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EPISODE 12
German Title: Die
Einsamen Roboter (The Lonely Robots)
Script: Ian Stuart
Black
Director: James Gatward
Plot: A young Medusan
functionary, lost in the abandoned lower levels
of the city, is later found in a catatonic trance.
As Octavia, Liz and Rudi investigate the old archives
section, Liz finds herself trapped in a small room.
As Liz and Octavia attempt to open the door which
is now stuck fast, Liz hears voices. Is someone
in the room with her? In fact the room holds a forgotten
experiment into installing emotions into robots
- the robots have been left here, forgotten and
unloved. They only need Liz to love them...
Where? The dusty and
forgotten lower levels of Medusa
Who? A central role
for Lisa Harrow
Kinky? Robot love?
Hmm, pretty weird.
Notes: This surely
has to be an episode rejected from Year One Space:1999
doesn’t it? An oddly genuinely dramatic, dark episode,
even if the ‘robots with emotions’ theme was well
worn by 1976, nine years after 2001:
A Space Oddyssey. Great performance from
Lisa Harrow, driven to madness by the robots’ insistent
whisperings. Again the episode only fails as there
is not enough time to build the tension as much
as it might in a one hour slot and the whole thing
seems a little conveniently and hurriedly resolved.
If the series was oddly schizophrenic in hopping
between the extremes of gender-driven comedy and
dramatic sci-fi then this and The Perfect Couple
must be its best episodes at either end of that
spectrum.
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