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Space: 1999

1975 • Television

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AndroidArtificial IntelligenceRobot

Human-LookingMalfunctionProgrammingShutdown

After a catastrophic explosion throws the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha travels through deep space seeking survival and a possible new home.

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Kolchak: The Night Stalker

1974 • Television

Characters: Mr. R.I.N.G.

Performers: Craig R. Baxley

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AndroidRobot

DamageHuman-LookingMalfunctionProgramming

Chicago reporter Carl Kolchak investigates murders and bizarre events whose causes are usually supernatural or science-fictional.

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Westworld

1973 • Film

Characters: Gunslinger, Dungeon Girl Robot

Performers: Yul Brynner, Julie Marcus

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AndroidRobot

DamageDestructionHuman-LookingMalfunction

At the futuristic Delos resort, guests interact with lifelike robots in themed worlds. A spreading systems failure causes the machines to stop obeying their safety programming, leaving guest…

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Star Trek – Requiem for Methuselah

1969 • Television • Star Trek

Characters: Rayna Kapec

Performers: Louise Sorel

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AndroidGynoidRobot

DestructionHuman-LookingMalfunctionProgramming

Kirk falls in love with Rayna, the sheltered companion of the mysterious Flint, before discovering that she is a highly advanced android Flint created as an immortal partner.

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Get Smart – Run, Robot, Run

1968 • Television • Get Smart

Characters: Hymie

Performers: Dick Gautier

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AndroidRobot

MechanicalPower LossProgrammingShutdown

After KAOS incapacitates American athletes at an international track meet, Hymie is entered as a substitute competitor for the Free World.

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Get Smart – When Good Fellows Get Together

1967 • Television • Get Smart

Characters: Hymie, Groppo

Performers: Dick Gautier, H.B. Haggerty

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AndroidRobot

DestructionMalfunctionMechanicalProgramming

KAOS builds Groppo, a powerful new robot programmed solely to track down and destroy CONTROL's Hymie.

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His Name Was Robert

1967 • Film

Characters: Robert

Performers: Oleg Strizhenov

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AndroidRobotRobot Double

Human-LookingProgrammingRevealRobotic Movement

A Soviet scientist builds Robert, an experimental humanoid robot identical to himself, and sends the machine into everyday society as a behavioural test.

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Lost in Space – Revolt of the Androids

1967 • Television • Lost in Space

Characters: Verda, IDAK Alpha 12, IDAK Omega 17

Performers: Dee Hartford, Don Matheson, Dawson Palmer

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AndroidGynoidRobot

DamageDestructionHuman-LookingProgramming

Verda returns after fleeing a mandatory disassembly order, pursued by the killer android IDAK Alpha 12 and later by the more powerful IDAK Omega 17.

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The Avengers – Return of the Cybernauts

1967 • Television • The Avengers

Characters: Cybernaut

Performers: Rocky Taylor

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AndroidRobot

DestructionMalfunctionMechanicalProgramming

Paul Beresford revives his brother's Cybernaut technology and forces kidnapped scientists to help him take revenge on Steed and Emma Peel.

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Get Smart – Back to the Old Drawing Board

1966 • Television • Get Smart

Characters: Hymie

Performers: Dick Gautier

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AndroidRobot

Exposed CircuitryHuman-LookingMechanicalProgramming

KAOS deploys Hymie, an apparently human robot, to infiltrate CONTROL and kidnap scientist Dr. Shotwire along with Maxwell Smart.

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Lost in Space – The Android Machine

1966 • Television • Lost in Space

Characters: Verda

Performers: Dee Hartford

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AndroidGynoidRobot

ActivationHuman-LookingProgramming

Dr. Smith activates a mysterious ordering machine and accidentally obtains Verda, a sophisticated female android from an intergalactic department store.

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Lost in Space – War of the Robots

1966 • Television • Lost in Space

Characters: Robotoid

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Robot

ActivationDamageDestructionProgramming

Will Robinson repairs a disabled alien robotoid whose helpful behaviour conceals a plan to capture the family.

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Mission: Impossible

1966 • Television

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AndroidRobotRobot Double

Human-LookingMechanicalProgrammingReveal

The Impossible Missions Force carries out elaborate covert operations using disguise, engineering, deception and specialised technology.

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Get Smart

1965 • Television

Characters: Hymie

Performers: Dick Gautier

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AndroidRobot

Exposed CircuitryHuman-LookingMechanicalProgramming

Bumbling CONTROL agent Maxwell Smart battles the spy organisation KAOS with Agent 99.

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Lost in Space

1965 • Television

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AndroidGynoidRobot

ActivationDamageDestructionHuman-Looking

The Robinson family struggles to survive after being thrown off course on a mission to colonise Alpha Centauri.

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The Avengers – The Cybernauts

1965 • Television • The Avengers

Characters: Cybernauts

Performers: Terry Richards

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AndroidRobot

DestructionMalfunctionProgramming

Steed and Emma Peel investigate apparently impossible karate murders and discover that scientist Dr. Clement Armstrong is using powerful cybernetic men as programmable assassins.

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My Living Doll

1964 • Television

Characters: AF 709 / Rhoda Miller

Performers: Julie Newmar

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AndroidFembotGynoid

Human-LookingProgrammingShutdown

Psychiatrist Bob McDonald is assigned to train and conceal AF 709, a highly lifelike female robot who uses the name Rhoda Miller.

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My Living Doll – Boy Meets Girl

1964 • Television • My Living Doll

Characters: AF 709 / Rhoda Miller

Performers: Julie Newmar

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AndroidFembotGynoid

Human-LookingProgrammingShutdown

Psychiatrist Bob McDonald is introduced to Project AF709, a female robot built to look like a human woman, and is asked to take over her care and training.

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My Living Doll – Rhoda’s First Date

1964 • Television • My Living Doll

Characters: AF 709 / Rhoda Miller

Performers: Julie Newmar

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AndroidFembotGynoid

Human-LookingProgrammingShutdown

Rhoda goes on her first date while the exposed on/off control on her back creates a serious risk of revealing that she is a robot.

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The Outer Limits (1963) – I, Robot

1964 • Television • The Outer Limits (1963)

Characters: Adam Link

Performers: Jake McKinnon, John Novak

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AndroidRobot

ActivationDamageDestructionDismantling

A sentient robot named Adam Link is accused of murdering his creator and becomes the subject of an unprecedented legal hearing.

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The Twilight Zone – The Brain Center at Whipple’s

1964 • Television • The Twilight Zone

Characters: Whipple Factory Replacement Robot

Performers: Robby the Robot

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Robot

ActivationMechanicalReveal

Wallace Whipple relentlessly replaces factory workers with automation until his own obsession makes him expendable.

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Doctor Who (1963)

1963 • Television

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AndroidRobotRobot Double

Exposed CircuitryFaceplateHuman-LookingProgramming

The Doctor travels through time and space in the TARDIS, repeatedly encountering alien species, robots, androids and other artificial beings.

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The Outer Limits (1963)

1963 • Television

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AndroidRobot

ActivationDamageDestructionDismantling

The original Outer Limits is a science-fiction anthology series built around standalone speculative stories.

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The Twilight Zone – Steel

1963 • Television • The Twilight Zone

Characters: Battling Maxo, Maynard Flash

Performers: Tipp McClure, Chuck Hicks

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AndroidRobot

DamageMalfunctionMechanicalRepair

In a future where human prizefighting is illegal, boxing is performed by humanoid android fighters.

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