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[[File:andromeda_350_x_315_7246.jpg|frame|Julie Christie as Andromeda and Peter Halliday as John Fleming.]]

 

{{quote|''"Our intelligence is going to take over and yours is going to die. You'll go the way of the dinosaurs."''}}

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.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: This has been designed into the computer from the beginning.

* [[Alien Invasion]]: By proxy.

* [[Interface with a Familiar Face]]: Andromeda looks exactly like a female operator killed earlier by the computer (except she's now [[Blondes Are Evil|blonde]]). The computer used the woman's death to gain all the knowledge it needed to create an [[Artificial Human]].

* [[Is That a Threat?]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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'.

 

* [[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.

* [[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 with Foreign Languages]]/[[Bastardly Speech]]: When Kaufman announces that Intel has effectively taken over Azaran, the translator shows his disapproval by talking loudly over him. Also this scene:

''(Translator gives long stream of Arabic)''

''(Kaufman glares at translator)'' }}

* [[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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