K-1 Robot

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The Experimental Prototype Robot K1 was a robot designed and built by Professor J.P. Kettlewell of the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research. It was intended to replace humans in difficult and dangerous tasks, citing examples of mining and activities involving radioactive material.

***Robot*** is the first serial of the 12th season in the British science fiction television series *Doctor Who*, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 28 December 1974 to 18 January 1975. It was the first full serial to feature Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, as well as Ian Marter as new companion Harry Sullivan. In the serial, which is set in England, Hilda Winters (Patricia Maynard), the director of a research institute, plots to use the experimental robot K1 (Michael Kilgarriff) to steal the nuclear launch codes and blackmail the Earth's governments with them.

## Plot

Following his regeneration, the Fourth Doctor becomes delirious and falls unconscious in front of Sarah Jane Smith and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT. The Brigadier has Lieutenant Harry Sullivan take the Doctor into his care. Soon, the Doctor wakes, eludes Harry, and tries to sneak off in his TARDIS, but the Brigadier and Sarah stop him, convincing him to help in finding the culprit in the theft of top secret plans for a disintegrator gun. The Brigadier takes the Doctor to the Ministry of Defence advanced research centre where the plans were stored, where the Doctor observes crushed flowers and a rectangular footprint. UNIT attempts to protect factories where critical parts for the gun are manufactured, but the culprit is able to outwit them, including burrowing up underground to collect the final component necessary for the weapon.

Meanwhile, Sarah investigates the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research, colloquially known as the "Think Tank". She finds that director Hilda Winters and her assistant Arnold Jellicoe are developing a robot, Experimental Prototype Robot K1, to be used to perform tasks in hazardous locations in place of humans. Sarah learns that K1 was originally built by Professor J.P. Kettlewell, a former member of the Think Tank who has now turned his sights on alternative energy. Kettlewell attests that he had disassembled K1 after finding its thought processes were growing too quickly, and further asserts that no one at Think Tank has the capacity to program it correctly, and that if they have tampered with its programming, the robot is likely suffering an existential crisis. Sarah expresses concern for the robot. Later, K1 appears at Kettlewell's residence and attempts to kill him, but when the Doctor, Sarah, and UNIT arrive, the robot becomes confused and escapes.

Unknown to UNIT, Winters and Jellicoe have instructed K1 to kill Cabinet Minister Joseph Chambers as "an enemy of humanity", and to use the completed disintegrator gun to steal papers from his personal safe. UNIT discovers this death, and the Brigadier explains the importance of Chambers; the stolen papers were launch codes for the nuclear weapons of the major nations, given voluntarily to Britain as a neutral entity to only be released in time of great need. Further, Winters, Jellicoe, and others at Think Tank are discovered to be members of the Scientific Reform Society, seeking to put scientists in charge of the world believing they can make better decisions for humanity than the current governments. Learning of an SRS meeting that night, UNIT prepares to move out, while Sarah, after discovering Kettlewell is also a member, convinces him to go to the meeting to allow her to sneak into it.

At the meeting, Sarah is stunned to learn that Kettlewell was the mastermind behind the plot; he had rebuilt K1 with Winters and Jellicoe to get the launch codes, and had feigned K1's attack at his home. K1 discovers Sarah's presence, and Winters orders K1 to kill her; Kettlewell had never expected to put Sarah in danger and realises Winters is more vicious than he originally thought. When UNIT arrives, Winters, Jellicoe, Kettlewell, and K1 escape with Sarah as their hostage. Harry, having entered Think Tank under the guise of medical inspections, sees the group enter a bunker and warns UNIT before he is captured.

Winters sends a list of demands to the world governments and gives them thirty minutes to comply, then orders Kettlewell to connect to the launch computers and prepare to send the launch codes. Kettlewell, who never expected their plan to get to this stage, hesitates, and in the ensuing discussion, Sarah and Harry attempt to escape with Kettlewell's assistance. Winters orders K1 to stop them, but the robot, already conflicted, inadvertently fires the disintegrator gun at Kettlewell, killing him. The death of its creator puts K1 in a further confused state, falling to the ground and apparently shutting down. Winters attempts to program the countdown, but the Doctor arrives and successfully counters it. As UNIT forces take Winters and Jellicoe away, K1 reactivates and attacks UNIT. K1 seeks out Sarah to protect her, a result of an Oedipus complex it developed from Sarah's previous compassion, according to the Doctor. When the Doctor finds out about the living metal that Kettlewell used in constructing K1 and the metal virus he designed to reduce the world's metallic waste, the Doctor races back to Kettlewell's lab to synthesise a batch of the virus. Meanwhile, Lethbridge-Stewart fires the disintegrator gun at the robot but the blast is absorbed by the living metal, causing the robot to grow to an enormous size. The Doctor returns, throwing a bucket of virus solution onto K1, and the robot slowly shrinks before the virus consumes it.

As they regroup back at UNIT headquarters, Sarah is saddened by the loss of K1. The Doctor offers to cheer her up with a trip in the TARDIS, extending the invitation to Harry as well. The TARDIS dematerialises just as the Brigadier arrives, and frets about letting Buckingham Palace know that their guests will be late for a celebratory dinner.

## Production

As the Doctor was transitioning from the third to the fourth incarnations, changes were also occurring in the production department of *Doctor Who*. Long-time producer Barry Letts was leaving the series but would stay on to cast the part of the new Doctor as well as produce the first story, *Robot*. Letts would be succeeded for the next story by incoming producer Philip Hinchcliffe.

Veteran script editor Terrance Dicks was also leaving the series, being replaced by Robert Holmes. Holmes had been a writer for the show since season six, having penned several stories including *The Krotons*, *The Space Pirates* and *Spearhead from Space*, the Third Doctor's first serial. Though Dicks was leaving as the script editor, he would still be involved with the series as a writer and had previously helped write the serials *The Seeds of Death* and *The War Games* and it would be Dicks who would write the first story for the incoming Fourth Doctor.

### Conception and writing

*Robot* was written by Terrance Dicks, who had joined the series in 1968 as assistant script editor and took over the script editor position soon after. Dicks stated that a major influence for this story was *King Kong*. The initial script was written before Tom Baker had been cast as the Fourth Doctor, and there was some discussion of returning to an older actor. This would have required a younger character to handle the action scenes, so the character of Harry Sullivan was created. This was Sullivan's debut story, but he had been mentioned in the final episode of the preceding serial, when the Brigadier telephoned him, requesting medical help for the Doctor.

Dicks included a number of elements from the Third Doctor's transition story *Spearhead from Space* including the Doctor being disoriented after regeneration; going to hospital to recover; escaping from hospital in a hospital gown, which led to a costume change for the new Doctor; viewing himself in a mirror to see the change; and storing the TARDIS key in his shoe. These elements helped the audience with the transition between actors.

### Casting

It was known beforehand that Jon Pertwee would be leaving his role as the Third Doctor and that a new Fourth Doctor would need to be cast for the part. Tom Baker was an out-of-work actor who had been working in construction at the time. Baker had been a television and film actor, having major parts in several films including *Nicholas and Alexandra* (1971) and *The Vault of Horror* (1973). He had written to Bill Slater, the Head of Serials at the BBC, asking for work. Slater suggested Baker to *Doctor Who* producer Barry Letts who had been looking to fill the part. Letts had been the producer of the series since the early Pertwee serials in 1970. He had seen Baker's work in *The Golden Voyage of Sinbad* and hired him for the part. Baker would continue in his role as the Doctor for seven seasons, longer than any other actor to play the part.

Elisabeth Sladen had renewed her contract to play Sarah during the previous season.[*citation needed*] Nicholas Courtney and John Levene reprised their roles as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Sergeant Benton respectively. Levene had started his role with the Second Doctor story *The Invasion* (1968) as a member of the military organisation UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. Courtney started a year earlier in *The Web of Fear*, with his character's rank being a colonel. They, along with Sladen, would be the transition cast to carry through from the Third Doctor to the Fourth Doctor, though this would be the only UNIT story for the twelfth season. The Earth-based stories involving UNIT that had dominated the Third Doctor's period on the show, were an effort to reduce production costs by Peter Bryant and Derrick Sherwin, the show's previous producer and script editor. This effort had been scrapped during the Third Doctor's run by producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks who were just leaving the series as Baker was taking his role as the Fourth Doctor.

Edward Burnham portrays the wild-haired, bespectacled boffin, Professor Kettlewell, who creates the titular K1 robot. Along with Courtney and Levene, Burnham had also played a part in *The Invasion* where he had the role of Professor Watkins, another scientist-type character. The part of the K1 robot is played by Michael Kilgarriff who had played another robotic part in the 1967 story *The Tomb of the Cybermen*, the Cyberman Controller. Patricia Maynard is cast in the part of Miss Hilda Winters, the director of the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research. Miss Winters' assistant, Arnold Jellicoe, is played by Alec Linstead. Linstead had played the part of Sergeant Osgood—a member of the technical staff at UNIT—in the 1971 serial *The Dæmons*.

### Recording

This was the first *Doctor Who* serial to have its location material shot entirely on OB videotape, as opposed to the more usual BBC television drama practice of the time of shooting studio interiors on videotape and location exteriors on film. This was due to the large number of video effects involving the eponymous robot required in exterior scenes (shot at the then BBC Engineering Training Department at Wood Norton, Worcestershire), which were easier and more convincing to marry to videotape than to film. The team had learned that lesson during the previous season's *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*. The Wood Norton facility was chosen for location shooting because it had an underground bunker, which director Christopher Barry felt would be suitable for the entrance to the underground complex in the story; however, they were refused permission to shoot in that area.

*Robot* was the first serial of the twelfth season of *Doctor Who*. Part one of *Robot* was first broadcast on BBC One on Saturday, 28 December 1974 and had a viewership of 10.8 million, which was higher than the first serial for season eleven. The next three parts were broadcast over the next successive Saturdays, each having an audience of over 10 million with the exception of the part four on Saturday, 18 January 1975 which only had viewership of 9 million.