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[[File:andromeda_350_x_315_7246.jpg|frame|Julie Christie as Andromeda and Peter Halliday as John Fleming.]]
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British television [[Sci Fi]] drama serial broadcast in 1961, written by famous cosmologist Fred Hoyle in partnership with television producer John Elliot. The series took place in the future, specifically the years 1970 to 1972.
▲{{quote| ''"Our intelligence is going to take over and yours is going to die. You'll go the way of the dinosaurs."''}}
▲British television [[Sci Fi]] drama serial broadcast in 1961, written by famous cosmologist Fred Hoyle in partnership with television producer John Elliot. The series took place in the future, specifically the years 1970 to 1972.
A radio message from the distant Andromeda galaxy [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|gives instructions on how to build]] a [[Master Computer]] which can aid mankind. The computer then creates synthetic lifeforms to serve it -- first a protoplasmic organism, and then a beautiful [[Emotionless Girl]] whom the scientists call Andromeda. When Andromeda helps resolve an international crisis, hot-headed mathematician John Fleming believes that the computer and its creation are planning to make the world dependent on them, with the eventual goal of superseding humanity altogether.
''[[A for Andromeda]]'' has been remade twice; first by the Italian television station RAI in 1972 and later by the BBC in 2006. A sequel ''The Andromeda Breakthrough'' was made by the BBC in 1962. Roger Fleming and Andromeda are kidnapped and taken to a Middle Eastern country where another computer has been built by [[Mega Corp]] Intel, based on stolen plans of the first. At the same time freak weather conditions herald
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* [[Alien Invasion]]: By proxy.
* [[Artificial Human]]
* [[Backed
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Intel hatchetman [[Herr Doktor]] Kaufman.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The fire axe installed in the computer room, used by Fleming to destroy the computer. In "Breakthrough" it's the early reference to freak weather conditions.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: The computer
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'''Andromeda:''' "It has been calculated." }}
* [[Computer Equals Tapedrive]]: Averted. Fleming has to destroy ''all'' the components of the computer, plus the original radio message, to ensure its destruction.
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* [[Hard Work Montage]]
* [[Hollywood Science]]: Averted as Fred Hoyle is a noted astronomer, best known for his work on the understanding of the creation of the elements through stellar nucleosynthesis, for developing the steady state theory of the universe, and for coining the term "Big Bang". He already had a taste for science fiction, having written a novel ''The Black Cloud'' in 1957.
* [[Interface
* [[Is That a Threat?]]
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'''Andromeda:'''
'''Fleming:'''
'''Andromeda:'''
* [[Mega Corp]]: International trading consortium Intel, which [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|isn't too particular about its methods]].
* [[Missing Episode]]: Most of "A for Andromeda", as episodes weren't taped by the BBC in those days. Averted with the sequel.
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* [[Straw Vulcan]]: Andromeda gradually develops emotions, and when Fleming destroys the computer admits that she hated it. When Fleming asks why she didn't help him earlier, Andromeda replies that logic is more powerful than emotion, and that humans too are bound by the logic of a situation to continue on as always, even if they hate their circumstances.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Set ten years on from when it was broadcast.
* [[Wetware Body]]: Andromeda, though she works in
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: Fleming explains to Andromeda the difference between right and wrong ('nasty' and 'nice') by pinching, then caressing her. Later on Fleming grabs her for a snog, though by that stage she has already started to develop emotions, including concern for his life.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The computer kills Cyclops the moment Andromeda is created; our first indication that it is 'evil'.
=== ''The Andromeda Breakthrough'' also has: ===
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Andromeda reveals at the end that the brutal nature of the first computer was deliberate so that mankind would step in and take control of it, and therefore its own destiny. Fleming suggests that bringing the world to the brink of disaster was part of its plan too.
* [[Call Back]]: When Fleming discovers that the computer has not been destroyed by the violent storms, we see him eyeing a fire axe.
* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: Spoofed -- Dr Dawnay is told that the ruler of Azaran is arriving, and is surprised when the door opens to admit a young boy. She starts to bow regardless...only for the real ruler, a middle-aged man, to walk through the door.
* [[Back
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Bald Men Send Postcards To Their Father]]: Kaufman is allowed to become more human (though never to the extent of doing a [[Heel Face Turn]]); in the first serial he's more of a [[Smug Snake]].
* [[Fun
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''(Translator gives long stream of Arabic)''
'''Kaufman:'''
'''Translator:'''
''(Kaufman glares at translator)'' }}
* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: The bowler-hatted Intel assassin uses a .25 Beretta with a
* [[Improperly Placed Firearms]]: The British soldiers who recapture Fleming carry [[World War Two]] Lee Enfield bolt-action rifles and a German MP40 submachine gun (the soldiers in the first serial are correctly armed with L1A1 self-loading rifles).
* [[Just Friends]]: Fleming on his relationship with Andromeda (though he kisses her at the end).
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* [[The Other Marty]]: Director Michael Hayes advised the BBC to sign Julie Christie up for the sequel before she became a big star; he was ignored and the role had to be recast for "Breakthrough".
* [[Qurac]]: Azaran, a newly-independent Middle Eastern country which hopes to use the computer to resolve its agricultural problems.
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* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: The hermit, implied by his possession of a German MP40 submachine gun and his desire to live away from human contact.
* [[Truth Serum]]: One of Intel's tools.
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