Another pretty solid episode. I think what they did with the camera work and colours being different in the dream and reality was really fun. The costuming was great here. Honestly they seem to do really well with these more horror/spooky focused episodes because I've liked all of those they've done so far.

Bit of a missed opportunity with Darius' nightmare being clowns and not expanding more on the fear of small spaces they established before but meh. The tinfoil hats thing was pretty funny and I quite liked the conclusion.

Overall pretty alright.

5/10

2️⃣🔼= INSUFFERABLE!

Barking through time and space, one adventure at a time!

“A NIGHTMARE IN TIN FOIL!”

Bad dreams haunt our lead characters, and boy does all of it make for a mess of an episode.

The tin hat stuff is stupid, the dream world looks awful, and performances are once again superbly terrible. K9 is once again mostly sidelined.

The design of the Dream-Eater is pretty cool, but it’s another very underdeveloped monster. Then we get the silly sleep zombie people, and I don’t know what to think.

Surprisingly, Dull Professor finally steps up a bit.

This one delivers a nonsensical climax yet again (such as the stuff with Villain Mother). 

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS:

Fun fact: Once upon a time, I planned to write a fanfic with a future incarnation of the Doctor, where he enters a strange alternate dimension and faces his most dangerous foes so far. What were they called? The Dream Eaters!

Nice to see K9 doing The Nightmare Man but worse too. Although I rate this episode higher than Can You Hear Me? (not a difficult feat, that episode literally was a rip off of The Nightmare Man in the most painful of ways), SJA still holds the #1 spot in my heart. But I am here to talk about K9, so I suppose I should. Compared to other K9 episodes, this was inoffensive, cohesive, and despite some dubious set and costume design, actually seemed to have something to say about what it was trying to be about, which is all I can really ask for from this series.

But really, K9 needs to stop getting shot at and getting knocked out. For the upgraded version, he really can be kind of useless.

This was a good episode of a children’s TV programme! It's the first piece of K9 that I’ve actively enjoyed watching - hopefully not just from Stockholm syndrome. Every science fiction show eventually has their own “nightmares” episode and this one holds up quite well. At points I even felt traces of jeopardy. Very excited to see that this is the first of four stories by Jim Noble. Hope he keeps this quality up.