Robert's Robots

{{Short description|British children's TV series (1973–1974)}}

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| genre = Children's television series

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| writer = Bob Block

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| director = Vic Hughes

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| starring = John Clive

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| producer = Vic Hughes

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| network = ITV (CITV)

| first_aired = {{Start date|1973|11|12|df=y}}

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Robert's Robots is a British children's television show that ran from 1973–1974 on ITV.The Classic Children's Television Quiz Book, {{ISBN|1907792570}}{{Cite news|last=Hughes|first=Kenneth|date=12 November 1973|title=LAUGH-IN WITH THE ROBOTS|page=17|work=Daily Mirror|issue=21717|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19731112/154/0017|url-access=subscription|access-date=13 January 2021|via=British Newspaper Archive}} Robert Sommerby is the inventor of the robots, and he lives with Aunt Millie.

Cast

The cast included John Clive, Nigel Pegram, Sylvester McCoy, Christopher Biggins and Jenny Hanley.{{cite web|title=Dial C for Chaos (1973)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8430f601|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424211025/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8430f601|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 April 2018|website=BFI Film Forever|publisher=BFI|accessdate=24 April 2018}}

Episodes

=Series one=

  1. "Follow That Robot" 12 November 1973
  2. "Love at First Light" 19 November 1973
  3. "A Spanner in the Works" 26 November 1973
  4. "Dial C for Chaos" 3 December 1973
  5. "A Long, Cold Sommerby" 10 December 1973
  6. "Kill or Cure" 17 December 1973
  7. "Double Trouble" 24 December 1973

=Series two=

  1. "One of Our Robots Is Missing", 11 November 1974
  2. "A Full Head of Steam", 18 November 1974
  3. "I Spy with My Little Ear", 25 November 1974
  4. "Courting Disaster", 2 December 1974
  5. "Gastronomics Anonymous", 9 December 1974
  6. "Rampaging Robots", 16 December 1974
  7. "Santa Claus-Trophobia", 23 December 1974

References

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