A fairly tropey time travel story, complete with Marty McFly-esc dissappearing, overall this really was just some dumb fun.

I like that it's 1963 for the fun little Classic Who reference, and everything that this is setting up actually seems pretty intriguing with them recognising one of the spies looking familiar (sidenote - most obvious spies I've seen, even in Kids TV), and the russian spy stuff seeming like it'll have an impact on the present day of the story (is the reason the present day stuff is like it is because of USSR Spies???)

I like the kids not knowing about the past so they're learning as they're there, I like the opening scene with Starkey being serious talking about needing to destroy K9 and then pulling back for it to be a chess match, I like the misdirect where you think they've send Darius back and then find out that it's his great granddad (spatial genetic multiplicity?), and I like Gryphen and June's interactions back in the future.

There's some things that don't really make sense: If the people they proved Darius' Great Granddad's innocence to were both Russians, why did they let him go after they left? How did they not have any impact on the future with everything they did? But eh, it's small things I'm not too fussed about and could be explained away easily, doesn't take away too much from an episode I really enjoyed

6️⃣⏬ = PASSABLE!

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

“THE NAME’S KID, ANNOYING KID!”

A title mentioning spies has my hopes up! And this is another one with a storm, which is usually a good sign! But then again, we open the episode with some of the characteristically wooden character moments we’ve had a lot in this series, so I don’t know.

Forgettable Girl is sent back in time to 1963, leaving the boys in the present trying to get her back. Now this is a premise I actually like, not that the 60s seen here looks any more believable than the supposed future setting the series usually depicts.

What’s confusing here is that we meet a 60s version of Annoying Kid, who isn’t really the Annoying Kid but looks and acts just like the Annoying Kid, with the added 60s clothing. It is used for a timey-wimey plot tied to the real Annoying Kid, though, and it creates some stakes as well as something for Bad Starkey and K9 to do.

The supporting characters here sort of come across as spoofs on characters from 60s TV shows and movies, but they add a bit of an old-time charm to this.

The scenes in the present with Dull Professor and Villain Mother drag this down a notch.

This is probably the best episode so far. I knew the storm was a good sign!

The best one so far, K9 may never top it. It’s this spin offs obligatory time travel episode, a concept which ups the stakes and ties it closer to its parent show. I do wish they’d do this more often because it fits like a glove. There are also no terrible actors in this episode. A bit of a relief!