The Doctor Who Real Time Marathon

  K9 & Company: A Girl's Best Friend (28/12/21) Well, that was... novel. Nothing quite says Christmas like a confused investigation into witchcraft in deepest Mummerset! Given K9's popularity, it isn't hugely surprising that, having departed the show a year ago, he's been given his own Special, but teaming him up with a companion who'd never met him was, frankly, the first of a long line of mis-steps. The fact that Sarah Jane Smith hasn't exactly become any more likeable since the Doctor dumped her five years ago didn't help, either. It would have made more sense to have had him travelling the universe with Leela and Andred, or adventuring with Romana and the Tharils. Instead, the Doctor apparently dumped a third version of the metal dog at Sarah's house in Croydon in 1978 and she's ignored it ever since, only unboxing him when her Aunt Lavinia left it out for her to find while she went off galivanting at a science convention in America. On the w