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The Adventures of K9 #4
K9 and the Missing Planet
K9 the robot dog, sent to locate a missing planet, enters a universe where early life forms still thrive.
31 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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Dave Martin
98 books1 followerDavid Ralph Martin was an accomplished television and film writer. He contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979 in collaboration with Bob Baker. Baker and Martin's most notable contributions to the Doctor Who mythos were probably the robot computer K-9 (created for The Invisible Enemy) and the renegade Time Lord Omega (created for The Three Doctors, Doctor Who's tenth anniversary story).Together they were nicknamed "The Bristol Boys" by the Doctor Who production teams with whom they worked. They also worked together on the 1975 children's science fantasy television serial Sky and Into the Labyrinth.
In the early 1980s, Martin wrote a series of 4 small illustrated children's stories starring K9. In 1986, he wrote the Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure book Search for the Doctor.
In the early 1980s, Martin wrote a series of 4 small illustrated children's stories starring K9. In 1986, he wrote the Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure book Search for the Doctor.
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August 6, 2011
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The last is the most political of the books: K9 is called in to assist the capitalist, colonialist leadership of the heavily polluted planet Tellus (or, as we call it, Earth) to track down a missing colony. "'It's not there,' snarled the president. 'It should be there and it's gone. The whole planet, gone. We own that planet, we've invested billions in it, and we need its raw materials to fuel our power plants and supply our factories. Tellac Inc wants it back. Apart from that they tell me it's playing havoc with navigation ... 0h, and there are a dozen families missing too. Miners, it says here. You better get it back!'" K9 gets caught in a timewarp and finds the missing planet and miners, who are constructing a new Eden with animals from all periods of geological history which they survey by balloon. Votri, the miners' leader, begs K9 to keep his secret; and K9 does so, in defiance of his orders, reporting back to Gallifrey only that the planet has "disappeared from the universe as we know it".
The last is the most political of the books: K9 is called in to assist the capitalist, colonialist leadership of the heavily polluted planet Tellus (or, as we call it, Earth) to track down a missing colony. "'It's not there,' snarled the president. 'It should be there and it's gone. The whole planet, gone. We own that planet, we've invested billions in it, and we need its raw materials to fuel our power plants and supply our factories. Tellac Inc wants it back. Apart from that they tell me it's playing havoc with navigation ... 0h, and there are a dozen families missing too. Miners, it says here. You better get it back!'" K9 gets caught in a timewarp and finds the missing planet and miners, who are constructing a new Eden with animals from all periods of geological history which they survey by balloon. Votri, the miners' leader, begs K9 to keep his secret; and K9 does so, in defiance of his orders, reporting back to Gallifrey only that the planet has "disappeared from the universe as we know it".
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