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HA!!!! I KNEW IT!!!!

posted 19 years ago by mustseedvd
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I just KNEW this show existed and I wasn't imagining it!!! I can't believe I finally figured out what this was that I used to watch when I was 8. All I had to go on from memory was it being a live-action saturday morning show about a hamburger-shaped robot, some blonde, curly haired kid, and a couple bounty hunters or something who dressed in black that were chasing after them.

Funny how I had absolutely no recollection of Benji, no wonder I couldn't figure out what the heck this was until now.

Man, that's been buggin' me for years. Awesome, now I can sleep at night.

[–] TravellerDream 19 years ago

So I feel it for many years.....believe but I not have seen it for twenty years ago and I wait for it so much.It was here(Brazil)at fridays afternoons 85´.If anyone knows some video on web, post here please

[–] ead061 19 years ago

Hey don't feel too bad I thought the same thing. I was starting to think this show was all in my head. Noone I know remembers this show so I was wondering if even existed at all. Thank god for these imdb message boards I would've never remembered the name of this show. Now I can rest easier at nights.

[–] sjdean-1 18 years ago

Yaaaay, I remembered something along the lines of Benji and Zack or something but could never figure out what it was, but remembered something about a dog.

Doing some research into Deep Roy and I find this show!! Cool.

Now, where to get a DVD from!

Glad you all found it!

Cya
Simon

[–] TRINITY_ANGELIC 18 years ago

i watched this show when i was like 6. It must've been 1986/7 when it aired here in Croatia.
I remembered the names of Benji & Zax so i had no problem finding info about the series.

[–] fareastfinite 17 years ago

Mate I sympathise, I forgot about this show for a long time.. this and that one with the guy who had a beam of light that drew cars for him, automan I think it was called. It's wierd how these shows embed themselves on your unconscious when you're that age!

[–] MarkoOhNo 16 years ago

lol Same here. For SO long, I'd been trying to remember this show. But all I could remember was that it starred Benji and that he was supposed to be protecting a boy from space and his hamburger-shaped robot. I remembered that they were being chased but, over time, in my mind, the pursuers became government agents. heh It was one of my favorite shows, back in the day, and I remember being SO depressed when it suddenly wasn't on anymore.

[–] Spengler1 16 years ago

I have the complete box set from Amizon.com. Once you watch it everything comes back to you from the opening theme to the voices of the actors. Hard to believe it's been over 20 years since I first saw it. I would have been only 11 at the time. Man, Time is going by way too fast!!It's great to see all the 80's styles from clothes to cars.

[–] cruelshoes1 16 years ago

I only remembered the robot! It took me seeing one of these DVD sets in a $1 bin to remember anything else.

[–] themoonrules1 14 years ago

very strange show. I thought it was weird that the Benji franchise people decided to throw him on an island and be hunted. But pairing him up with aliens?

[–] ndp-2 14 years ago

I saw it around 1985 in Ireland. I even drew a picture of it one time in school when we were asked to depict our favourite TV show.

A couple of years ago I decided to search Google for "TV show floating robot" etc. and found a similar query, and an answer giving the title.

[–] Treefingers80 14 years ago

From Ireland aswell and found this show after it torturing me for 22 years lol. Last time i seen it, I was 4 years old and sitting playing with some Ghostbuster figures on Christmas morning. Its added so much to my fond memories of that Christmas, just clad I've finally been able to track it down.
All i could remember was a gold and black robot, along with the kid. Had no recollection of Benji, until i seen him on youtube. I can die in peace lol.

[–] aisinbiya 13 years ago

I was weeks shy of my 11th birthday (and turned 12 during the run of the series) when Benji Zax and the Alien Prince first aired on CBS in 1983 in the US (fortunately I do not look 39!). Seeing the first episode at the time, I was hooked and knew this show was special--but due to local programming issues (Nebraska's priority on sports and news) not all 13 episodes were even broadcast at the time to my great frustration!

Prince Yubi was my first actual crush in life and my first fantasy that yes, I could actually meet him on his travels and help him on his adventures and maybe even live happily ever after with him.

My classmates were hot for Michael Jackson or some other recording artist. I wanted Yubi! Not Christopher Burton! Yubi...my hero from another world! Who of course, reverse Cinderella, was the one who needed the Terran girl's help.

I found the show recently on netflix as a sort of whim to type in the name (after on a similar whim successfully finding the 1979 series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century--another series from childhood I had not seen since its initial broadcast) to see what happened. To my shock, netflix has this on streaming video (hint folks, this is a good reason to join--you can watch the show any time!). Greedily, I hit play and watched one after another...I finished the entire series in just two sittings as a sort of guilty pleasure.

And rediscovered my old crush on Prince Yubi. After all, he and I would be about the same age (well, based on "Gold Mine" I gather that he's older than Chris Burton. "young" does not mean same as he looks if the "revolution" was in progress 100 antarian years before and if his parents were married while Trask was still on planet?)...or at least at a similar stage of life.

A girl can fantasize, right?

Yubi is the kind of man I really wish existed! *sighs* what a dream boat!

For physical DVDS, I got mine on amazon.com. Immediately after finishing the series on netflix.com.

[–] kengiman 9 years ago

same here. It haunted me for years and no one I ever asked knew what I was talking about. It wasn't until I was in a discount movie store and saw an old beat up VHS box when I finally got my answer.

[–] kjguhl 7 years ago

Funny, I remember watching this show, too, but not that Benji was on it. And I was convinced for years that the robot had ET's head, but I see now that it is only vaguely ET shaped. lol