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Fifty Years of Shit Robots

91. THE AVENGERS: CYBERNAUTS JAMBOREE

Season 7, Ep. 6

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 are donning our robot-examining pince-nez to look at the three episodes of the seminal British TV show, the Avengers. Each episode features some curious robot assassins called the Cybernauts.


WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. 


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NOTES

BRIAN CLEMENS OBITUARY

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jan/12/brian-clemens

 

LAURIE JOHNSON DISCUSSES BERNARD HERRMANN

https://www.watershed.co.uk/audio-video/laurie-johnson-on-bernard-herrmann

 

DRESSED TO KILL

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/sep/11/diana-rigg-emma-peel-the-avengers-swinging-sixties-style-icon-fashion

 

THE BLUE STREAK ROCKET

https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/the-blue-streak-rocket/

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