Forum:Is the K9 TV series canon?

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From what I am aware, it has nothing to do with the BBC, nothing to do with any of the current Doctor Who writers (Who also write For Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Advetnures) that have the series following on from the original series, no reference - at all, ever - it made to the Doctor or the Last Great Time War, either. No reference it made to any Doctor Who story ever made in that series, as far as I'm aware.

Due to this, it honestly won't follow continuity. Doctor Who (old and new), Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Advetnures all follow a somewhat solid continuity in the main, proper Doctor Who universe. They crossover, they reference each other, they flashback each other (Sarah Jane Advetnures has flashbacks to old and new Who), they share characters, they all have a place on the modern-day Earth timeline for Who, ect.. They share writers, and they're all related to the BBC, and share producers/whatever.

That allows them, as a sister shows, to keep continuity between all their stories. They're all part of the main Whoniverse. However, as I said, the K9 TV series makes no reference to any Who story, no reference to the Doctor or the Time War, nothing. The writers have nothing to do with the main Whoniverse writers, either, and probably don't know about what is going on in the main Whoniverse, about the Time War and all that.

We know that, because of this, there will probably never be anything to go into continuity connecting it to the main Whoniverse. The only connection is K9 (who, as I said, makes no reference to anything from Who or the Time War).

The best can be said is that it follows a completely different continuity to THE main continuity of the Whoniverse. Delton Menace 15:19, December 28, 2009 (UTC)

• Wasn't the K9 in that series though the one that Leela had, but had his memory wiped or something? Guess if it wasnt wiped it could have been canoned and depends when it exactly it came from. Leela was left on Gallifrey but no mention was ever made of her again on Gallifrey as far as I'm aware (and on that matter how come Humans were not allowed on Gallifrey but others were?). Leela could have been on Gallifrey say a 100 years before the Time War started and even then it depends which one as there was a time ware in the EDA novels. Besides the K9 series is written by a completely different set of writers and they're not allowed to use a lot of stuff I thik due to copyright (unless they're willing to pay which I doubt they would).

SJA, Torchwood and Doctor Who have continuity problems too mind...... Rhysy54 15:45, December 28, 2009 (UTC)

There is more to Doctor Who continuity than the Time War, well the Last Great Time War to be precise, there has been other temporal wars.

In Doctor Who those writers who create characters often hold onto the copyright of them, whilst the design of the character remains with the writer/creator.

An example is the Dalek, created by Terry Nation though designed by Raymond Cusick. This is why K9 goes through a 'regeneration' and changes shape, the classic shape of K9 is owned by the BBC, K9 the charcter is owned by Bob Baker.

Other things that were created in Doctor Who have been spun-off into other series', though they are part of Doctor Who continuity given their start and presence there; thing such as the Autons (they appeared in BBV's Auton Trilogy), Zygons (appeared in BBV's Zygon trilogy of audios), Sontarans (appeared in Reeltime Pictures' Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans, much of which was in NA: Shakedown). Liz Shaw appears in BBV's P.R.O.B.E. series...I could go on.

K9 is in the K9 series, and he's from Doctor Who, how is that not sharing a character?

The Doctor Who universe isn't just about continuity shout outs in story, or flashbacks, or stuff like that. But really what does it matter if they're not making Time War references? The Big Finish audios aren't (in fact can't according to their contract). --Tangerineduel 15:55, December 28, 2009 (UTC)

Well, everything reavealed as the Doctor travels in new Who could completely contradict the K9 series. What if the Doctor travels to London 2050, and something about it contradicts what is seen in the K9 TV series? That shows they're really not going to click into the same continuity. Due to contracts, they're going to be further distanced as time goes when it comes to continuity.

And the K9 from the K9 TV series shouldn't even exist looking at the main Whoniverse continuity, he should have been destroyed with war going off from left to right. We need a Russel T. Davies or Moffat interview where one of them says what is and isn't canon with the what we already know is part of the main continuity. Delton Menace 16:03, December 28, 2009 (UTC)

How is that different from anything in the post-2005 series contradicting anything in the novels, comics, audios, or the TV series 1963-989/1996? Or the reverse?

Or indeed the numerous other contradictions and other things that don't exactly gel together cohesively?

The BBC has always been somewhat vague on what is continuity and what isn't.

If you're looking for contradictions and things that don't make sense there's a whole forum post just waiting to happen (how many times have the Daleks, Skaro, Time Lords, Gallifrey been killed off?, how many times has the Doctor met Shakespeare, when did Mel meet the Doctor?

I think you may need to look at the Doctor Who continuity from a wider perspective than from the post-2005 continuity as there was a pretty big pool of contradictions before RTD put his oar in. One more series isn't going to mess with things any more than the couple of dozen other spin-off series have done so already. --Tangerineduel 16:36, December 28, 2009 (UTC)