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	Robots On TV - Plot Summaries: 'C'

	Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987)
		On 22nd century Earth, mankind has been subjugated by the machines. A small band of soldiers who survived the 'Metal Wars' lead the human resistance against Lord Dread and his creations, the robotic Bio-Dreads, whose purpose is to hunt down the remaining humans and 'digitize' (?) them.
	Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949-55)
		From his secret headquarters on a mountain-top, Captain Video - a scientific genius  and "Guardian of the Safety of the World" - controlled his band of Video Rangers, and, using a vast array of high-tech weaponry, fought against exotic enemies such as Mook the Moon Man, Dr. Clysmok and Dr. Pauli (the head of the Asteroidal Society).
		I, Tobor (1953)
		A small girl - with the aid of the eight-foot robot she controls - plans to wipe out the Video Rangers.
		The Pits of Doom (1954)
		As part of the planet Europa's plan to conquer the Earth, Captain Video is kidnapped by Europan robots and replaced by a look-alike robot.
		The Return of Tobor (1954/55)
		On discovering that a bomb has been planted on Jupiter with the intention of destroying the planet, Captain Video rebuilds Tobor the robot. He plans to use a supersonic thinking cap to control the robot, and to have the robot remove the bomb... but the robot goes berserk. Meanwhile, the evil Dr. Pauli has commissioned the construction of a duplicate Tobor.
		Dr. Pauli's Planet (1955)
		From his base on his artificial metallic planet, Dr. Pauli unleashes his false Tobor on Captain Video.
		Tobor the robot is, of course, the robot from the film Tobor the Great.
	Captain Zep - Space Detective (1983)
		A 12-episode children's science fiction/whodunnit series, set in 2095 at the SOLVE academy for student space detectives. In each episode, Captain Zep (the most famous space detective of all time) would show a video of a well-known crime in which he was involved, and then ask questions while the students tried to guess the culprit before the solution was revealed.
		The Tinmen of Coza (1983)
		Captain Zep investigates a murder on Coza, the robot planet.
	Captain Z-Ro (1955-56)
		A children's science fiction show, in which Captain Z-Ro and his young sidekick Jet chase villains and right wrongs in their spaceship/time machine (and at the same time, manage to give the viewers a quick history lesson).
		Roger the Robot (1956)
		Captain Z-Ro builds a robot - Roger - which gets loose and runs amok.
		The Great Pyramid (1956)
		Roger the robot goes back to the time of the building of the pyramids, to prevent tomb robbers from sacking the pyramid of King Tut Ankh Amen.
	The Carol Burnett Show (1967-79)
		A comedy series featuring sketches by Carol Burnett and her comedian friends.
		Humanoids (1974)
		This episode featured a sketch in which two scientists create a robot.
	The Caves of Steel/Story Parade: The Caves of Steel (1964)
		On Earth, two hundred years in the future, mankind lives in vast domed cities (the caves of steel). Outside New York is 'spacetown', where the spacers (human off-worlders) live when they need to visit Earth. When a spacer scientist is killed, Earth detective Elijah (Lije) Bailey, together with spacer robot R. Daneel Olivaw, must find the culprit. (The film also features a number of other robots, including R. Sammy.)
		A play based on Isaac Asimov's novel of the same name, this originally aired as part of  the UK BBC2 channel's 'Story Parade' series.
	Children of the Dog Star (1974)
		A six-episode New Zealand children's sci-fi drama. Three children discover various parts of a robotic probe and re-assemble it. They find out that the probe (Kolob) was one of three 'argonauts' sent 7000 years ago to monitor early man's progress and - at the right time - to teach him. The other two probes had completed their missions in Africa and the Americas, but Kolob had crashed. Now, with its memory distorted by its thousands of years of inactivity, Kolob is searching for a mind suitable for contacting.
	Cleopatra 2525 (2000-01)
		The first episode (Quest for Firepower) sets the scene: Cleopatra - an 'exotic dancer' - is cryogenically frozen in 2001, when breast augmentation surgery goes wrong. When she is accidentally awoken in 2525, she finds out that what's left of mankind survives in underground caverns, driven there by the alien biomechanical Baileys and their machines, such as Betrayer robots - man-like robots built to infiltrate and betray the human enclaves. The following episodes of the series depict the adventures of Cleopatra and her new companions - together with 'good' robots, such as Mauser - as they try to escape the caverns.
	Columbo: Mind Over Mayhem (1974)
		One of the series featuring the dishevelled - but brilliant -  detective. After devising a new theory, a young scientist is about to be given a prestigious scientific award, and his father is justifiably proud. However, another scientist tells the father that he has proof that the theory was stolen from another (deceased) scientist. Murder ensues. (The episode features Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.)
	Come Back Mrs Noah (1977-78)
		A six-episode comedy series, in which a 21st century housewife is accidentally launched into orbit with a motley crew of companions. The series featured a robot french maid (played by Vicki Michelle of 'Allo 'Allo fame.)
	The Companion (1994)
		A female romance novelist gets away from it all in a remote mountain cabin, so that she can write her next book without distractions. On the advice of a friend, she takes along a 'companion' - an android - to carry out all the menial tasks of cooking and cleaning; she chooses a 'male' companion, called Geoffrey. When she gets bored with the way Geoffrey behaves, she tries to reprogramme him... with dire consequences.
	Crusade/Babylon 5: Crusade (1999...)
		Set in the Babylon 5 universe, some years after the Great War, the series depicts the adventures of the crew of the starship Excalibur, as they search the ruins of ancient alien civilizations in order to find a cure for a plague which is threatening mankind. (The plague is the result of a biological weapon introduced to Earth as revenge, by the former servants of the Shadows.)
		The series features maintenance bots (robots designed primarily for starship repair and maintenance), and nanviruses (robots of a similar size to a virus, designed to affect/destroy a host from the inside out).