Metal Mickey
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Metal Mickey was a 5 foot tall fictional robot character who first appeared on British television in the ITV children's magazine show The Saturday Banana, produced by Southern Television in 1979.
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[edit] The Metal Mickey TV show
He then went on to his own show from 1980 to 1983. Mickey was co-created, produced and directed by Micky Dolenz, formerly of The Monkees pop group. The comic theme was of an ordinary British family whose youngest child is a science boffin and who created Metal Mickey to help around the home. The family consisted of a mother and father, two children and a grandmother. The show was made by London Weekend Television and shown on ITV.
British comedy actress Irene Handl played the grandmother, who Mickey affectionately called "my little fruitbat". Handl was never at home with science fiction, either watching it or appearing in it. She famously told BBC presenter Noel Edmonds, when he asked her whether she cried over the death of E.T., "Why should I cry over a bleedin' hoover attachment?" When asked, therefore, why she was appearing in Metal Mickey, she gave the pragmatic reply, "'Cos I've got a mortgage, love!"
He also had a theme song. [1]
[edit] Trivia
Metal Mickey (song) is the title of a song by UK band Suede (band), released on September 14, 1992 on Nude Records. It charted at number 17 on the UK singles chart.
Metal Mickey's catchphrase was "boogie, boogie, boogie"
[edit] Production Credits
- Directors: Michael Dolenz, David Crossman, Nic Phillips
- Producer: Michael Dolenz
- Writer: Colin Bostock-Smith
- Designers: Mike Oxley, Rae George, David Catley, James Dillion, Phil Coulter
- Music: Phil Coulter
