by K9 BingeQuake
Monthly podcast delving into the most obscure of the Doctor Who TV spin-offs, the Australian K9 series. Hosted by Tom Marshall and Kevin Burnard with various guests. Join us as we find out whether the show is inexplicably awful, surprisingly good, or consistently mediocre. Everything you've ever wanted to know (and lots you didn't) about this well-kept secret, laid bare. Literally watching it so you never have to.
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February 3, 2024
<p>For our ninth episode, discussing <em>K9</em> Episode 9, "Dream-Eaters", we are joined by Neo of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Who-Cares">the wonderful <em>WhoCares </em>podcast</a>. "Dream-Eaters", originally broadcast on 8 March 2010, was written by Jim Noble and directed by Daniel Nettheim.</p> <p>Listeners can follow the podcast on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/K9BingeQuake">@K9BingeQuake</a> or email feedback and comments to us at [email protected].</p> <p>**</p> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p>Hosts - Tom Marshall (he/him) & <a href="https://twitter.com/scribblesscript">Kevin Burnard</a> (he/him)</p> <p>Guest - <a href="https://twitter.com/Neo_WhoCares?s=20">Neo</a> (he/him)</p> <p>Editing - Kevin Burnard</p> <p>Theme music - <a href="https://twitter.com/Jack_Guidera">Jack Guidera</a> (he/him)</p> <p>Logo/Artwork - Christy Burnard (she/her)</p> <p>Episode recorded 11 March 2023.</p> <p>**</p> <p><strong>Sources:</strong></p> <p>On the specific Australian manifestation of 'cultural cringe' - see Lawson, Henry, Preface to <em>Short Stories in Prose and Verse</em> (1894), repr. in Roderick, Colin (ed.), <em>Henry Lawson: Autobiographical and Other Writings 1887-1922</em>, Angus & Robertson (1972), pp108-109; Philips, A. A., '<a href="https://www.australianculture.org/the-cultural-cringe-arthur-phillips-1950/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Cultural Cringe'</a>, in <em>Meanjin </em>9:4 (Summer 1950), pp299-302; Hume, L. J., <a href="http://www.the-rathouse.com/Another_look_at_the_Cultural_Cringe.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><em>Another Look at the Culture Cringe</em></a><em>, </em>Centre for Independent Studies Vol 45 (1993); Hesketh, Rollo, '<a href="https://meanjin.com.au/essays/a-a-phillips-and-the-icultural-cringei-creating-an-iaustralian-traditioni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">A. A. Philips and the 'Cultural Cringe': Creating an 'Australian Tradition'</a>", in <em>Meanjin </em>72:3 (Spring 2013), pp92-103.</p> <p>Russell T Davies discussing certain ... mistakes that were made in the <em>Sarah Jane Adventures </em>story <em>The Curse of Clyde Langer </em>(2011) can be found in <em>Doctor Who Magazine</em> #588 (April 2023), p. 7.</p> <p>On the target audience for <em>K9</em> being (supposedly) 11-15 year olds - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205841/http://stewart-wall-entertainment.com/productions/childrensTelevisionDetail.php?K9-1">"K9: Who's a good dog?"</a>, <em>Stewart & Wall Entertainment</em>, archived from the original on 12 August 2014. This is contradicted by the claim that the show is aimed at 8-12 year olds in Blum, Jonathan, "K9", <em>Doctor Who Magazine</em> #409 (24 June 2009), p. 8.</p> <p>On Paul Tams' Cushing Doctor fan film - Norton, Charles, <em>Now on the Big Screen: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who at the Movies</em>, Telos Publishing (2013), p. 128; Valdron, D.G., <em>The Greatest Unauthorized Doctor Who Stories - Volume One: A Pirates History of Doctor Who</em> (2nd edn.), Fossil Cove Publishing (2022), Ch 4: The Swinging Super-8 Seventies (no page number given).</p>
November 22, 2023
<p>This episode<em> </em>we are joined by Joy Piedmont of multiple other <em>Doctor Who</em> podcasts (such as <a href="https://twitter.com/RealityBombPC"><em>Reality Bomb</em></a><em> </em>and <a href="https://twitter.com/FiveYearsRapid"><em>Five Years Rapid</em></a>) to discuss <em>K9</em> Episode 8, "Jaws of Orthrus", originally broadcast on 1 March 2010. "Jaws of Orthrus" was written by "Lindsay James" (a pseudonym for writer Keith Shaw) and directed by James Bogle.</p> <p>Listeners can follow the podcast on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/K9BingeQuake">@K9BingeQuake</a> or email feedback and comments to us at [email protected].</p> <p>**</p> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p>Hosts - Tom Marshall (he/him) & <a href="https://twitter.com/scribblesscript">Kevin Burnard</a> (he/him)</p> <p>Guest - <a href="https://twitter.com/InquiringJoy?s=20">Joy Piedmont</a> (she/her)</p> <p>Editing - Kevin Burnard</p> <p>Theme music - <a href="https://twitter.com/Jack_Guidera">Jack Guidera</a> (he/him)</p> <p>Logo/Artwork - Christy Burnard (she/her)</p> <p>Episode recorded 25 February 2023.</p> <p>**</p> <p><strong>Sources:</strong></p> <p>The <em>Black Mirror</em> episode <em>Arkangel</em> was written by Charlie Brooker and directed by Jodie Foster and released by <a href="https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70264888" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Netflix</a> on 29 December 2017.</p> <p>Among other sources, and allowing for various spellings, the name 'Orthrus' to refer to a mythological hound comes from the <em>Bibliotheca</em> conventionally but falsely ascribed to Apollodorus of Athens (1st or 2nd century AD, trans. James George Frazer, 1921, Harvard University Press/William Heinemann Ltd), <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.10">Book 2, Chapter 5</a>.</p> <p>On the target audience for <em>K9</em> being (supposedly) 11-15 year olds - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205841/http://stewart-wall-entertainment.com/productions/childrensTelevisionDetail.php?K9-1">"K9: Who's a good dog?"</a>, <em>Stewart & Wall Entertainment</em>, archived from the original on 12 August 2014. This is contradicted by the claim that the show is aimed at 8-12 year olds in Blum, Jonathan, "K9", <em>Doctor Who Magazine</em> #409 (24 June 2009), p. 8.</p> <p>The IMDb profile for Keith Shaw/"Lindsay James", including more information on <em>Avalanche Sharks</em>, can be found <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1433581/?ref_=tt_cl_wr_2">here</a>. The classic series stories written under pseudonyms are <a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/tt.html"><em>The Dominators</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/jjj.html"><em>The Daemons</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/4g.html"><em>Pyramids of Mars</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/4k.html"><em>The Brain of Morbius</em></a>, <a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/4z.html"><em>The Invasion of Time</em></a>, <a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/5h.html"><em>City of Death</em></a><em> </em>and <a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/6t.html"><em>Attack of the Cybermen</em></a>, as listed by Sullivan, Shannon Patrick, <em>A Brief History of Time (Travel)</em>, last updated 13 July 2020, 8 August 2020, 21 December 2020, 27 December 2020, 12 February 2021, 10 May 2021 and 25 June 2021 respectively.</p> <p>The childhood series Joy refers to are <em>Saved by the Bell </em>(1989-93), <em>Batman: The Animated Series </em>(1992-5), <em>Barney & Friends</em> (1992-2010), <em>Animaniacs </em>(1993-8), <em>Zoom </em>(1999-2005), and <em>Hannah Montana </em>(2006-11).</p>
April 4, 2023
<p>This episode<em> </em>we are joined by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Tharries">prominent DW YouTuber Tharries</a> to discuss <em>K9</em> Episode 7, "The Fall of the House of Gryffen", originally broadcast on 22 February 2010. "The Fall of the House of Gryffen" was written by Shayne Armstrong & SP Krause and directed by Daniel Nettheim.</p> <p>Listeners can follow the podcast on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/K9BingeQuake">@K9BingeQuake</a> or email feedback and comments to us at [email protected].</p> <p>**</p> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p>Hosts - Tom Marshall (he/him) & <a href="https://twitter.com/scribblesscript">Kevin Burnard</a> (he/him)</p> <p>Guest - <a href="https://twitter.com/TharriesYT?s=20&t=Y4Y8-gzMcEctuyADky_RjA">Tharries</a> (he/they)</p> <p>Editing - Kevin Burnard</p> <p>Theme music - <a href="https://twitter.com/Jack_Guidera">Jack Guidera</a> (he/him)</p> <p>Logo/Artwork - Christy Burnard (she/her)</p> <p>Episode recorded 5 February 2023.</p> <p>**</p> <p><strong>Sources:</strong></p> <p>On most people's exposure to <em>K9 </em>being either through Episode 1 ("Regeneration") or, more specifically, a clip of K9 regenerating from his classic <em>Doctor Who</em> form into his new design - uploads of <a href="https://youtu.be/q9AwZHWIsVE">the former</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/YE4XoZcSZ-Y">the latter</a> on YouTube have 142,000 and 137,000 views respectively, around ten times as many as other episodes tend to average out at. Prominent <em>Doctor Who</em> reactors on YouTube, e.g. Sesskasays, tend to have <a href="https://youtu.be/Gt-HvsoPOmE">reacted to "Regeneration"</a> only, not the rest of the show.</p> <p>This week we give a shout out to Christopher Elves, who's done a fairly decent job on the score for <em>K9</em>; there is no official soundtrack but a few tracks can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTvrMNf_fQP0JN3JTrqI_zGDnNiMUzOpd">here</a>.</p> <p>Further discussion of the status of K9 rights as a recurring character on <em>The Sarah Jane Adventures</em> can be read at Sullivan, Shannon Patrick, "<a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/sarahjane/2007a.html"><em>Invasion of the Bane</em>: Production</a>" and "<a href="http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/sarahjane/2010ab.html"><em>The Nightmare Man</em>: Production</a>", <em>A Brief History of Time (Travel)</em>, last updated 6 July 2017 and 14 August 2017 -<em> </em>in short, he had a greater role in Series 3 (2009) but it was reduced again for Series 4 (2010), precisely because of getting his own show that same year.</p>
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