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This isn't Sarah Jane's first go-around at the Rodeo Of Weird; and anyway she's a level-headed woman who's [[Doctor Who/Recap/S11/E03 Death to the Daleks|taken on Daleks]], so of course she panics and flees - but Winters and her lackey are standing at the doorway. They proclaim this is all a massive joke and everyone's having fun looking at this robot, the Experimental Prototype Robot K1. And Winters proves this is all a great joke by ordering the robot to... kill Sarah Jane! Of course, that's hilarious! The Robot, knowing that companions rarely die, decides to enter the dreaded Blue Screen of Death mode - and Sarah Jane hurries herself out of there pronto. Then Winters' lackey, Jellicoe, voices concern over that 'joke,' as the robot's programming has been screwed with.
So, rather than let the robot defragment its hard drive or reflash its firmware or whatever the hell ailing computers did in 1974, Winters and Jellicoe decide to reprogram K1 and... send it off to kill a Cabinet Minister! Meanwhile, the Doctor and UNIT decide to visit Kettlewell, as Sarah Jane's reports of a giant robot that could crush you without a second thought if its operating system doesn't crash obviously aren't proof enough for UNIT. Kettlewell mocks the idea of the K1 Robot still being around, as only he has the ability to make it work... but does eventually admit that if the robot was reprogrammed, [[
So, everyone goes back off to the Think Tank under various guises. The Doctor as a simple visitor, Harry as a random medical inspector. The Doctor and Winters banter back and forth about the K1 Robot, but Winters claims it's been dismantled while the Doctor figures she has to be lying. Back at UNIT HQ, the Doctor receives a call from Kettlewell about the Robot being at the think tank, leaves a note on the TARDIS [[Chasing Your Tail|and then runs back to the Think Tank]]. There, the Doctor finally runs into the K1 Robot, which proclaims him the enemy of Humanity. The Doctor gives it a game struggle (involving marbles, creative use of his scarf, and his own hat) before being knocked down, and the Robot begins to bend down and... well, not actually ''do anything'' to the Doctor, as Sarah Jane runs into the room and... shouts that the Think Tank is deceiving the poor robot.
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* [[Actually, That's My Assistant]]: Sarah Jane makes this mistake while visiting the Think Tank.
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* [[Putting on the Reich]]: SRS.
* [[Rank Up]]: Sergeant Benton is promoted to Regimental Sergeant Major. (That's the second time he's had a promotion just when the Doctor regenerated.)
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* [[Robot Buddy]]: Ol' K1 himself. One wonders if future robot buddy K9 is his descendant...
* [[Shout-Out]]: The story contains several resemblances to [[I, Robot (literature)|I, Robot]] and [[King Kong]].
* [[Stock Episode Titles]]: 10 uses
* [[This Is No Time for Knitting]]: The Brigadier, Harry Sullivan and the Doctor are investigating the scene of a robbery, only to have the Doctor play a seemingly inordinate amount of attention to a squashed flower on the lawn. However, the Doctor explains that he is investigating an important clue, considering that flower was near pulverized by being stepped on by something that apparently weighed a quarter ton, a piece of information that the officers definitely find interesting.
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