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	Robots On TV - Plot Summaries: 'B'

	Batman (1966-68)
		With a wonderful blend of stiff-upper-lipped derring-do, on-screen captioned slapstick fights and camp humour, the adventures of caped crusaders Batman and Robin appealed to both children and adults.  (Well, I liked it.) It had its detractors, but as William Dozier (executive director) said, "I make absolutely no excuses for Batman... It's not meant to contain deep messages..."
		The Joker's Last Laugh/The Joker's Epitaph (1967)
		Counterfeit money which is flooding Gotham City is traced to the Gotham National Bank, where the Chief Teller is found to be a robot, controlled by the Joker. Batman and Robin take the robot away, but - realizing it contains a homing device - take it to a fake Batcave, so preventing the Joker from discovering their true whereabouts.
		Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club (1968)
		Nora - a women's rights activist who is really a secret crime queen - has the Mayor, Commissioner Gordon and most of the police force sacked and replaced with her women accomplices. She releases a plague of mechanical mice into the city; the mice are rigged to explode at midnight, and she plans to clean up on an insurance policy she has taken out. Uncovering the plot, Batman, Robin and Batgirl use flutes to lead the mice - a la pied piper of Hamelin - out of the city.
	Battlestar Galactica (1978-79)
		In the first - pilot - episode (Saga of a Star World), following an attack by the Cylons, the only remaining battlestar Galactica starts to lead a 'rag-tag' wagon train of 200 starships containing the last remaining humans on a (24 episode) search for the mythical planet Earth.
		A number of robot 'regulars' (the Cylons and Muffet, a dagget) appeared in most or all of the episodes: click on the PROOF link above for more details. Also, see below:
		The Lost Warrior (1978)
		In what is essentially a wild west story, Captain Apollo crash lands on a remote planet, where he helps a young widow and her fellow colonists (homesteaders) in their conflict with a ruthless 'land baron'. The land baron has a Cylon 'gunslinger' - Red-Eye - who Apollo must defeat in a shoot-out.
	Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince (1983)
		In this children's series, the alien Prince Zubi and his robot Zax (who resembles a flying saucer) escape to Earth where they are befriended by Benji, the wonderpooch. In the 15 episodes, the three try to keep out of the clutches of the cohorts of the evil ruler of Zubi's planet, who wishes to capture the Prince.
	Bewitched (1964-72)
		A comedy series (of over 250 episodes!) which followed the adventures of advertizing executive Darin Stephens and his wife Sam (Samantha), who just happens to be a witch.
		Paris, Witches Style (1971)
		Darin and Sam go sightseeing in Paris, while Endora (Sam's mother) babysits at home. When Maurice (Sam's father) calls at Sam's home, he is furious when he finds out that his daughter is in Europe but didn't call to see him in London, and he blames everything on Darin. Endora goes to Paris to warn Sam, but Maurice appears and in an attempt to mollify him, Endora produces a robot Darin who proceeds to 'suck up' to Maurice.
	Beyond Westworld (1980)
		A 5-episode TV follow-up to the films Westworld and Futureworld. Quaid, the scientist who created the life-like robots of Delos, takes control of them and sends them out into the world as part of his plan to create an orderly 'programmed' society. The Security Chief of the Delos Corporation (who created and operated Westworld and Futureworld) must find and expose the threat.
	The Bionic Woman (1976-78)
		Created in order on cash in on the success of The Six Million Dollar Man, this 57-episode series chronicled the exploits of Jaime Summers who, following a parachuting accident, is rebuilt with bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic ear and employed by the OSI agency. The series featured a number of robot related stories, as follows:
		Kill Oscar I (1976)
		Jaime combats fembots (female robots) created by scientist Dr. Franklin as part of a scheme to kidnap Oscar Goldman (the head of OSI) and acquire an experimental weather control device.
		The second part of this story was featured in The Six Million Dollar Man 'cross-over' episode Kill Oscar II.
		Fembots of Las Vegas I/II (1977)
		Dr. Franklin's son uses the fembots his father created in a plan to steal America's first directed energy weapon.
	Bizarre (1980-85)
		A politically incorrect comedy sketch show, starring John Byner: One episode featured a sketch about a robot magician.  One episode featured a sketch about an inventor who loses a competition to a fellow inventor who has created a sexy female robot; he isn't upset because he realizes the food-blender he's invented can control the robot.
	Blake's 7 (1978-81)
		A 52-episode science fiction series (set in the "third century of the second calendar") about a group of rebels (initially lead by Roj Blake) fighting back against the totalitarian Federation, personified by the evil (but beautiful) Servalan and Travis, her obsessed Blake-hunter.
		Project Avalon (1978)
		Blake and his party rescue Avalon - a female resistance leader - from the clutches of Travis. When they return to their spaceship Liberator, they discover that the Avalon they've rescued is in fact an android, part of Travis's plan to destroy the crew of the Liberator.
		Death-Watch (1980)
		Blake and the crew visit two planetary systems where a 'war' is going to be held... but in these systems, the outcome of war is determined by a fight between two 'champions', one chosen from each opposing side. Convinced that a plot is in hand when they discover that Servalan is the 'neutral' arbiter, Blake's 7 eventually realize that one of the champions - Vinni - is actually an android.
		Headhunter (1981)
		Shortly before arriving at Pharos to meet Muller, a brilliant cyberneticist who has invented a 'master android', the rebels are contacted by Muller who tells them he is in trouble. On arriving on the planet, the rebels find a dead guard, and Muller with a box which appears to disturb him. On discovering a headless corpse on the planet, the rebels eventually realize that the Muller they have rescued is in fact the android which has killed its creator, and used his decapitated head to get himself rescued. The box contains the android's real head.
	The Body Electric (1985)
		The city of Red Sector A was home to the last remnants of mankind, cared for by robotic servants. Then some force coerced the robots, who turned the humans out of the city into the wastelands. Many years later - with all of the robots now non-operational, due to lack of human maintenance - only two youngsters live in the city... but the city's close to exploding!
	The Boy From Andromeda (1991)
		A six-part New Zealand/Canadian children's science fiction drama series. Jenny, Tessa and Lloyd befriend Drom, the lone survivor of an Andromedan expedition sent to Earth. With the Andromedan space fleet en route to a new home and shortly due to pass Earth, the four of them try desperately to decommission a space gun located on Earth, which automatically fires on any passing ships. The task is made harder by the fact that the space gun (concealed in a volcano) is operated and protected by a robotic mechanoid.
	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-81)
		A 34-episode series featuring Buck Rogers, a 20th century astronaut who finds himself in the 25th century.
		Awakening (1979)
		In this (pilot) episode, NASA astronaut William 'Buck' Rogers' probe encounters a meteor storm, causing its life support system to freeze him in suspended animation. Five hundered years later, Buck is awoken by Princess Ardala who, as part of her plan to conquer the planet, sends Buck down to Earth with a hidden homing device. The device is discovered and, once his true identity is established, Buck helps fight off Ardala's forces, aided by Twiki the mechanoid and the supercomputer Dr. Theopolis (which Twiki often 'wears' like a medallion).
		Unchained Woman/Escape from Zeta (1979)
		Buck breaks into a prison in order to rescue a girl who was convicted for a murder which her boyfriend really committed. During their escape, they are chased by an indestructible android prison guard.
		Ardala Returns (1980)
		Ardala uses a replica of Buck's space probe to lure him into a trap. Meanwhile, her accomplice Kane has created four android duplicates of Buck, which he plans to use to pilot four attack fighters in a strike against Earth.
		Twiki Is Missing (1980)
		After his workers revolt, a ruthless mining colony ruler steals Twiki in the hope of producing copies to work in the mines.
		Time of the Hawk/Hawk (1981)
		Buck joins the crew of the Searcher (headed by Admiral Asimov ho, ho!) who are searching for the lost tribes of Earth. (Hey..that sounds familiar.) The Searcher's crew includes Dr. Goodfellow and his snide snobbish robot, Crichton.
	Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Series/Buffy (1997...)
		Buffy Summers, a young college girl, is the 'slayer', whose job it is to kill off vampires, ghouls and other assorted supernatural nasties. This she does with the aid of her friends Xander and Willow, under the guidance of Giles (her 'watcher').
		I robot, You Jane (1997)
		Moloch The Corrupter  - a demon - is released into cyberspace when the pages of the book in which he was trapped are scanned into the college library computer.  Moloch's followers create a robot suit which the demon can inhabit, and so have a physical presence on Earth. (Hmmm... is this a real robot story ?)
		Ted (1997)
		Buffy mistrusts her mother's new boyfriend, Ted. When he hits her, she strikes back, he falls down the stairs and Buffy thinks she's killed him. But then Ted reappears. Ted turns out to be a robot created by a deranged genius in order to win back his estranged wife.... but long after its creator was dead, the robot carried on collecting wives.
		I Was Made To Love You (2001)
		April, a lovesick android, comes to town looking for her creator, Warren. When April attacks Warren's new girlfriend, Buffy helps fight April off, but then finds herself consoling the android. Spike (a vampire in love with Buffy) asks Warren to build a Buffy look-alike robot (a Buffy-Bot) for him.
		Intervention (2001)
		Spike gets his Buffy-bot and has sex with it regularly. When it's not having sex, the robot - being programmed to be as alike the real Buffy as possible - goes out vampire killing. When Spike is kidnapped, the Buffy-Bot (together with the real Buffy and her gang) eventually rescues him, but ends up virtually destroyed.
		Bargaining (2001)
		With Buffy dead, Willow - now a powerful white witch - repairs the Buffy-Bot so that it can continue to fight supernatural foes. While Willow is trying to resurrect the real Buffy, a demon biker gang comes to town and wrecks Buffy-Bot.