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Alien

1979 • Film • Alien

Characters: Ash

Performers: Ian Holm

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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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Doctor Who (1963) – Destiny of the Daleks: Episode Four

1979 • Television • Doctor Who (1963)

Characters: Movellans

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AndroidRobot

Human-LookingMechanicalPower LossReveal

The Doctor turns the Movellans' hidden machine nature against them during the final stalemate with the Daleks.

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Blake’s 7 – Project Avalon

1978 • Television • Blake's 7

Characters: Avalon Android

Performers: Julia Vidler

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AndroidGynoidRobot Double

Human-LookingProgrammingReprogrammingReveal

Blake's crew rescues what appears to be Avalon, unaware the Federation has substituted an android carrying a lethal plague.

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Doctor Who (1963) – The Androids of Tara: Part One

1978 • Television • Doctor Who (1963)

Characters: George / Prince Reynart Android

Performers: Neville Jason

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AndroidRobot Double

DiagnosticsHuman-LookingMechanicalProgramming

On Tara the Doctor is pressed into repairing a damaged android duplicate of Prince Reynart while Romana is mistaken for another artificial duplicate.

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Doctor Who (1963) – The Androids of Tara: Part Three

1978 • Television • Doctor Who (1963)

Characters: Princess Strella Android, Romana Android

Performers: Mary Tamm

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AndroidGynoidRobot Double

DamageDestructionHuman-LookingProgramming

Count Grendel deploys multiple human-looking android doubles, including a fake Princess Strella and a new duplicate made with Romana's face.

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Doctor Who (1963) – The Robots of Death: Part Three

1977 • Television • Doctor Who (1963)

Characters: D.84, Sandminer Robots

Performers: Gregory de Polnay

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AndroidRobot

DismantlingExposed CircuitryFaceplateProgramming

The Doctor uncovers Taren Capel's workshop and learns that the Sandminer robots are being modified into killers.

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Doctor Who (1963) – The Robots of Death: Part Two

1977 • Television • Doctor Who (1963)

Characters: D.84

Performers: Gregory de Polnay

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AndroidRobot

MalfunctionProgrammingReveal

As murders continue aboard the sandminer, Leela discovers that D.84 is not the simple mute labour robot it appears to be.

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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 Bionic Woman – Fembots in Las Vegas: Part 2

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

FaceplateHuman-LookingProgrammingReveal

With the stolen directed-energy weapon now in orbit, Carl Franklin demands Jaime Sommers, Oscar Goldman and Rudy Wells as ransom while his Fembots maintain control of the operation.

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Wonder Woman – The Deadly Toys

1977 • Television • Wonder Woman

Characters: Scientist Androids, Wonder Woman Android

Performers: Lynda Carter

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AndroidRobot Double

Human-LookingProgrammingReveal

Three scientists connected to Project XYZ are secretly replaced by android duplicates, and Diana Prince eventually confronts a mechanical duplicate of Wonder Woman herself.

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Future Cop – Pilot

1976 • Television • Future Cop

Characters: Officer Haven

Performers: Michael Shannon

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Human-LookingMechanicalProgrammingReveal

Veteran street cop Joe Cleaver is assigned a new rookie partner named Haven, who is secretly an experimental android programmed by the police laboratory.

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Futureworld

1976 • Film

Characters: Chuck Browning Robot Double, Tracy Ballard Robot Double, Duffy Robot, Gunslinger

Performers: Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner

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AndroidRobotRobot Double

DamageDestructionHuman-LookingProgramming

Reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard visit the reopened Delos resort and uncover a scheme to replace influential guests with robot duplicates programmed to serve Delos’s plans.

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Holmes & Yoyo – Pilot

1976 • Television • Holmes & Yoyo

Characters: Gregory ‘Yoyo’ Yoyonovich

Performers: John Schuck

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DamageExposed CircuitryHuman-LookingMechanical

Detective Alex Holmes is assigned Gregory Yoyonovich as his new partner and gradually realises that the oddly capable rookie is not human.

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Space: 1999 – One Moment of Humanity

1976 • Television • Space: 1999

Characters: Zamara, Zarl

Performers: Billie Whitelaw, Leigh Lawson

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AndroidGynoid

Human-LookingMalfunctionProgrammingReveal

Helena and Tony are abducted to Vega, where the apparently human rulers are androids that have enslaved their creators.

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Space: 1999 – The Beta Cloud

1976 • Television • Space: 1999

Characters: Beta Cloud Robot

Performers: David Prowse

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Robot

DestructionExposed CircuitryRevealShort Circuit

A seemingly unstoppable creature sent by a sentient cloud attacks Moonbase Alpha to steal its life-support core.

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The Bionic Woman

1976 • Television

Characters: Jaime Sommers, Fembots

Performers: Lindsay Wagner

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AndroidCyborgFembot

DamageHuman-LookingProgrammingReveal

Jaime Sommers, a woman rebuilt with bionic implants, undertakes intelligence missions while encountering other advanced artificial and cybernetic technologies.

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The Bionic Woman – Kill Oscar: Part 1

1976 • Television • The Bionic Woman

Characters: Katy, Fembots

Performers: Janice Whitby

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AndroidFembot

Exposed CircuitryFaceplateHuman-LookingProgramming

Former OSI scientist Dr. Franklin creates a group of female androids known as Fembots as part of a plan involving the theft of a government weather-control device. The…

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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

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

1975 • Television • Doctor Who (1963)

Characters: Sarah Jane Smith Android

Performers: Elisabeth Sladen

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AndroidRobot Double

Exposed CircuitryFaceplateHuman-LookingProgramming

The Doctor realises the apparent village of Devesham is artificial and that the Sarah Jane travelling with him is an android duplicate.

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Space: 1999 – Guardian of Piri

1975 • Television • Space: 1999

Characters: Servant of the Guardian

Performers: Catherine Schell

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AndroidArtificial IntelligenceGynoid

DestructionHuman-LookingProgrammingReveal

A planetary computer called the Guardian lures the Alphans to Piri through a human-shaped female servant and induced feelings of perfect contentment.

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The Six Million Dollar Man – Return of the Robot Maker

1975 • Television • The Six Million Dollar Man

Characters: Oscar Goldman Robot

Performers: Richard Anderson

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AndroidRobot Double

DestructionHuman-LookingMechanicalProgramming

Dr. Chester Dolenz kidnaps Oscar Goldman and replaces him with an improved robotic duplicate in a plot to kill Steve Austin and steal the Brahmin Project secrets.

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The Stepford Wives

1975 • Film

Characters: Bobbie Markowe Robot Double, Joanna Eberhart Robot Double, Charmaine Wimpiris Robot Double

Performers: Paula Prentiss, Katharine Ross, Tina Louise

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AndroidFembotRobot Double

Human-LookingLoop / RepetitionMalfunctionProgramming

Joanna Eberhart moves with her family to Stepford, Connecticut, where she becomes increasingly disturbed by the town’s unnaturally submissive and uniform housewives and eventually uncovers the secret behind…

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Wonder Woman

1975 • Television

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AndroidRobot Double

Human-LookingProgrammingReveal

Diana Prince secretly operates as Wonder Woman while working with American intelligence.

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The Questor Tapes

1974 • TV Movie

Characters: Questor, Emil Vaslovik

Performers: Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres

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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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