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 Amazon.ca: Doctor Who: The Robots of Death (Omnibus Format): Video: William Hartnell,Patrick Troughton,Jon Pertwee,Tom ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Robot behavior and robot Urban Legends are clearly at the forefront of even casual conversation, as evidenced in the opening scenes when we meet the entire crew idling away in the lounge.
The robot's recount of the life of Taren Capel has made the murderer into a tragic figure before we've even figured out who he is, and it even gets to explore its own feelings of inadequacy; next thing we know it has even cracked a joke at the Doctor's expense.
Of the 253 episodes of "Doctor Who" that were produced in the 1960s, 108 no longer exist in the BBC Television Archives due to an archive purge in the 1970s.
www.amazon.ca /Doctor-Who-Robots-Omnibus-Format/dp/B00004WG82   (3570 words)

  
 BBC TV SERIES DOCTOR WHO HISTORY | ROBOTS, ANDROIDS AND CYBERNETIC ORGANISMS - THE FUTURE OF MANKIND.
Doctor Who was ranked third in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, produced by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted on by industry professionals.
No first-run episode of Doctor Who has ever drawn fewer than three million viewers on BBC One, although its late 1980s performance of three to five million regular viewers was seen as being poor at the time, and was a leading cause of the programme's 1989 suspension.
It has been said that watching Doctor Who from a position of safety "behind the sofa" (as the Doctor Who exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in London was titled) and peering cautiously out to see if the scary bit was over is one of the great shared experiences of British childhood.
www.solarnavigator.net /doctor_who_bbc_tv_series.htm   (4530 words)

  
 Monitor Duty: Alan Kistler's Profile On: DOCTOR WHO ( First Doctor )
The Doctor said sweetly but sternly that Susan was and always would be his granddaughter but that she deserved to have her own life and home rather than live as a fugitive with him.
Eventually, the Cyber-Committee, a group of men who had their minds cybernetically linked in order to combine their intelligence, began feeling that all humanity was kidding itself depending so much on organic material and that the true evolution was to replace as much of the body as possible with plastics and robotic parts.
DOCTOR WHO was filmed in fl and white for the first 6 seasons (as I mentioned, they only went to color starting with the Third Doctor).
www.monitorduty.com /mdarchives/2006/04/alan_kistlers_p_8.shtml   (9610 words)

  
 List of Doctor Who robots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Robot (Doctor Who), K1 was a robot designed in the 20th century to replace Humans in dangerous environments, but was subverted by a group of intellectuals who wanted to take power for themselves.
In the latter encounter, the Doctor refers to them as "mercenaries," perhaps implying that they are a race of robotic creatures who have been conventionally employed by the Sycorax and the Racnoss for their own individual purposes.
The robotic Santa Clauses were humanoid robots disguised as Santa Clauses playing as a brass band, however they would then attack their targets with guns hidden within the instruments.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_robots   (2072 words)

  
 DOCTOR WHO - THE ROBOTS OF DEATH
The plot involves the doctor and his female companion (being the sexless world of BBC children’s television don’t go jumping to any conclusions here now, you hear?) accidentally becoming involved with mysterious murders on a huge isolated mining vessel on a desert planet similar to the one in Dune.
Of course, a robot killing a human violates the three laws of robotics thought up by Isaac Asimov and has enormous implications for several civilizations throughout the known galaxy.
Who die-hards hated it, but I though it was okay.) You can also check it out those novelisations (new Doctor Who novels are coming out all the time, but I haven’t read any of them though).
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 Doctor Who at the Ahimsa Coffeehouse
Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction television program in history.
I'd like to suggest The Robots of Death as a great way to quickly immerse yourself into the world of Doctor Who.
Classic Series Episode List: Back in 1994, there was a site which contained a Doctor Who episode guide which fit on a single piece of paper.
www.ahimsa.net /doctorwho   (331 words)

  
 Doctor Who! Vicky's 2006 fansite!
Shortly before the Doctors arival, a mysterious fog rises and the lighthouse horn is sounded...In the generator room there is a geen glow and an unearthly cracking sound...
The first Doctors roll was played by Richard Hundell and he carried off the charicter of the grumpy first Doctor, to perfection.
One by one, the crew are being murdered and the Doctor and Leela are the number one suspects.
vickyanddoctorwho.co.uk   (1687 words)

  
 Engadget
The Robot Awards were set up earlier this year by the Japanese government to "promote research and development in the robotics industry," and just ten creations took home prizes out of the 152 entries.
In another instance of "robots replacing human jobs," a "mammoth, automated vacuum cleaner that uses elevators to travel between floors" was highly praised for its sucky actions.
The Robotics Studio includes a visual programming language for drag-and-drop robot programming -- though if hand coding is more your style, many programming languages are supported as well -- a 3D visualisation tool based on AGEIA's PhysX engine for simulating bots, and a lightweight runtime environment for working with a multitude of hardware.
www.engadget.com /category/robots   (2796 words)

  
 Doctor Who
Other Doctor Who memorabilia can be found all over the programming industry, the internet, and popular media; including SystemMetaphor names, NamesGivenToComputers ("tardis"), and the episode of TheSimpsons where Sideshow Bob tried to eradicate television.
The doctor came across some beings who were kidnapping soldiers from various eras of history and setting them to fight against each other.
Possibly the greatest tragedy of Doctor Who is that the early stories are missing many episodes.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?DoctorWho   (909 words)

  
 Doctor Who Video FAQ
Doctor Who never aired this special or only showed it once as it is "outside" the series and had to be purchased separately and rather expensively.
Slashes are used in the listings on double or triple story releases to set each story apart in its number of episodes from its neighbors.
The category is listed as "none" if the only cuts are at episode junctions in movie form releases or if the only cut is the "Next Episode" or some other caption change on a Hartnell release, or if the cuts were already present on the best master tape available when the video was released.
home.comcast.net /~smanfred/Video_FAQ.html   (7344 words)

  
 Doctor Who Video FAQ
Doctor Who stories are available now on DVD, and the number gradually increases every few months.
"Who" is his actual last name, and here the character is an ordinary human scientist who has invented a TARDIS in his backyard.
Doctor Who was predominantly shot on videotape, you’ll lose the smooth motion effect of video.
home.comcast.net /~smanfred/DVD_FAQ.html   (4041 words)

  
 Doctor Who - The Robots of Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Doctor Who - The Robots of Death (1977)
A scientist who was raised by robots has created several races of robots.
The strongest race is discovered by the Doctor and sexy warrior Leela to be systematically eliminating the human crew members of a mining ship.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/doctor_who_the_robots_of_death   (385 words)

  
 Slashboing: Doctor Who has a posse
There should be more information there when the Doctor Who spin-off series, "Torchwood", starts in the UK on October 22nd.
In producer James Goss's words, these dozens of inter-related sites are "the most ambitious online fictional world ever." This may be a bit of an overstatement, as the Lost collection of websites is extensive, and also makes use of services such as Myspace, Flickr, blogs and podcasts to make the viewer feel as a participant.
Who, Doctor Who, Who is the Doctor, Lost, viral marketing
slashboing.blogspot.com /2006/10/doctor-who-has-posse.html   (267 words)

  
 Five-Minute "Earthshock"
Doctor: You are so going to get left behind on a leper colony someday.
Doctor: Funny, these silos are all exactly the same size as a Cyberman.
Doctor: The Cybermen have rigged the freighter to blow up Earth, but the bomb is locked with a mathematical key.
www.fiveminute.net /doctorwho/fiver.php?ep=earthshock   (562 words)

  
 Doctor Who (a Titles and Air Dates Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Gunfighters 3-34 115 30 Apr 66 A Holiday for the Doctor 3-35 116 7 May 66 Don't Shoot the Pianist 3-36 117 14 May 66 Johnny Ringo 3-37 118 21 May 66 The O.K. Corral 26.
Robot 12- 1 382 28 Dec 74 Part One 12- 2 383 4 Jan 75 Part Two 12- 3 384 11 Jan 75 Part Three 12- 4 385 18 Jan 75 Part Four 76.
The Robots of Death 14-17 444 29 Jan 77 Part One 14-18 445 5 Feb 77 Part Two 14-19 446 12 Feb 77 Part Three 14-20 447 19 Feb 77 Part Four 91.
epguides.com /DoctorWho   (5468 words)

  
 Doctor Who Episode Guide - Episode List for All Seven Doctors
Here is an episode guide to all 26 seasons of the BBC's sci-fi series Doctor Who, from the first Doctor, played by William Hartnell, to the last Doctor, played by Paul McGann, and all the Doctors in between.
Most of the episodes are now available to you in either VHS or DVD formats and can be purchased through the Doctor Who Store.com!
The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) 1974-1980 - Season 12 - Season 13 - Season 14 - Season 15 - Season 16 - Season 17 - Season 18
doctor.who.episodes.fanspace.com   (712 words)

  
 Doctor Who
Doctor Who is copyright © by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
No infringement is intended upon the rights of the BBC or any holders of any copyright referenced herein.
This site is intended merely as a vehicle to provide fans with information and opinions on one of the greatest Television programmes, Doctor Who.
homepages.slingshot.co.nz /~tharrin/drwho/episodes.html   (204 words)

  
 This is the list of Doctor Who episodes I know about   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
This is the list of Doctor Who episodes I know about
Most of these episodes are taped off PBS locally, so are in good condition and in movie format, unless noted otherwise.
And now, a message from my friend Sonny, a good trader: He is looking for episode versions of a number of Doctor Who stories.
www.angelfire.com /ms/VHSTrader/DoctorWho.html   (1537 words)

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