Robot Week (TV story)

The CBBC content block Robot Week featured the licensed appearance of The Doctor's TARDIS, which is used to create BI1nk Bot 3.

Synopsis
Hacker takes the Doctor's TARDIS on a trip in the hopes of building a robot. Little does Karim know that the wonders of the TARDIS will change his day... forever.

Plot
Hacker and Karim are at the CBBC desk sorting through piles of robot designs that the viewers of CBBC have sent in for them.

Hacker recalls that he has an friend called the Doctor and that he has a TARDIS and might be able to choose design and make one of the robots come to life. The TARDIS then materialises in front of them. Hacker says he is allowed to borrow the machine when the Doctor doesn't need it. He also states that he is currently on the planet Florana having a break.

Hacker and Karim enter the TARDIS, Karim is overwhelmed by the size and beauty of it. Hacker says "It's the best transcendental time machine he'd ever seen". Hacker and Karim then search the TARDIS for a device which can make the robot come to life. Karim pulls the leaver which makes the TARDIS dematerialise.

Karim then processes the designs and as if by magic, the TARDIS had chosen on of the designs and made it come to life.

The robot then decided to scarper, leaving Hacker and Karim to chase after him. Firstly they chase the robot around the TARDIS until it left which made Karim and Hacker leave too.

The TARDIS then dematerialised and was sent back to the Twelfth Doctor. Karim and Hacker manage to stop the robot and say how pleased they are with the design. The robot now lives.

Immediately, after remarking that it's "cool", Karim asks if he can charge his phone using the robot, to which it refuses. Hacker then asked if they can keep him, with Karim simply responding "I guess so" before getting excited that they had created a robot. The robot proceeds to question why, after travelling through time and space, he was taken to the CBBC HQ, although Hacker told him that it's great there, and that they have a brand new hand dryer in "the lavvie". Karim then faces the camera and thanks everyone who sent in robot designs, before again bringing attention to the robot, and introducing Just Kidding, with the robot repeating the show's title.

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Cast
More to be added
 * Hacker - Phil Fletcher
 * Himself - Karim Zeroual
 * BI1nk Bot 3

Crew
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With special thanks to the Doctor Who crew for the usage of the TARDIS

Story notes

 * This story has a passing similarity to Mind My Minions, given that both feature an unusual set of characters "borrowing" the Doctor's TARDIS.
 * The TARDIS prop is the one used in series eight and series nine.
 * A publicity photo was released on the CBBC website. It was followed by a full video of the original television story.
 * The story was broadcast in conjunction with "Robot Week".

Continuity

 * Hacker mentions the planet Florana, previously mentioned in TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs.