K-9 and Company 42 years old

A one-episode television pilot for a proposed 1981 spin-off of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features former series regulars Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist played by Elisabeth Sladen, and K9, a robotic dog voiced by John Leeson. Both characters had been companions of the Fourth Doctor but they had not appeared together before. The single episode, A Girl's Best Friend was broadcast by BBC1 as a Christmas special on 28 December 1981 but was not taken up for a continuing series.

Credits

Cast

Name	Character
Elisabeth Sladen She was 35 , 65 years old when she died	as Sarah Jane Smith
Bill Fraser He was 57 , 63 years old when he died
Colin Jeavons He was 52 , now 94 years old

Crew

Name	Job title
John Nathan-Turner Production He was 34 , 54 years old when he died	Producer