The Reluctant Robot (Part 8, 1980)

Here is the 8th and final part from another all but forgotten Field Communications special production - The Reluctant Robot. It was produced to get kids interested in Astronomical Science; pulsars, planets, space travel, etc. You can definitely see the influence from Star Wars a couple years earlier. The budget must not have been too great because the whole thing comes off as feeling like an episode of Dr. Who. (not that there's anything *wrong* with that) ;-)

Ending Credits:

Cast
The Professor - Dan Leegant
Norman - Michael Lee Gogin
ICU2 - Eileen Todd
ICU2's voice - Liz Mamorsky

Bellows - Tom Chase
Grimes - Cliff Watts
Alien #1 - Kellee Brod (Related to Kelly Brod - the Granola and Sproutmaker from the Way to Go! Special?)
Alien #2 - Eileen Todd
Delivery Man - Bob Day

Written by - William Van Horn and Mitchell Rose

Teleplay by Roy Anthony Cox and Mark Krigbaum

Costume and Robot Design - Deborah Capen

Robot Engineering and Assembly - Don Nelson - Dave McMillan - Paul Hara - Roger Liptak
Sniff's Radio Controls - Hal Hague

Animation - Mitchell Rose and William Van Horn

Music by Ed Bogas and Fritz Heilbron

Videography - Roger Krupp

Lighting Director - Dick Favaro

Video Production Consultant - Ed Dudkowski

Art Director - Karil Daniels
Key Grip - Bob Day
Production Assistant - Bob Sitzwohl
Assistant to the Director - Toy Percer
Rocket Model - Mark Paillassou

Editing and Production Design - Eclipse Films

Video Location and Post Production Facilities - Dudkowski-Lynce Associates

Special Thanks To - Kingsly Whiteman and Chabot Observatory - NASA - Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp., Paramount Television, Twentieth Century Fox Television, Mills College, Walnut Creek Police Department and STABA

Sequences from "Star Trek" - Copyright 1966 Paramount Pictures Corporation - All rights reserved

Sequences from "Lost in Space" - Copyrighted Twentieth Century Fox Television - All rights reserved

Director of Children's Programming - Development, Field Communications - Dr. Frank Allen Philpot

A Sparlin/Free Production for Field Communications. (C)1979 Field Communications.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, November 27th 1980 from 9am-10:30am! (Produced in 1979)

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