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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Fourth Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 12:''' '''1''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen 5]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior <<< Season 11]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Season 13 >>>]]''']]-]]]
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->Written by Creator/TerranceDicks\\
Directed by Christopher Barry\\
'''Production code:''' 4A\\
'''Air dates:''' 28 December 1974 - 18 January 1975\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 4



'''Production code:''' 4A




Written by Creator/TerranceDicks. This four-episode serial first aired from December 28, 1974 to January 18, 1975.
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* ScriptWank: The story is about a robot whose users consider to be an emotionless object [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot clearly and constantly making decisions based on emotion and love rather than on logic, which it doesn't seem to understand]], showing special favour towards Sarah Jane, the only person who respects that it has feelings. The Doctor, recently regenerated, now has a strange childlike personality and appears totally clueless most of the time -- but his actions also display striking maturity and a pattern of underlying logic, the combination of which eventually saves the day. The ending of "Robot" consists of a conversation where the Doctor and Sarah Jane discuss that even though killing the robot was necessary, the robot was a thinking and almost human being ("insane, capable of the greatest good, and the greatest evil... yes, I suppose it could be considered human"). This also implies a PlotParallel to the Doctor's [[FreakOut brand-new]] [[ManChild childish]] and [[CreepyGood rather]] [[UnscrupulousHero darker]] personality, and segues into him informing Sarah that he ''is'' grown-up -- he is just also childish sometimes.
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'''Production code:''' 4A
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Crosswick.

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* {{Symploce}}: Multiple:
** Kettlewell protesting against being party to the nuclear bombardment of the world:
---> '''Kettlewell:''' I can't do it! I won't do it!
** When the K1 Robot is warning invaders to the bomb shelter he just exited:
---> '''K1 Robot:''' You must go or I will kill. I must kill you. I must destroy you.
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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Tragically subverted. The robot seeks out its creator, pleading for help, but unfortunately he's part of the conspiracy. When the robot does kill its creator, it's by accident and it suffers a VillainousBreakdown, only then turning against humanity.
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* LoopholeAbuse: The Robot is programmed to protect humanity, not attack it. SRS gets around this by convincing it that certain individuals are a threat to humanity as a whole, and must be eliminated to save the human race as a group. This does not do good things for K1's mental health.

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* LoopholeAbuse: The Robot is programmed to protect humanity, not attack it. SRS gets around this by convincing it that [[ZerothLawRebellion certain individuals are a threat to humanity as a whole, and must be eliminated to save the human race as a group.group]]. This does not do good things for K1's mental health.
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The one with the debut of the most famous set of teeth and curls in time and space.

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The one with JustForFun/TheOneWith the debut of [[Creator/TomBaker the most famous set of teeth and curls in time and space.
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Oedipus Complex is a disambig, and none of the tropes in it feel applicable here.


Deep in the Bunker, the Doctor is capable of turning off the main threat of nuclear annihilation in mere seconds, thus defeating those nasty science Nazis before any real harm is caused. Except that the K1 robot has revived and has decided to kidnap Sarah Jane. Because Kettlewell decided to program [[OedipusComplex Oedipus Protocols]] into the robot. And now it's going to wipe out all of humanity, because it's what Kettlewell seemed to really desire, not knowing that the professor renounced those evil ways. So, K1 tries to restart the countdown in the bunker to wipe out humanity -- but it doesn't work. As the robot exits the bunker, the Brig shoots the robot with the disintegrator gun, thus killing the robot in seconds and saving the day once and for all.

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Deep in the Bunker, the Doctor is capable of turning off the main threat of nuclear annihilation in mere seconds, thus defeating those nasty science Nazis before any real harm is caused. Except that the K1 robot has revived and has decided to kidnap Sarah Jane. Because Kettlewell decided to program [[OedipusComplex Oedipus Protocols]] Protocols into the robot. And now it's going to wipe out all of humanity, because it's what Kettlewell seemed to really desire, not knowing that the professor renounced those evil ways. So, K1 tries to restart the countdown in the bunker to wipe out humanity -- but it doesn't work. As the robot exits the bunker, the Brig shoots the robot with the disintegrator gun, thus killing the robot in seconds and saving the day once and for all.



* OedipusComplex: After K1 accidentally kills Kettlewell and then kidnaps Sarah Jane, the Doctor assumes he's suffering from the Oedipus Complex.
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* CreatorProvincialism: Borderline parodied by the acting regarding the conceit that Britain was given the nuclear launch codes for all three major superpowers in the interest of neutrality.

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