Alien Avatar (TV story)

Continuity

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.

• When June Turner has another jurisdictional dispute with Drake, she threatens to launch a report with Lomax.
• This episode establishes that the reason this K9 unit's language is laced with so much English slang is that the five thousand Earth movies on his memdrive have influenced his mode of expression.
• This episode definitively establishes that K9 has some sort of on-board linguistic database, as he talks to the Medes. This point was never particularly clear in his (or his successors') usage in Doctor Who, since he would have ostensibly had access to TARDIS translation circuit. Moreover, he's never been shown to use other languages in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Home video releases

This episode is featured in the following DVD sets:

• Series One complete box set, released in Australia on 29 September 2010. [1]
• A "vanilla" DVD called Alien Avatar, containing The Fall of the House of Gryffen, Jaws of Orthrus, Dream-Eaters, Curse of Anubis, Oroborus and Alien Avatar, released in Australia on 1 December 2010. [2]
• K9: Series 1: Volume 1, containing episodes 1–12, released in the UK on 31 January 2011 and in the US on 30 March 2011. [3], [4]
• K9: Ultimate Collectors Edition, containing the full first series, scheduled for release in the UK on 11 June 2011. [5]

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  Complete Boxset
  (Region 4, Australia)

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  Alien Avatar
  (Region 4, Australia)

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

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  "Ultimate Collectors Edition"
  (Region 2, UK)

External links

• Official K9 site