Reviews

A sitcom type of show similar to Basil Brush or Rentaghost. Mickey's vocoder voice is sometimes difficult to listen to, and the cast ham it up for laughs. One to two risqué gags can be found, referencing breasts, gynaecology and other innuendo, but generally its good clean fun. Some jokes now - references to British Leyland, Margaret Thatcher etc, have dated the show, but these are few. Irene Handle is great but sadly seems confined to a handful of catch phrases.

Most of the episodes are very samey, but mickey has an undeniable charm for a robot actor. Mickey Dolenz from the Monkees produced the show, but did not name Metal Mickey.

First series is available on DVD in the UK (went on sale in Feb 2008)

Along with 'Metal Mickey', Mickey Dolenz from the Monkees had a hand in Luna.

It was a sort of futuristic sitcom set in a totalitarian society, with an almost unintelligible vocabulary of future-jargon. Everyone is cloned (or something) and they have numbers instead of names. Luna was named after the Moon where she was (born?) and she was adopted by a family who all had nicknames to replace their numbers. A young Patsy Kensit played Luna in the first series at least and was very good as i recall. Took quite a lot to get used to the futurespeak.

Would be interesting to see nowadays. Weird stuff....