Toys

Movie Posters

How come the hero always gets the blonde?  - anyway its all in the poster painter's mind - not a scene in the movie.

Toy Boxes:

Then in the 60's there was Dr Who. The Daleks weren't  a patch on Robby - No legs for a start, let alone the whirly bits. (Anyway they weren't robots at all, just machines to carry mutant's bodies about). 
Great voices though (Click  > to play) 

Leaving more to the imagination was the BBC serial Journey Into Space, of the mid 1950's also.

Here's a fragment from that (Click  > to play) 

My other space fantasy of the 50's was Dan Dare in the British comic Eagle. Apparently there was a radio version too - on Radio Luxembourg - beamed at the UK, but it was never played in New Zealand.

The Biggles-like space spin-off, also by W E Johns, starting with Kings of Space, was part of my reading too, but I preferred Biggles. 
The Kings of Space books.

Publicity Shot

Who's got better legs, Robby or Anne Francis?

Blew me away! Quite different from the westerns and war movies I was normally to be found at.

It was only years later I found it was a cult movie.

My eldest son is Robert - called Robbie - I wonder.......... 

Yeah alright, this site isn't a patch on http://www.the-robotman.com/ but I like it.

http://members.aol.com/robots1/links.html is pretty good too - for robots.