About: Slim John

An Entity of Type: television show, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Slim John was a 1969 BBC English Language Instruction serial made for overseas broadcast, in twenty-six episodes of fourteen minutes each, and in black and white. It involves android robots from outer space planning to take over the Earth, starting with London. They work following the directions of an authority called Control. Robot Five, nicknamed Slim John (Simon Williams), is himself a rebel robot who befriends a human couple, Stevie and Richard.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Slim John est une série télévisée britannique en 26 épisodes de quatorze minutes, en noir et blanc, créée par John Wiles et Brian Hayles en 1969. En France, cette série a été diffusée au début des années 1970 par l'OFRATEME (Office français des techniques modernes d'éducation). Elle succède à la série Walter and Connie. (fr)
  • Slim John was a 1969 BBC English Language Instruction serial made for overseas broadcast, in twenty-six episodes of fourteen minutes each, and in black and white. It involves android robots from outer space planning to take over the Earth, starting with London. They work following the directions of an authority called Control. Robot Five, nicknamed Slim John (Simon Williams), is himself a rebel robot who befriends a human couple, Stevie and Richard. Slim John has extraordinary strength. The plots revolve around the other robots trying to eliminate him, and often include the fact that Slim John and the other robots have limited amounts of power available and need to recharge themselves regularly. Short grammar lessons are transmitted to all the robots at regular intervals via their hand-held communication devices (anticipating personal digital assistants by more than 30 years). These short lessons are presented not only to the robots (including Slim John), but in full screen to the viewers. The serial was an educational tool used for English language instruction. It was supported by books and records as an English teaching method. The series was broadcast for years all over the world, in Turkey, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Yugoslavia and other countries. Hungary, Poland and Romania were the only Eastern Bloc countries to show the serial, with an enormous response, in the 1970s. (en)
dbo:author
dbo:company
dbo:network
dbo:numberOfEpisodes
  • 26 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:starring
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 4509358 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3807 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1113817445 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:caption
  • From left to right : Richard, Stevie and Slim John (en)
dbp:company
dbp:country
  • United Kingdom (en)
dbp:genre
  • Language Instruction / Science Fiction (en)
dbp:imageSize
  • 240 (xsd:integer)
dbp:numEpisodes
  • 26 (xsd:integer)
dbp:starring
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:writer
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Slim John est une série télévisée britannique en 26 épisodes de quatorze minutes, en noir et blanc, créée par John Wiles et Brian Hayles en 1969. En France, cette série a été diffusée au début des années 1970 par l'OFRATEME (Office français des techniques modernes d'éducation). Elle succède à la série Walter and Connie. (fr)
  • Slim John was a 1969 BBC English Language Instruction serial made for overseas broadcast, in twenty-six episodes of fourteen minutes each, and in black and white. It involves android robots from outer space planning to take over the Earth, starting with London. They work following the directions of an authority called Control. Robot Five, nicknamed Slim John (Simon Williams), is himself a rebel robot who befriends a human couple, Stevie and Richard. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Slim John (fr)
  • Slim John (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License