UK cable channel Disney XD airs the 17th episode of K-9. The Australian-made series features no Doctor Who-related characters other than K-9.
Over K-9’s objections (and under his watchful eye), Starkey and Darius attend an open house at the London headquarters of the Department. The boys aren’t there for the official tour, however – they’re at Department HQ to gather intelligence. The absence of ever-present CCPC patrols seems almost too good to be true, but there are other dangers inside: Starkey looks at an unusual framed picture and is sucked into the frame. Darius steals the frame and escapes from the Department as quickly as possible. At Gryffen’s lab, K-9 identifies it as a holographic “library card” from the planet Ukko, a world whose librarians can compress a snapshot of an entire planet into such a card. But it will take a librarian from Ukko to free Starkey before he starves on the isolated planet preserved in the picture…
written by Deborah Parsons
directed by Mark DeFriest
music by Christopher ElvesCast: Robert Moloney (Professor Gryffen), Keegan Joyce (Starkey), Philippa Coulthard (Jorjie Turner), Daniel Webber (Darius Pike), John Leeson (voice of K-9), Robyn Moore (Inspector June Turner), Jared Robinsen (Inspector Thorne), Cathey Robinsen (Librarian)
Notes: Inspector Thorne mentions that the Department is a presence in the UK, the Americas and “the Pacific Union”.
LogBook entry by Earl Green
