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	Robots On TV - Plot Summaries: 'T'

	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Planet of the Turtleoids (1991)
		A television film follow-on from the original TV series. In Planet of the Turtleoids, the Ninja Turtles battle two mutants and a giant robot which their arch enemy Shredder has created.
	Tek War (1994)
		A science fiction series set in a future where the use of drugs has been supplanted by Tek - a computer chip that works like an addictive virtual reality drug. In a world similar to that of the Blade Runner film, the series features police androids and simulacrums.
	Terrahawks (1983)
		A 39-episode Gerry Anderson-produced science fiction 'Supermacromation' (puppetry) series. In 2020, the Terrahawks - a crack fighting force, with formidable craft - defend Earth against the evil Zelda and her forces, who have created a base on Mars. The androids and robots featured in the series are as follows
		Zeroids The Terrahawks' spherical robots, led by Sergeant Major Zero and Space Sergeant 101, who commands the Spacehawks troop of 100 Zeroids. Androids Zelda (the Imperial Queen of the Planet Guk) is an android who was accidentally given self-determination, and whose ambition now is to enslave all humanoids. To help her, Zelda created Cy-Star (her scatter brained 'daughter') and Yung-Star (her cowardly 'son'). Cy-Star subsequently had Goybirl (or Birlgoy), a 'baby' of indeterminate gender Cubes Robot weapons used by Zelda and her forces. The cubes can operate independently, or combine their power to form a single weapon.
		Ranged against the Martians are the Terrahawks, Earth's crack fighting force with a formidable fleet of craft. The Terrahawks are aided by their spherical robots, the Zeroids, led by Sergeant Major Zero and Space Sergeant 101, who commands the Spacehawks troop of 100 Zeroids.
	Thunderbirds/Turbocharged Thunderbirds (1964-66)
		A 32-episode Gerry Anderson 'Supermarionation' (puppetry) science fiction series. International Rescue is a secret organisation run by the Tracy family, from their base on Tracy Island. From here, they fly their futuristic rescue vehicles (the Thunderbirds) on missions where human life is in danger.
		The Mighty Atom (1965)
		International Rescue's arch-enemy the Hood steals a robot rodent which has a spy camera fitted, then sets an atomic plant ablaze in order to attract International rescue, and try and take secret photographs of the Thunderbird craft.
	The Tomorrow Man (1996)
		Kent is an android programmed to travel back in time and save mankind from a future in which the Earth is accidentally destroyed.
	The Tomorrow People (1973-79)
		A 68-episode children's science fiction series about a group of teenagers who have special powers, and are assumed to be the next stage in human evolution - they are The Tomorrow People. The stories "The Slaves of Jedikiah" (1973) and "The Revenge of Jedikiah" (1975) featured Jedikiah, a shape-shifting alien robot.
	Total Recall 2070/Total Recall: The Series (1998)
		A Canadian science fiction series very loosely based on the film Total Recall. In the environmentally ravaged world of 2070, peace and stability are the order of the day... but at the expense of civil liberties. Police detective David Hume and his android partner Ian Farve try to track down a group of murderous androids with links to the Mars-based Rekall corporation.
	The Tripods (1984)
		A 25-episode BBC science fiction series. Based on the trilogy of books of the same name by John Christopher, the TV story never actually ended.  (The series was originally intended to run for three seasons, but was axed by the BBC after the end of the second season.)
		The series concerns the adventures of two teenage cousins, who get caught up in the struggle to free mankind from the control of the aliens who have conquered them. The Tripods are towering, three-legged contraptions, which roam the countryside and dominate the human populace. (It was never made clear whether the Tripods were alien robots, or were simply travel-machines used by the aliens.)
	The Twilight Zone (1959-65)
		A much-admired epic 156-episode American fantasy/science fiction anthology series, hosted by Rod Serling. Many of the stories had twists in the tale, and the series was also famous for its (sometimes wicked) humour.
		The Lonely (1959)
		Convicted of murder, Corry has been sentenced to 40 years exile on a deserted asteroid. The captain of the supply ship which calls regularly takes pity on Corry, and leaves him an attractive female robot - Alicia - for company. Initially repelled, Corry soon falls in love with Alicia. When the supply ship calls and tells Corry he's been pardoned and can return home, he's ecstatic, until he's told that he can only take 15 pounds weight of gear with him... and Alicia weighs much more than that.
		Elegy (1960)
		With their fuel almost exhausted, three astronauts land their ship on an asteroid. They're amazed to find that it looks like Earth (they see a marching band, a card game and so on), except that nobody moves. Then they meet Wickwire, who tells them that he's the caretaker of an unusual cemetary; when people die, they can be placed in a scene depicting their greatest wish. While serving them wine, he asks them what their wishes would be. Too late, they realise that Wickwire is an android... and that he has poisoned the wine.
		The Mighty Casey (1960)
		Casey, a human-looking robot, is signed up on a baseball team, and soon becomes the team's star pitcher . However, when he's struck by a ball, a doctor realizes Casey has no heart... without a heart he can't be a man, and therefore he can't be part of the team. So his creator gives him a new heart, but when it's fitted, Casey's emotions get the better of him - he becomes too compassionate to strike out opposing players.
		The Lateness of the Hour (1960)
		Jana lives with her father Dr. Loren and his wife in a house filled with robot servants, which cater to their every whim. Feeling that their pandered lives are turning them into vegetables, she gives her father an ultimatum: dismantle all of the robots, or she leaves. After all, she tells her parents, she will no doubt soon meet a man, and leave to have children in a home of her own. She is puzzled at the horrified looks her parents give her. When - after searching through the family's old photo albums -  she finds that there are no photographs of her as a child, she comes to realize that she is a robot too!
		I Sing The Body Electric (1962)
		A widower buys a robot grandmother, to take care of his three children. Two of the children accept her immediately, but the third cannot, as she reminds her too much of her dead mother. Until one day the electric grandmother saves the child from being hit by a car; the child - seeing that the grandmother is totally unhurt - realizes that the robot could never replace her mother in her affections, and so begins to accept it. Years later, with the children grown and about to leave for college, the robot tells the family that its job is done, and that it is going back to Facsimiles Inc.
		In His Image (1963)
		Alan Talbot thinks he's going mad: he keeps hearing voices in his head. After killing a woman in a subway station, he fetches his fiancee and together they go to visit his aunt. But everything seems changed: there are buildings he doesn't remember, and his key doesn't fit his aunt's lock. Moreover, where his parents graves should be there are now the graves of a Walter Ryder and his wife. After looking up Walter Ryder Junior in the phone book, Talbot goes to see him. His key fits Ryder's lock, and when the door opens Ryder is his double. Talbot, Ryder tells him, is a robot which he'd created, but which had attacked him and run away some days previously.
		Steel (1963)
		In the future (1974, no less), prizefighting between humans has been banned; only androids can fight in the rings. Battling Maxo, a heavyweight android, is about to fight a six-round bout in Texas. But then Maxo breaks down. His owner/manager 'Steel' Kelly, a retired heavyweight boxer, is desperate for money so that he can repair Maxo... so he decides to disguise himself as an android and take on newcomer android Maynard Flash himself.
		Uncle Simon (1963)
		When Barbara's uncle Simon tries to strike her with his walking stick, she grabs it, and Simon falls down the stairs to his death. Barbara finds out that she has inherited her uncle's estate, but with one proviso: she must take care of his latest invention - a robot. The longer Barbara lives with the robot, the more it takes on the characteristics of her dead uncle. Even when she pushes it down the stairs, the robot only  ends up with a limp... just like uncle Simon had.
		The Brain Center at Whipple's (1964)
		Whipple, a heartless industrialist, completely automates his factory and puts his entire (human) staff out of work -  they've all been replaced by machines. When a disgruntled ex-employee tries to destroy the computers which run the factory, Whipple has him arrested. But then Whipple is sacked and replaced by a robot!
		The robot which replaces Whipple is none other than our old friend "Robby" from Forbidden Planet.
	Twisted Tales/Twisted (1996)
		A sort of Australian version of Tales of the Unexpected. The stories were mostly of the supernatural, many of them were darkly comic, and they all had 'a twist in the tail'.
		Directly from My Heart to You (1996)
		A scientist creates a female android and orders her to murder for him. Then she begins to enjoy her work, and starts acting on her own volition.