Sickout

Sickout

February 26, 2001 TV Episode Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

Studio
Adelaide Productions, Columbia Tri-Star Television Animation, Dark Horse Entertainment
Distributor
Columbia TriStar Domestic Television

Synopsis

Big Guy and Rusty race against the clock to stop an alien virus and the creature that's spreading it.

Characters

Rusty, Jo, The Big Guy, Dr. Erika Slate, Dwayne Hunter, Dr. Axel Donovan, Jenny the Monkey, Garth, Mack, General Thorton

Credits

Producing

Producer
Frank Squillace
Associate Producer
Helen Kalafatic
Co-Executive Producer
Jeff Kline

Music

Music
Inon Zur

Crew

Series Developer
Jeff Kline
Production Design
Frederick J. Gardner

Companies and other credits

  • Creator: Frank Miller

Production notes

Big Guy was the world's first artificially intelligent robot, created by the government to fight on behalf of the planet, or so we thought... Big Guy is, in fact, just a suit with a man inside it pretending to be Big Guy's mechanic. However, the world's population was not to know Big Guy wasn't a robot because the government couldn't tell society that the technology wasn't yet ready.

Years later, however, Big Guy finds that he has been put into retirement and replaced by a new, young robot called Rusty, who genuinely has Artificial Intelligence, along with the mind and personality of a 10-year-old boy. However, he soon comes unstuck when he's given the task of saving the world from alien invaders and mad robot cults. This proves too difficult for him, and it's now up to Big Guy, who is called out of retirement, to save the day. But now he must show the young robot the ropes.