Mann & Machine (Complete Series) - James A. Contner - (1992) DVD

In the near future, cop Bobby Mann is teamed with a voluptuous robot partner, Sgt. Eve Edison. He's a brash, wise-cracking maverick; she's serious, naive, by-the-book and tends to take things literally. Over the course of the series, the two detectives learn from each other, while solving a variety of crimes.

I remember watching this back in the early 1990's when, aside from the Star Trek franchise, there was very little in good sci-fi on TV. This show had some good potential that, unfortunately, never got explored. The vision of the future was well done (one of the better semi-dystopian interpretations on TV since Max Headroom), and the ongoing chemistry between the two leads was pretty good. Yancy Butler does well as the new-model robot/android, with the right touch of unintentional sexuality in a character just learning the nuances of actual human interactions. Plus, they didn't bring on all of her artificial abilities all at once, instead developing them - and the relationship between the two leads - as they went along. (The scene where she takes out her eyes, and her partner's reaction, comes to mind as an example.) Would it have survived if they'd given it the full season to blossom instead of moving it to the summer to kill it quietly? In the TV environment of that day, probably not, but it probably would have fared better today on the cable landscape.

Quality Note : The pilot episode is lower quality with a quality rating of 8/10

Episodes:

1. Prototype
2. The Dating Game
3. No Pain, No Gain
4. Water, Water, Everywhere
5. Torch Song
6. Mann's Fate
7. Truth or Consequences
8. Billion Dollar Baby
9. Cold, Cold Heart

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