File: 2006003-0049
London Film and Comic Con. Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England, United Kingdom on Saturday 1st July 2006.
About the photograph.
This is Mat Irvine posing with K9. He had an uncredited role as the remote operator of K9 in many of the Doctor Who episodes during the Tom Baker era, and his most recent was the 2005 revived Doctor Who episode titled School Reunion. (Series 2, Episode 3.)
He was attending a fan convention called “London Film and Comic Con” at Earls Court, and here, I approached him and asked if I could have a photo of him, he agreed and posed with K9.
About the subjects.
About Mat Irvine.
Mat was born on 7th July 1948. During his earlier careers, he worked for the BBC, mainly as a Visual Effects Designer, and worked for the Visual Effects Department for approximately 23 years.
He was credited with so many science fiction programmes, including Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, and Tomorrow’s World, to name a few. He also did works for non-sci-fi programmes too.
He was also a member of the technical team on Robot Wars, as well as one of the judges.
For more details about him, you could look up his biography here: www.matirvine.com/Biog/biog.htm
About K9.
K9 (occasionally written as K-9) is the name of various fictional robotic dogs used in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who. The meaning of K9 is a pun on the pronunciation of canine meaning dog.
K9’s first appearance was in The Invisible Enemy, Season 15 of the Classic era in 1977, during the Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor era.
K9 was voiced by three actors, the most well-known being John Leeson, and operated by some special effects staff, with Mat Irvine being one of them.
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