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|individual name = K9 Mark 2
|alias      = Hound from Hell
|alias = <ul><li>Dog</li><li>Boy</li><li>The Almighty K9</li><li>The Hound from Hell</li></ul>
|species    = Robot
|race = [[Robot]]
|affiliation = K9 Unit
|home planet = Recreated on [[Earth]], originally [[K4067]] and then [[Gallifrey]]
|origin      = [[K4067]]
|home era = Recreated in [[2050]], originally The [[51st century]], then The [[Rassilon Era]] and finally The [[501st Century]]  
|first      = Regeneration (TV story)
|appearances = [[K9 Mark 2 - List of Appearances]]
|appearances = {{appears}}
|actor = Voiced by [[John Leeson]]
|voice actor = John Leeson
}}{{K9s}}
|other voice actor = [[Peter Kent]]
:''Not to be confused with [[K9 Mark II]], a version created by [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] who considered [[Romana]] his mistress.''
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'''K9 Mark 2 '''was an incarnation of [[K9]]&nbsp;created after the [[K9 Mark I|Mark I]]&nbsp;self-destructed. This K9 was associated with Professor [[Alistair Gryffen]]. It gave dog whistles to at least [[Starkey]], whom he called "Young Master", [[Darius Pike]] and [[Jorjie Turner]], indicating his level of trust in the three teenagers.
{{K9s}}
'''K9 Mark 2''' was a model of [[K9]] created by the [[K9 Mark I|Mark I]]'s regeneration after he self-destructed. This K9, who described himself as a "cybernetic unit equipped with [[quantum consciousness]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'') was associated with [[Alistair Gryffen|Professor Alistair Gryffen]]. He gave dog whistles to [[Starkey]], whom he called "Young Master", and to [[Darius Pike]] and [[Jorjie Turner]].
 
== Biography ==
=== Post-Regeneration ===
[[K9 Mark I]] survived the Last Great Time War, despite having been destroyed earlier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Imperiatrix (audio story)|Imperiatrix]]'') Some time later, he went to the year [[50000|50,000]] and met [[Zanthus Pia]], Head of the Galactic Peace Commission, whom he saw murdered at the hands of [[Ahab (The Bounty Hunter)|Ahab]]. As he was a witness, Ahab's four [[Jixen]] friends attacked him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter (TV story)|The Bounty Hunter]]'')
 
He and the Jixen were pulled by a Space-Time Manipulator to [[Gryffen Manor]] on mid-[[21st century]] [[Earth]]. After a fight, K9 self-destructed to save the humans in the area. Starkey retrieved K9's [[regeneration unit]], allowing him to rebuild completely, although he had forgotten his former Mistresses, Leela and Romana, and his former Master, the Doctor. After introducing himself, K9 completed his "orientation protocol", determining he was in [[London]].
 
[[Alistair Gryffen]] studied this "[[fallen angel|Fallen Angel]]", though K9 could come and go as he pleased. Gryffen didn't tell his employers, [[the Department]], but they saw [[CCTV]] footage of the night of the explosion. Starkey showed up after escaping from the Department's virtual reality detention facility. The dog realised that he was [[human]]. K9 gave Starkey his dog whistle, to let Starkey call him when he was in trouble and stayed at Gryffen's house, ready for more adventures. ([[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
 
=== A new master ===
Starkey stayed at Gryffen's with K9 to hide from the Jixen. K9 informed Gryffen that the Jixen was alive and on the move around [[Dauntless Prison]], where the Department kept captured aliens. Starkey decided to go to the prison and get the Jixen before it got him, Gryffen asked K9 to go to the prison and track the Jixen. K9 obeyed but with great unease. When K9 entered the Department exclusion zone, [[Drake (Liberation)|Inspector Drake]] ordered him attacked by the Department's [[Department Defence Robot|defence robots]] . Despite this, K9 helped the gang deal with Jixen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Liberation (TV story)|Liberation]]'')
 
K9 helped Starkey evade the Department's surveillance. Sometime later, Jorjie came to give Starkey some food when she was called by Darius who told her that Gryffen had gone missing. K9 was able to contact a human [[Medowin|soldier]] from the year [[2618]], who informed them that the [[Korven]] had sent an operative back through time to find a group of scientists who created a system to cool the Earth, Gryffen being one of those scientists. K9 explained that the Korven absorbed all information from the brain and then abandoned the host body leaving it like an empty shell in a process called leeching. Medowin warned them that if they get the data they need from the scientists they would cool the Earth and destroy humanity. Communication was lost just as he was about to give the Korven's weakness. K9 however was acquainted with the Korven's weakness, during the leeching process their entire being was focused on their victim, the only known time when they're vulnerable. The team followed the trail of [[phosphane gas]] traces. When they arrived at the iceworks the Korven took Gryffen to, the team split up. Despite assuring Starkey he was fine he later revealed he was being affected by the Phosphane gas K9 reveals he is being affected by the Phosphane as his behaviour became increasingly stranger. When Starkey saw the Korven leeching Gryffen, he was kidnapped by it. Darius and Jorjie found K9 on the floor, he tried to focus but engaged his self-protection protocol and shut down. Darius decided to take action, he destroys the Korven's phosphane tank and gains his attention, the Korven prepared to fire but K9 overrode his self-protection protocol and shot the Korven. K9 then shut down, Darius then woke Gryffen. The Korven then got back up; Darius grabbed the Korven's arm before it could shoot him but couldn't hold on. Starkey ordered K9 to fire his Photon Beam which K9 interpreted as "Baked Beans?". K9 shot the Korven with the temperature required to make Baked Beans edible, killing it. Back at the mansion, Gryffen accessed the Department mainframe and erased Starkey's computer encryption code it so that he was no longer a wanted dissident, he then offered a spare room for Starkey and K9 to stay. As they went to bed, K9 emitted the remainder of the phosphane in his systems in a manner similar to flatulence. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'')


==Biography==
=== Exploits with K9 unit ===
===Regeneration===
After he defeated Ahab, who tried to convince him he murdered Zanthus Pia. He became part of the [[K9 Unit]], being made the responsibility of Gryffen and under the control of Department inspector [[June Turner]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter (TV story)|The Bounty Hunter]]'') He then foiled [[Drake (Liberation)|Inspector Drake]]'s plan to control the population using [[Cerulium]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Sirens of Ceres (TV story)|Sirens of Ceres]]'') and experienced fear. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'') He later aided in the defeat of echoes of Gryffen's family and [[Orthrus]], a [[Doppelgänger|duplicate]] of him created by Drake to frame him, ([[TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)|Jaws of Orthrus]]'') and the [[Bodach]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dream-Eaters (TV story)|Dream-Eaters]]'') He was then met by [[Nehetka]] and [[Geb (Curse of Anubis)|Geb]] of the [[Anubian]]s, a race his previous incarnation liberated. He was so obsessed with regaining his lost memories that he didn't realise Gryffen, Starkey and Jorjie's takeover by the Anubians. He soon found out when the Anubians attacked the Department, with the help of Darius he was soon able to defeat him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis (TV story)|Curse of Anubis]]'')
[[File:K9.PNG|thumb|250px|left|K9 moments after his regeneration. ([[K9TV]]: [[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]])]]
[[K9 Mark I]] survived the Last Great Time War, despite have been destroyed earlier; he was probably rebuilt by Romana - who probably rebuilt him for Leela - and who likely installed his regeneration circuits. Some point later he went to the year [[50000|50,000]] and met [[Zanthus Pia]], Head of the Galactic Peace Commission, whom he saw murdered at the hands of [[Ahab]]. Being a witness to the murder Ahab's four [[Jixen]] friends attacked K9 ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]''). He and the Jixen were pulled to mid-[[21st century]] [[Earth]] via a [[Space-Time Manipulator]] to [[Gryffen Manor]], after a short battle K9 self-destructed to save the Humans in the vicinity. Starkey retrieved K9's [[regeneration circuit]], allowing him to rebuild completely (However, he had forgotten his former Mistresses, Leela and Romana, and had forgotten his former Master, The Doctor. After introducing himself K9 completed his "orientation protocol", determining he was in [[London]]. [[Alistair Gryffen]] then studied this "[[Fallen Angels|Fallen Angel]]", though K9 could come and go as he pleased. Gryffen didn't tell his employers, [[The Department]] of this, but they saw [[CCTV]] footage of the night of the explosion. Soon, Starkey arrived, after escaping from the Department virtual reality detention facility and sprayed by a Jixen. K9 confused him for a Jixen and was about to kill him, when he recited the patronising words he gave K9 after his creation and the dog realised that he was [[Human]]. [[June Turner]] came to interrogate Gryffen, whilst K9 hid with Starkey. K9 gave Starkey his dog whistle, meaning he would assist Starkey if he was ever in trouble and stand at Gryffen's house, ready for more adventures. ([[K9TV]]: [[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]])


[[File:Ready for Action.PNG|thumb|250px|right|"Ready for Action, Young Master." ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'')]]
He later helped Starkey fight the [[Oroborus]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Oroborus (TV story)|Oroborus]]'') freed the [[Mede]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar (TV story)|Alien Avatar]]'') and help one of the last [[Aeolian]]s find her mate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'') He then saved a [[Centuripede]] and her young from being killed by Drake ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Oak Tree (TV story)|The Last Oak Tree]]'') and absorbed [[the Hunger]] swarm which threatened to devour Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger (TV story)|Black Hunger]]'') He and Starkey then went through the STM to [[1963]] where they rescued Jorjie and saved Darius' great-grandfather [[William Pike]] from being arrested and erasing Darius from history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy (TV story)|The Cambridge Spy]]'') He enlisted the help of the [[Ukkan]] librarian [[Yssaringintinka]] to rescue Starkey who was trapped on the planet [[Urlic]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Lost Library of Ukko (TV story)|Lost Library of Ukko]]'') He later helped [[Birdie]], a [[CCPC]] which implanted human DNA escape from the Department. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mutant Copper (TV story)|Mutant Copper]]'') He then discovered the last of the [[Etydion]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Custodians (TV story)|The Custodians]]'') and taught [[Taphony]] how to be a friend. ([[TV]]: ''[[Taphony and the Time Loop (TV story)|Taphony and the Time Loop]]'')
Starkey was forced to stay at Gryffen's with K9 to hide from the Jixen. K9 detected the Jixen and informed Gryffen that the Jixen was alive and on the move in the direction of [[Dauntless Prison]], where the Department kept captured aliens. When Darius asked why the Jixen would go to an alien prison, K9 replied because of a [[Meron]], the Jixen's highly dangerous enemy. Starkey decided to go to the prison and get the Jixen before it got him, K9 said it wasn't a good idea as the last thing they'd want to get caught in was battle between the Merons and the Jixen, warning whole planets had been wiped out. Gryffen asked K9 to go to the prison and track the Jixen, K9 obeyed but with great discomfort similar to the mermaids of [[Gorgol XIII]] sucking dinner through their nostrils. Gryffen tracked K9 through a monitor and suggested that he backed off. While moving towards the Prison K9 was detected by the Department. When K9 entered the Department exclusion zone Inspector [[Drake]] ordered to exclude him. K9 was attacked by the Department's [[Department Defence Robot|defense robots]] which disabled him and he fells in a dustbin that Starkey and Darius walked by. Gryffen kept trying to wake K9 up but he didn't respond, he eventually succeeded by creating a sound that K9 was familar with, dropping a ball over and over again. K9 reactivated, K9 then made his way to Dauntless prison. Jorjie was able to free Starkey and Darius (who were captured in the prison) and the alien prisoners. K9 went through the prison scanning for the Jixen, as the kids and the aliens ran Starkey looked behind to see if they are being followed but he was attacked by the Jixen, it corners him but K9 shots the Jixen, however had has used up all he's got and his energy levels didn't have time to reboot. Starkey and K9 lured the Jixen to the cells, Starkey put his jacket (which contained the Jixen tracking slime) in a cell which the Jixen found. Starkey then locked the cell, as they taunted the Jixen one of the scientists walked in. He morphed into his true Meron form and attacked K9, as he advanced on Starkey the Jixen emitted a loud scream which made the Meron retreat. Starkey and K9 met up with the others and Darius managed to unlock the door, but they were met by June who told them they were blocked by a forcefield and ordered the aliens to return to their cells. The Jixen arrived and attacked Starkey and June, K9 tried to fight it but exhausted his firepower. Starkey was able to attach June's locking device set to self-destruct to the Jixen, killing it. Jorjie said they make quite a team, Darius agrees. Starkey asked K9 what he thought, he called the assessment logical, amusing the kids. Starkey then fainted.
That night, he woke up in Gryffen's House with K9 by his side. Starkey then accepted Darius' wishes and left as he had a job to do, Starkey thanked K9 for saving him from "termination" before he left. Later when Starkey hacked into the display board terminal again K9 moved to protect him from the CCPCS and they both ran away. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'')


K9 helped Starkey evade the Department's surveillance. Sometime later, Jorjie came to give Starkey some food when she was called by Darius who told her that Gryffen had gone missing. K9 was able to contact a Human [[Medowin|soldier]] from the year [[2618]], who informed them that the [[Korven]] had sent an operative back through time to find a group of scientists who created a system to cool the Earth, Gryffen being one of those scientists. K9 explained that the Korven absorbed all information from the brain and then abandoned the host body leaving it like an empty shell in a process called leeching. Medowin warned them that if they get the data they need from the scientists they would cool the Earth and destroy Humanity. Communication was lost just as he was about to give the Korven's weakness. K9 however was acquainted with the Korven's weakness, during the leeching process their entire being was focused on their victim, the only known time when they're vulnerable. The team followed the trail of [[Phosphane gas]] traces. When they arrived at the iceworks the Korven took Gryffen to, the team split up. Despite assuring Starkey he was fine he later revealed he was being affected by the Phosphane gas K9 reveals he is being affected by the Phosphane as his behaviour became increasingly stranger. When Starkey saw the Korven leeching Gryffen, he was kidnapped by it. Darius and Jorjie found K9 on the floor, he tried to focus but engaged his self-protection protocol and shut down. Darius decided to take action, he destroys the Korven's Phosphane tank and gains his attention, the Korven prepared to fire but K9 overrid his self-protection protocol and shot the Korven. K9 then shut down, Darius then woke Gryffen. The Korven then got back up; Darius grabbed the Korven's arm before it could shoot him but couldn't hold on. Starkey ordered K9 to fire his Photon Beam which K9 interpreted as "Baked Beans?". K9 shot the Korven with the temperature required to make Baked Beans edible, killing it. Back at the mansion, Gryffen accessed the Department mainframe and erased Starkey's computer encryption code it so that he was no longer a wanted dissident, he then offered a spare room for Starkey and K9 to stay. As they went to bed, K9 emitted the remainder of the phosphane in his systems in a manner similar to flatulence. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'')
Either Inspector [[Thorne]] or [[Lomax]] found out about K9's regeneration unit and decided to acquire it. Thorne joined forces with [[Freddie Maxwell]], owner of [[Crashclub]] involving old robots being made to fight. K9 went undercover as a gladiator and made friends with the robot clowns [[Chuckles]] and [[Boris (Robot Gladiators)|Boris]]. He was called to fight the [[Pain-Maker]] who was laced with the explosive [[solarmite]], when he was set to self-destruct K9 detected this and fled the explosion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot Gladiators (TV story)|Robot Gladiators]]'') In an attempt to regain his memory and find out his connection to the STM, K9's achieve was scrambled and directives from the STM almost caused him to self-destruct and lose all his memory. However with help of Gryffen and Starkey he was able to override the directives. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mind Snap (TV story)|Mind Snap]]'') He later helped Gryffen find the STM's temporal stabiliser from the [[fallen angel]] crash-site in [[Canada]] where it was revealed to be Korven technology. ([[TV]]: ''[[Angel of the North (TV story)|Angel of the North]]'') He later stopped haywire CCPCs when [[the Last Precinct]]'s plan backfired. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Precinct (TV story)|The Last Precinct]]'') After this he was tricked by Thorne to give him his regeneration unit in return for a lost memory chip, however this turned him into a bomb which would make him self-destruct upon encountering [[Jixey]] however Starkey helped him disarm himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hound of the Korven (TV story)|Hound of the Korven]]'')


After he defeated Ahab, who tried to convince him he murdered Zanthus Pia. He became part of the K9 Unit, being made the responsibility of Gryffen and under the control of Department inspector [[June Turner]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]'') He then foiled Inspector [[Drake]]'s plan to control the population using [[Cerulium]] ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'') and experienced fear. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'') He later aided in the of defeat echoes of Gryffen's family and [[Orthrus]], a [[List of Doppelgängers|duplicate]] of him created by Drake to frame him, ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus]]'') and the [[Bodach]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Dreameaters]]'') He was then met by [[Nehetka]] and [[Geb]] of the [[Anubian]]s, a race his previous incarnation liberated. He was so obsessed with regaining his lost memories that he didn't realize Gryffen, Starkey and Jorjie's takeover by the Anubians. He soon found out when the Anubians attacked the Department, with the help of Darius he was soon able to defeat him. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'')
K9 fought valiantly during the botched Korven invasion of Earth that entailed but not without his companions' much needed assistance. After exhausting all his energy during the climax of the failed conquest, K9 retreated to Gryffen Manor where he almost died, his rundown state plunging him into the depths of oblivion. Luckily his regeneration unit homed back to its master and gave him the spark of life, replenishing his power core and using the excess energy to reconstitute his old dog collar. Given a new lease on life, a frisky K9 flew off to celebrate, rejoicing that he had cheated death once more and like always made it out in one piece. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)|The Eclipse of the Korven]]'')


He later helped Starkey fight the [[Oroborus]], ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Oroborus (TV story)|Oroborus]]'') freed the [[Medes]] ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar]]'') and help one of the last [[Aeolian]]s find her mate. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'') He then saved a [[Centuripede]] and her young from being killed by Drake ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Last Oak Tree]]'') and absorbed the [[Black Hunger (swarm)|Black Hunger]] swarm which threatened to devour Earth. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger]]'') He and Starkey then went through the STM to [[1963]] where they rescued Jorjie and saved Darius' great-grandfather [[William Pike]] from being arrested and erasing Darius from history. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy]]'') He enlisted the help of the [[Ukkan]] librarian [[Yssaringintinka]] to rescue Starkey who was trapped on the planet [[Urlic]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Lost Library of Ukko]]'') He later helped [[Birdie]], a [[CCPC]] which implanted Human DNA escape from the Department. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Mutant Copper]]'') He then discovered the last of the [[Etydion]]s ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Custodians]]'') and taught [[Taphony]] how to be a friend. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Taphony and the Time Loop]]'')
=== After the unit ===
K9 saved the people on the [[Aurora (Peaceniks)|Aurora]] from being killed by a [[Galactic Federation|Federation]] war cruiser. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peaceniks (short story)|Peaceniks]]'')


Either Inspector [[Thorne]] or [[Lomax (K9)|Lomax]] found out about K9's regeneration circuit and decided to acquire it. Thorne joined forces with [[Freddie Maxwell]], owner of [[Crashclub]] involving old robots being made to fight. K9 went undercover as a gladiator and made friends with the robot clowns [[Chuckles]] and [[Boris]]. He was called to fight the [[Pain-Maker]] who was laced with the explosive Solarmite, when he was set to self-destruct K9 detected this and fled the explosion. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Robot Gladiators]]'') In an attempt to regain his memory and find out his connection to the STM, K9's achieve was scrambled and directives from the STM almost caused him to self-destruct and lose all his memory. However with help of Gryffen and Starkey he was able to override the directives. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Angel of the North]]'') He later helped Gryffen find the STM's temporal stabilizer from the [[Fallen Angels|fallen angel]] crash-site in [[Canada]] where it was revealed to be Korven technology. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Angel of the North]]'') He later stopped haywire CCPCs when [[The Last Precinct (organization)|The Last Precinct]]'s plan backfired. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Last Precinct]]'') After this he was tricked by Thorne to give him his regeneration unit in return for a lost memory chip, however this turned him into a bomb which would make him self-destruct upon encountering [[Jixey]] however Starkey helped him disarm himself. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Hound of the Korven]]'')K-9 fought valiantly during the botched Korven Invasion of Earth that entailed but not without his companions' much needed assistance. After exhausting all his energy during the climax of the failed conquest, K-9 retreated to Gryffen Manor where he almost died, his rundown state plunging him into the depths of oblivion. Luckily his regeneration unit homed back to it's master and gave him the spark of life, replenishing his powercore and using the excess energy to reconstitute his old dog collar. Given a new lease on life, a frisky K-9 flew off to celebrate, rejoicing that he had cheated death once more and like always made it out in one piece. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Eclipse of the Korven]]'')
While navigating a spaceship back to [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]] K9 met the [[Interstitials]]. K9 helped them pass into another existence where it was better for them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interstitials (short story)|Interstitials]]'')


[[File:K9_Mark_3.PNG|thumb|246px|K9 Mark 2 after his resurrection]]
10800 years after the [[Punch and Judy]] shows were created and performed by itinerant children entertainers K9 was hired by [[Peabody|Professor Peabody]] to protect her son [[Lukran Peabody]]. Lukran got kidnapped by the [[Pyxian]]s but was saved by K9 who returned Lurkan to his [[Peabody|mother]] and stopped the Pyxians. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stranger On The Train (short story)|Stranger On The Train]]'')


==Personality==
[[File:Short Cicuit (comic story).jpg|thumb|K9's new design. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Short Circuit (comic story)|Short Circuit]]'')]]
This version of K9 was more upbeat and aggressive than other versions that existed in the [[Doctor Who universe|universe]]. Whereas the K9s that traveled with the Doctor tended to apply logic in a somewhat cautious way —frequently arguing why the odds suggested that something ''couldn't'' be done —this K9 tended to freely place himself in harm's way. He was also more ruthless than other K9's, killing a [[Korven]], ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'') offering to have [[Drake]] taken out ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus]]'') and threatening him and his [[CCPC]]s with liquidation. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'') Unlike other K9s, he gave the title of master especially to Starkey. Whereas other K9s commonly referred to all their friends as master or mistress, K9 never referred to Gryffen or Darius as master, or Jorjie or June as mistress. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
Someday after his time with Starkey, Jorjie, and Darius; K9 was free falling in space. He awaited any passing vessels that had been accused of being a stow-away on the flagship of the [[Trodos]] Empire. K9 entered a space ship which turned out to be a [[Sporraxx]] space ship. The Sporraxx imprisoned K9 when they realised that his general reference capacity was far beyond any computer that they had ever come across. Then the Sporraxx tried to extract K9's [[memory core]]. Memories that K9 assumed to be erased were slowly coming back and the Sporraxx got to know more and more about K9's past. The Sporraxx got information about [[Earth]] and wanted to maraud the planet. They reprogrammed K9 to protect a device, which turned out to be a small spherical marauder bomb, that would destroy Earth. However K9 was able to break free of their control, because deep in his memories a sense of right and wrong prevailed. He took the bomb back into the Sporraxx space ship which exploded. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Short Circuit (comic story)|Short Circuit]]'')


He also investigated [[Human]] emotions in a more thorough way than his predecessors, and even, apparently, experienced the emotion of fear. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'')
== Personality ==
This version of K9 was more upbeat and aggressive than other versions that existed in the [[Doctor Who universe|universe]]. Whereas the K9s that travelled with the Doctor tended to apply logic in a somewhat cautious way — frequently arguing why the odds suggested that something ''couldn't'' be done — this K9 tended to freely place himself in harm's way. He was also more ruthless than other K9's, killing a [[Korven]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'') offering to have [[Drake (Liberation)|Drake]] taken out ([[TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus (TV story)|Jaws of Orthrus]]'') and threatening him and his [[CCPC]]s with liquidation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'') Unlike other K9s, he gave the title of master, specifically "young Master", exclusively to Starkey. Whereas other K9s commonly referred to all their friends as master or mistress, K9 never referred to Gryffen or Darius as master, nor Jorjie or June as mistress. ([[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')


His use of the [[English]] language was far more colloquial than any of his predecessors, because he had downloaded 5000 [[Human]] movies onto his [[memdrive]], and these were influencing his speech. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar]]'') Although he did speak more technical sometimes such as when Starkey announced "kicked surveillance butt" K9 vowed to "kick surveillance posterior" whenever possible. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'') When Starkey was attacked by a Jixen, K9 recommended "rapid movement in the opposite direction of the Xenomorph". ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'')
He also investigated [[human]] emotions in a more thorough way than his predecessors, and even, apparently, experienced the emotion of fear. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'')


==Features==
Unlike his predecessor, he did not appreciate being called "dog" or "boy", stressing that he was instead "a cybernetic construction containing [[quantum consciousness]]". Proud of his intelligence, K9 boasted of being "capable of logical [[deduction]] to within 1.47593 [[gigaflop]]s". ([[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
K9 Mark 2 was radically altered in design and far more complex compared to Mark I. His ear probes were replaced with larger silver aerials, a set of blue lights on his head flashed when he spoke. Most of his body was dark silver in color and a silver dog bone was located under his neck. He seemed to have the same capabilities as Mark I but was presumably more advanced. When attacked and incapacitated, he could give his living metal frame downtime to a tune to energy signatures of weaponry with combat conditioning shielding. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'') He was also capable of emitting gas in a manner similar to flatulence. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'',''[[Alien Avatar]]'',''[[Black Hunger]]'') He was able to use a tractor beam to pull an object as large as an adolescent [[Humanoid]], ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'') he could also use it to absorb microscopic objects. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger]]'') Although he was vulnerable to energy attacks, he was nearly perfectly resilient when it came to explosive forces, as he said, while highly explosive forces were capable of damaging him, the only explosive force capable of destroying him was his own self-destruct function. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Robot Gladiators]]'')


This new K9 didn't have any memory of his past life, although he did regain fragments of his memory remembering some of his travels. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'') It is unknown whether he remembers or eventually will remember the [[Last Great Time War]], [[Romana]] or [[Leela]]. However as only his memdrive was damaged and database of aliens and planets was left unharmed. It is likely he still knows about planets and races such as [[Gallifrey]], the [[Time Lord]]s, and the [[Sontaran]]s. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
His use of the [[English language]] was far more colloquial than any of his predecessors, because he had downloaded 5000 [[human]] movies onto his [[memdrive]], and these were influencing his speech. ([[TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar (TV story)|Alien Avatar]]'') He did speak more technically sometimes, however, such as when Starkey announced "kicked surveillance butt", K9 vowed to "kick surveillance posterior" whenever possible. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'') When Starkey was attacked by a Jixen, K9 recommended "rapid movement in the opposite direction of the Xenomorph". ([[TV]]: ''[[Liberation (TV story)|Liberation]]'')


==Key Life Events==
K9 had totally independent, rational and benign psychological tendencies. Therefore his moral judgements were free of any original programmer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peaceniks (short story)|Peaceniks]]'')
*[[K9 Mark I]] [[Regeneration circuit|regenerates]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
*Meets [[Alistair Gryffen]], [[Starkey]], [[Jorjie Turner]] and [[Darius Pike]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
*Helps defeat the last surviving [[Jixen]] and frees the aliens from [[Dauntless Prison]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'')
*Kills the [[Korven]] who abducted Gryffen, Gryffen then welcomes him and Starkey into his house. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'')
*Re-encounters [[Ahab]] who fools him into thinking he murdered [[Zanthus Pia]], however his memory clears and he stops him. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]'')
*Damaged by the [[Inhibitor]] and later destroys all of [[Drake]]'s [[Cerulium]] bracelets. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'')
*Faces both [[Fear (entity)|Fear]] the entity and fear the feeling. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'')
*Fights echoes of Gryffen's family. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Fall of the House of Gryffen]]'')
*Framed by Drake and defeats his [[Orthrus|duplicate]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus]]'')
*Destroys the [[Bodach]] obelisk. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Dreameaters]]'')
*Meets the [[Anubian]]s, a race from his past, when they attack the Department he defeats them. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'')
*Helps Starkey fight the [[Oroborus]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Oroborus (TV story)|Oroborus]]'')
*Frees the [[Medes]] from Drake's exploitation. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar]]'')
*Helps one of the last [[Aeolian]]s find her mate. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'')
*Saves a [[Centuripede]] and her young from being killed by Drake. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Last Oak Tree]]'')
*Absorbs the [[Black Hunger (swarm)|Black Hunger]] swarm which threatened to devour Humanity. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger]]'')
*Travels with Starkey to [[1963]], rescues Jorjie and saves Darius' great-grandfather [[William Pike]] from being arrested and erasing Darius from history. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'')
*Enlists the help of [[Yssaringintinka]] to save Starkey from [[Urlic]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Lost Library of Ukko]]'')
*Helps [[Birdie]] hide from the Department and discusses the matter of emotions. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Mutant Copper]]'')
*Discovers the last of the [[Etydion]]s. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Custodians]]'')
*Teaches [[Taphony]] how to be a good friend. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Taphony and the Time Loop]]'')
*Goes undercover in [[Crashclub]] and faces the [[Pain-Maker]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Robot Gladiators]]'')
*Attempts to discover his connection to the STM and almost self-destructs due to it's directives. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Mind Snap]]'')
*Helps Gryffen retrieve the STM's temporal stabiliser and discovers the STM is Korven technology. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Angel of the North]]'')
*Cures haywire CCPCs using Jixen DNA after [[The Last Precinct (organisation)|The Last Precinct]]'s plan goes out of control. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Last Precinct]]'')
*Tricked by Thorne into giving him his [[Regeneration unit]] and almost self-destructs when he encounters [[Jixey]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Hound of the Korven]]'')
*Defeats the Korven, [[Lomax (K9)|Lomax]], Thorne and the [[Trojan]] almost at the cost of his own life. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Eclipse of the Korven]]'')
*Rejuvenated by his regeneration unit. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Eclipse of the Korven]]'')


==Behind the scenes==
== Features ==
[[File:K9 Boot Manager K9 Mark 2.png|thumb|left|The K9 OS, clearly showing the new version to be "K9 Mark 2" ([[K9TV]]: [[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]])]]
K9 Mark 2 was radically altered in design and far more complex compared to Mark I. His ear probes were replaced with larger silver aerials, a set of blue lights on his head flashed when he spoke. Most of his body was dark silver in colour and a silver dog bone was located under his neck. He seemed to have the same capabilities as Mark I but was presumably more advanced. When attacked and incapacitated, he could give his living metal frame downtime to attune to energy signatures of weaponry with combat conditioning shielding. ([[TV]]: ''[[Liberation (TV story)|Liberation]]'') He was also capable of emitting gas in a manner similar to [[flatulence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'', ''[[Alien Avatar (TV story)|Alien Avatar]]'', ''[[Black Hunger (TV story)|Black Hunger]]'') He was able to use a tractor beam to pull an object as large as an adolescent [[humanoid]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'') he could also use it to absorb microscopic objects. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger (TV story)|Black Hunger]]'') Although he was vulnerable to energy attacks, he was nearly perfectly resilient when it came to explosive forces, as he said, while highly explosive forces were capable of damaging him, the only explosive force capable of destroying him was his own self-destruct function. ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot Gladiators (TV story)|Robot Gladiators]]'')
*Although this was a "new" version of K9, it was a new incarnation of K9 Mark I, as opposed to it being a Mark V. This point was made clear in the episode [[K9TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]''.
 
*K9 Mark 2 was designed by [[Paul Tams]] and [[Alex Kubalsky]].
This new K9 didn't have any memory of his past life, although he did regain fragments of his memory, remembering some of his travels. ([[TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis (TV story)|Curse of Anubis]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* Although this was a "new" version of K9, it was a new incarnation of K9 Mark I, as opposed to it being a Mark V. This point was made clear in the episode ''[[The Bounty Hunter (TV story)|The Bounty Hunter]]''.
* K9 Mark 2 was designed by [[Paul Tams]] and [[Alex Kubalsky]].
 
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==See also==
*[[K9]]
*[[K9 (TV series)]]
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[[Category:Robots]]
[[Category:Department personnel]]
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K9 Mark 2 was a model of K9 created by the Mark I's regeneration after he self-destructed. This K9, who described himself as a "cybernetic unit equipped with quantum consciousness", (TV: Regeneration) was associated with Professor Alistair Gryffen. He gave dog whistles to Starkey, whom he called "Young Master", and to Darius Pike and Jorjie Turner.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Post-Regeneration[[edit] | [edit source]]

K9 Mark I survived the Last Great Time War, despite having been destroyed earlier. (AUDIO: Imperiatrix) Some time later, he went to the year 50,000 and met Zanthus Pia, Head of the Galactic Peace Commission, whom he saw murdered at the hands of Ahab. As he was a witness, Ahab's four Jixen friends attacked him. (TV: The Bounty Hunter)

He and the Jixen were pulled by a Space-Time Manipulator to Gryffen Manor on mid-21st century Earth. After a fight, K9 self-destructed to save the humans in the area. Starkey retrieved K9's regeneration unit, allowing him to rebuild completely, although he had forgotten his former Mistresses, Leela and Romana, and his former Master, the Doctor. After introducing himself, K9 completed his "orientation protocol", determining he was in London.

Alistair Gryffen studied this "Fallen Angel", though K9 could come and go as he pleased. Gryffen didn't tell his employers, the Department, but they saw CCTV footage of the night of the explosion. Starkey showed up after escaping from the Department's virtual reality detention facility. The dog realised that he was human. K9 gave Starkey his dog whistle, to let Starkey call him when he was in trouble and stayed at Gryffen's house, ready for more adventures. (TV: Regeneration)

A new master[[edit] | [edit source]]

Starkey stayed at Gryffen's with K9 to hide from the Jixen. K9 informed Gryffen that the Jixen was alive and on the move around Dauntless Prison, where the Department kept captured aliens. Starkey decided to go to the prison and get the Jixen before it got him, Gryffen asked K9 to go to the prison and track the Jixen. K9 obeyed but with great unease. When K9 entered the Department exclusion zone, Inspector Drake ordered him attacked by the Department's defence robots . Despite this, K9 helped the gang deal with Jixen. (TV: Liberation)

K9 helped Starkey evade the Department's surveillance. Sometime later, Jorjie came to give Starkey some food when she was called by Darius who told her that Gryffen had gone missing. K9 was able to contact a human soldier from the year 2618, who informed them that the Korven had sent an operative back through time to find a group of scientists who created a system to cool the Earth, Gryffen being one of those scientists. K9 explained that the Korven absorbed all information from the brain and then abandoned the host body leaving it like an empty shell in a process called leeching. Medowin warned them that if they get the data they need from the scientists they would cool the Earth and destroy humanity. Communication was lost just as he was about to give the Korven's weakness. K9 however was acquainted with the Korven's weakness, during the leeching process their entire being was focused on their victim, the only known time when they're vulnerable. The team followed the trail of phosphane gas traces. When they arrived at the iceworks the Korven took Gryffen to, the team split up. Despite assuring Starkey he was fine he later revealed he was being affected by the Phosphane gas K9 reveals he is being affected by the Phosphane as his behaviour became increasingly stranger. When Starkey saw the Korven leeching Gryffen, he was kidnapped by it. Darius and Jorjie found K9 on the floor, he tried to focus but engaged his self-protection protocol and shut down. Darius decided to take action, he destroys the Korven's phosphane tank and gains his attention, the Korven prepared to fire but K9 overrode his self-protection protocol and shot the Korven. K9 then shut down, Darius then woke Gryffen. The Korven then got back up; Darius grabbed the Korven's arm before it could shoot him but couldn't hold on. Starkey ordered K9 to fire his Photon Beam which K9 interpreted as "Baked Beans?". K9 shot the Korven with the temperature required to make Baked Beans edible, killing it. Back at the mansion, Gryffen accessed the Department mainframe and erased Starkey's computer encryption code it so that he was no longer a wanted dissident, he then offered a spare room for Starkey and K9 to stay. As they went to bed, K9 emitted the remainder of the phosphane in his systems in a manner similar to flatulence. (TV: The Korven)

Exploits with K9 unit[[edit] | [edit source]]

After he defeated Ahab, who tried to convince him he murdered Zanthus Pia. He became part of the K9 Unit, being made the responsibility of Gryffen and under the control of Department inspector June Turner. (TV: The Bounty Hunter) He then foiled Inspector Drake's plan to control the population using Cerulium (TV: Sirens of Ceres) and experienced fear. (TV: Fear Itself) He later aided in the defeat of echoes of Gryffen's family and Orthrus, a duplicate of him created by Drake to frame him, (TV: Jaws of Orthrus) and the Bodach. (TV: Dream-Eaters) He was then met by Nehetka and Geb of the Anubians, a race his previous incarnation liberated. He was so obsessed with regaining his lost memories that he didn't realise Gryffen, Starkey and Jorjie's takeover by the Anubians. He soon found out when the Anubians attacked the Department, with the help of Darius he was soon able to defeat him. (TV: Curse of Anubis)

He later helped Starkey fight the Oroborus, (TV: Oroborus) freed the Medes (TV: Alien Avatar) and help one of the last Aeolians find her mate. (TV: Aeolian) He then saved a Centuripede and her young from being killed by Drake (TV: The Last Oak Tree) and absorbed the Hunger swarm which threatened to devour Earth. (TV: Black Hunger) He and Starkey then went through the STM to 1963 where they rescued Jorjie and saved Darius' great-grandfather William Pike from being arrested and erasing Darius from history. (TV: The Cambridge Spy) He enlisted the help of the Ukkan librarian Yssaringintinka to rescue Starkey who was trapped on the planet Urlic. (TV: Lost Library of Ukko) He later helped Birdie, a CCPC which implanted human DNA escape from the Department. (TV: Mutant Copper) He then discovered the last of the Etydions (TV: The Custodians) and taught Taphony how to be a friend. (TV: Taphony and the Time Loop)

Either Inspector Thorne or Lomax found out about K9's regeneration unit and decided to acquire it. Thorne joined forces with Freddie Maxwell, owner of Crashclub involving old robots being made to fight. K9 went undercover as a gladiator and made friends with the robot clowns Chuckles and Boris. He was called to fight the Pain-Maker who was laced with the explosive solarmite, when he was set to self-destruct K9 detected this and fled the explosion. (TV: Robot Gladiators) In an attempt to regain his memory and find out his connection to the STM, K9's achieve was scrambled and directives from the STM almost caused him to self-destruct and lose all his memory. However with help of Gryffen and Starkey he was able to override the directives. (TV: Mind Snap) He later helped Gryffen find the STM's temporal stabiliser from the fallen angel crash-site in Canada where it was revealed to be Korven technology. (TV: Angel of the North) He later stopped haywire CCPCs when the Last Precinct's plan backfired. (TV: The Last Precinct) After this he was tricked by Thorne to give him his regeneration unit in return for a lost memory chip, however this turned him into a bomb which would make him self-destruct upon encountering Jixey however Starkey helped him disarm himself. (TV: Hound of the Korven)

K9 fought valiantly during the botched Korven invasion of Earth that entailed but not without his companions' much needed assistance. After exhausting all his energy during the climax of the failed conquest, K9 retreated to Gryffen Manor where he almost died, his rundown state plunging him into the depths of oblivion. Luckily his regeneration unit homed back to its master and gave him the spark of life, replenishing his power core and using the excess energy to reconstitute his old dog collar. Given a new lease on life, a frisky K9 flew off to celebrate, rejoicing that he had cheated death once more and like always made it out in one piece. (TV: The Eclipse of the Korven)

After the unit[[edit] | [edit source]]

K9 saved the people on the Aurora from being killed by a Federation war cruiser. (PROSE: Peaceniks)

While navigating a spaceship back to New Earth K9 met the Interstitials. K9 helped them pass into another existence where it was better for them. (PROSE: Interstitials)

10800 years after the Punch and Judy shows were created and performed by itinerant children entertainers K9 was hired by Professor Peabody to protect her son Lukran Peabody. Lukran got kidnapped by the Pyxians but was saved by K9 who returned Lurkan to his mother and stopped the Pyxians. (PROSE: Stranger On The Train)

K9's new design. (COMIC: Short Circuit)

Someday after his time with Starkey, Jorjie, and Darius; K9 was free falling in space. He awaited any passing vessels that had been accused of being a stow-away on the flagship of the Trodos Empire. K9 entered a space ship which turned out to be a Sporraxx space ship. The Sporraxx imprisoned K9 when they realised that his general reference capacity was far beyond any computer that they had ever come across. Then the Sporraxx tried to extract K9's memory core. Memories that K9 assumed to be erased were slowly coming back and the Sporraxx got to know more and more about K9's past. The Sporraxx got information about Earth and wanted to maraud the planet. They reprogrammed K9 to protect a device, which turned out to be a small spherical marauder bomb, that would destroy Earth. However K9 was able to break free of their control, because deep in his memories a sense of right and wrong prevailed. He took the bomb back into the Sporraxx space ship which exploded. (COMIC: Short Circuit)

Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]

This version of K9 was more upbeat and aggressive than other versions that existed in the universe. Whereas the K9s that travelled with the Doctor tended to apply logic in a somewhat cautious way — frequently arguing why the odds suggested that something couldn't be done — this K9 tended to freely place himself in harm's way. He was also more ruthless than other K9's, killing a Korven, (TV: The Korven) offering to have Drake taken out (TV: Jaws of Orthrus) and threatening him and his CCPCs with liquidation. (TV: Aeolian) Unlike other K9s, he gave the title of master, specifically "young Master", exclusively to Starkey. Whereas other K9s commonly referred to all their friends as master or mistress, K9 never referred to Gryffen or Darius as master, nor Jorjie or June as mistress. (TV: Regeneration)

He also investigated human emotions in a more thorough way than his predecessors, and even, apparently, experienced the emotion of fear. (TV: Fear Itself)

Unlike his predecessor, he did not appreciate being called "dog" or "boy", stressing that he was instead "a cybernetic construction containing quantum consciousness". Proud of his intelligence, K9 boasted of being "capable of logical deduction to within 1.47593 gigaflops". (TV: Regeneration)

His use of the English language was far more colloquial than any of his predecessors, because he had downloaded 5000 human movies onto his memdrive, and these were influencing his speech. (TV: Alien Avatar) He did speak more technically sometimes, however, such as when Starkey announced "kicked surveillance butt", K9 vowed to "kick surveillance posterior" whenever possible. (TV: The Korven) When Starkey was attacked by a Jixen, K9 recommended "rapid movement in the opposite direction of the Xenomorph". (TV: Liberation)

K9 had totally independent, rational and benign psychological tendencies. Therefore his moral judgements were free of any original programmer. (PROSE: Peaceniks)

Features[[edit] | [edit source]]

K9 Mark 2 was radically altered in design and far more complex compared to Mark I. His ear probes were replaced with larger silver aerials, a set of blue lights on his head flashed when he spoke. Most of his body was dark silver in colour and a silver dog bone was located under his neck. He seemed to have the same capabilities as Mark I but was presumably more advanced. When attacked and incapacitated, he could give his living metal frame downtime to attune to energy signatures of weaponry with combat conditioning shielding. (TV: Liberation) He was also capable of emitting gas in a manner similar to flatulence. (TV: The Korven, Alien Avatar, Black Hunger) He was able to use a tractor beam to pull an object as large as an adolescent humanoid, (TV: Fear Itself) he could also use it to absorb microscopic objects. (TV: Black Hunger) Although he was vulnerable to energy attacks, he was nearly perfectly resilient when it came to explosive forces, as he said, while highly explosive forces were capable of damaging him, the only explosive force capable of destroying him was his own self-destruct function. (TV: Robot Gladiators)

This new K9 didn't have any memory of his past life, although he did regain fragments of his memory, remembering some of his travels. (TV: Curse of Anubis)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Although this was a "new" version of K9, it was a new incarnation of K9 Mark I, as opposed to it being a Mark V. This point was made clear in the episode The Bounty Hunter.
  • K9 Mark 2 was designed by Paul Tams and Alex Kubalsky.
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