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Deadly Friend

1986 • Film

Characters: Samantha Pringle

Performers: Kristy Swanson

Transformation

Cyborg

ActivationDamageHuman-LookingProgramming

Teenage robotics prodigy Paul Conway attempts to revive his brain-dead friend Samantha by implanting the artificial-intelligence microchip from his destroyed robot BB into her brain. Samantha awakens, but…

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The Vindicator

1986 • Film

Characters: Carl Lehman / The Vindicator

Performers: David McIlwraith

Transformation

Cyborg

ActivationMechanicalProgrammingReprogramming

Scientist Carl Lehman is deliberately killed and secretly rebuilt by ARC Corporation as a weaponised cyborg fitted with a rage programme and remote-control safeguard.

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Runaway

1984 • Film

Characters: Lois, Runaway Household Robot, Assassin Spider Robots

Built

AndroidRobot

ActivationDamageDestructionMalfunction

Police sergeant Jack Ramsay works in a specialist unit that handles malfunctioning robots and uncovers a criminal scheme involving chips that override robot safety programming.

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Android

1982 • Film

Characters: Max 404, Cassandra One, Dr. Daniel

Performers: Don Keith Opper, Kendra Kirchner, Klaus Kinski

Built

AndroidGynoid

ActivationDamageHuman-LookingProgramming

On a remote space station in 2036, Dr. Daniel secretly continues an illegal android programme with his human-looking assistant Max 404 while developing a newer female android, Cassandra…

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The Electric Grandmother

1982 • TV Movie

Characters: Grandmother

Performers: Selina Jones

Built

AndroidGynoid

ActivationHuman-LookingProgrammingRobotic Movement

After the death of their mother, three children and their widowed father order a custom-built artificial grandmother. The human-looking android is designed to raise and care for the…

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Saturn 3

1980 • Film

Characters: Hector

Built

Robot

ActivationDestructionDismantlingProgramming

Scientists Adam and Alex live at a remote research station near Saturn until technician Benson arrives with Hector, an eight-foot experimental robot intended to improve the station's productivity.…

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Alien

1979 • Film • Alien

Characters: Ash

Performers: Ian Holm

Built

Android

ActivationDamageDismantlingExposed Circuitry

The commercial starship Nostromo responds to an unknown signal and brings a deadly alien organism aboard. As the surviving crew try to escape, science officer Ash is revealed…

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The Bionic Woman – Fembots in Las Vegas

1977 • Television • The Bionic Woman

Characters: Callahan Fembot, Tami Cross Fembot, Nancy, Gina, Billie, Ellen Andrews Fembot, Carl Franklin

Performers: Jennifer Darling, Melinda Fee, Jeannie Wilson, Nancy Bleier, Lorna Sands, Lisa Moore, Michael Burns

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AndroidFembotRobot Double

ActivationHuman-LookingProgrammingReveal

Carl Franklin, son of Dr. Franklin, revives the Fembot program as part of a plan to steal a powerful directed-energy weapon created by the reclusive scientist Rod Kyler.

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The New Avengers

1976 • Television

Both

AndroidCyborgRobot

ActivationDamageMechanicalProgramming

John Steed returns to intelligence work alongside Purdey and Mike Gambit to confront espionage, scientific and technological threats.

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The New Avengers – The Last of the Cybernauts…??

1976 • Television • The New Avengers

Characters: Cybernaut, Felix Kane

Performers: Rocky Taylor, Robert Lang

Both

AndroidCyborgRobot

ActivationDamageDestructionLoss of Motor Control

Felix Kane revives the Cybernaut programme and forces a cybernetics expert to rebuild his badly injured body using the same technology.

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Doctor Who (1963) – The Android Invasion: Part Four

1975 • Television • Doctor Who (1963)

Characters: Fourth Doctor Android, UNIT Android Duplicates, Sarah Jane Smith Android

Performers: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen

Built

AndroidRobot Double

ActivationDamageHuman-LookingProgramming

The Kraal invasion reaches the real Space Defence Station as android duplicates replace key personnel, including an artificial copy of the Doctor himself.

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The Questor Tapes

1974 • TV Movie

Characters: Questor, Emil Vaslovik

Performers: Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres

Built

Android

ActivationDamageError / WarningHuman-Looking

Scientists complete a superhuman android designed by the missing Dr. Emil Vaslovik, but much of the original programming has been accidentally erased. When the surviving portion of Vaslovik's…

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Star Trek – I, Mudd

1967 • Television • Star Trek

Characters: Alice Series, Stella Mudd Android, Norman

Performers: Alyce Andrece, Rhae Andrece, Kay Elliot

Built

AndroidGynoidRobot Double

ActivationHuman-LookingMalfunctionProgramming

Harry Mudd is living among hundreds of human-looking androids who seize the Enterprise so that its crew can remain on their planet.

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Lost in Space – The Android Machine

1966 • Television • Lost in Space

Characters: Verda

Performers: Dee Hartford

Built

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

Built

Robot

ActivationDamageDestructionProgramming

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

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Lost in Space

1965 • Television

Built

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 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

Built

Robot

ActivationMechanicalReveal

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

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The Outer Limits (1963)

1963 • Television

Built

AndroidRobot

ActivationDamageDestructionDismantling

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

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The Twilight Zone – Uncle Simon

1963 • Television • The Twilight Zone

Characters: Simon Robot

Performers: Robby the Robot

Built

AndroidRobot

ActivationDamageMechanicalProgramming

After inventor Simon Polk dies, his niece Barbara learns that keeping her inheritance requires her to live with and care for his final invention: a robot.

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The Colossus of New York

1958 • Film

Characters: Jeremy Spensser / The Colossus

Performers: Ross Martin, Ed Wolff

Transformation

CyborgRobot

ActivationDamageDestructionMalfunction

After scientist Jeremy Spensser is killed, his father revives Jeremy's brain and transfers it into a giant robotic body.

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Metropolis

1927 • Film

Characters: Maschinenmensch

Performers: Brigitte Helm

Built

AndroidGynoidRobot Double

ActivationDestructionHuman-LookingProgramming

In the futuristic city of Metropolis, inventor Rotwang creates a humanoid machine and is ordered to give it the appearance of the worker-prophet Maria. The artificial double is…

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