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''Here Comes Tobor'' (1956) was a proposed American science-fiction television series, meant as a spin-off off the 1954 film
Crime Fighting Heroes of Television: Over 10,000 Facts from 151 Shows, 1949-2001
'. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. p. 79 Tobor ('Robot' spelled backwards) was a nine-foot-tall robot that had come into the control of the U.S. government.
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'. p. 14 In ''Here Comes Tobor'', Tobor is owned by Professor Bruce Adams (played by
Billboard 14 apr 1956
'. p. 4 Tommy is, in the series, able to control Tobor through an ESP detector. Moreover, his IQ is supposedly the highest ever registered.
''Here Comes Tobor'' pilot at archive.org
''Here Comes Tobor'' (1956) was a proposed American science-fiction television series, meant as a spin-off off the 1954 film Tobor the Great
''Tobor the Great'' (a.k.a. ''Tobor'') is a 1954 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Richard Goldstone, directed by Lee Sholem, and starring Charles Drake, Karin Booth, and Billy Chapin. The film wa ...
. The 26-minute pilot was produced by Richard Goldstone for the 1956–1957 season, written by Arnold Belgard and directed by Duke Goldstone . However, the project was not aired and only a pilot episode
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie), in United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distri ...
was filmed.Terrace, Vincent. Crime Fighting Heroes of Television: Over 10,000 Facts from 151 Shows, 1949-2001
'. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. p. 79 Tobor ('Robot' spelled backwards) was a nine-foot-tall robot that had come into the control of the U.S. government.
Billboard 21 apr 1956
'. p. 14 In ''Here Comes Tobor'', Tobor is owned by Professor Bruce Adams (played by
Arthur Space
Charles Arthur Space (October 12, 1908 – January 13, 1983) was an American film, television and stage actor. He was best known as Doc Weaver, the veterinarian, in thirty-nine episodes of the CBS television series ''Lassie''.
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) and mind-controlled by Adam's genius nephew Tommy (Tommy was played by Tommy Terrell although ''Billboard
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'' erroneously stated at the time that eleven-year-old actor Tiger Fafara
Lucas "Luke" Fafara II (born January 3, 1945), also known as Tiger Fafara, is a former American child actor best known for portraying the role of "Tooey Brown" on the sitcom '' Leave It to Beaver''.
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had been cast for the role).Billboard 14 apr 1956
'. p. 4 Tommy is, in the series, able to control Tobor through an ESP detector. Moreover, his IQ is supposedly the highest ever registered.
Bruce Cowling
Bruce Cowling (October 30, 1919 – August 22, 1986) was a film and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s.
The Oklahoma-born actor appeared in twenty films including ''Song of the Thin Man'' (1947), '' Battleground'' (1949), ''Ambush'' (1950 ...
was also cast for a role.
In the pilot "Tobor and the Atomic Submarine", Professor Adams runs the Adams Research Center. The plot of the pilot episode centers on a search for a missing nuclear submarine, which Professor Adams and Tobor help the U.S. Navy to find. The credits of the pilot episode read "Tobor played by Tobor". In the film, Tobor flies in a rocket, recovers the missing submarine and fights a gang of pirates.
''Here Comes Tobor'' was produced by Guild Films
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and was shot in Hollywood
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by co-producer Carl Dudley
Carl Ward Dudley (1910–1973) was an American film director and producer. He was best known for directing and producing short travelogues.
Biography
Early life
Carl Ward Dudley was born on December 31, 1910, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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H ...
(Dudley Pictures Corp.). The theme of ''Here Comes Tobor'' was composed by Howard Jackson. The pilot cost around $50,000 to produce. After having failed to sell the pilot for the 1956–1957 season, Guild Films made renewed attempts to merchandise it during 1957.
Cast
* Tommy Terrell as Tommy Adams * Bruce Cowling as Steve * Arthur Space as Prof. Adams * Gavin Gordon as Admiral Morgan * Alan Reynolds as Talbot * Franz Roehn as Dr. OhmDVD release
The pilot of ''Here Comes Tobor'' was released onRegion 0
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DVD-R
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by Alpha Video
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on February 26, 2008.
See also
* ''Tobor the Great
''Tobor the Great'' (a.k.a. ''Tobor'') is a 1954 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Richard Goldstone, directed by Lee Sholem, and starring Charles Drake, Karin Booth, and Billy Chapin. The film wa ...
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External links
*''Here Comes Tobor'' pilot at archive.org
References
{{reflist Unaired television pilots Television pilots not picked up as a series