Curse of Anubis ( TV story ) Curse of Anubis was the tenth episode of series 1 of " K9 " . It revealed more events from K9 ' s past . Synopsis . K9 meets the Anubian s , a race he helped in his forgotten past . Once peaceful , these creatures have now become warmongers . They trick K9 by worshipping him as their saviour . They unleash control devices and take over Gryffen , who banishes Darius from the mansion . Starkey opens up the Anubian Book of Deliverance and discovers their true plans . It is left to Darius to release K9 from Anubian control and thwart an alien invasion . Plot . At the Department Mobile HQ , an officer detects a pyramid - like alien ship entering Earth air space . Inspector Drake prepares to lock orbital missiles . June tells him to stop as it hasn ' t been fully analysed . Drake doesn ' t tolerate trespassers . When June asks if they come in peace he replies , " Then they leave in pieces " . The ship disappears , apparently burning up in the atmosphere . K9 , Starkey and Jorjie spot a shooting star as two CCPC s interrupt their stargazing . Jorjie spots the pyramid spaceship uncloaking . K9 goes to have a look and bumps off it . Two aliens arrive and knock out the CCPCs . As the aliens turn their attention to Starkey and Jorjie , K9 comes to their rescue . The aliens hail K9 as their " Great Liberator " and bow . The aliens arrive at the Mansion and call K9 " Great One " . They identify themselves as Nehetka and Geb and tell the team that K9 liberated them in their distant past from the Huduct s . The Anubians show the team their history book and tell them of their oppression for generations and liberation by K9 . When Darius insults the old K9 , Nehetka is offended . Gryffen says it would be best if Darius left , which he does . As Gryffen admires the Anubian ship , they tell him they must hide from the Department , whom they call K9 ' s enemies . Gryffen disputes this , but Nehetka insists they are enemies . In the garage , Darius wakes to find Geb decorating Mariah . Darius goes to Gryffen , only to find he is finishing a throne room . Nehetka has suggested this may jog K9 ' s memory banks . Darius activates K9 . The Anubians are outraged at Darius ' dog whistle and the idea of him giving commands to K9 , who taught the Anubians that " freedom ' s everything " . Gryffen accepts their request to banish Darius from the house and never return . Geb makes Jorjie and Starkey give them their dog whistles . Starkey thinks Gryffen has fallen victim to mind control , but Jorjie doubts that K9 , being a robot , would be affected . She wonders about the old K9 , but Starkey insists K9 means well . At the mansion , Gryffen presents Starkey and Jorjie to K9 , who is preoccupied with restoring his memory banks . K9 informs Starkey he intends to liberate London from the Department . K9 notices something in his memory banks , Tenklept . Nehetka tell him legends say K9 saved Tenklept the Glomb from being eaten by a Yakoclaw . That night Starkey and Jorjie go to the mansion to take the book while the Anubians are sleeping . They read it in Starkey ' s room . It has a drawing of K9 leaving the Anubian homeworld with their oppressors now their slaves , wearing the same headband worn by Gryffen . They read further and see a drawing of Anubians holding hands with an alien and on the next page attacking the same species . They see many races attacked by the Anubians . They decide to show K9 this but are met by the Anubians , who put the headbands on them . Darius returns to the mansion to find Gryffen , Jorjie and Starkey hypnotised . Darius wakes K9 and tells him there is something wrong . The Anubians have replaced his friends with robots , pod people or clones . K9 scans Gryffen and determines he is human . When Darius leaves , Nehetka says a slight attitude adjustment and he ' d make a fine court jester . He tells Geb to see to it . Geb follows Darius into the garage . Geb moves towards Darius with his arm outstretched . Mariah opens a car door hitting Geb and knocking him out . Darius removes the ankh from the front of Geb ' s breastplate . June arrives . She tells Gryffen she is looking for Jorjie and is shocked when she sees Gryffen and Jorjie in Anubian dress . A struggle ensues . Nehetka takes action against the Department and begins the world ' s liberation . Hypnotic headbands materialise on all Department officers . Drake initiates code red but falls victim to the Anubians as well . K9 witnesses the Nehetka hypnotise June . He recognises the headbands as the ones used by the Huduct to control the Anubians . Nehetka reveals they made the Huduct their slaves instead of reconciling . K9 decides to take action , but is attacked by Nehetka , who deactivates him . Suddenly the Anubian ship uncloaks and Darius contacts Nehetka , revealing he has taken control of their ship with the ankh . Darius threatens to crash the Anubian ship into the mansion . K9 reactivates and knocks out Nehetka with his photon beam . The Anubians are taken away by CCPCs . Darius teleports back and K9 apologises to the team . Gryffen decides K9 will do the redecorating . When Starkey asks where the Anubians ' ship is , Darius tells him he parked it somewhere but cheerfully states , " It ' s invisible " , as he walks off with Gryffen and laughs . Starkey and Jorjie chuckle at him . Story notes . Ratings . " to be added " Myths . " to be added " Filming locations . " to be added " Production errors . " to be added " Home video releases . This episode is featured in the following DVD sets :