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|series        = [[K9 (TV series)|K9]]
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|number         = [[Series 1 (K9)|1.5]]
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|featuring      = <ul><li>[[K9 Mark 2]]</li><li>[[Starkey]]</li><li>[[Jorjie]]</li><li>[[Darius]]</li><li>[[Gryffen|Professor Gryffen]]</li></ul>
|season number   = Series 1 (K9)
|enemy         = [[Drake]]
|series episode number = 5
|setting       = [[London]], [[2050]]
|main character  = [[K9 Mark 2]], [[Starkey]], [[Jorjie Turner|Jorjie]], [[Darius Pike|Darius]], [[Alistair Gryffen|Gryffen]]
|writer         =
|featuring      = [[June Turner|June]]
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|enemy           = [[Inspector]] [[Drake (Liberation)|Drake]]
|director      =
|setting         = [[London]], [[2050]]
|broadcast date = [[17th April]] 2010
|writer         = Deborah Parsons
|format         = 1 x 30 minute episode
|director        = [[Daniel Nettheim]]
|production code=
|producer        = {{il|[[Penny Wall]]|[[Richard Stewart]]|[[Simon Barnes]]}}
|previous story= [[The Bounty Hunter]]
|broadcast date = 8 February 2010
|next story= [[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]
|format         = 1 x 30 minute episode
}}
|production code = 1.5
|series          = ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]''
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|next           = Fear Itself (TV story)
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'''''Sirens of Ceres''''' was the fifth episode of ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]''. It was written by [[Deborah Parsons]], and directed by [[Daniel Nettheim]]. K9's role was smaller in this episode as it was focused on other characters, in particular [[Jorjie Turner|Jorjie]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Drake uses a strange alien substance on group of schoolchildren in an experiment to gain control of the population. Jorjie stumbles across the plan after she is seen assaulting a Police Robot, Drake suggests to June that Jorjie is sent to a private academy to deal with her lack of disipline. Jorjie herself falls victim to the alien device's control and K9 and Starkey have to find and destroy the devices.
When [[Jorjie Turner|Jorjie]] hits one of the [[CCPC|robot police]] with a [[stone]], her [[June Turner|mother]] punishes her by sending her to the private school [[Magdalene Academy]]. But [[the Department]] are testing an [[alien]] [[mineral]] weapon, which they can use to control students in the academy.


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
A single activist is protesting about [[CCPC]] violence when she is apprehended by two of them. [[K9 Mark 2|K9]],[[Starkey]] and [[Jorjie Turner|Jorjie]] witness it and Starkey records the arrest to "publicise the violence". Jorjie however decides to take action and throws a stone at one of the CCPCs. It chases after her and Starkey while the other one grabs the activist who is met by Inspector [[Drake]] who takes her away. Jorjie and K9 and cornered by the two CCPCs, When K9 questions her actions she just says she was "having fun". A third CCPC brings Starkey and confiscates his recording. Drake orders the CCPCs to use an unknown device known as the [[Inhibitor]], which the CCPC puts an alien substance into. It fires at them, however it accidentally destroys the CCPC.
[[Vibeka]], an activist, is protesting [[CCPC]] violence when she is apprehended by two of them. [[K9 Mark 2|K9]], [[Starkey]] and [[Jorjie Turner|Jorjie]] witness the [[arrest]] and Starkey records it to "publicise the violence". Jorjie decides to take action and despite Starkey's warning, she throws a stone at one of the CCPCs. The three run as Inspector [[Drake (Liberation)|Drake]] arrives and takes Vibeka away. Two CCPCs corner them and a third confiscates Starkey's recording. Drake orders the CCPCs to use an unknown device, the [[Inhibitor]], into which the CCPC puts an alien substance. The device fails, destroying the CCPC and sending K9 flying. Drake is angered at this and crushes the top off his cane.


At Jorjie's house June demands to know why Jorjie assaulted the CCPC. Back at the mansion Gryffen is repairing K9 who suffered minor damage from the explosion, Starkey suspects that the Department is up to something as the sent 4 CCPCs to just one protester. At Department HQ June questions Drake about the Inhibitor, he says it is a submission device. Drake suggests the June sends Jorjie to [[Magdalene Academy]]. Two weeks later Jorjie comes to the academy and introduces herself. She finds out that the protester she met earlier is in this school, she warns Jorjie not to put on the [[Cerulium Bracelet|bracelets]] worn by several of the students, saying their has been a strange change in behaviour with some of them. Jorjie takes her advice and doesn't join the [[Melaina]]'s study group. When she goes to the mansion and complains about the school, Starkey and Gryffen don't agree with her.
At Jorjie's house, June is shocked to learn that Jorjie threw a stone at a CCPC. She is even angrier that Jorjie dismisses her concerns by complaining of a headache. Jorjie says the CCPC was using a [[Inhibitor|strange weapon]].


While fixing K9, Gryffen analyses video play back of the explosion and finds the strange substance vaporises when it's put under pressure. K9 says that the CCPC's used it to try to take control of him, and it is an alien substance. When Jorjie goes to the academy again she finds even her friend has the bracelet, she informs Starkey of the bracelet. Starkey comes to Magdalene to see what is going on, but Starkey is seduced by one of the girls and completely ignores Jorjie. Gryffen discovers the identity of the alien substance, it is called Cerulium. K9 describes the planet [[Ceres]] and how lack of free will destroyed it's civilization. At the academy the girls give Jorjie a bracelet and thanks the girls. Melaina Asks her to put it on, and the girl that seduced Starkey said Starkey adored her bracelet, saying he said it made her skin shine. After the girl Said this she put on the bracelet and falls under its influence almost immediately. She comes back to the mansion and meets Darius on the way in. She seduces him while K-9 identifies the bracelet on her as a cerulium and Starkey runs up to her and tells her to take off the bracelet, but she pulls her arm behind her and playfully asks what bracelet, while darius defends her from Starkey, but K9 destroys the bracelet with his laser cannon. She comes back to school with a fake bracelet, saying she loves her new bracelet. All the girls flaunt out their bracelets. Jorjie asks the girls where she can buy another one for her mother [[June Turner]]. Drake finds out she knows and the girls attack her but K9 comes in and destroys all the bracelets. Melaina is the only one remaining, when Drake deactivates her Jorjie reveals to the other students that she was a robot similar to the CCPC.
Back at the [[Gryffen Manor|mansion]], Gryffen repairs K9, and lectures Starkey on his "tomfoolery." In the [[Department Mobile HQ]], Drake suggests June send Jorjie to [[Magdalene Academy]]. Two weeks later. Jorjie arrives at the Academy, where she meets Vibeka, who warns Jorjie not to put on the [[Cerulium bracelet|bracelets]] worn by several of the students; they change people's behaviour. Jorjie takes her advice and doesn't join [[Melaina]]'s study group. When she goes to the mansion and complains about the school, Starkey and Gryffen don't agree with her.


==Cast==
Gryffen analyses video playback of the explosion and finds the strange substance vaporises under pressure. K9 says the CCPCs used it to try to take control of him and it is an alien substance. When Jorjie returns to the academy, she finds Vibeka now wears a bracelet. She tells Starkey, who comes to Magdalene to investigate. Vibeka flirts with him.
*[[K9 Mark 2]] - [[John Leeson]]
*[[Starkey]] - [[Keegan Joyce]]
*[[Jorjie]] - [[Philippa Coulthard]]
*[[Darius Pike]] - [[Daniel Webber]]
*Professor [[Alistair Gryffen]] - [[Robert Moloney]]
*[[June Turner]] - [[Robyn Moore]]
*[[Drake]] - [[Connor Van Vurren]]


==Production crew==
Gryffen discovers the alien substance is [[cerulium]]. K9 describes the planet [[Ceres]], and how lack of free will destroyed its civilisation. At the Academy the girls give Jorjie a bracelet and persuade her to wear it. She falls under its influence almost immediately and returns to the mansion, where she flirts with Darius while K9 identifies the bracelet as cerulium. Starkey tells her to take off the bracelet, but she refuses until K9 destroys it with his laser cannon.


== References ==
The next day she returns to school with a fake bracelet, asking where she can get another one for her mother, [[June Turner]]. Drake realises that his plot is uncovered and the girls attack her, but K9 arrives and destroys all the bracelets. Melaina is the only one remaining. When Drake deactivates her, Jorjie reveals to the other students that she is a [[robot]] similar to the CCPC.
''to be added''
 
== Cast ==
* Professor [[Alistair Gryffen]] - [[Robert Moloney]]
* [[Starkey]] - [[Keegan Joyce]]
* [[Jorjie Turner]] - [[Philippa Coulthard]]
* [[Darius Pike]] - [[Daniel Webber]]
* Voice of [[K9 Mark 2|K9]] - [[John Leeson]]
* [[June Turner]] - [[Robyn Moore]]
* [[Drake (Liberation)|Drake]] - [[Connor Van Vuuren]]
* [[Vibeka]] - [[Sophia Emerson-Bains]]
* [[Melaina]] - [[Cathy Tucker]]
* [[Hilena]] - [[Natalie Stephenson]]
* [[Kalena]] - [[Britt Henderson]]
* [[CCPC|CCPC #1]]/[[CCPC (Sirens of Ceres)|School CCPC]] - [[Micheal Coglan]]
* [[CCPC|CCPC #2]] - [[Josh Norsend]]
* [[CCPC|CCPC #3]] - [[Manuel Saubie]]
* [[CCPC|CCPC #4]] - [[David Pawsey]]
* [[Teacher (Sirens of Ceres)|Teacher]] - [[Catarina Hibbard]]
 
''Robert Moloney, Keegan Joyce, Philippa Coulthard, Daniel Webber and John Leeson are all credited in the opening of the episode and not the closing credits. With the exception of Leeson's credit, they are credited only by their name and not with their respective character's name attached.''
 
== Crew ==
* [[Writer]] - [[Deborah Parsons]]
* [[Director (crew)|Director]] - [[Daniel Nettheim]]
* [[Producer]]s - [[Penny Wall]], [[Richard Stewart]], [[Simon Barnes]]
* [[Executive producer]]s - [[Jim Howell]], [[Grant Bradley]], [[Steve Robbins]]
* [[Associate producer]]s - [[Bob Baker]], [[Paul Tams]]
* Supervising producer - [[Dale Bradley]]
* Co-Executive producers - [[Mark Blythe]], [[Sam Tromans]]
* Line producer - [[Pam Collis]]
* VFX Director - [[David Napier]]
* Series [[Production Designer]] - [[Jon Dowding]]
* Episodic Designer - [[Adam Head]]
* [[K9 Mark 2|New K9]] Design by - [[Paul Tams]], [[Alex Kubalsky]]
* Series Director of Photography - [[Ben Nott]]
* Episodic Director of Photography - [[Tony O'Loughlan]]
* Music by - [[Christopher Elves]]
* K9 theme music by - [[Michael Lira]]
* [[Editor]] - [[Patrick Stewart (editor)|Patrick Stewart]]
* Casting - [[Faith Martin]] and associates
* Episodic casting - [[Lisa Maloney]]
* Drama/Dialogue coach - [[Peter Kent]]
* Story Producer - [[Greg Walters]]
* Script Editor - [[Anthony Morris]]
* Script Adaption - [[Michaeley O'Brien]]
* Production Accountant - [[Pru Donovan]]
* 1st Assistant Director - [[Peter McLennan]]
* Script Supervisor - [[Sue Ketchington]]
* [[Costume Designer]] - [[Joanne Thompson]]
* Makeup Designer - [[Sharon Robbins]]
* [[Puppeteer (crew)|Puppeteer]] - [[David Pawsey]]
* [[Location Manager]] - [[Charles Boyle]]
* Sound Recordist - [[Ian Grant]]
* B Camera Operator - [[Dan Maxwell]]
* Gaffer - [[Steve Monk]]
* Key Grip - [[Billy Harmer]]
* Special thanks to - [[Space Furniture]], [[Shredox]], [[J. Barbour & Sons Ltd]], [[Heath Williams]] at Firefly Lighting, [[Videopro]]
* Safety Supervisor/Stunt Coordinator - [[Danny Baldwin]]
* Transport Manager - [[Alister Ward]]
* Unit Manager - [[Graeme Suhr]]
* Post Production Facility - [[Cutting Edge Australia]]
* Head of Post Production - [[John Lee (post-production)|John Lee]]
* Sound Design - [[Warren Pearson]]
* Sound Mix - [[Ben Vlad]]
* K9 Theme Music Recorded - [[Supersonic]]
* The Postworks - [[Bob Blasdall]]
* Marshalls and Dent Lawyers - [[Shaun Miller]], [[Bryce Menzies]]
* Completion Guarantor - [[First Australian Completion Bond Company Pty Ltd]]
* Executive producer Network Ten Australia - [[Cherrie Bottger]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
* Upon seeing Jorjie in her academy uniform, Darius comments that she looks "[[manga]]".
* Jorjie's class is taught about the [[Great Cataclysm]].


== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
''to be added''
* This episode aired in the UK on the same day as the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]''.
* Gryffen repairs K9 for most of the episode, similar to his appearances in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' or ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.


=== Ratings ===
=== Ratings ===
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===Production errors===
=== Production errors ===
''to be added''
{{K9 discontinuity}}
* On the professor's screen Cerulium is instead written Cerilium.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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== Home video releases ==
== Home video releases ==
This episode is featured in the following DVD sets:
* Series One complete box set, released in Australia on [[29 September (releases)|29 September]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]]. [http://tardis-base.blogspot.com/2010/08/k9-complete-first-series.html]
* A "vanilla" DVD called ''The Bounty Hunter'', containing ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'', ''[[Liberation (TV story)|Liberation]]'', ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'', ''[[The Bounty Hunter (TV story)|The Bounty Hunter]]'', ''Sirens of Ceres'' and ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'', released in Australia on [[29 September (releases)|29 September]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]]. [http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/k9-dvd-complete-series-bounty-hunter/]
* ''K9: Series 1: Volume 1'', containing episodes 1–12, released in the UK on [[31 January (releases)|31 January]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]] and in the US on [[30 March (releases)|30 March]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]]. [http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/k9-complete-series-1-13-episodes/], [http://www.amazon.com/K9-Series-1-Vol/dp/B004EJ006M/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_b]
* ''K9: Ultimate Collectors Edition'', containing the full first series, was released in the UK on [[11 June (releases)|11 June]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]. [http://www.amazon.co.uk/K9-Complete-Box-Set-DVD/dp/B0076WI3C2/ref=sr_1_4?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1339049905&sr=1-4]
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File:Dvd-k9complete.jpg|Complete Boxset<br />(Region 4, Australia)
File:Dvd-k9bounty.jpg|''The Bounty Hunter''<br />(Region 4, Australia)
File:K9 Series 1 Vol 1 DVD.jpg|Series 1, Volume 1<br />(Region 0, sold in UK and US)
File:K9 Ultimate Collectors Edition DVD.jpg|"Ultimate Collectors Edition"<br />(Region 2, UK)
</gallery>


==See also==
== External links ==
''to be added''
* [http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/k9/episodes/ TheDoctorWhoSite.co.uk]
{{elx|page url=http://www.k9official.com/episodes.html|page name=Episode Guide|website name=K9 website}}


==External links==
{{K9TV}}
[http://www.k9official.com/episodes.html]
{{TitleSort}}
{{K9 series 1}}
{{TV stub}}


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Sirens of Ceres was the fifth episode of K9. It was written by Deborah Parsons, and directed by Daniel Nettheim. K9's role was smaller in this episode as it was focused on other characters, in particular Jorjie.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

When Jorjie hits one of the robot police with a stone, her mother punishes her by sending her to the private school Magdalene Academy. But the Department are testing an alien mineral weapon, which they can use to control students in the academy.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Vibeka, an activist, is protesting CCPC violence when she is apprehended by two of them. K9, Starkey and Jorjie witness the arrest and Starkey records it to "publicise the violence". Jorjie decides to take action and despite Starkey's warning, she throws a stone at one of the CCPCs. The three run as Inspector Drake arrives and takes Vibeka away. Two CCPCs corner them and a third confiscates Starkey's recording. Drake orders the CCPCs to use an unknown device, the Inhibitor, into which the CCPC puts an alien substance. The device fails, destroying the CCPC and sending K9 flying. Drake is angered at this and crushes the top off his cane.

At Jorjie's house, June is shocked to learn that Jorjie threw a stone at a CCPC. She is even angrier that Jorjie dismisses her concerns by complaining of a headache. Jorjie says the CCPC was using a strange weapon.

Back at the mansion, Gryffen repairs K9, and lectures Starkey on his "tomfoolery." In the Department Mobile HQ, Drake suggests June send Jorjie to Magdalene Academy. Two weeks later. Jorjie arrives at the Academy, where she meets Vibeka, who warns Jorjie not to put on the bracelets worn by several of the students; they change people's behaviour. Jorjie takes her advice and doesn't join Melaina's study group. When she goes to the mansion and complains about the school, Starkey and Gryffen don't agree with her.

Gryffen analyses video playback of the explosion and finds the strange substance vaporises under pressure. K9 says the CCPCs used it to try to take control of him and it is an alien substance. When Jorjie returns to the academy, she finds Vibeka now wears a bracelet. She tells Starkey, who comes to Magdalene to investigate. Vibeka flirts with him.

Gryffen discovers the alien substance is cerulium. K9 describes the planet Ceres, and how lack of free will destroyed its civilisation. At the Academy the girls give Jorjie a bracelet and persuade her to wear it. She falls under its influence almost immediately and returns to the mansion, where she flirts with Darius while K9 identifies the bracelet as cerulium. Starkey tells her to take off the bracelet, but she refuses until K9 destroys it with his laser cannon.

The next day she returns to school with a fake bracelet, asking where she can get another one for her mother, June Turner. Drake realises that his plot is uncovered and the girls attack her, but K9 arrives and destroys all the bracelets. Melaina is the only one remaining. When Drake deactivates her, Jorjie reveals to the other students that she is a robot similar to the CCPC.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Robert Moloney, Keegan Joyce, Philippa Coulthard, Daniel Webber and John Leeson are all credited in the opening of the episode and not the closing credits. With the exception of Leeson's credit, they are credited only by their name and not with their respective character's name attached.

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Upon seeing Jorjie in her academy uniform, Darius comments that she looks "manga".
  • Jorjie's class is taught about the Great Cataclysm.

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Myths[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
  • On the professor's screen Cerulium is instead written Cerilium.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

This episode is featured in the following DVD sets:

  • Complete Boxset (Region 4, Australia)

    Complete Boxset
    (Region 4, Australia)

  • The Bounty Hunter (Region 4, Australia)

    The Bounty Hunter
    (Region 4, Australia)

  • Series 1, Volume 1 (Region 0, sold in UK and US)

    Series 1, Volume 1
    (Region 0, sold in UK and US)

  • "Ultimate Collectors Edition" (Region 2, UK)

    "Ultimate Collectors Edition"
    (Region 2, UK)

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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