View Full Version : Robots in Sitcoms!


Retro4Life
04-05-2011, 09:05 PM
Keying in on a discussion thread from yesterday (two of them really), I thought it might be fun to include a list of shows that had robots guest star at one point or another (sci/fi shows are exempt, of course; too easy).

Here's a few I thought of:

Gilligan's Island
Alice
Holmes and YoYo (natch)
The Living Doll (obvious)

(I didn't define the last two shows as sci/fi because they were generally just sitcoms with a slight sci/fi bent)

Others?

Brian Damage
04-05-2011, 09:16 PM
Small Wonder

biffbronson
04-05-2011, 09:33 PM
The Munsters (I don't think of that as sci-fi)

Zoneboy
04-05-2011, 09:43 PM
Hymie the C.O.N.T.R.O.L Robot - Get Smart

robyrob
04-05-2011, 09:44 PM
Mork and Mindy and Laverne & Shirley both had episodes with a robot

Benson, Family Matters, Silver Spoons

Marvo301
04-05-2011, 09:45 PM
Saved by the Bell (Screech had a robot in the early seasons)
Get Smart (Hymie)

Zoneboy
04-05-2011, 09:46 PM
Get Smart (Hymie)

^^

tv star collector
04-06-2011, 09:24 AM
How about Rosie (The Jetsons) and Bender (Futurama)?

catlover79
04-06-2011, 09:38 AM
Even though it's technically not a sitcom, Dukes of Hazzard featured "Robot P. Coltrane". In the early 80s, the soap opera Days of Our Lives had a plot about a robot name SICO, which was written into the series as a focus for learning-disabled children.

TV_on_the_Porch
04-06-2011, 10:37 AM
Private Benjamin and Life With Lucy episodes come to mind. Can't think of any others that haven't been mentioned.

rezny717
09-19-2011, 06:24 PM
And,in the pretty good second season 1965-1866 episode of ABC's "The Addams Family"called "Lurch's Little Helper",Gomez and Uncle Fester built a robot assistant("Robby the Robot" from the 1956 film "Forbidden Planet")to help "head butler"Lurch.(Lurch smiled when Gomez said that.)

rezny717
09-19-2011, 06:26 PM
Oops!Sorry.I meant 1965-1966,not 1965-1866.

treky
09-21-2011, 01:57 AM
the short-lived series from the mid-70s "HOLMES AND YO-YO"

Zoneboy
09-21-2011, 02:19 AM
Oops!Sorry.I meant 1965-1966,not 1965-1866.

You could've just edited your post, an apology for a typo isn't necessary.