Mann & Machine
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| runtime = 45 minutes
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- Kevin Donnelly
- Brooke Kennedy
- Glenn Davis
- William Laurin
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- Robert De Laurentiis
- Dick Wolf{{cite magazine |last=Leonard |first=John |date=April 6, 1992 |title=Spirits in the Material World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOcCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Mann+%26+Machine%22&pg=PA102 |magazine=New York Magazine |access-date=June 27, 2019 }}
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| country = United States
| language = English
| network = NBC
| first_aired = {{Start date|1992|4|5}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1992|7|14}}
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| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 9
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Mann & Machine is an American science fiction/police drama television series that aired for nine episodes on NBC from April 5 to July 14, 1992.
Synopsis
Created by Dick Wolf and Robert De Laurentis, the series starred Yancy Butler as Sgt. Eve Edison, a beautiful police officer who is also a sophisticated gynoid capable of learning and emotion. She is partnered with Det. Bobby Mann (David Andrews), a human officer who disdains robots. Rounding out the regular cast was S. Epatha Merkerson as Capt. Claghorn, Mann and Edison's superior officer.{{cite book |last1=Garcia |first1=Frank |last2=Phillips |first2=Mark |title=Science Fiction Television Series, 1990-2004: Histories, Casts and Credits for 58 Shows |date=September 27, 2013 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786491834 |page=141}}
The series focused on Mann and Edison's criminal investigations in Los Angeles twenty years in the future.{{cite book |last1=Longworth |first1=James |title=TV Creators: Conversations with America's Top Producers of Television Drama, Volume 1 |date=2000 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=0815606524 |page=7}} An ongoing subplot of the series focused on Eve's continuing education about what makes humans tick, and her ever-growing capacity for emotion, highlighted by the penultimate episode "Billion Dollar Baby" in which Eve is placed in charge of caring for an infant, activating unexpected maternal feelings.
Although Butler received good reviews for her performance in one of her first major roles, the series was criticized heavily, with many comparing it to a failed 1970s comedy series with a similar premise, Holmes & Yoyo. The series was pulled from NBC's schedule after only four episodes. The remaining five were aired in a burnoff as summertime filler.
Episodes
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| Title = Prototype
| DirectedBy = Vern Gillum
| WrittenBy = Robert De Laurentiis ({{abbr|s/t|story and teleplay}}),
Dick Wolf ({{abbr|s|story}})
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|4|5}}
| ShortSummary = Los Angeles Police Detective Bobby Mann is teamed with a cyborg cop named Eve to investigate the murders of international steel brokers. Eve finds evidence that implicates another cop, who is also Mann's childhood friend.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| Title = Dating Game
| DirectedBy = Bill Corcoran
| WrittenBy = Glenn Davis ({{abbr|s/t|story and teleplay}}),
Robert De Laurentiis ({{abbr|s|story}}),
William Laurin ({{abbr|t|teleplay}})
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|4|12}}
| ShortSummary = Eve has her first date, with the prime murder suspect stalking women through a dating service.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| Title = No Pain, No Gain
| DirectedBy = Brian Grant
| WrittenBy = Robert De Laurentiis ({{abbr|s|story}}),
Michael Wagner ({{abbr|s/t|story and teleplay}})
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|4|19}}
| ShortSummary = Eve revives an ex-cop, who wants to die, by getting him to help investigate murders committed for body parts.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| Title = Water, Water Everywhere
| DirectedBy = Allan Arkush
| WrittenBy = Neil Cohen ({{abbr|t|teleplay}}),
Glenn Davis ({{abbr|s|story}}),
Robert De Laurentiis ({{abbr|s|story}}),
William Laurin ({{abbr|s|story}})
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|4|26}}
| ShortSummary = Mann's neighbor, a food reporter, investigates the murder of another reporter who broke the story about a contaminated reservoir.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| Title =Torch Song
| DirectedBy = James A. Contner
| WrittenBy = Nancy Bond ({{abbr|t|teleplay}}),
Glenn Davis ({{abbr|s|story}}),
Robert De Laurentiis ({{abbr|s|story}})
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|6|9}}
| ShortSummary = Eve's capacity for emotion expands when she makes friends with a singer fearful of a music executive suspected of killing her sister.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| Title = Mann's Fate
| DirectedBy = James Quinn
| WrittenBy = William Laurin,
Robert De Laurentiis,
Glenn Davis
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|6|16}}
| ShortSummary = Mann moves in with Eve after a psychotic bomber destroys his home, seeking the person who arrested him.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7
| Title = Truth or Consequences
| DirectedBy = Armand Mastroianni
| WrittenBy = Robert De Laurentiis ({{abbr|s|story}}),
Morgan Gendel ({{abbr|t|teleplay}}),
Michael I. Wagner ({{abbr|s|story}})
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|6|30}}
| ShortSummary = Eve learns more about humans while guarding a young girl and her mother, who is to testify against her accountant husband's mobster employers.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8
| Title = Billion Dollar Baby
| DirectedBy = Vern Gillum
| WrittenBy = Robert De Laurentiis ({{abbr|s|story}}),
Nancy Ann Miller ({{abbr|s/t|story and teleplay}})
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|7|7}}
| ShortSummary = A genetically-engineered baby is sought by baby brokers who will kill to find the child. The baby's presence prompts parental instincts in Eve.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 9
| Title =Cold, Cold Heart
| DirectedBy = James Quinn
| WrittenBy = Phil Bedard ,
Larry Lalonde
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|7|14}}
| ShortSummary = Mann poses as Eve's dying brother to investigate the death of a doctor, who was the only hope for a terminally-ill cryonics scientist.
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= Reviews =
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|title=Mann & Machine|id=0103486}}
{{Dick Wolf}}
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Category:NBC television dramas
Category:Androids in television
Category:Television series about robots
Category:1990s American science fiction television series
Category:Television series set in the 21st century
Category:Television series by Universal Television
Category:1992 American television series debuts
Category:1992 American television series endings
Category:American English-language television shows
Category:Television series created by Dick Wolf