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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Taking K9 out for a walk
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 15:01:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 11 15:01:48 1985
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Summary: 

In ''The Sun Makers'', K9 goes to rescue the Doctor in a subterranean
level. Although there are a number of elevators shown, I have the distinct
impression that at least one scene involves a level which the Doctor 
reaches by taking the stairs.

This suggests one of three reasons why the Doctor would tell K9 not
to go into Grendel's castle in ''Androids of Tara'':

   1) He, like Marc, had forgotten that K9 has a mysterious method
      of negotiating stairs which cannot be shown on camera.

   2) He had some {unspecified} reason why he didn't trust K9 in the
      castle (perhaps in some Time Lord-ish way the Doctor had confused
      K9 with Adric).

   3) The Doctor knew that the invasion was going to succeed, and knew that
      K9's help wasn't needed. Getting fed up with K9's snotty ''Master!'',
      he decided to make K9 drift around the moat in a boat for punishment.