{"id":22495,"date":"2017-07-19T07:21:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T11:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=22495"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:02:11","slug":"robbie-the-robot-meets-mr-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/07\/19\/robbie-the-robot-meets-mr-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie the Robot Meets Mr. C"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As I’ve written before finding something to watch on Netflix<\/em> has been proving to be more of a challenge than it’s worth. The tedious scrolling through titles of little interest has chased me to some of the stranger and more obscure channels available on the Roku. While surfing, I found the curio that I am writing about today.<\/p>\n

The screen capture above is from a February 18, 1956 episode of The Perry Como Show<\/em> which featured what is probably Robbie the Robot’s<\/em> first appearance. Everybody’s familiar with Robbie being that the suit has been recycled throughout movies and TV shows for the past six decades, but he was brand new<\/em> back then! Robbie was on with Anne Francis promoting the soon-to-be released science fiction extravaganza Forbidden Planet. <\/em>As is the case with a lot of variety shows, Anne, Robbie and the show’s other guests join in comedy and musical bits throughout the show. It’s an interesting little piece of sci-fi <\/em>history.
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The program can be watched in it’s entirety below. If you prefer, you can head over to The Internet Archive<\/em><\/a> and download it or watch it streaming there.<\/p>\n