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Greetings Mr. Atomic Snack Bar ! Any news from the robot ? Just a joke ! Enjoy everyone of your videos ! Lately, seems the new trend in scifi movies is the Retro-silly scifi in b/w ! I'm all for it !

That was fun, including the commercial! I'm old enough to have seen it live.

Do I remember correctly that in the Thunderbirds, they had an acronym that meant "OK" or "Roger, Wilco." It was "F.A.B." Anyone else remember that?

I just finished reading Peter Cushing's An Autobiography and Past Forgetting. Did you know that he collected Britains soldiers? He always wanted a figure of himself, but unfortunately there were none made during his lifetime.

I read somewhere that the original robot suit from "Lost In Space" went missing for years until the 1980s or 90s (I think it was) when a man in Tennessee was driving along and saw something in a creek and when he stopped to get a better look, it turned out to be the robot suit but someone had beaten it with a bat or something as it was broken a bit.

The look of Andrew Martin, the robot played by Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man, seems to be loosely based on Adam Link.

I noticed that the movie industry never seem to pickup anything from Magnus, Robot Fighter, one of my favorite comics something like 60 years ago.

I LOVED "Fireball XL-5 when I was a little kid. I had forgotten about it. Thanks for jogging my memory.

No one does unsettling quite like Jim Henson.

Neat bit of trivia; in "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", a young Pia Zadora starred as one of the Martian kids:)

Ah Santa Claus conquers the Martians... Another Comet TV classic. They play that constantly in December. I first remember seeing it on Comedy Central at like 2 in the morning YEARS ago in the 80s when it was The Comedy Channel still

The B9 was always my favorite robot. I grew up watching reruns of Lost in Space after school. Although it wasn't until I was much older that I actually got to see the early B/W episodes, including the pilot. None of the local channels played them, because I guess they figured they wouldn't be as popular as the color ones. Which is a shame as I think the first few episodes are some of the best. I still have my original Remco toy, with red body and treads, and black arms and legs. It's a little worn, but still has all the parts. I also have some of the modern reproductions, though not all of them. A few years ago, Mobeus Models put out a fairly large, very accurate kit of the B9. I've debated getting it, but if I did, I'd want to add lights and a voice to it, and I don't really have the skill to do that. Then I watched a video of someone's build of this kit that was literally everything I'd ever want to do with it, and in a way, that further discouraged me as anything I could do with the kit would utterly pale in comparison to what he did. Not only does his have lights and sounds, the brain pieces are animated, the treads work and are remote controlled, the torso is motorized, unplugging the power pack turns the robot off, and plugging it back in revives him, and the craziest part is that not only are the tiny buttons on the chest lit up in the proper colors, each one can be pushed to individually turn it on or off. As a side note, I think I remember my grandfather buying Wheels way back in the 70s. I don't fully remember them, but the idea of a wagon-wheel shaped snack is vaguely familiar to me.

Jim Henson made some crazy commercials before Sesame Street.

So, was that some secret prototype muppet show in the break? I'm genuinely confused.

Great video as ever, hope you're doing well, c u on the next one Mon ami

Greetings from South Carolina 🎉

As a huge fan of Heavy Metal and the vastly underrated Rock and Rule, I'd love to see your top list of animated sci-fi/fantasy movies that came out over the decades.

‘Bot night at The Bar. Good stuff! Mechana Kong rules…..I always called him Robo-Kong. Even that Kong is a super bad-ass design. Those snack commercials are awesome… muppets? Sesame Street? Lookin’ snazzy and sounding crunchy…….I once bowled a 275, however it was with bumpers during a cosmic bowling party; also, thank God , undocumented. Thanx fer sharin’

all the I would love to joke around on this marvelous video but I have a much more serious subject to talk about. for years kids and parents have been singing the disturbingly offensive song "If you're happy and you know it Clap your hands" which me and my fellow T.rexes had to watch as they did one of the few things we are incapable of doing, clapping. I have started a petition to ban this discriminatory reminder of our largest disability and I kindly request your signature!

Hopefully one of my favorites will show up in part 2. Nomad, from the Star Trek episode "The Changling".

I look forward to Friday every week to view your great videos. Please keep up the great work.

Nice to see Adam Link as one of your favs. Also, Octavian pops up, one part where he celebrates his victory over the humans by walking around, waving his arms! Also, dang, I’d love to find that XL5 playset! Looking forward to part 2, and hope we might see one of my favs one day, the robot used on Gilligans Island.

The B9 my all time favorite!

Tom Baker was my favorite DR who

I always loved King Kong escapes. Still break out my DVD every now and then. Not sure why… it’s a .. a.. a.. weird i guess is the best term..movie. Something about it draws me in. Probably the robot 😂

The government will reveal the truth about the Santa Claus/Martian connection when it releases all its UFO files. And if Torg is real, he (it?) would have been an ideal Marvin the Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I totally want to see more material on Dark Shadows. I watched it when it first aired, then after I had a heart-attack and wasn’t permitted to do anything, so I re-watched all 1,245 episodes in sequence. It took me eight months. There was a Dark Shadows knock-off: Strange Paradise. Dark Shadows aired at 4PM and Strange Paradise cleverly aired at 4:30 on a different network, so by changing channels you got a full hour of Gothic campy horror. As low-budget as Dark Shadows was, it was masterful as compared to Strange Paradise. Strange Paradise changed writers several times, and I think the new writers never bothered to watch the previous episodes, so it suffered from major plot-inconsistencies.

love your work bro. Entertaining and informative makes for good watching.

Always loved the mecha kong

Thank you for including Robert. I watched Fireball XL-5 when it first aired, then the entire series again in 2013 - halfway to 2063. In case you missed it, this is one of the best tributes to the show: ua-cam.com/video/oxIW-G5z_g0/v-deo.html

Another great video covering some robots I thought I’d never see again👍

One should never marionette, because there will always be strings attached. The B9 robot was actually malignant and died of can-cer. The puppet in the Wheels commercial was played by Orson Bean, who after filming, became a pastaferian. Octaman was the half son of Cthulhu , who at dinner with his father asked him regarding leftover French fries, "R'lyeh going to eat them?"This information was obtained from the Encyclopedia Tincania.

My honorable mentions: Tor from LA NAVE DE LOS MONSTRUOS (THE SHIP OF MONSTERS) a whacky science fiction comedy from Mexico in which two Venusian women round up several male specimens from around the galaxy to help repopulate their planet, Tor is their servant. They land on Earth to try to get an Earth specimen but pick a Mexican cowboy who's big on talk but nothing more, soon the aliens escape the ship and cause havoc in the Mexican countryside. One of the Venusian women, the cowboy and Tor must stop the alien rampage. Tor gets a happy ending as he pilots the ship back to Venus with his new found love, a jukebox. And we gotta show some love for Giant Robot from the whacky Toei produced JOHNNY SOCKO AND HIS FLYING ROBOT, a kung fu chopping Kaiju busting bucket of bolts controlled by a gun toting twelve year old. Before there was Power Rangers there was Giant Robot.

Great show !

Whoaaaa… man o man ..I used to run home from school to watch Dark Shadows

B9 is my favorite '60s TV robot, of course. Favorite '60s movie robot is Robot John from "Planeta Bur" (1961). Cool to see that proto "Cookie Monster" in that 1st commercial!

So Cookie Monster's mom and Bert's dad were an advertising before their children were also in the entertainment industry when they grew old enough. Amazing

king kong escapes - love the ending of mecha-kong - falling to destruction off of Tokyo tower - what an epic kaiju death!

Octoman is in the perfect time period of sleaziness I swear like Tentacles, the movie and a ton of others that I can't think of the titles of-

What I was trying to say was that you enjoy ape movies not anything untoward it's my phone's fault. Tah Ha

Anybody who's anybody knows that you love you and Ape movie

On the origins of the robot costume: Academy Award winner Gene Warren was co-founder of "Project Unlimited" the company responsible for most of the special effects in both seasons of The Outer Limits. When asked about the robot costume Warren replied "No one at Project Unlimited took credit for the robot suit. He recalled it as "already available" possibly from the prop closet at Paramount." Source: The Outer Limits Companion by David Schow (c) 1986

people tell me my old man was Santa

This video brings back a lot of old memories. Saw KK Escapes when it first came out. Still enjoy the film. Robot Kong is my favorite robot. I built the model kits of the B9 and Robby from Forbidden Planet and set up in a diorama of the battle between them in a LOS episode. And who does not remember Robby from Fireball XL5 - "On our way 'ome, On our way .ome". The Fireball XL5 playset was made by Reliable Toys and contained a large XL5 and all the characters and equipment. It also contained a smaller lightweight XL5 that launched from a track just like in the TV series.

Danger Will Robinson DANGER

But was it though?? Based on a true story?? 😲

As much as I enjoy the company of mechanical folks and marionette people, I must say this episode was completely stolen by showstopper Slim, whose attitude is one I tend to share often as I am terrorized by the UA-cam algorithm. I made my martini a tall one after watching that freeze dried iced coffee commercial, so once again you've gotten my Friday night off to a good start. Cheers! and a good evening to all. I look forward to our next engagement with the creme de la creme of the mechanized in-crowd.

I've seen every one of these robots but my favorite is, of course, B9. I was a kid when Lost In Space aired so it broke my heart when my sister told me it wasn't a real robot.

It _still_ kills me that the Mechani-Kong episode of _The King Kong Show_ wasn't part of the restored episodes released to DVD several years ago. The cartoon version of Dr. Who strongly resembles the Golden Age Dr. Sivana, nemesis of Captain Marvel/Shazam, which is cool, but Hideyo (Eisei) Amamoto's live-action supervillain, regardless of whether or not he's dubbed into English by Paul Frees, is phenomenal--delightfully over-the-top yet definitely more evil and dangerous than the average _Batman '66_ baddie.

Danger Will Robinson!!!