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I think that was Night Flyers! Not the Stephen King movie Nightflyer, but a movie based on the short story. The girl was Mary Catherine Stuart.
Edited by 24.192.68.129Yeah...that scene was where the ship's computer used the robot to try and kill everyone. IMDB entry. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093626/
You can see I got her name backwards.
Robot...corridors...Eighties...this might be it. I'll see if I can find a copy.
I'm a little bit doubtful. The robot on the cover looks biomechanical whereas the one in my memory looks more "clean" (e.g. Maximilian, original Transformer, original Cylon). But it was so long ago that I can't be sure.
Edited by FloydPinkertonIt's been a while since I saw The Black Hole but I'm pretty sure there's no scene of a human lying on the floor after being crippled by an attack from Maximilian. I think think this movie did have a similar visual style though.
I've seen almost every color Doctor Who story and I'm pretty sure the scene I remember wasn't from that.
I started this thread years ago, and I think I have the solution now (in case anyone still cares).
I just finished watching The Black Hole, and Azzizzi was probably right. There's a scene where an old man takes cover from killer robots beneath a big computer console, then tells a young man to carry out the rescue mission without him because his leg is broken. There's another scene where a man saves a woman from a different killer robot that looks like a hovering Transformer.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think my memory combined those two scenes into the distorted mental picture I described at the top of the thread.

This might have been a film or a T.V. episode, and was seen in 1989 at the very latest.
When I was little, I caught a snippet of live-action sci-fi that really stuck with me. A man and a woman were attacked by a robot in a futuristic corridor. The robot reminded me of a Transformer, but it must have been much smaller. I don't know if it was stop-motion or a person in a costume.
There was a tender scene between the two humans, apparently after the robot was defeated. One tried to move the other. The one lying on the floor said, "my bones are broken."