K-9 (TV series)

K-9
K-9 title card
Created by	Bob Baker Paul Tams
Developed by	Shayne Armstrong SP Krause
Starring	John Leeson Philippa Coulthard Keegan Joyce Daniel Webber Robert Moloney
Theme music composer	Michael Lira
Country of origin	Australia United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	26 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Grant Bradley Jim Howell
Producer(s)	Penny Wall Richard Stewart Simon Barnes
Running time	30 min.
Production company(s)	Disney Europe Park Entertainment Stewart & Wall Entertainment Screen Australia
Release
Original network	Network Ten (Australia) Disney XD (UK & Ireland) Channel 5
Picture format	HDTV
Original release	31 October 2009 – 20 November 2010
Chronology
Related shows	Doctor Who K-9 and Company The Sarah Jane Adventures
External links
Website

K-9 is a British-Australian comedy-adventure series focusing on the adventures of the robot dog K-9 from the television show Doctor Who, achieved by mixing computer animation and live action. It is aimed at an audience of 11- to 15-year-olds. A single series of the programme was made in Brisbane, Australia, with co-production funding from Australia and the United Kingdom. It aired in 2009 and 2010 on Network Ten in Australia, and on Disney XD in the UK, as well as being broadcast on other Disney XD channels in Europe.

K-9's co-creator, Bob Baker, had long sought to produce a television series starring the character. Indeed, in 1997 Doctor Who Magazine announced that Baker and producer Paul Tams were producing a four-part pilot series provisionally called The Adventures of K9. The magazine stated that the pilot would be filmed that year "on a 'seven-figure' budget", and that the BBC had expressed interest in purchasing the broadcast rights. However, funding proved elusive, and despite persistent rumours, the series remained in "development hell" for many years.

In 2006, Jetix Europe announced that they were "teaming up" with Baker, Tams, and London-based distributor Park Entertainment to develop a 26-part series, then titled K9 Adventures and set in space. This announcement, timed to coincide with K-9's return to Doctor Who in the episode "School Reunion", was picked up in the British media and Doctor Who fan press. In 2007, Park Entertainment revealed that the main setting for the series (by then retitled K9) would be the Platte, "an old Prairie-class spacecraft" once used for asteroid colonization. In addition to K-9, the characters would include Slocum, a thirty-something "space gypsy", and Djinn, "an overactive computer module in the shape of an attractive young woman". This early premise was abandoned before production began in Australia.

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