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* [[Missing Episode]]: Most of "A for Andromeda", as episodes weren't taped by the BBC in those days. Averted with the sequel.
* [[Brainwashed|Mind Control]]: The computer can directly control its synthetic lifeforms, and can brainwash susceptible people. However human greed and conflict are more effective means of extending its influence.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The computer reacts to Fleming's attempts to sabotage it with increasingly hostile acts. In the sequel it's revealed that one of those acts was to create the bacteria that's going to destroy all life on Earth.
* [[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 conjuction with the computer rather than having it downloaded into her head.
* [[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'.
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* [[Qurac]]: Azaran, a newly-independent Middle Eastern country which hopes to use the computer to resolve its agricultural problems.
* [[Reluctant Mad Scientist]]: Scientists are lured to Azaran by Intel under various pretexts, whereupon they discover [[You Can Never Leave]].
* [[Shell
* [[Truth Serum]]: One of Intel's tools.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: The radio message warns that without intervention most intelligent life destroys itself, and the computer tries to set up a world dictatorship to avert this.
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* [[Weather Control Machine]]: The oceans are being filled with a bacteria that absorbs nitrogen, eventually killing off all plants and reducing the air pressure, reducing the ability to produce or (in animal life) absorb oxygen.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: While not stated in those terms, that is what Andromeda offers Fleming. When he says he's not interested, the computer takes over Intel director Gamboule instead.
* [[Well
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