K9 great to see you again in doctor who welcome back old dog.
1:30 WOOOOOOOWEEEEEEWOOOO
If Sarah Jane told Brgadier Lethbridge-Stewart,Harry Sullivan and Benton about K-9 Mark 3,they would‘ve wanted to meet him and ask him if the Doctor changed his appearance again or not. But she probably wouldn‘t tell Mike Yates,who re-sgned from UNIT to avoid court-martial for betraying them and chose to move on,though he atoned for his betraying them.
Well as long as he has a UART he's all set to dial up the latest BBS.
Sarah Jane was wise not to ask K-9 if The Doctor's appearance changed after she last saw him or if it was still the same when he built K-9 Mark 3 and left it as a gift for her because of Brendan,who was in the house with her when she opened the crate that had K-9 Mark 3 in there.
Thanks.. cool dog! ... if you want the perfect relationship get yourself a dog 👍🐕.. OBTW Jon Pertweee visited NZ and gave a talk he was very nice... thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
Odd that Sarah Jane Smith didn't ask K-9 Mark 3 what happened to the other 2 K-9s built before him.
Probably best not to ask....
@@sapphirehardy2378 Not really: Mk1 stayed with Leela and Mk2 with Romana. Mk3 would likely not have known of their ultimate fate, (Mk1 was destroyed and rebuilt with the loss of some memories and after Romana's time as President of Gallifrey Mk2 would continue to serve her successor).
I like how Doctor Who establishes that K9 and Company is canon, because K9 is still with Sarah Jane at the time of "School Reunion"!
Sarah Jane has K-9 in The Five Doctors
Brendon, stop honking.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh so THAT's how SJ ended up with K9! A mystery solved.
Its a shame this didn't get turned into a series. This story is actually quite good.
there ARE a few stories, not many but some!
yes I agree.....its a bit slow, but still I liked it.....shame we never got a K9 and co. series.
It's awful.
Ir never made sense to me why they teamed k-9 and sarah jane together since they were never in dr who together--it would have made better sense to have had a show with him and leela--(which would have been boring with her and andred fighting all the time)--or with lalla ward's romana--(better--because they would have had some great adventures in e-space).
I don't think that 'cos it didn't lead to a series that the pilot failed, but it was probably not advertised as such and so viewers didn't know what to expect. Plus I think there was a bit of staff shuffling at the Beeb at the time so head of programmes didn't comission any new series based on a spin off, if anything it should be reclassified as a '80's DW Xmas Special...just without the Doc. 😉
not true, the k9 tales are regarded as a part of the 4th doctors tales, season 15, it just didnt get past 2 stories.
@@julieeverett7442. If it was part of the 4th Doc's stories, it's not likely to be part of season 15 as it was shown after season 18 and set around the same period of time as the events of Logopolis. Or possibly between Meglos and Full Circle.
@@Nige031077 If you look at the list of stories for the 4th it is in season 15 after horror of fang rock, but since he is Mark3 its probably after Warriors gate and Romana stayed
@@julieeverett7442. I would love to see the list of stories, but I have 'temporaryly' been separated from my copies of the Program guide, (which I suggest and recommend you read), and you'll see when the story was originally transmitted.
@@Nige031077 I did check, the box set includes invisible enemy which WAS season 15 and k9 and co, the 81 special, it aired BEFORE Castrovalva so I STILL count it in Bakers run!
If Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had paid a visit to Sarah Jane then, he would‘ve been surprised to see K-9 Mark 3 and would‘ve guessed he came from the Doctor before K-9 Mark 3 got actitated.
I suspect if the Brigadier found out Sarah owned K9 that he would legally confiscate it for UNIT on the grounds of national security...
Shouldn't she have recognized k-9? She did travel with the doctor and he has been in episodes with her.
K-9 never appeared in Doctor during the time Sarah was his companion. Elizabeth Sladen left the show in 1976, K-9 first appeared in 1978, I think.
@@darrensmith8730 I could of sworn I saw an episode with her, doctor and K-9 all wondering about in a cave .
@@darrensmith8730 His first appearance was in 1977 just goggled it.
@@joemagyar7149 I think that was a year after Sladen left, right? It might have been K-9 and Leela? They spent a lot of time in caves.
@@darrensmith8730 U are right she left in 76. My bad
Did Matt Smith wat h this repeatedly? That Brendan guy has teh SAME excited goofy mannerisms as 11 hahah
Why did this show fail again.????
no reason other than change in hierarchy in BBC at the time, the pilot did very well, a series was planned but a new head at the BBC came in and vetoed it
@@The0thDoctor miserable sods.
Look at the opening credits again. The show was under-conceptualized, bring Earthbound and with few supporting characters - and those weak. Basically not couldn’t decide if it was a SCI-fi show, a spy adventure, a wry comedy, a showcase for Liz’s bod, or what. After the pilot even SHE didn’t want to continue.
liked her
It would‘ve been good if a clip from the 4-episode Doctor Who story The Hand of Fear was in this spin-off, showing the scene in which Sarah Jane Smith remembers what the Doctor looked like when he had to say good-bye to her because he had received a call to return home and he couldn‘t take her with him because he felt it was too dangerous, which he later realized he was right.
But she met K9, when she was travelling with the doctor, didn't she?
no K9 was introduced during Leela's (the companion after sarah jane) time on the show
@@neptune04 I know that
I knew that
Why did I say that
why would she not remember K9
They never met untill this.
This would have been a great show to bad it didn't go on after the pilot. It had great views but bbc refused it
2:13 - 2:14 Her laugh😍😢
Oh this was going to be a spin-off .. Too bad it only lasted one episode