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	Robots On TV - Plot Summaries: 'L'

	Land of the Giants (1968-70)
		A 51-episode science fiction series. The spaceship Spindrift is on a sub-orbital flight from California to London when it passes through a mysterious cloud, then finds itself in a parallel world where everything is 12 times larger than on Earth.
		The Mechanical Man (1969)
		A giant scientist creates a robot which runs amok, wrecking the scientist's laboratory and killing a policeman. The scientist needs the little people's help to fix the robot... and takes one of them hostage to ensure he gets that help.
	Land of the Lost (1974-77)
		While exploring, forest ranger Rick and his children Will and Holly fall through a time doorway into another world. They eventually discover that the only way to leave the world (which was created by aliens millennia ago) is through a portal in a mysterious device called the Pylon.
		The Zarn (1975)
		Rick and Will find a spacecraft in which they discover a woman - Sharon- who claims to have also been abducted from Earth. Sharon is eventually revealed to be an android - the 'research assistant' of an alien (Zarn) who cannot bear to be too near humanoids that radiate "emotional heat".
	Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-?)
		Conan O'Brien and his zany colleague Andy Richter took over the American late-night TV slot from David Letterman, and came up with a show that's... well... strange. Frequent use is made of weird walk-on characters, such as The Quake Guy, The Dancing Gorillas, and The Constipated Robot.
		The show featured Pimpbot 5000 - a silver, switch-blade wielding robot pimp, with a penchant for jive-talk. In 1997, when NASA's Pathfinder robot landed on Mars, Pimpbot said that Pathfinder was actually a pimp robot called Redbone. As Pimpbot said, "If there's life on Mars, it's got to be horny."
	Lexx/Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories/Tales from a Parallel Universe/Lexx: The Series (1997...)
		A dark - and often adult - science fiction series. The Lexx is a gigantic semi-sentient biomechanical dragon-fly-like spaceship, and is "the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes". The series follow the (mis-)adventures of the Lexx and its bizarre crew: technician and loser Stanley Tweedle; Zev (later reincarnated as Xev), a drop-dead gorgeous, sex-starved human/cluster lizard hybrid love-slave, in love with Kai; Kai, the last of the Brunnen-G, who did drop dead 2000 years ago, but was reanimated as an assassin without emotions (so he can't love anyone); and 790, the robot head without a body, who was first in love with Zev, and is now in love with Kai.
		790, as a 'regular' member of the Lexx crew,  appears in virtually all of the episodes. (Click on the PROOF button for more information on 790). Other episodes in which robots/androids appear are as follows:
		Lafftrak (2000)
		When the crew visit TV World, Stanley finds himself in a role in a hospital melodrama. Bored with the program, he tries to 'examine' one of the female actresses, when a rampaging whisky-drinking female robot appears, accuses him of having an affair with one of the patients, then tries to kill the actress he's canoodling with.
		Season 4 (2001-2002)
		This season (mostly set on Earth, which we find out is in the dark universe) regularly featured mechanical Carrots, which attack a person by entering his/her anus, then attaching themselves to the spinal column. These multi-legged Carrots are in fact robot scouting drones, sent in advance of an alien invasion fleet to 'taste test' the life forms on Earth... mainly human beings.
	Logan's Run (1977-78)
		A 14-episode spin-off from the Logan's Run film. In the City of Domes, population control is maintained by voluntary euthanasia: on their 30th birthday, everyone is supposed to undergo the ceremony of Carousel... where they are ritually exterminated. Runners - those who fail to turn up and try to escape - are hunted down and killed by Sandmen, the city's police.
		Logan's Run (1977)
		Logan (a Sandman) and Jessica flee the domed city, pursued by Francis - one of Logan's ex-accomplices - and other Sandmen. In a ruined city, Logan and Jessica are captured by Draco and Siri, who they discover are robots; the city is populated entirely by robots, all of the human inhabitants having died many years before, and the robots need humans to serve.
		Logan and Jessica are eventually rescued by Rem, who they come to realize is an advanced android, left in the city to maintain the robots for all time. (Rem becomes the third member of the party of adventurers in the subsequent episodes.)
		Judas Goat (1977)
		The fugitives come across Hal 14 who tells them he is a runner, but is in fact a Sandman whose purpose is to lure them back to the City. In this episode, Rem causes an unintentionally fatal explosion, laments that he has broken the first law of robotics and taken a human life, and is comforted by Logan and Jessica.
		Futurepast (1978)
		Logan, Jessica and Rem find themselves involuntarily undergoing 'dream anaylsis' by Ariana. Rem - impervous to the treatment - eventually discovers that Ariana is herself an android. (Sparks fly - literally - when Rem and Ariana kiss.)
	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman/Lois & Clark/ The New Adventures of Superman (1993-97)
		The further tales of Clark Kent - alias Superman - and his friends at the Daily Planet. In this series, though, Clark Kent is a New Man, much supported by his adoptive parents, and Superman (or is that Clark Kent) does get the girl: Lois Lane.
		Faster than a Speeding Vixen (1997)
		Superman is at first pleased (though surprised) when a super-fast woman calling herself Vixen starts helping him in his crime-fighting crusade. However, her obsessiveness and total disregard for human life soon makes her a menace. In a final confrontation, Superman destroys Vixen, who is in fact a robot, working for a disfigured man called Troll together with Luckabee (who is revealed to be Lex Luthor's son).
	Lost In Space (1965-68)
		An 83-episode Irwin Allen science fiction series. John and Maureen Robinson, their children Judy, Penny and Will, and their pilot Don West  take off in the Jupiter 2 on a mission to colonize another planet. But also aboard is a stowaway: enemy agent Dr Zachariah Smith, who has reprogrammed the ship's robot to destroy it, but couldn't get off the ship before it took off. When the crew eventually manage to gain control of the ship, it is far off course and ... lost in space.
		The ship's robot (often referred to - but never on the program - as YM-3) was as much a 'real' member of the cast as any of the human crew, and featured in virtually all of the episodes. Episodes with a specific robot/android plotline are listed below:
		War of the Robots (1966)
		Will repairs a robotoid, which then promises to help the Jupiter crew, while secretly planning to abduct them for its alien masters.
		The robotoid is, of course, none other than "Robby" from Forbidden Planet.
		The Ghost Planet (1966)
		Dr. Smith causes the Jupiter to land on a planet which he is fooled into believing is Earth. But the planet is run by robots, who want to enslave the Jupiter's crew.
		The Android Machine (1966)
		The crew come across a female android - Verda - who they teach the human emotion of love.
		The Wreck of the Robot (1966)
		The robot becomes the blueprint for an alien machine that could threaten the entire universe.
		Revolt of the Androids (1967)
		An alien who has been sent to destroy Verda (the female android) appears on the planet.
		The Phantom Family (1967)
		An alien creates android duplicates of Dr. Smith, Judy and Penny, then blackmails Will and the robot into teaching them how to act like their real counterparts.
		The Mechanical Man (1967)
		An army of tiny robots (all miniature duplicates of the Robinsons' robot) appears on the planet and demands that their great leader - the Robinsons' robot - return with them to their planet of Industro. The robot agrees to go, but the tiny robots - unimpressed with the robot's kind-hearted personality - transfer Dr. Smith's personality into the robot.
		Kidnapped in Space (1967)
		Mechanical men abduct the Robinson family and force the robot to 'operate' on their leader.
		The Space Destructors (1967)
		While exploring a cave, Smith activates a machine which produces cyborgs, and dreams of having his own army of cyborgs with which to conquer the universe. When Will tries to stop Smith, he accidentally enters the machine, and emerges with a thirst for vengeance. (If the machine 'manufactures' cyborgs, it's unlikely they're really cyborgs, but are in fact  robots. But then Will does go through and get altered by the machine, and presumably is turned into a 'real' cyborg. Hmmm.)
		Deadliest of the Species (1967)
		When the Jupiter lands on a planet to make repairs, the robot finds a capsule and releases a female super-robot. The robot falls in love with her, not knowing she's a deadly killer. (The episode also features a number of mechanical men.)
		The Junkyard of Space (1968)
		The Jupiter lands on a planet which is a giant scrapyard. Here they encounter a mechanical junkman who steals the robot's memory banks, and nearly makes off with the Jupiter, before Will appeals to his better nature.
	The Lost Saucer (1975-76)
		A childrens comedy/science fiction series, originally shown as part of The Krofft Supershow. A flying saucer  from the future, flown by two androids Fi and Fum, accidentally goes through a time warp and lands on modern-day Earth. There, Fi and Fum invite a young boy  (Jerry) and his babysitter (Alice) on a quick flight, but that time warp is still out there, and the saucer ends up 'lost in time'.  Each episode sees the saucer visit Earth in a different time in the future, in the hope of trying to get Jerry and Alice home.
	Luna (1983)
		A 12-episode children's comedy/science fiction series, set in 2040 in Efficiecity (a bureaucratic city isolated from the polluted outside world), when animals have been replaced by furry robots, and every-day speech has evolved into 'techno-talk'.
		The main characters of the series were Luna (so called because she was 'batched' on the Moon), Gramps (who dresses in punk clothing and listens to 'classical' music such as The Human League), Brat (a young boy), Bureaubeing 80H (constantly embarrassed by his family's non-conformity) and Andy the robot.
		The series was created by ex-Monkee Micky Dolenz.