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Plot summary
Michael Dooley is a bad-tempered San Diego narcotics detective who has spent two years chasing the drug lord Ken Lyman. During a stakeout, a helicopter destroys his police car, and Dooley tells his superior, Byers, that he blames Lyman. Dooley still insists on working alone. A tip from an informant named Freddie leads him to a warehouse holding Lyman's drugs, but the building is too big to search by hand. Dooley asks his colleague Brannigan for a K-9, and Brannigan gives him Jerry Lee, an experienced German shepherd trained to smell drugs. The dog has a mischievous streak and works only when he chooses.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about K-9 (1989)
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- The role of Jerry Lee, though credited in the movie credits as being played by Jerry Lee, was actually played by more than one dog, with backups and stand-ins sharing the part.
- K-9 was followed by two direct-to-video sequels, K-911 in 1999 and K-9: P.I. in 2002, as well as a television spin-off film titled K-9000 that was intended as the pilot for a TV series that was never ordered.
- K-9 Sergeant Brannigan, played by Ed O'Neill, hands Dooley an unorthodox drug-sniffing police dog called Jerry Lee, a name borrowed from the rock-and-roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis.
- K-9 was filmed in and around the San Diego and San Fernando Valley areas of California from August to October 1988, with locations including the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado and the Golden Hill Cafe in the Golden Hill neighborhood.
