In this instalment of K9: BingeQuake we are joined by Evan Jones (Doctor Who mathemagician extraordinaire) to discuss Episode 3 of K9, "The Korven", originally broadcast on 25 January 2010. "The Korven" was written by Tim Pye and directed by Karl Zwicky.
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Credits:
Hosts - Tom Marshall (he/him) & Kevin Burnard (he/him)
Guest - Evan Jones (he/him)
Editing - Kevin Burnard
Theme music - Jack Guidera (he/him)
Logo/Artwork - Christy Burnard (she/her)
Episode recorded 20 November 2022.
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Sources:
On the target audience for K9 being (supposedly) 11-15 year olds - "K9: Who's a good dog?", Stewart & Wall Entertainment, 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", Doctor Who Magazine #409 (24 June 2009), p. 8.
On the surprising out-of-universe origins of the Korven - Norton, Charles, Now on the Big Screen: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who at the Movies, Telos Publishing (2013), p. 128; Valdron, D.G., The Greatest Unauthorized Doctor Who Stories - Volume One: A Pirates History of Doctor Who (2nd edn.), Fossil Cove Publishing (2022), Ch 4: The Swinging Super-8 Seventies (no page number given).
The K9 and Company theme tune (composed by Fiachra Trench and Ian L*vine and broadcast at the start of its pilot episode, A Girl's Best Friend, on 28 December 1981) to which Evan refers can be heard here (upload by ZardozSpeaks, 23 February 2010).
