K9 & Co season 1 - teaser
Aloha all. This is my first time, so let me know if I'm doing it wrong.
I've been tinkering for a while with massive, earth-shattering plans for a full K9 & Company series. It's not quite ready yet, but close enough to post this slightly irreverent teaser... comments, story ideas and helpful offers to write stuff are always appreciated!
K9 & Company
Series Overview
Even before the transmission of the well received yet tragically flawed pilot in late 1981, the makers of K9 & Company had gone back to the drawing board and thought long and hard about the direction in which they wanted the series to move.
There were a number of suggestions, such as casting a different actor to play Brendan each week, asking Elisabeth Sladen to wear an Einstein-styled wig, and hinting at sexual attraction between K9 and his companions.
In the end though, they opted to keep the cast and characters much the same, but update the style of the show to better reflect the fast-paced, modern world of 1982. Sarah Jane and friends could now stay in contact using special souped-up mobile phones - rejigged with alien technology to allow transmission over an area of up to a mile and a half - and exist within a darker, much more human world, where people do swears and have alien bisexual sex and stuff. Initial reports that the series would be set exclusively within the confines of the Welsh capital were laughably misguided; instead, episodes were set exclusively within the confines of Morton Harwood [played by the quaint Somerset town of Martock]. Brendan's laugh was now supplied by the Radiophonic Workshop, who created the effect by running a key up and down a flushing toilet.
The show enjoyed record viewing figures - sometimes as high as twelve - and ran for a good few seasons, before lead actor K9 grew uncomfortable with his role, leading to his character being abducted by a pair of FBI agents and returning only fleetingly throughout the penultimate season, before completing a series finale that rather undeservedly revolved around him entirely. This episode - which saw millions of young women around the globe fulfil their potential as mechanical dogs - left room for a possible feature film which eventually materialised in the mid-nineties (a commercial failure despite the best efforts of the likeable new lead). The seminal series did however produce an exciting spin-off, involving three computer geeks, a vampire with a soul, and Ian Sears reprising his role as Brendan - now a lovable actor living in LA with his harlot of a sister and her attractive but geeky son. The writers also went on to produce Boston Metal, a show almost identical to the original but with William Shatner in it.
Plans are afoot for a revival of the series, featuring a multi-cultural cast of wooden actors. Instead of Morton Harwood, the characters will be based within a mysterious spaceship marooned on a tropical island [sequences filmed in Dorset], from which they will attempt to make contact with others of their own kind [to replace lead actors that mysteriously vanish on a story-by-story basis]. Aunt Lavinia is expected to be created entirely by CGI.
I've been tinkering for a while with massive, earth-shattering plans for a full K9 & Company series. It's not quite ready yet, but close enough to post this slightly irreverent teaser... comments, story ideas and helpful offers to write stuff are always appreciated!
K9 & Company
Series Overview
Even before the transmission of the well received yet tragically flawed pilot in late 1981, the makers of K9 & Company had gone back to the drawing board and thought long and hard about the direction in which they wanted the series to move.
There were a number of suggestions, such as casting a different actor to play Brendan each week, asking Elisabeth Sladen to wear an Einstein-styled wig, and hinting at sexual attraction between K9 and his companions.
In the end though, they opted to keep the cast and characters much the same, but update the style of the show to better reflect the fast-paced, modern world of 1982. Sarah Jane and friends could now stay in contact using special souped-up mobile phones - rejigged with alien technology to allow transmission over an area of up to a mile and a half - and exist within a darker, much more human world, where people do swears and have alien bisexual sex and stuff. Initial reports that the series would be set exclusively within the confines of the Welsh capital were laughably misguided; instead, episodes were set exclusively within the confines of Morton Harwood [played by the quaint Somerset town of Martock]. Brendan's laugh was now supplied by the Radiophonic Workshop, who created the effect by running a key up and down a flushing toilet.
The show enjoyed record viewing figures - sometimes as high as twelve - and ran for a good few seasons, before lead actor K9 grew uncomfortable with his role, leading to his character being abducted by a pair of FBI agents and returning only fleetingly throughout the penultimate season, before completing a series finale that rather undeservedly revolved around him entirely. This episode - which saw millions of young women around the globe fulfil their potential as mechanical dogs - left room for a possible feature film which eventually materialised in the mid-nineties (a commercial failure despite the best efforts of the likeable new lead). The seminal series did however produce an exciting spin-off, involving three computer geeks, a vampire with a soul, and Ian Sears reprising his role as Brendan - now a lovable actor living in LA with his harlot of a sister and her attractive but geeky son. The writers also went on to produce Boston Metal, a show almost identical to the original but with William Shatner in it.
Plans are afoot for a revival of the series, featuring a multi-cultural cast of wooden actors. Instead of Morton Harwood, the characters will be based within a mysterious spaceship marooned on a tropical island [sequences filmed in Dorset], from which they will attempt to make contact with others of their own kind [to replace lead actors that mysteriously vanish on a story-by-story basis]. Aunt Lavinia is expected to be created entirely by CGI.