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Season 6, Ep. 4
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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.
This time: Robert Wise sets Michael Rennie loose with a giant robot, and teaches the world to say Klaatu Barada Nikto.
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