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From: jgd@ih1ap.UUCP (pp)
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Subject: Re:  20th anniversary Doctor consistency?
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Date: Mon, 28-Nov-83 09:58:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 28 09:58:56 1983
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  >Was I not looking closely, or did Sarah Jane seem rather too familiar
  >with k-9 at the beginning?  After all, k-9 is of Leela/Romana vintage.


Correct.  In the Dr. Who series Sarah Jane Smith did not appear with k-9
in any episodes.  However the BBC did air a special program called "k-9
and friends" or something like that, in which Sarah, while visiting her 
aunt finds a crate in her aunts attic which contains a k-9 Model III.
Along with a note of explanation from the Dr.  It was a gift to Sarah.
If you recall the first episode that Sarah was in with Jon Pertwee she
is pretending to be a scientific resercher so that she ( a journalist) can
sneek into the UNIT project.  This aunt she was impersonating is the same
aunt who's home in which she discovers k-9.  Darn, I which I could remember
her name.  The special program was intended to be k-9's own series but
it would have been too hard and expensive to produce with a robot as the
main character.  So since it was documented in that special that Sarah
was familiar with k-9, I would guess that is why it was used in the five
doctors.  

PS:  I saw the special and got the other information from Elizabith 
Straton in person at a Dr. Who convention at the Granada theatre in 
Chicago last August.

                                       Jerry Donovan
                                       AT&T Western Electric
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