Robots on Film and Television

FAVOURITE SCI-FI ROBOTS, ALIENS AND MEMORABLE MOMENTS

FAVOURITE ROBOTS

Marvin The Paranoid Android Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy the TV series. Read the books, listen to the radio show audio tapes- Brilliant.

Bender Futurama

False Maria Metropolis (Available on DVD)

Kryten Red Dwarf

Robby Forbidden Planet

Biocentennial Man Biocentennial Man

C3P0 Star Wars

Data Star Trek: The Next Generation

Gort The Day The Earth Stood Still

Johnny Number 5 Short Circuit The most realistic and believable robot on film.

ED-209 Robocop

Gunslinger Westworld

K9 Doctor Who (K9 was built by Matt Irvine,who was a fellow judge on Robot Wars)

R2D2 Star Wars

The Replicants Blade Runner

The Terminator The Terminator

Cybermen Doctor Who

The Stepford Wives The Stepford Wives

The Cylons Battlestar Galactica

Mecha-Godzilla Mecha-Godzilla

FAVOURITE ALIENS

Seven of Nine Star Trek

Servalan Blake’s 7

Maya Space: 1999

Zaphod Beeblebrox HitchHiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Zaphod has some great one-liners.

Spock Star Trek (Does continuing evolution make living creatures less emotional, more logical and intelligent like Spock? Does becoming more intelligent mean you lose emotion?)

Mac, Wiplos and Zebo Earth Girls are Easy. The funniest laugh out loud Sci-Fi film ever with lots of scathing and insightful social comment.

The Solomons Third Rock From The Sun

Mork Mork and Mindy

E.T. E.T. Extra-Terrestrial

Chewbacca Star Wars

The Daleks Doctor Who

Doctor Who Doctor Who

Edgar Men In Black

Mysterons Captain Scarlet

The Alien Alien

The Gou’alds Stargate SG-1

Gul Dukat Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Kosh (from the Vorlons) Babylon 5

Martians Quatermass and the pit

The Thing The Thing

Thomas Jerome Newton The Man Who Fell To Earth

Martians War of the Worlds

MOST MEMORABLE SCI-FI MOMENTS

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Hitchhikers Guide

Aliens make contact Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Blowing up the White House Independence Day

Dave travels through the Monolith 2001: A Space Odyssey

The bike chase E.T.

The Daleks invade London Doctor Who

Fight sequence The Matrix

HAL goes mad 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Luke, I am your father” Empire Strikes Back

Luke Skywalker removes Darth Vader’s Mask Return of the Jedi

Opening sequence 5-4-3-2-1 Thunderbirds

Picard becomes Locutus of Borg Star Trek: The Next Generation

Sam Lowrey's escape from the Torture Chamber Brazil

Statue of Liberty scene Planet of the Apes

The Aliens first land Mars Attacks!

Doc Brown connects the cables Back To The Future

The final episode massacre Blake’s 7

Chest bursting scene Alien

Underground scene Quatermass and the Pit

Winston Smith and the Rats 1984

Compiled for a TV series recorded in July 2004