Twiki - Diminutive silver robot on
the sci-fi series BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY/NBC/1979-81.
Twiki (TWKE-4) was one of thousands of robotic servant drones
called Ambuquads (No. 2223-T) specially designed to assist humans.
Captain Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard), a 20th century astronaut
stranded 500 years in the future adopted one of these drones,
called him Twiki and augmented his programming with personality
traits of a 20th century person, thus insuring that Buck had
something familiar near him to remind him of his past.
Twiki, Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering
& Dr. Goodfellow
Felix Silla, a three-foot actor donned a seven-piece robot suit
to become Buck's companion/sidekick. When Twiki talked (voice of
Mel Blanc/Bob Elyea) he sounded like an electrical Porky Pig with
a "Biddi-Biddi" noise emitted from his voice box.
Tina (Patty Maloney), a gold-plated Ambuquad who fell in love
with Twiki while on board a pleasure cruiser, made "Booti-Booti"
Twiki also carried a round robot brain called Dr. Theopolis
about his chest (Eric Server). See also "Crichton"
Felix Silla as Twiki the Robot
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