Robots that I like # 4

Running from 1980-81 Starfleet (X-Bomber) and was broadcast on ITV during the Saturday morning kids shows. PPA (Perfectly Programmed Android) was the X-Bomber's robot, voiced here in the UK by actor John Baddeley, who had also provided voices for Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar,The Dark Crystal and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. PPA was there mainly to provide comic relief and tended to class the rest of the crew as inferior to himself.

Click the Starfleet logo to se the shows opening credits !

Robots that I like # 3

As a kid I loved the cartoon series The Space Sentinels, the spaceship which they used for there base had a small maintenance robot called Mo. Voiced by series Producer Lou Scheimer, Mo was there to provide comic relief against Sentinel One who was in charge of the 3 sentinels, Hercules, Astrea and Mercury. I think I like Mo because he falls in to the same type of category as robots like the Drones from Silent Running, R2-D2 from Star Wars and later Wall-E from the Pixar film of the same name.

Anyway click on the small picture to take you to a You Tube link for Space Sentinels.

The picture below is a CG model of Mo that I made a few years back, not really a great deal of decent photos of him online.

Robots that I like # 2

First appearing in the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet Robby the Robot soon became a Sci-Fi icon. His appearances in other films and TV shows are to numerous to mention, but some key ones are The Monkees,Wonder Woman, Mork and Mindy, Gremlins, Looney Tunes: Back in Action and The Simpsons.

Robby was designed by Robert Kinoshita and was built by the MGM props department for a reported cost of $125,000

Click the picture above for a You Tube video about the history of Robby the Robot

Robots that I like # 1

Probably my favourite robot/robots of all time are the 3 Drones from the 1972 SF Film Silent Running directed by Douglas Trumbull, Huey, Dewey and Louie. A superbly simple design and a forerunner to R2-D2. In the film they were manned by four multiple-amputee actors: Mark Persons, Steve Brown, Cheryl Sparks, and Larry Whisenhunt.

The supeb models of the 3 Drones above are made here by www.destinymodels.co.uk

Click the above picture to see Dewey's final scene in the movie, if you've never seen Silent Running you might want to watch it first as this is the end scene !