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Fifty Years of Shit Robots

125. THE QUESTOR TAPES

Season 9, Ep. 4

Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we have a look at a made-for-TV movie called The Questor Tapes. Will Gene Roddenberry's attempt to get a robot on prime-time telly be any good?

 

WARNING! The S**t-bomb is used but nothing more 

 

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DESILU STUDIO HISTORY

https://lucydesi.com/desilu-studios-history/

 

MAJEL BARRETT-RODDENBERRY

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Majel_Barrett_Roddenberry

 

DIE ANOTHER DAY TITLES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1HaEqDIdw

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