Bentley the Robot

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**Bentley the Robot** is the ninth episode of Series 3.

## Summary

Fireman Sam's latest invention is Bentley the Robot, which can do anything at his request. When Sam sends Bentley to Dilys' General Store to do some shopping, Norman Price takes a great deal of interest in the robot.

Later, back at the fire station, Sam tells Bentley to throw some rubbish into the dustbin, where Norman is lurking about. He pushes Bentley's eject button, taking out his control tape and replacing it with Norman's video game cartridge for "*Raiders of the Lost Universe*". Bentley then starts to act out the game by throwing equipment about the yard. At one point he throws a can of paraffin into the garage and its contents spills all over the floor. Sam takes out the cartridge to stop Bentley and Norman scrappers, but he does not go un-noticed by Sam.

Meanwhile, Penny is welding the firefighters' locker doors, and whilst her blowtorch is still alight, she points it down at the floor and ignites the paraffin. Fireman Sam mans the hose, but he cannot get through the hot flames. Bentley could rescue Penny if Sam could find his missing control tape, which Sarah and James luckily manage to find lying on the pavement, after Norman discarded it. Sam puts the tape back in and tells Bentley to go through the flames to rescue Penny. Once again, Bentley follows his controller's orders and Penny is rescued.

Later Norman is mopping up the fire station as a punishment for causing the fire. Outside, Station Officer Steele is giving Sarah and James a certificate for their assistance in helping to save the station from the fire, and Bentley is given the Gold Cross medal for exceptional valour in saving Penny. Bentley is so ecstatic, that he starts to malfunction.

## Characters

* Fireman Sam
* Elvis Cridlington
* Penny Morris
* Station Officer Steele
* Sarah and James
* **Bentley the Robot**
* Dilys Price
* Norman Price

## Vehicles

* Jupiter
* Venus

## Locations

* Pontypandy
* 3 Vale Road
* Pontypandy Fire Station
* Price's General Store
* Newtown (*mentioned*)

## Trivia

* In Wales, this is the 9th and Final Episode of Series 2.
* Bentley makes his first and only appearance in the series in this episode.
* This episode's Norwegian title is simply "The Robot".
* Bentley would later return in "Flood Alert," a segment from Fireman Sam In Action.
* Stock footage from Dilys' Forgetful Day and Brass Band is used.
* This is the second episode where no one drives Jupiter.
* This is the first episode where the area of town to the left of the Fire Station is shown, which is particularly notable when one considers that, throughout the original series, Jupiter only ever turned right upon leaving the Fire Station.
* A Biggott's box from Joshua Jones can be seen near Penny and the locker doors.
* The three cups and saucers seen on the table in Sam's garden at the beginning of the episode are redone versions of Bella's ones, but with blue lining on top instead of red lining. Two of them appeared in the Joshua Jones episode "Boomer" as Mrs. Karia's cups.

## Goofs

* Norman instantly presses the eject button after he starts wondering where it is.
* Sam should be able to tell the difference between Norman's voice and Penny's.
* Bentley's jacket might have caught fire whilst he was rescuing Penny.

## Home Media Releases

* Fireman Sam 6 - All in a Good Cause
* BBC Television Children's Favourites
* The Very Best of Fireman Sam 2
* Bentley the Robot and Five Other Stories
* Fireman Sam's Bumper Video - Telly Trouble!
* A Spot Of Bother (DVD)
* Brass Band (Australian VHS)