Beware... in 3 years time.. Android Robots will not rule the Earth and the FLU will be a Global Plague that will shut down the planet... Love From 2022 ❤️
It's absolutely mind-blowing that this was made *42 years* ago! It only seems like yesterday and it hasn't dated that much. 42 years before this show would be 1938! (just before WWII had started & Hitler was 5 years in office in Germany) and the war had only ended 35 years ago where people were flying around in Spitfires and Lancaster bombers listening to Glen Miller on the Wireless, That's just so crazy
@@NOTODIVERSITY123Now you know how Native Americans Australian Aborigines, South Africans, Indians etc. felt when Europeans landed on their shores. The difference is, of course, that non Europeans are not trying to exterminate Europeans...
I remember watching this in 1981, and recording it on my new Sharp VHS VCR! Mickey's voice sounds like the Cylons from "Battlestar Galactica!" Probably created using a Vocoder?
Best bits: The LWT intro. Granny calling Mickey Fluffy completely automatically the first time they spoke, like she'd known him all her life. The completely appropriate nicknames for every character. Great memories!
This was the simple times no Internet no Facebook no email or cell phone's just sitting in front of the TV and watching this All Time Classic in todays world you'll be Very Lucky if you can get this program in the DVD stores or places like United Video or Video Ezey they just look at you silly and say i haven't heard of it
One of my favourite shows when I was a kid. I loved Mickey but was also a bit scared of him! Still got the MM annuals I had for Christmas in the early 80s 😊
Man I remember this as a kid in NZ I vaguely remember an episode where they were watching a penalty goal that went in & they weren't happy bout it,but metal Mickey rewinded it & made the goalie save it Something like that Stretching my memory as a kid,when I forget things I did last week lol
There was an episode where Mickey was menally controling Steve in a soccer game but he'd read the Rugby rule book by mistake. They had to quickly locate the correct book before the game was lost.
The actress who played Janey, Lola Young, quit acting and became a University lecturer and author, and wound up with a lifetime peerage, and is now Baroness Young of Hornsey! Also, two years before she starred in Metal Micky- a kids programme- she played a prostitute in the crime drama 'Out'. 🍄
Fun fact: Michael Dolenz is actually Micky Dolenz of The Monkees. That was the name he used when he lived in the UK, worked as a director and producer foe British television.
I'd love to see the musical number which Mickey did with a bunch of household appliances - I think it may have been a part of a Christmas episode, if I'm not wrong. It was a lovely catchy song, "we are machines ... we are made of steel and iron ... we work for you..." something like that, and all the machines could speak and sing :-). I'd also love to see the episode where they are stranded in a small house that's snowed under, with a girl who has diabetes, and has no insulin - Mickey volunteers to sacrifice the insulin in one of his internal systems to save her from going into a coma,, but at great risk to himself - so the family vote on whether they should do it or not. It's a beautiful episode because it shows the personalities of the family in a deeper way, as each give their reasons for their vote.
12 years ago I was undergoing a daft punk kick & I searched “daft punks first song” & metal mickey popped up. Genuinely confused. Now everything makes sense, I guess.
When I was still living in the UK I used to love this! Many many sly jokes that went over our heads as 10 year olds. Took me years to realize Metal "Mickey" was Mickey Dolenz working at the BBC.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
Me too. I'm in🇨🇦Canada and I don't ever remember seeing this and at the time we were still under🇬🇧Britishy rule. I don't know why the🇨🇦#CRTC didn't push this. If you don't mind me asking are you by chance in North America,🇺🇸USA perhaps?
Metal Mickey ALF Different Strokes Powers of Matthew Star Buck Rogers ARTO MAN Knight Rider Street Hawk Incredible hulk Mind Your Language Bangkok Hillton todays world you will be very lucky to see any of these on TV or Sky the 1980s showed them all.
Watching this as an adult, Micky seems to have a lot of 'Spike Milligan' about him. I could almost imagine him writing the lines and voicing him 😂. I was obsessed with Metal Micky as a kid. I always wanted a robot because of this show. To be completely honest, I still do!! 😂
10 year old me in 1980 "This show is great, I love it!". 50 year old me in 2020 "Oh my god, I used to love this show when I was a kid, wait, what is this pile of stinking ****!".
Bit harsh! The big difference between then & now is that actors actually 'performed', now they mustn't do that much at all, apparently that's natural, although not very funny! If you look at most Light Ent. shows then, on all stations, they have a very similar feel, because that's just how it was. I do feel this needed a little more rehearsal & the opening scene could've been smoother. Maybe have a few G&T's & the years will slip away & you can have a laugh again ;-).
This Program Metal Mickey last time it was on TV here in New Zealand was 1990 and after that we Never saw it again because ALF started and finished at the same time this century you will be very lucky to see it on Sky TV but Cable TV is different all together in todays world in New Zealand here it's going Down hill.
If it wasn't for the popularity of the film Star Wars ( and all things space etc ) three years earlier then you'd be currently watching a video called "Beige Ted" about a man named Teddy who wore a cardigan which happened to be an off brown colour...
I am seeing this for the first time at this moment because I just remembered reading an article in the early 1980s about Mickey Dolenz, which said he was involved with this program.
He was the whole reason I watched it back then... even as a 3 / 4yr old! =oD Of course, my mum and sister had to make that clear to me first (regardless, I loved watching it anyway! Mum & sis basically told me Metal Mickey WAS Mickey Dolenz)! As I was loving the Monkees re-runs too... Which would've made me part of the 2nd generation of Monkees fans. I THINK The Monkees uesd to be on at around 10am (on Saturdays) maybe 11am... something like that anyway... (On a different note, damn, I miss those Fizz Bomb sweets! I loved them too...mmmm! Another different note, occasionally there would be slightly more 'adult' humour hidden in the show. I've already caught a couple of 'risqué' lines... I think!?! I remember having a Metal Mickey robot toy too... *sigh*
1980 i was 8 years old another alsome Program was Mind your Language i just wish it was the 1980s all over again today's program's are going down hill i hate to see what kind of Programs will be on TV in 2025 it just mite be worse than what they have on TV Now and the Longest Running English TV Programme in history is coronation Street and and by the ratings it looks like it will be on TV Forever.
I remember watching this when growing up. I was between 10 and 12 1/2 and enjoyed it despite being much younger than the Wilberforce kids. Whatever became of the characters?
Please can we get seasons 3 & 4 available on CZcams, DVD, Amazon Prime or Netflix? I've tried the Viewired site, but that kept leading me to dead ends, so I hastily cancelled.
Home sick today. Off work with the flu. Just what I needed. My childhood shows which I'd not seen for years and loved!!!
Beware... in 3 years time.. Android Robots will not rule the Earth and the FLU will be a Global Plague that will shut down the planet...
Love From
2022 ❤️
... ARE YOU WELL 🤒🤮😷
It's absolutely mind-blowing that this was made *42 years* ago! It only seems like yesterday and it hasn't dated that much. 42 years before this show would be 1938! (just before WWII had started & Hitler was 5 years in office in Germany) and the war had only ended 35 years ago where people were flying around in Spitfires and Lancaster bombers listening to Glen Miller on the Wireless, That's just so crazy
That's put it in proper perspective 🙂
The Austrian painter was correct .we are bieng invaded by people he warned us about...
@@NOTODIVERSITY123Now you know how Native Americans Australian Aborigines, South Africans, Indians etc. felt when Europeans landed on their shores. The difference is, of course, that non Europeans are not trying to exterminate Europeans...
@@baggierols73
Yes. I find Metal Mickey often puts the second world war into historical context.
Are you on smack?
Hayley / Lucinda was a heartbreaker for the day wasn't she?
Beautiful.
I was more a fan of Janey to be honest!
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I remember watching this in 1981, and recording it on my new Sharp VHS VCR!
Mickey's voice sounds like the Cylons from "Battlestar Galactica!" Probably created using a Vocoder?
Or the Cylons did an ET - made a visit but "accidently" left him behind.
One of my favorites shows in the 80s on ABC. Loved it then and still love it now. Thank you so much, I feel like a kid again....
Best bits: The LWT intro. Granny calling Mickey Fluffy completely automatically the first time they spoke, like she'd known him all her life. The completely appropriate nicknames for every character. Great memories!
Yes she called yes fluffy.
Didn't mickey call one of them 'fruitbat'?
Mickey seems to have the same voice as the original Battlestar Galactica cylons!
This was the simple times no Internet no Facebook no email or cell phone's just sitting in front of the TV and watching this All Time Classic in todays world you'll be Very Lucky if you can get this program in the DVD stores or places like United Video or Video Ezey they just look at you silly and say i haven't heard of it
Saucy jokes and references to booze in a kid's show! Thank god for the '80s!
Hell yeah id go back there in a heartbeat😎👍
Like Depache Mode on cctv singing Master and Servant 😅
The older son thinks Mickey will get working in 1989. Yeah, just in time for the House Music, necking those MK fizz bomb sweets, like Acid 😆
One of my favourite shows when I was a kid. I loved Mickey but was also a bit scared of him! Still got the MM annuals I had for Christmas in the early 80s 😊
Brilliant memories of Saturday afternoon
thank you for uploading this took me right back to being a kid
😃🙋♂️🇬🇧
If they remade this today I think they'd cast Kathy Burke as the Granny
Man I remember this as a kid in NZ
I vaguely remember an episode where they were watching a penalty goal that went in & they weren't happy bout it,but metal Mickey rewinded it & made the goalie save it
Something like that
Stretching my memory as a kid,when I forget things I did last week lol
Same here man. I must’ve been 7 when this came out and I loved it.
There was an episode where Mickey was menally controling Steve in a soccer game but he'd read the Rugby rule book by mistake. They had to quickly locate the correct book before the game was lost.
This show was great. Loved the intro song to very catchy. You never forget.
Script is so much better than I remember.
The actress who played Janey, Lola Young, quit acting and became a University lecturer and author, and wound up with a lifetime peerage, and is now Baroness Young of Hornsey!
Also, two years before she starred in Metal Micky- a kids programme- she played a prostitute in the crime drama 'Out'.
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i use to watch this the late irene handel good actress missed alot she was nearly 80 when this was on she died 1987
She was so talented. RIP Irene Handel.
[I don't mean 'Rust In Peace'].
She was probably the biggest name in this. Followed by Lola Young (Janey) who is now in the House of Lords
Love of ada, good in that to
Cancer
One of the sillier premises, yet holds up better than most 1980 sitcoms!
...Better than most 2000’s sh!tcoms.
I always had the hots for Lucinda Bateson ever since I saw her in 'Watch All Night.'
Me too. Great fun show.
Fun fact: Michael Dolenz is actually Micky Dolenz of The Monkees. That was the name he used when he lived in the UK, worked as a director and producer foe British television.
Yes
Wish more then 13 episodes was made no story realy of what happened to Mickey and the family it was like it was axed from tv
@@jazmorrison9030The robot is in a lock up in Battersea London
Seem to remember loving this as a kid. Watching it now I've no idea why.
I thought those kids were the coolest in the world when I was about 5.
Right?!
In this first series, Steve was as beautiful, for a boy, as Hayley was for a girl.
I'd love to see the musical number which Mickey did with a bunch of household appliances - I think it may have been a part of a Christmas episode, if I'm not wrong. It was a lovely catchy song, "we are machines ... we are made of steel and iron ... we work for you..." something like that, and all the machines could speak and sing :-). I'd also love to see the episode where they are stranded in a small house that's snowed under, with a girl who has diabetes, and has no insulin - Mickey volunteers to sacrifice the insulin in one of his internal systems to save her from going into a coma,, but at great risk to himself - so the family vote on whether they should do it or not. It's a beautiful episode because it shows the personalities of the family in a deeper way, as each give their reasons for their vote.
Omg I have not thought about this show in years...that theme tune 🎵
Oh my gosh I used to love this!
I still love this show.
Nostalgia at it's peak
I used to love buying Metal Mickey Fizzbombs from the ice cream van.
Atomic thunderbusters. They were amazing
All thanks to Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees 👍🏼
Its an 8 bit version of Alexa
The on off sound a jack plug being moved about in the socket loose. Haha.
Hugh Bonneville could play the Dad if rebooted lol
Nostalgia is addictive
Ken:Stand back.
Steve:*moves closer to Metal Mickey*
_"Come here give us a kiss"_ 🤣
Steve: Daleks move. R2-D2 moves. Even Basil Brush hops about.
Back in the day 1970’s 1960’s nostalgia and beyond.
I remember watching this when I was about 4, seems like yesterday
I🤞🏻wish.🤦🏻♀️#Bob Dylan was💯right/write, the times sure did a'changed.
"By Your Command" lol
A reference to another great tv show from back in then.
Yeah Buck Rogers 🤘🏻
I remember this such nostalgia.
12 years ago I was undergoing a daft punk kick & I searched “daft punks first song” & metal mickey popped up. Genuinely confused. Now everything makes sense, I guess.
Irene handel stealing scenes again, fantastic actress
Love the posters on the wall too! LoL!
Television and film was amazing back then
Much better than crap nowadays.
'It's me knee's, they're giving gip!' Love my little fruit bat❤️❤️
Who knew Johnny Rotten would become Gandma when old. ^___^;
Plot twist: he's a Cylon
When I was still living in the UK I used to love this! Many many sly jokes that went over our heads as 10 year olds. Took me years to realize Metal "Mickey" was Mickey Dolenz working at the BBC.
WOW! Do I remember this!?! OH YEAH!!! I must've been 3 to 4 years old at the time, my little fruitbats! =oD
I LOVED The Monkees re-runs, so I naturally fell for this too...
So many memories!
I remember watching this as a child great programme certainly a blast from the past and very funny 🤣
Lucinda Bateson was fit…there doesn’t seem to be much about her on the net
I saw this only once in 82 or 83 and thanks to an FB suggestion im here. After seeing the head rotate, its confirmed this is that show. Wow.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
Vaguely remember it but I think I'm mixing it up with elements of Rent a Ghost.
Rent a ghost. Brilliant.
0:34 He said the 'F' word!
Kaffeee Burk... carrying the Torch for Irene.
If I had known this existed, I'd have watched it.
Me too. I'm in🇨🇦Canada and I don't ever remember seeing this and at the time we were still under🇬🇧Britishy rule. I don't know why the🇨🇦#CRTC didn't push this.
If you don't mind me asking are you by chance in North America,🇺🇸USA perhaps?
1980 to 1983 it was on television.
Metal Mickey ALF Different Strokes Powers of Matthew Star Buck Rogers ARTO MAN Knight Rider Street Hawk Incredible hulk Mind Your Language Bangkok Hillton todays world you will be very lucky to see any of these on TV or Sky the 1980s showed them all.
Watching this as an adult, Micky seems to have a lot of 'Spike Milligan' about him. I could almost imagine him writing the lines and voicing him 😂.
I was obsessed with Metal Micky as a kid. I always wanted a robot because of this show. To be completely honest, I still do!! 😂
Good old days
Never seen it in my life - but just enjoyed this first episode.
10 year old me in 1980 "This show is great, I love it!". 50 year old me in 2020 "Oh my god, I used to love this show when I was a kid, wait, what is this pile of stinking ****!".
😂
Bit harsh! The big difference between then & now is that actors actually 'performed', now they mustn't do that much at all, apparently that's natural, although not very funny! If you look at most Light Ent. shows then, on all stations, they have a very similar feel, because that's just how it was. I do feel this needed a little more rehearsal & the opening scene could've been smoother. Maybe have a few G&T's & the years will slip away & you can have a laugh again ;-).
@@Chillmax I am talking about how crap Metal Mickey is now as an adult than a child, not a performance of Macbeth 🤣
I wonder if Catherine Tate watched the first scene with Gran and her grandson playing darts?
This Program Metal Mickey last time it was on TV here in New Zealand was 1990 and after that we Never saw it again because ALF started and finished at the same time this century you will be very lucky to see it on Sky TV but Cable TV is different all together in todays world in New Zealand here it's going Down hill.
Used to love this when I was a kid. They should rerun this. Absolutely classic.
You mean repeat. Why have we all turned into Yanks?
@@vinnysamways63 He's a yank, so that makes sense.
Only 13 episodes was made
@@vinnysamways63 they could return Mickey after be found in a garage
@@revinhatol I'm not a yank
If it wasn't for the popularity of the film Star Wars ( and all things space etc ) three years earlier then you'd be currently watching a video called "Beige Ted" about a man named Teddy who wore a cardigan which happened to be an off brown colour...
I Was In Love With Steve !! ❤
Gran (My Little Fruit Bat)
And, Gran Calling Mickey ..
Fluffy !!
Boogie-Boogie.
Early 80's 🇳🇿🤖
How many know this was directed and produced by Micky Dolenz of the Monkeys?
I am seeing this for the first time at this moment because I just remembered reading an article in the early 1980s about Mickey Dolenz, which said he was involved with this program.
He was the whole reason I watched it back then... even as a 3 / 4yr old! =oD Of course, my mum and sister had to make that clear to me first (regardless, I loved watching it anyway! Mum & sis basically told me Metal Mickey WAS Mickey Dolenz)!
As I was loving the Monkees re-runs too... Which would've made me part of the 2nd generation of Monkees fans. I THINK The Monkees uesd to be on at around 10am (on Saturdays) maybe 11am... something like that anyway...
(On a different note, damn, I miss those Fizz Bomb sweets! I loved them too...mmmm! Another different note, occasionally there would be slightly more 'adult' humour hidden in the show. I've already caught a couple of 'risqué' lines... I think!?!
I remember having a Metal Mickey robot toy too... *sigh*
Dolenz also produced the classic kids show 'Luna'.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and I assume you mean The Monkees
Can anyone else remember the Metal Mickey record that was made.
Loved metal Micky ..mint
1980 i was 8 years old another alsome Program was Mind your Language i just wish it was the 1980s all over again today's program's are going down hill i hate to see what kind of Programs will be on TV in 2025 it just mite be worse than what they have on TV Now and the Longest Running English TV Programme in history is coronation Street and and by the ratings it looks like it will be on TV Forever.
i found this programme by accident. i thought it was maybe an american one and was lwt how did i miss watching this.
AI, eat your heart out.
I used to love metal mickey as a kid, I was 12 when it started lol
My childhood 👍
Black Mirror 1981
The 6 people who deemed it necessary to dislike are pathetic 😂
DJ Time Almost as pathetic as labelling anyone who doesn’t like what you like as pathetic, in fact.
@@simonmoore2380 everyone has their own opinion
And anus. They just seem too eager to display one over the other and most the time they both stink the same.
@@simonmoore2380 Do you always do this?
My childhood was something miss u mom
I remember watching this when growing up. I was between 10 and 12 1/2 and enjoyed it despite being much younger than the Wilberforce kids. Whatever became of the characters?
Lucinda mmmmmm
Nobody tell the millennial about this....I spotted 30 reasons they'd "cancel" it before the end of part one
S'OK, Mickey will just delete their entire online presence, like they never existed, now that's how to cancel someone ;-).
At least there was diversity in the cast.. contrary to the hysterical belief of teenagers that black people weren't allowed on TV till 2017 😁
Micky Dolenz, formerly of The Monkees pop group, was brought in to produce and direct the series
How old was Irene Handl really ... in this?
Repeat after me! He's alot of fun he's alot of fun HE WEIGHS A HALF A TON 😅🤘🚀
Thank you so much!
Brings back so many memories good old days
OMG Ken looks like John Carmack!!!!!
Please can we get seasons 3 & 4 available on CZcams, DVD, Amazon Prime or Netflix? I've tried the Viewired site, but that kept leading me to dead ends, so I hastily cancelled.
Wasn't Gran playing Mrs. Cornelius in the Great Rock n Roll Swindle?
Lol..I went on holiday to Tenerife with Ken.
There are 4 completely able-bodied people in that room yet between them all they can't pick up a few pairs of shoes and a couple of shirts!
Have you got kids of your own ? it's crazy how hard they find it picking up shoes & shirts !
Thanks for the upload. Which episode does Mickey make one of the boys play for Man United?
father was probs 45 in this, looks so old
Omg this is still so funny😂😂😂😂
Granny would crack me up and there dad made out he not like Mickey but realy he did
I wasn't allowed to watch this for some reason other than my parents telling me it was rubbish television 😂