Giant Robot

I dont know how many of your remember this one, but back in late eighties, there was this program called ‘Giant robot’ that used to come in DD. I remember as a kid, I’d watch it every wed evening without fail. I think this was the first time I watched sci-fi on TV. I also remember my dad telling me once ‘If you study well, once day you can build your own and have your own flying robot”

But I remember seeing this in Black and white even though we had a color TV.

29 Comments

  1. vaibhav · April 30, 2003 Reply

    wow! where did you get that from??

    I do! I do!

    I had to finish my homework before I could watch “Giant Robot” after “krishi darshan”. 😀 I always completed my homework on time _on wednesdays_. What I got to listen from the teachers the next day in school is a different story.

    BTW, we still have “krishi darshan” dialogues going around in office here with those “Grameen bhai logon ko namaste”. 😀

  2. noelladsa · April 30, 2003 Reply

    Yes yes..specially remember the evil octopus headed guy.

  3. itsjoy · April 30, 2003 Reply

    i remember tooo!!

    even drew a portrait of it and preserved it safely till recently. Boy, that brought back some good memories!

  4. dhempe · April 30, 2003 Reply

    I remember too! 🙂 Thanks a lot for making us remember ! 🙂

    Kudos to Kallu! 😉

  5. ravi · April 30, 2003 Reply

    Jayanth Roboat!

  6. Anonymous · May 1, 2003 Reply

    Remember that one!

    Yup, I sure remember that one! It was a time when television sets weren’t in every household. All the kids in our lane would come over to my house and we would have a whale of a time watching it…..nice pic btw

  7. admin · May 1, 2003 Reply

    Good memories indeed. I wish I could get my hands on the episodes. Too bad , It will all look silly now 🙁

  8. admin · May 1, 2003 Reply

    Re: wow! where did you get that from??

    yep. homework was the key.

    After a few weeks, my parents gave me slack on wed’s. So I could actually finish my homework after watching TV 🙂

  9. amitng · May 1, 2003 Reply

    Yep, this series rocked! And it used to come in colour, afaik..

  10. ukj · May 1, 2003 Reply

    i remember the times when i’d curl up on the sofa,waiting for the show to start, n pa wud make me HOT soup……
    n i’d ask him a billion questions…

    (psstt….pa even made me this metallick arm wid ciggy foils….it had my mums red bindis for buttons…)

  11. kingsly · May 1, 2003 Reply

    Johnny Socco .. .U3 U7.. Unicorn….

  12. rashmiprasad · May 1, 2003 Reply

    Used to be my favourite show at one time too….

  13. Anonymous · May 2, 2003 Reply

    my fav too

    yes, me too.
    i always wanted to have one.
    at one point, i thought of making one.
    then i got a small robot from bhutan that had missiles that would shoot out from its head and red eyes that glowed in the dark.
    and i was like “wow!. there, i finally have one.”
    then the serial went off the channel and it slowly faded away..till you brought it up again.

    by the way, i still want one!

    cadbury

  14. sidcarter · May 2, 2003 Reply

    Dude…..I too remember it to be in B&W or was it because we had a B&W TV , then ?

    We used to play – me the kid, calling “Giant Robot, Giant Robot” on to the toy watch I used to have…way back then. 😉

  15. powell · May 2, 2003 Reply

    yup, can never forget this show :), including star trek, zigma etc. I cannot remember my first sci-fi series on TV, but heck I still love sci-fi stuff :).

  16. patrodz · May 2, 2003 Reply

    You really shouldn’t do this

    from morning, I’ve been on a childhood trip. This completed it 🙂

    Thanks, dude. Btw, saw your page from gaganm‘s page.

  17. deepu · May 3, 2003 Reply

    …. the bad guys are coming in …I flick open my watch (which I bought at one of the toy stores …this watch has a cover over the dial) .. and I speak into the watch “Come, Giant Robot ..” ….. and in a fraction of a moment I’m transformed from the kid who controls the robot (forgot his name0 and into ‘the giant robot’ ….and I flick my arms to the left ..then to the right and then up into the air and I fly to were I am needed …soon I’m shooting missiles out of my fingers ..shooting electric rays or lasers out of my eyes ..throwing trucks and big boulders at the bad guys …and finally ..the day is saved.

    That was me … a long time ago … playing ‘The Giant Robot’ ….. ha ha …. man those were the days. How can any one forget this series. I even broke the extendable antenna off my dad’s old cordless phone coz it looked like the phone/walkie talkie our hero kid used to communicate with his team …. MAN!! those were the days ….

    And Kallu …it wasn’t black and white … the series was old ..so very little colour thats all 🙂

  18. msram · May 12, 2003 Reply

    Ohmygawd! I used to love this serial! I used to watch it on Kuwait TV in the 80s. It was in Arabic, but that didn’t matter.

  19. Anonymous · July 25, 2003 Reply

    my favoritee…

    dont know how many of your remember this one, but back in late eighties, there was this program called ‘Giant robot’ that used to come in DD. I remember as a kid, I’d watch it every wed evening without fail. I think this was the first time I watched sci-fi on TV. I also remember my dad telling me once ‘If you study well, once day you can build your own and have your own flying robot

  20. Anonymous · November 2, 2003 Reply

    Giant Robot, make a punch NOW !!

    Giant Robot, make a punch NOW !!

  21. Anonymous · December 11, 2003 Reply

    Re: wow! where did you get that from??

    do u have link to website where v can read abt the serial – maybe old episode series or something

  22. Anonymous · February 4, 2004 Reply

    Street Sharks

    Can Anybody tell me What happened to the tv show Street Sharks?

  23. Anonymous · April 20, 2007 Reply

    thanx a ton pal…:)

    man u did a cool job…this was my fav serial…never used to miss it…wish i cd grab a copy of the series now…
    a cup of coffee n giant robo series…wow..!!!

  24. Anonymous · May 30, 2007 Reply

    Hey

    Can’t wait to see the pic’s…..

  25. Anonymous · November 17, 2007 Reply

    Re: thanx a ton pal…:)

    Thanks a lot brother 🙂

  26. Anonymous · February 4, 2008 Reply

    thats great

    yep….it was on Weds. I used to do a revision of home work that days to complete ASAP to watch it.

  27. Anonymous · October 8, 2008 Reply

    i still remeber

    is there by any chance that i can get a download of any of the episodes of ‘giant robot’, i was thrown away from my class coz i use to narrate the story to my friend when i was at class 4,

  28. Anonymous · January 12, 2009 Reply

    Re: i still remeber

    remember the days when my bro and i used to sit together and watch , good old days i cherish my memories

  29. Anonymous · April 24, 2009 Reply

    it wasent the late 80s…. more like the late 70s

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