K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Writer: Terence Dudley
Director: John Black
Script Editors: Eric Saward and Anthony Root
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Designer: Nigel Jones
Theme Music by: Fiachra Trench and Ian Levine
And Arranged by: Peter Howell
Incidental Music: Peter Howell
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
A Girl's Best Friend Mon 28.12.81 5.45pm - 6.35pm 8.4M
REPEAT DETAILS:
A Girl's Best Friend Fri 24.12.82 5.40pm - 6.30pm 2.1M
CAST:
SARAH JANE SMITH Elisabeth Sladen; VOICE OF K-9 John Leeson; GEORGE TRACEY Colin Jeavons;
COMMANDER BILL POLLOCK Bill Fraser; SGT VINCE WILSON Nigel Gregory; PETER TRACEY Sean Chapman;
AUNT LAVINIA SMITH Mary Wimbush; BRENDAN RICHARDS Ian Sears; JUNO BAKER Linda Polan; HOWARD
BAKER Neville Barber; HENRY TOBIAS John Quarmby; LILLY GREGSON Gillian Martell; PC CARTER
Stephen Oxley. UNCREDITED: EXTRAS Barbara Carey, Diane Collette, Pam Couch, Sue Crossland, David De Villiers,
Constance Farmer, Adrian Fletcher, Terry Forrestal, John Glentoran, Gay Hopkins, Carol Howard, Stephen Howe, Dave Mitty,
Ann Palmer, Brian Peacock, Nat Pearn, Margaret Piggot, Sarah Raybould, Michaela Rea, Sylvia Shire, June Simmons, Len
Thomas, John Underwood, Adrian Varcoe, Francesca Waters, Ricky Williams, Sally Ann Wright; JASPER Bruno.
STORY:
Sarah Jane Smith, journalist and former companion of the Doctor, visits Hazelbury Abbas to start work on a new book.
While she is there she has the task of looking after the young ward of her Aunt Lavinia, Brendan. Also waiting for her
at her Aunt's house is a mysterious present from the Doctor, a robotic dog named K-9.
The village is said to house a number of practioners of Black Magic who worship the godddess Hecate. At first Sarah
dismisses the rumours. But when Brendan disappears on the night of the winter solstice, she begins to wonder if he has
been kidnapped by the Black Magic practioners.
Sarah, with the aid of K-9, begins to search all the local churhes and chapels. Eventually they find that Sarah's
suspicions were correct. K-9 manages to stun the worshippers while Sarah manages to rescue Brendan who was to have been
sacrificed, at the time of the Winter Solstice, to the goddess Hecate.
WORKING TITLE: (for series)
Sarah and K-9
NOTES:
This was the first Doctor Who spin-off. It was a pilot for a proposed series, but although the episode was deemed a
success the series was not commissioned due to a change in BBC management.
In 1995, BBC released in on video.
NOVELISATION:
Terence Dudley (1987)
