Runaway (1984)

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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hunt down malfunctioning robots and discuss 1984's Runaway, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Written and directed by Michael Crichton, Tom Selleck stars as Jack Ramsey, the lead officer of the "Runaway" division in the far-flung future of 1991. Tasked with stopping out-of-control robots, Ramsey and his new partner Karen Thompson (Cynthia Rhodes) discover an evil scientist named Dr. Luther (Gene Simmons) has created chips that intentionally make robots go nuts and have to hunt him down and stop him before he can sell them to the highest bidder. Zach and Chris discuss Gene Simmons' terrible business sense, Tom Selleck's robot fighting armor, how the Runaway squad is animal control, the future technology featured that we use in real life now, and more.

You can watch Runaway on Tubi. Next week, we're heading back to Pandora to celebrate Avatar's 15th anniversary.

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