John Leeson

John Leeson

Born: January 1, 1943
in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
John Leeson is a British actor who is known for voicing K-9 on the television series Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, then from 1980 to 1981, and has returned for two single episode in the revived series. He also voiced K-9 in the show's spin-offs K-9 and Company, The Sarah Jane Adventures and K-9.

Movies for John Leeson...

The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Title: The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Released: September 18, 2017
Type: Movie
This is the definitive set of interviews with the team of actors who brought the TOM BAKER era of DOCTOR WHO to life! This documentary includes the best in-depth interviews with TOM BAKER (the Fourth Doctor), ELISABETH SLADEN (Sarah Jane), IAN MARTER (Harry), LOUISE JAMESON (Leela), MARY TAMM (Romana) and JOHN LEESON (Voice of K9)!
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Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
Title: Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
Released: October 1, 2015
Type: Movie
In April 1983, Roger Stevens and James Russell were given “Access All Areas” passes to the BBC’s Doctor Who celebrations at Longleat. Armed with a Ferguson Videostar camera they set out to record as much of the event as they could. While the BBC’s official footage amounts to only a few minutes for news broadcasts, James and Roger recorded several hours, and their material includes interviews with both Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker. Some of this material has been used in other productions by both Reeltime Pictures and BBC Video, but the original tapes were thought to be lost forever – until rediscovered earlier this year. So now enjoy another chance to take a trip to Longleat in 1983. The sound may not be perfect and the pictures come from ageing VHS tapes – but the atmosphere is unmistakable. So avoid the queues, and get to the front of the line with a trip down memory lane!
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Title: The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Character: Himself
Released: November 23, 2013
Type: Movie
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?
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Title: Pointless Celebrities
Character: K-9 (voice)
Released: July 4, 2011
Type: TV
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.
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Title: Sarah Jane's Alien Files
Character: K9
Released: October 11, 2010
Type: TV
Sarah Jane's Alien Files is a BBC series based on The Sarah Jane Adventures. It features Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra entering data on aliens they have encountered during their adventures into Mr Smith, Sarah Jane's extraterrestrial computer, to benefit humanity in the event that Sarah Jane is no longer capable of defending the Earth against alien threats. Each episode is a clip show summarising the events of episodes in which the featured aliens appeared. The only new footage is the framing and narration, shot entirely on the series' standing attic set. Occasionally, brief clips from Doctor Who are included for context, such as in episode 6 when the Judoon are compared to the Cheetah People of Survival in that each humanoid species looks superficially like a non-humanoid terrestrial mammal. The series format was based upon the short "alien files" clips previously produced for the CBBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures website.
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Title: K-9
Character: K-9 (voice)
Released: October 31, 2009
Type: TV
K-9 is a British/Australian comedy/adventure series focusing on the adventures of the robot dog K-9 from the television show Doctor Who, achieved by mixing computer animation and live action. The first episode aired as a sneak preview of the series on Halloween 2009 on satellite channel Disney XD in the UK & Ireland. As of October 2010, the full series has commenced airing on Network Ten in Australia, Disney XD in the UK & Ireland; Scandinavia, Poland, Italy and The Netherlands and Disney Channel CEE in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldava, Slovakia, Hungary and The Czech Republic. In the UK, Channel 5 broadcast the first season between December 2010 and April 2011. The US cable channel Syfy began airing the series on 25 December 2012, initially by broadcasting the entire first season in an all-day marathon.
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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Title: Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Released: March 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission of 'The Five Doctors', the media interest and the BBC Enterprises' event at Longleat House. Featuring actors Peter Davison, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Mark Strickson, Janet Fielding, Carole Ann Ford, John Leeson, Richard Franklin and Caroline John, writer Terrance Dicks, director Peter Moffatt, visual effects designer Mike Kelt, new series writers Paul Cornell and Gareth Roberts, prominent fans Andrew Beech, Ian Levine, Richard Molesworth and James Goss. Presented by Colin Baker.
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Title: The Sarah Jane Adventures
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: September 24, 2007
Type: TV
A British science fiction television programme that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen. It was a spin-off of the long-running science fiction show Doctor Who and focused on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist who, as a young woman had numerous adventures across time and space with the Doctor.
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The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane
Title: The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane
Character: K9
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
There's a new drink taking the world by storm - Bubbleshock! Everyone's drinking it. When Maria's dragged along to the factory tour by her new friend, Kelsey - a girl with an opinion on everything - she's plunged into the sinister world of Bubbleshock and the mysterious Mrs Wormwood. There's something terrible behind the hype - something Sarah Jane's interested in too...
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Doctor Who: Shada
Title: Doctor Who: Shada
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: May 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by his side, they have to stop the evil Skagra. A remounted version of the abandoned Fourth Doctor serial, rewritten to feature the Eighth Doctor and fit in with the Big Finish audio drama continuity.
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Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Title: Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Character: Himself - Host
Released: February 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Video footage telling the story of the biggest Doctor Who (1963) convention ever in the UK, "Longleat 83", which was put together to celebrate the 20th anniversary in 1983.
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K9 Unleashed
Title: K9 Unleashed
Released: April 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentory looking at the Doctors Robot Dog K9 which appeared in the Dr who series between 1977-1981 the series includes interviews with cast and crew as well a showreel for a so far unmade K9 TV series.
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Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Title: Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
By her own admission, Katy Manning is ‘as blind as a bat’ and never knows where she’ll end up. When she suddenly arrived in the UK, Katy was probably as surprised as the rest of us! Determined to thank the legion of Doctor Who fans who had written and supported her during her years abroad, Katy embarked on a whirlwind tour of British conventions and shops before leaving (yet again) for Australia… Along the way bump into Nicholas Courtney, Richard Franklin, John Leeson, Sophie Aldred, Sylvester McCoy, Michael Sheard and other surprise guest stars!
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Title: Bugs
Character: Harris
Released: April 1, 1995
Type: TV
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.
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Downtime
Title: Downtime
Character: Anthony the D.J.
Released: February 3, 1995
Type: Movie
Retired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the mysterious time traveler the Doctor, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart faces the toughest battle of his military career when he is embroiled in a plot unwittingly set in motion by university chancellor Victoria Waterfield, herself a former companion of the Doctor, to take over the Earth by an evil alien entity called the Great Intelligence, aided by its ferocious robot Yeti cohorts. Can the Brigadier defeat this menace to the Earth without the Doctor's help?
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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Title: Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: November 27, 1993
Type: Movie
All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.
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Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Title: Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Character: Voices
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: Movie
London, 1963: The Doctor returns to the place where it all began — alongside his latest companion, Ace, with unfinished business. Not for the first time, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School. At 76 Totter's Lane, the Doctor discovers that his oldest foes — the Daleks — are on the trail of stolen Time Lord technology that he left on Earth long ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability, in order to unleash themselves across the whole of time and space.
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Myth Runner
Title: Myth Runner
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A spoof of Blade Runner, built around bloopers and outtakes from the Myth Makers series of videos, featuring interviews with actors from the Doctor Who TV series.
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Whoops Apocalypse
Title: Whoops Apocalypse
Character: TV Interviewer
Released: May 6, 1986
Type: Movie
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
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Myth Makers 2: John Leeson
Title: Myth Makers 2: John Leeson
Released: December 4, 1984
Type: Movie
Ever wondered how to marinade a Yeti...? No? Well neither had a rather bemused Nick Briggs until he caught up with John Leeson on location for the Doctor Who drama Downtime. Ten years earlier, it was all a lot easier for Keith Harrison when he interviewed John for the second Myth Makers. Life was simple then, you just sat down and had a nice chat about life and being the voice of K9. Now, you have to run around the inside of the Doctor’s faithful robot companion, plus learn how to cook (and more importantly how to catch) a Yeti! Well these are the ingredients, its all been cooking in the oven, so take your seats for dinner. Confused...? Not half as much as Nick!
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Title: 'Allo 'Allo!
Character: Train's Cook
Released: September 7, 1984
Type: TV
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Title: Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: November 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Title: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Character: Henry Barrett
Released: December 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.
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Title: K-9 and Company
Released: December 28, 1981
Type: TV
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.
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K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Title: K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Character: K-9 (voice)
Released: December 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Sarah Jane Smith arrives at the home of her Aunt Lavinia in the cozy village of Moreton Harwood, only to find that Lavinia is nowhere to be found and that the Doctor has left her a parting gift in K·9 Mark III. With the help of K·9 and Lavinia's young ward Brendan Richards, Sarah Jane starts investigating her aunt's disappearance. In the process, they discover that Moreton Harwood is home to a coven worshipping the pagan god Hecate and preparing for a human sacrifice...
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Title: Sorry!
Released: March 12, 1981
Type: TV
Sorry! is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1981 to 1982 and from 1985 to 1988. Starring Ronnie Corbett, it was written by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, both of whom had previously written for The Two Ronnies, of whom Corbett was one half. The theme music was composed by Gaynor Colbourn and Hugh Wisdom, and arranged and conducted by Ronnie Hazelhurst. The outdoor scenes were filmed in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
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Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate
Title: Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: January 24, 1981
Type: Movie
The Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 encounter the enslaved time-sensitive Tharils, who lead them to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a spaceship - a dimension that might be the key to escaping E-Space.
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Doctor Who: State of Decay
Title: Doctor Who: State of Decay
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: December 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Still trapped in E-Space, the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 encounter a medieval civilisation dominated by the Three Who Rule, vampires who govern from their mighty castle.
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Doctor Who: Full Circle
Title: Doctor Who: Full Circle
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: November 15, 1980
Type: Movie
On the planet Alzarius in the alternate universe of E-Space, the Doctor, Romana and K9 find survivors of a crashed starliner, strange creatures lurking in the marshes and a genetic riddle which stretches back centuries.
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Doctor Who: Meglos
Title: Doctor Who: Meglos
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: October 18, 1980
Type: Movie
On the lush planet Tigella, two opposing factions are divided over the usage of the Dodecahedron, an ancient and powerful artefact which provides the entire planet's energy. The Doctor is summoned to arbitrate the conflict, but the power-crazed Meglos intercepts the call and impersonates him in order to steal the Dodecahedron.
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Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
Title: Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: September 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis, where a takeover by the Argolins' historic enemy is underway.
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Tarka the Otter
Title: Tarka the Otter
Character: Secretary of the Hunt
Released: November 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Set in the English countryside of the 1920s - when otter hunting was still legal - this film follows the life of Tarka the Otter from his birth into adulthood. We witness his close shaves, and his struggle with a man who tries to keep our furry hero as a pet.
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Title: Minder
Character: Passport Officer
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Title: Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Character: K-9 (voice)
Released: February 24, 1979
Type: Movie
The final segment of the Key to Time is at the heart of a devastating war between neighbouring planets Atrios and Zeos. The Fourth Doctor discovers that a sinister entity is manipulating events and the cost of obtaining the final segment may be more personal than he imagined.
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Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Title: Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Character: Dugeen
Released: January 13, 1979
Type: Movie
The Doctor and Romana arrive on the marsh moon of Delta Magna in search of the next segment of the Key to Time. They are caught in the conflict between the native Swampies and the crew of a chemical refinery. The presence of a gun runner complicates matters; to make things worse, the Swampies intend to awaken Kroll, the giant god that lives beneath the swamps.
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Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Title: Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Character: K-9 (Voice)
Released: December 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Finding the fourth segment of the Key to Time was simple enough, but holding onto it may be another matter. The Doctor and Romana find themselves embroiled in the political games of the planet Tara, where doubles, android or otherwise, complicate the coronation of Prince Reynart.
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Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Title: Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Character: K-9 (voice)
Released: November 18, 1978
Type: Movie
Searching for the third segment to the Key to Time brings the Doctor and Romana to present-day Earth, where the travellers have to contend with stone circles, Druidic rituals and a not-so-mythical goddess known as the Cailleach.
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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Title: Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Character: K-9 (voice)
Released: October 21, 1978
Type: Movie
The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their resources.
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Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Title: Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Character: K-9 (voice)
Released: September 23, 1978
Type: Movie
The Doctor is summoned by the mysterious and powerful White Guardian, and sent on a quest to find the six segments of the Key to Time, which, once assembled, will restore balance to the Universe. Joining the Doctor and K9 is the smart and sassy Romana, a Time Lord fresh from the Academy. Landing on the wintry planet of Ribos to locate the first segment, the TARDIS crew quickly find themselves embroiled in a little local trouble with a pair of conmen and an unstable warlord...
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Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Title: Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: March 11, 1978
Type: Movie
The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, claims his rights and is inaugurated President. It soon turns out that he has led a group of aliens called Vardans to the planet to eradicate them completely. After they are destroyed, the Sontarans take their opportunity and follow them in their invasion until they are destroyed by the Doctor.
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Doctor Who: Underworld
Title: Doctor Who: Underworld
Character: K-9 Mk. I (voice)
Released: January 28, 1978
Type: Movie
On the edge of the universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 encounter a Minyan ship on an epic quest to find their race banks... but their people have encountered the Time Lords before...
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Title: Blake's 7
Character: Toise
Released: January 2, 1978
Type: TV
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
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Title: Blake's 7
Character: Pasco
Released: January 2, 1978
Type: TV
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
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Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
Title: Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
Character: K9 Mk. I (voice)
Released: December 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing Mankind to colonise first Mars and then Pluto. No longer the coldest planet in the solar system, Pluto is now warmed by artificial suns. The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive to discover the exploitation of the Megropolis people by the ruling elite, lead by the Collector. Deep in the Undercity, a small group of revolutionaries plot to overthrow the company and the Doctor is forced to fight the oppression of the people using Fire against Fire...
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Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
Title: Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
Character: K-9 Mk. I (voice) / Nucleus (voice)
Released: October 22, 1977
Type: Movie
A three-man rocket crew are nearly done with their mission to Titan Base until a course change puts the rocket in the path of a strange cloud in space. By the time they arrive, they have come under the control of a sentient virus which threatens the galaxy. When the TARDIS picks up an emergency message, it flies into the cloud, infecting the Doctor. To save himself and others, he must undertake a dangerous journey.
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Title: Rainbow
Character: Bungle
Released: October 16, 1972
Type: TV
Children's puppet programme featuring music and stories. Join George, Bungle, Zippy, and all their friends at the Rainbow House, always an exciting place to be.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: K9 (voice)
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Dugeen
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.