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[[File:K9MIIBox.jpg|thumb|This box from ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'' is the only televised evidence for the fact that [[Leela]]'s model was "Mark I"]]

* The numbers appended to K9's "marks" have ''narrative'' origin — unlike, say, [[Romana I|Romana ''I'']], which is actually a fan ''assumption''.  ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'' ends with the Doctor pushing a box labelled "K9 MII" into the [[console room]], which implies that the model that stayed with [[Leela]] on [[Gallifrey]] was "K9 MI".  However, based on televised stories alone, there was no indication that this designation was programmed into the two units.  It was later established by [[John Leeson]]'s ''dialogue'' in the audio story ''[[The Inquiry]]'' and the short story ''[[Jealous, Possessive]]'' that K9 Mark I thought of ''himself'' as "K9 Mark I" and Romana's model as "K9 Mark II".  Nevertheless, ''nothing'' has ever clearly indicated that the Mark I was truly "the first K9 ever built, anywhere in the universe". The designation is relative to the Doctor's perception, or to relative age amongst the K9 units eventually resident on [[Gallifrey]].

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