Podcasts about Robophobia

This week, the boys talk Late Night with the Devil, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, A Quiet Place: Day One and Earthgang's latest project ROBOPHOBIA!

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Joe & Steve; obsessed with all things robot! Jedikiah's robot, Styre's robot, the Federation security robot! None of them hold a candle to these robots! The psychology of Robophobia is considered.

In episode 157 of the Doctor Who: Alhambra Podcast with Brett, Liam, Humphrey, and Legeon, do the fourth go-round of "The Main Range Randomizer Roundhouse of Fun." This episode does have some audio quality issues from time to time.  This also has dated references, as it was originally recorded the 30th of May, 2020.  Podcast Open and description of Episode 157 - 00:00:00 Show Welcome and Open - 00:02:00 Dated News: Rerelease Seasons 12 Blu-ray & The Lone Centurion - 00:03:51 Dated News: Who could release Bradley Walsh?  - 00:14:38 Randomizer Round 1 Review - "The Gifts" - 00:21:41 #93 Renaissance of the Daleks #231 The Behemoth #152 House of Blue Fire Randomizer Round 2 Review - 00:35:52 #76 - Singularity #254 - Emissary of the Daleks #226 - Shadow Planet/World Apart #103 - The Girl Who Never Was #179 - 1963 Space Race Randomizer Round 3 Review - 00:52:08 #74 - Live 34 #233 - Static #149 - Robophobia #112 - Kingdom of Silver Randomizer Round 4 Review #227 - The High Price of Parking #207 - You Are the Doctor and Other Stories Time Scales Reviews on some of the controversial Big Finish Main Range releases Closing and Copyright - 01:15:04 *** We are looking to add a "Mail Section" or "Listener Response Talk" to our show, where you, the listener pose questions about one of our thoughts, revisit previous takes, or perhaps you have an original take that you would like to share...whatever it is, we'd love to hear it!   Email the show at: alhambraaudio@gmail.com  Send the show a message or a DM on Twitterr The Show @AlhambraPodcast.  Visit our website: AlhambraPodcast.weebly.com  

The origin of Teri's robophobia is revealed.  Steve talks about how being served fish head soup reminded him of Dr. Demento.  Oil of the week - Peppermint.  

*BONUS EPISODE* Tech Policy is a rapidly evolving field, and from time-to-time we hope to release these bonus episodes to give you some insight into things as they're happening in real time. This week, the European Union released a new set of rules on Artificial Intelligence and Andrew Woods, Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, was asked by the media for comment on this new set of rules. He gave us his insight here.  Show Notes EU white paper on artificial intelligence: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/commission-white-paper-artificial-intelligence-feb2020_en.pdf   Andrew Woods: https://law.arizona.edu/andrew-keane-woods https://www.lawfareblog.com/our-robophobia   How to make cacio e pepe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017304-cacio-e-pepe https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/batali-cacio-e-pepe-52901591  

This week Jonel learns a big lesson on her birthday and realizes what she DOESN’T want to be when she’s older. And Hugh-Gene learns a lesson about not downplaying his success.Can a real ‘MAN’ do ballet? And of course we need to talk about the Amazon being on fire. Do you think that one day robots will be regular citizens? If so, would it be possible for humans against it to be “Robophobic”?And finally the duo get into details about their ‘physically abusive’ relationship.   www.thissquareroom.com Instagram - @ThisSquareRoom Twitter - @ThisSquareRoom

20 for 20 (Houndsite...)    I will be taking a regular look at 20 releases from 20m years of the Big Finish Doctor Who Monthly range.    ALL from the July release (ie The Birthday...)   they will be   1) THE SIRENS OF TIME RELEASED JULY 1999 2)  10. WINTER FOR THE ADEPT t RELEASED JULY 2000 3)  22. BLOODTIDE  RELEASED JULY 2001 4) 33. NEVERLAND RELEASED JULY 2002   5)  46. FLIP FLOP RELEASED JULY 2003   6)   59. THE ROOF OF THE WORLD  RELEASED JUNE 2004   7)   71. THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA RELEASED JULY 2005   8)  84. THE NOWHERE PLACE RELEASED JULY 2006   9)  97. THE WISHING BEAST RELEASED JULY 2007   10) 110. THE BOY THAT TIME FORGOT  RELEASED JULY 2008 11)   123. THE COMPANY OF FRIENDS  Four one-part stories:   12)   136. COBWEBS  RELEASED JULY 2010   13)    149. ROBOPHOBIA    RELEASED JULY 2011 14)    162. PROTECT AND SURVIVE   RELEASED JULY 2012   15)   175. PERSUASION RELEASED JULY 2013   16)   188. BREAKING BUBBLES AND OTHER STORIES  RELEASED 17)  201. WE ARE THE DALEKS  RELEASED JULY 2015 18)  214. A LIFE OF CRIME RELEASED JULY 2016 19) 227. THE HIGH PRICE OF PARKING  RELEASED JULY 2017   20)    240. HOUR OF THE CYBERMEN   RELEASED JULY 2018   this time i talk about -   From Wikipedia....     The Sirens of TimeAlbum coverBig Finish Productions audio dramaSeries Doctor WhoRelease no. 1Featuring Fifth DoctorSixth DoctorSeventh DoctorWritten by Nicholas BriggsDirected by Nicholas BriggsProduced by Gary Russell Jason Haigh-ElleryExecutive producer(s) Stephen ColeProduction code 7ZLength 2 hrs 5 minsRelease date 19 July 1999Followed by PhantasmagoriaThe Sirens of Time is the first Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The story was written by Nicholas Briggs and stars Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. It was recorded between 6–7 March 1999. To coincide with the release of this new Doctor Who range, a CD was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine #279. Titled Talking 'Bout My Regeneration, this documentary considered the history of the show in audio and featured behind the scenes interviews with the cast and production crew. Davison's and Baker's interpretation of their respective regeneration of The Doctor was well received, with each having a distinct voice and considerable character development.[1] Contents1 Synopsis2 Plot3 Cast4 Continuity5 References6 External linksSynopsisWhile Gallifrey is threatened by a fleet of hostile warships outfitted with technology surpassing even that of the Time Lords, the Doctor is dealing with a plot to destroy him in his Fifth, Sixth and Seventh incarnations. Each Doctor faces his own trial alone, before coming together in the final episode to confront the Sirens of Time. PlotVansell, a member of the Celestial Intervention Agency, arrives on Gallifrey with an urgent message for the President of the Time Lords – an invasion fleet threatens the planet and Time Lord technology will not be able to repel them. History has somehow been distorted, and the only clue is the artron energy of a Time Lord in the distortion... the energy belongs to the Doctor. The Seventh Doctor hears the cloister bell tolling within the TARDIS and changes the coordinate setting. A message comes through from the Time Lords but is too garbled for the Doctor to make out its content. He then hears a mysterious sound coming from outside the TARDIS, and exits to investigate. He hears a woman, Elenya, drowning in quicksand and rushes to her rescue. He is waylaid by a cackling hag who says both he and Elenya will die. Arriving at the quicksand, the Doctor wonders why the hag had not tried to save Elenya, and takes her back to the TARDIS. The hag, Ruthley, returns to attend to a crippled old man named Sancroft, her prisoner. Over a communicator, she reports to a commandant who questions her over ion trails he has detected in her sector but she denies knowledge of them. At the TARDIS, the Doctor is not able to enter his ship. He asks Elenya how she arrived on the world. Sensing some familiarity about her he asks if they have met before. Elenya says that she crash landed on the planet. They set out to search for the hag's residence, as another space craft crash lands nearby. Hearing the crash, Sancroft asks Ruthley if the planet's shields are failing, but she then taunts him that no one is coming to his rescue. The Doctor and Elenya see a ship that somehow makes it through the shields. Ruthley is heard communicating with an alien voice on the ship, which informs her that bio-assassin cultures will activate on landing. The Doctor and Elenya desperately dive for cover as a further ship makes a landing nearby. They arrive at its crash site as something alive emerges. Elenya thinks she is looking at a dying creature, but the Doctor believes the opposite – it is something being born. Ruthley speaks to a planetary security robot, a Drudger, and commands it to eliminate the Doctor and Elenya, but it tells her that that procedure is not permitted. Ruthley, talking to herself, says that does not matter because all will be dead soon. The Doctor and Elenya come across the robot which commences to do a mind scan which knocks them out. The Doctor awakes to find himself with Sancroft, but Elenya is still unconscious. He is surprised that the Doctor is not afraid of him. The Drudger reports to Ruthley that it has found bio-engineered life forms emerging from the wreck. The robot confronts the life form and commands it to surrender; its reply is to open fire. Ruthley comes to the cell and tells them they cannot escape, as in the distance they hear the Drudgers being destroyed. Ruthley cackles and tells them that "they" will kill all of them. The Doctor asks if there is anywhere in the house they can all hide, and Sancroft suggests Ruthley's bedroom. Thinking she has done a deal with them, Ruthley approaches the bio-assassins and tells them that infamous Sancroft, First Knight of Velyshaa, is there for ready them to kill. However, the bio-assassins eliminate her so there will be no witnesses. The bio-assassin plays a recorded message – Sancroft has been sentenced to death for war crimes against the people of Calfadoria. When the Doctor pleads with the assassin to spare their lives, it tells him that it has no quarrel with anyone but Sancroft. However, there must be no witnesses, and the assassin opens fire... A submarine prepares to attack a British freighter as the TARDIS materialises on board. The Fifth Doctor disembarks searching for some sort of distortion. He hears a voice of Time Lord calling to him to return to the TARDIS because of the "destruction of time". However, he is unable to get back inside his craft. A woman arrives and tells him that she will take him to her Captain, just as the submarine starts its attack. The submarine crew spot two survivors clinging to a box floating in the debris of the remains of the ship. The Doctor and the woman, Helen, are brought on board and a thrown in a cell. The craft submerges as a British destroyer enters the area. The Doctor demands to see Captain Schweiger with vital information for the Kaiser. The Doctor pretends to be a German spy, telling him that proof of his identity is in an airtight crate now floating in the sea. The Captain is unwilling to retrieve the crate because of the British ships in the area. When returned the cell, the Doctor notices evidence of a time distortion. One of the crew, Schmidt, begins to attack the Doctor and the voice of a Time Lord is heard urging on the attack. On Gallifrey, Vansell is reprimanded for his brutish plan by the President. However, Vansell insists that the Doctor must be stopped, whatever the cost. On the submarine, Helen tends to the Doctor's wounds after his fight as the alarms on the craft go off. A vessel, the Aquitania, the Lusitania or the Mauritania, has been sighted, and the submarine prepares to attack it. Vansell telepathically contacts Schmidt and again tells him to kill the Doctor. He goes to the cell with a pistol, and the Doctor tries to reason with him. The observing Time Lords argue over whether to kill the Doctor but Vansell proceeds to give the order to Schmidt to kill, who then shoots. Schweiger hears the shot and rushes to investigate. The Doctor is still alive, and Helen taking Schmidt's gun shoots and kills the German. The Doctor takes the gun from her, he has only suffered a shoulder wound. He threatens to shoot Schweiger unless he turns the submarine around. Schweiger does not believe the Doctor could shoot him, but Helen takes the gun and displays more determination. Schweiger turns the submarine around and it heads towards the last known position of the TARDIS. The Doctor however is still unable to reunite with his companions inside the TARDIS and realises that the Time Lords wish him to be dead... On Gallifrey, Vansell discovers that a female presence exists inhabiting the vortex at each of the nexus points at which the Doctor has been observed. He has found a further incident involving the Sixth Doctor and the legendary time beast, the Temperon, in the Kurgon system. He pleads with the president for more power, but the President announces that the transduction barriers have been breached and the aliens have landed on Gallifrey. They call themselves the Knights of Velyshaa and have demanded an unconditional surrender... The Sixth Doctor finds himself at some kind of conference on a space ship where a waitress seems very familiar to him. The ship, the Edifice, is investigating a spatial anomaly known as the Kurgon Wonder. However, a particle field quickly surrounds the ship – the Doctor identifies it as a shard of time distortion. He hears voice saying "help me", but is unable to identify the source. With the exception of the Doctor, a waitress named Elly and an android pilot, everyone on board is aged to death by the disruption. The Doctor tells Elly he believes the TARDIS has crashed into the Kurgon Wonder. They are attacked by some kind of monster but the pilot arrives and shoots it. Time distortion begins to make the hull of the ship disintegrate. The Doctor realises that the ship is still heading into the Wonder through momentum. Analysis of the monsters reveals that they are created by accelerated evolution of bacteria and viruses. On Gallifrey, the Knights shoot dead the President, their technology inhibiting any further regenerations. Vansell is also shot but manages to send a final message through the pilot's positronic brain: "do not free the Temperon." Elly reveals that she is part of an organisation dedicated to freeing a being they believe is trapped in the Kurgon Wonder. The Doctor deduces from the presences of Temperon particles that the Wonder is in fact the legendary Temperon trapped at the moment of its death. As the pilot is about to relay the Time Lord's message to the Doctor, Elly shoots it. Afterwards, the Doctor finds himself back in the TARDIS at the centre of the Wonder. The Doctor attempts to dematerialise which will also free the Temperon. The Temperon tells the Doctor that he has released the Knights of Velyshaa. As the Doctor is smothered by the Temperon it issues a final warning: "Beware the Sirens of Time..." The Temperon absorbs the Doctor into itself and continues its warning about the Sirens of Time. Deposited on Gallifrey, he finds himself in the Panopticon alongside his fifth and seventh incarnations, also brought by the Temperon. They enter contact to share their experiences. They realise the girl each of them encountered was in fact the same person. One of the Knights of Velyshaa welcomes Knight Commander Lyena to Gallifrey in the name of Sancroff. They detect Time Lord life signs and force the Doctors to flee. Escaping into the lower parts of Capitol, they start to search for the Temperon. The Sixth and Seventh Doctors observe a Knight out of its armour, its flesh is rotted and diseased. Soon they find the restrained Temperon, but are captured by the Knights. All three Doctors are brought before Lyena who reveals that subjugated Time Lords are being used to revitalise the Knights. She proceeds to reveal what happened next at each of the nexus points. The Seventh Doctor rerouted the planetary shields to repel the bio-assassins and save Sancroff. The Knights one day found him to inspire their plans of conquest. The Fifth Doctor's actions prevented the sinking of the Lusitania. Although the outcome of the First World War was not greatly affected, a common criminal on board the ship who should have died went on to murder Alexander Fleming. Penicillin was never discovered and in 1956 a plague devastated the Earth. This in turn prevented future humans from defeating the Knights of Velyshaa in battle. When the Sixth Doctor freed the Temperon, its destruction allowed the Knights to gain the powers of Time Travel. However, Lyena pleads with the Doctor to return in time and reverse all the changes. It seems that the destruction of the Temperon caused a disease which affected all the Knights. The last remaining TARDIS on Gallifrey is too damaged to allow them to use it. When they suggest they should release the Temperon, Lyena immediately refuses and orders the Doctors be arrested. The Temperon warns the Doctors to beware the Sirens of Time, and to beware Lyena. Grabbing a weapon from a Knight guard, they use it to release the Temperon from its restraints. It tells the Doctors that Elenya, Helen, Ellie and Lyena are all the same, manifestations of the Sirens of Time – a race that feeds on the energies of chaos, distortions and disruptions in time. Unable to disrupt directly, they lure others to do so. If the Doctors obey the Sirens call more than once, they will be forever trapped in their thrall, but Lyena threatens to kill the Fifth Doctor if they disobey her. The Temperon tells the Doctors if they free it, it will go back in time and destroy the Sirens at the beginning of time. However, they realise he cannot destroy the Sirens or he would have already done so. The Temperon admits this, but he could contain them. Renewing her threat to kill the Fifth Doctor, the Sixth Doctor uses his pragmatism to see through the threat and releases the Temperon. Sancroff is killed by a bio-assassin, the Lusitania is destroyed by the German submarine. Vansell's TARDIS arrives on Gallifrey but nothing is out of the ordinary, and he departs. The Doctors arrive at the nexus point where the Seventh Doctor met Elenya for the first time, but ignore her cries for help. They see the hag Ruthley but tell her they were never there. The Doctors then depart, each to try to find their own TARDISes... CastThe Seventh Doctor (parts 1 & 4) – Sylvester McCoyThe Fifth Doctor (parts 2 & 4) – Peter DavisonThe Sixth Doctor (parts 3 & 4) – Colin BakerCommander Raldeth – Andrew FettesCoordinator Vansell – Anthony KeetchThe President – Michael WadeElenya/Helen/Ellie/Knight Commander Lyena – Sarah MowatRuthley – Maggie StablesSancroff – Colin McIntyreCommandant – John WadmoreLt Zenther – John WadmoreCaptain Schweiger – Mark GatissSchmidt – Andrew FettesThe Temperon – Nicholas BriggsPilot Azimendah – John WadmoreCaptain – Mark GatissDelegate – Nicholas PeggSub-commander – John WadmoreKnight 2 – Mark GatissContinuityThe Sirens of Time feed off changes in history in the same way as the Timewyrm who featured in the Seventh Doctor novel range The Virgin New Adventures.The Temperon may be related to the Chronovores first introduced in The Time Monster.Co-ordinator Vansell returns in The Apocalypse Element, Neverland and in the Doctor Who Unbound play, He Jests at Scars.... He was also mentioned in the novel Divided Loyalties.The Knights of Velyshaa and Drudgers return in Big Finish's Dalek Empire audio series.The Doctors share a moment of telepathic contact first seen in The Three Doctors, accompanied a sound effect also introduced in that story.These three Doctors team up with the Eighth Doctor to defeat the Daleks in The Four Doctors.These three Doctors, the Eighth and Fourth Doctors, featured in the Big Finish 50th anniversary story, The Light at the End.References      

Robophobia and exploding bubble wrap.. sounds like a Doctor Who episode. Our review of "Kerblam!"

Digging for the Truth with Ark and Neo Episode #23 In this episode we discuss the fake news and censorship of our media and how it has gotten out of control and the reasons behind it. We also discuss many other topics in our absolutely insane times we are living and demonic manifestations from the liberal left all around us. Be sure to check out Destiny Lab at: http://www.destinylab.com http://patreon.com/destinylab https://twitter.com/destinylab https://www.facebook.com/destinylab http://www.reverbnation.com/destinylab We also discuss a Destiny Lab's new album and patreon page with details below: Destiny Lab is back with a brand new album in the works called "Shift Your Paradigm!" Be the first to hear brand new songs from our 4th album exploring the topics of artificial intelligence, interdimesional entities and quantum computers and how they connect to the ongoing transhuman deceptions of the enemy. Download new songs now from Destiny Lab's new album "Shift Your Paradigm" at www.patreon.com/destinylab Join our Patreon page and pick your level of support! If you give $2+ a month you will receive the following perks. *You will immediately receive 2 brand new song downloads from our new album "Shift Your Paradigm" that has not ever been released to the public! *A personal email from Destiny Lab thanking your for your support! *You will be added to a our list of people who will get all the latest news and updates on Destiny Lab! Level 2- $5+ *Download 3 new songs Obsolete Man, Robophobia, and Paranormal Species. *Get access to behind the scenes footage of new album being created, previous video shoots, and footage of past live performances. *You will get access to new music videos before they are released publicly! Level 3- $10+ *You will immediately receive 4 brand new song downloads off our 2018 album "Shift Your Paradigm" Obsolete Man, Robophobia, Paranormal Species and Translucent Cabal. *You will receive a download of the "Best of Concocted Collabos" These are 12 songs that are collaboration projects made with other artists which most people have never heard before! *All previous rewards included! Level 4- $25+ *Digital download of Shift Your Paradigm album before it is released publicly. *Digital downloads of all three previous albums. Including the Evolution Antidote, The Original Sin and Naturally Selected.....54 songs in all! *All previous rewards included! Level 5- Destiny Lab VIP $50+ *You will receive a new CD of our new album "Shift Your Paradigm" before it is released publicly! *You will receive a brand new Destiny Lab T-shirt in your size mailed to you! * A personal shot out and thank you from Ark on his Digging for the Truth podcast! *All previous rewards included! Become a Destiny Lab VIP member to Pre-order our "Shift Your Paradigm" album and download 4 brand new songs. You will also receive downloads of all 3 of our current albums(54 songs in all), The Best of Concocted Collabos download(12 songs in all), a Destiny Lab T-shirt, a CD of the new album, a download of the new album, plus behind the scenes footage of video shoots, live performances and the ability to vote about ideas concerning Destiny Lab. Get all these things for only $50! These funds will go directly towards finishing the recording, mastering, cd printing and digital distribution for the new album! Without this support Destiny Lab could not continue making music and creating videos!

Are the robots on your doorstep? Yes. Are they coming for your jobs? No. Dig into Robotic Process Automation and how it is converging with AI. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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We recorded this before BGGCon with the goal to have it published before hand, but sometimes life has a different say. So sit back an enjoy our talk with Adrienne and her board game art project, games, Star Wars, Star Trek, and much, much more. Timestamps: 2:10 Extra Life 8:00 Adrienne’s MSA and Her Board Game Art Project 23:40 Adrienne’s Board Game History 28:35 Colonists and Civilization 6 32:57 Star Trek vs. Star Wars (Again) 34:39 Robophobia 35:59 Adrienne’s New Podcast GreatWay Games 40:31 More People That Game, The Better Links: Maggibot's Twitter Jason's Twitter Adrienne's Twitter Adrienne's Podcast

This week on Who's Who, Petter and Breki sit down to talk about the season 14 serial named The Robots of Death, the origin of what must be one of the most memorable lines in the history of Doctor Who. What line, you ask? Listen, and you will find out! Show notes and links: The Robots of Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Frank Herbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Please, don't throw hands at me. (tumblr.com) This link has no title (pagefillers.com) Uncanny valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org) Robophobia (audio story) - Tardis (wikia.com) Lucanol - Tardis - Wikia (wikia.com)

This week, Ben dreams up cat food IVs and writes teenage centaur romance novels, Brian confesses his Robophobia, and MzFzBz teaches how to play MASH. Listen here!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , Black and White Series Release number 163 Featuring Writer Director Set between and Release date August 2012 Black and White is a based on the long-running British series . As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its is open to interpretation. Contents Plot The search for the Doctor continues. The Black TARDIS brings Ace and Aristedes to the setting of the classic, epic, Anglo-Saxon poem, . The White TARDIS brings Hex and Sally to the same location, but sixteen years later. Cast - - - - - - - - - - Continuity This is the sixth and final story in the Black TARDIS story arc. Aristedes was first heard in the 2010 story, , where she was working for , just before its destruction. Sally met the Doctor in the 2011 story . She also features in , alongside Captain Aristedes. The exterior of the TARDIS was rendered white during the events of the 2009 story, . It remained as such in the stories, Project: Destiny, , and . Ace and Hex discovered that the Doctor was missing at the start of the previous story, Protect and Survive. The TARDIS with the black exterior was inexplicably seen in a trilogy of solo Seventh Doctor stories, , and House of Blue Fire, which, for the Doctor, take place between Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge and Protect and Survive. It is also in , which takes place just before Black and White. Aristedes recalls unheard adventures with the Doctor and Sally, fighting Elder Gods such as (encountered by the in the television story ) and (encountered by the in the television stories and ). She also mentions The Mi'en Kalarash, which Sally fought in House of Blue Fire. Ace recalls her encounter with in the audio . The Fast Return Switch was used in the 1964 First Doctor television story, . It has also featured in Big Finish audios such as and . The Doctor is heard in several scenes that take place at other points in time. He is heard obtaining the Black TARDIS, just after the events in Alaska in Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge. He is then heard taking it on its first three trips, (Robophobia, The Doomsday Quatrain and House of Blue Fire). He is also heard recruiting Sally, in a scene taken from the end of House of Blue Fire. And he is heard recruiting Captain Aristedes, just after House of Blue Fire. Notes Stuart Milligan played in the 2011 television episodes, and . A alternative cover was first released, to conceal the inclusion of the characters Sally and Aristedes. The actual cover was not revealed until just before the audio's release. External links

reprinted from wikipedia with thanks and repect The Robots of Death is the fifth of the of the series , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 29 January to 19 February 1977. Plot On a distant planet, a huge sandminer vehicle, Storm Mine 4, is slowly scraping the surface of a vast, barren desert in search of precious minerals. The sandminer is manned by nine humans and numerous robots - black 'Dums' that cannot speak, pale green 'Vocs', and a silver 'Super Voc' which controls all the 'Dums' and 'Vocs'. The robots conduct a routine scan of the area and locate a large sandstorm, which the humans decide to pursue, as the storm will bring heavier minerals to the surface. One of the humans, a meteorologist called Chub, goes to collect an instrument package to place into his weather balloon to study the storm. However, he is later found strangled. At about this time, the materialises in one of the scoops. After the Doctor and Leela emerge from the TARDIS, it is removed by a large mechanical arm as it is blocking the scoop. Later, the Doctor and Leela are brought out of the scoop by two robots and locked in a room. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to unlock the door, and goes in search of the TARDIS, while Leela finds Chub's body being taken away by some robots. The human crew suspects the two time travellers of murdering Chub, and tensions increase when it is found that they have left the room in which they were locked. By the time they are both recaptured, the Doctor has found a second dead man (Kerril), and Leela has found both a third dead man (Cass) and a 'Dum' robot which can secretly speak. Commander Uvanov orders them to be locked up in the robot storage bay, on suspicion of killing all three humans. One of the humans, Poul, believes the Doctor and Leela to be innocent, so he frees them and shows them where Chub was murdered. There, the Doctor convinces Poul that a robot may have killed the mineralogist. While this is happening, a woman named Zilda is murdered, and Poul - sent to the room to investigate Zilda's accusations of murder against Commander Uvanov over a system - finds the Commander standing over Zilda's body and has him confined to his quarters for murdering Zilda. The sandminer's engines begin to run out of control, threatening the vehicle with destruction. It is found that Borg, the human responsible for controlling power to the motors, has been viciously strangled, and the controls have been sabotaged. The Doctor saves the miner by cutting off the power to the motors, while a man named Dask repairs the damaged controls so that the miner can continue on its way. The Doctor goes to see the 'Dum' robot that Leela claimed could speak, D84. The robot reveals that it and Poul are undercover agents for the mining company, who were placed on board the miner as a precaution to threats of a robot revolution by a scientist called Taren Capel, who was raised by robots. D84 itself is unique in the fact that it can function autonomously from Super Voc SV7's commands, and appears to possess a high level of logical reasoning. The Doctor and D84 search the miner for proof that Taren Capel is on board, and find a secret workshop where the robots' programming has been changed to enable them to kill humans. The Doctor arranges for all the remaining humans to go to the command deck. Dask shuts down all of the robots whose programming has not been changed, leaving just the killer robots and D84 operational. Dask is later revealed to be the mad scientist Taren Capel, intent on 'releasing [his] 'brothers' (the robots) from bondage to human dross' and 'programming them with an ambition to rule the world'. Taren Capel orders his modified robots to destroy the remaining humans and the Doctor and Leela. Leela shows the Doctor a damaged robot in the storage bay with its hand covered in blood - which the Doctor reasons is Borg's, guessing that Borg sabotaged the engine controls in a suicidal attempt to destroy the miner and all the killer robots on board. The Doctor dismantles the damaged robot and creates a final deactivator - a device that will destroy any still functioning robots at close range. The Doctor hides Leela in Taren's workshop with a canister of helium gas, telling her to release it slowly when Taren comes in. The Doctor hopes that this will change Taren's voice, so his robots - unable to recognise him - won't obey his orders. Taren arrives and damages D84, but the robot is able to activate the Doctor's device to destroy a killer robot, knowingly sacrificing itself in the process. Leela releases the helium gas, causing Taren's voice to become high-pitched and squeaky, and Taren is killed by SV7 when it fails to identify his voice. The Doctor then destroys SV7 with a laser probe. The robot threat over, and a rescue ship coming to collect the surviving humans, the Doctor and Leela return to the TARDIS and leave the sandminer. [] Continuity This story reveals the Doctor's immunity to the vocal-altering effects of . It is not clear why though. The spin-off novel by Chris Boucher is a sequel to this serial, as is , a audio play by . There's also the independently produced , not featuring the Doctor. This serial marks the final appearance of the wood-panelled secondary TARDIS console room. The audio story gives a possible explanation for its loss. [] Production Serial details by episode EpisodeBroadcast dateRun timeViewership (in millions) "Part One" 29 January 1977 24:06 12.8 "Part Two" 5 February 1977 24:15 12.4 "Part Three" 12 February 1977 23:51 13.1 "Part Four" 19 February 1977 23:42 12.6 Early titles for the script included "Planet of the Robots" and "The Storm-mine Murders". The ship main cabin set was originally used in the 4th Doctor story .[] [] Cast notes See also: Russell Hunter was allegedly cast against the intention of the script, which implied that Commander Uvanov should be a physically imposing man, much in the mould of an eighteenth century . David Collings, who plays Poul, previously appeared as Vorus in and would later appear as Mawdryn in as well as an alternative incarnation of the Doctor in the ' Doctor Who Unbound audio drama . , who plays Toos, had provided voice work in the preceding story and would later appear as Professor Rachel Jensen in . David Bailie went on to play the in the audio plays and . [] Outside references The murder plotline owes a great deal to ; notably and . The treatment of robots in this serial has many intentional nods to 's . The villain of the story is named Taren Capel, which is a reference to , who is credited with first coining the word "robot". Uvanov's name is a reference to ,[] while Poul is a reference to the science fiction writer . The script several times refers to Robophobia (the irrational fear of robots) as 'Grimwade's Syndrome', an inside joke reference to , a production assistant who directed some of the filmed scenes in the episode. Grimwade had frequently lamented that he was always working on material involving robots. [] In print A novelisation of this serial, written by , was published by in May 1979. This novelisation was the shortest and notable for featuring the character of Cass attending a meeting after being murdered in the previous chapter. book Doctor Who and the Robots of Death Series Release number 53 Writer Publisher Cover artist ISBN Release date 24 May 1979 Preceded by ' Followed by ' [] VHS and DVD releases This story was released on VHS in omnibus format in April 1986 and in episodic format in February 1995. It was released on on 13 November 2000. A special edition of the DVD, with new bonus features, is to be released in the uk on 13 February 2012 in the third of the ongoing Revisitations DVD box sets. [] References Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). . Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-08-30. . Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-30. Sullivan, Shannon (2007-08-07). . A Brief History of Time Travel. Retrieved 2008-08-30. ^ ; ; (1995). . Doctor Who: The Discontinuity Guide. London: . p. 205.  . 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