Chuckles

Chuckles was a Robot Clown who became a gladiator in Freddie Maxwell's destructertainment.

Biography
Chuckles, along with all other Earth robots of his generation were products of Alistair Gryffen's genius. Before Gryffen and his thought matrix, which allowed a robot to think for itself, came along, robots were little more than windup toys. Chuckles had a partner, Boris with whom he had been a clown at the circus. Balloons were his act and kids loved it.

They were taken by Freddie Maxwell to be gladiators to fight in Crashclub. Freddie thought Boris one of his best, a real contender. When K9 Mark 2 went undercover to take Freddie down, his crate was taken to the gladiator pens. Chuckles introduced Boris and himself to K9.

They soon met the champion, Pain-Maker, whom the clowns feared. Chuckles and Boris were excited that K9 was their new roommate and showed him around the place, but the walls were the only interesting feature. K9 watched Boris blow up a balloon, let the air out and then repeat this action over and over. Chuckles explained that Balloons were his act in the circus.

Freddie called Boris onto the ring on the intercom, to face the Pain-Maker. The Pain-Maker tried to strike Boris but he evaded the attacks acrobatically. However he couldn't hold out forever and the Pain-Maker destroyed him. Freddie was shocked

Thorne was behind the scheme and made K9 face the Pain-Maker. He had the Pain-Maker flash Boris' ascot to taunt K9 into destroying the him; he was laced with the explosive solarmite so Thorne could take K9's regeneration unit. K9 was angered but refused to fire, He escaped the Pain-Maker's self-destruction. Freddie was put out of business and Crashclub was closed down. Boris was soon rebuilt with a new pink ascot and a honker. He and Chuckles called K9 to thank him for shutting down Crashclub and Chuckles cheerfully informed K9 that he and Boris were going back to the Circus. (K9TV: Robot Gladiators)