Holmes & Yo-Yo

Holmes & Yoyo
Genre	Situation comedy
Created by	Jack Sher Lee Hewitt
Starring	Richard B. Shull John Schuck Bruce Kirby Andrea Howard
Theme music composer	Dick Halligan
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Leonard Stern
Producer(s)	Arne Sultan
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Heyday Productions Inc. Universal Television
Distributor	NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 25 – December 11, 1976/ August 8, 1977

Holmes & Yoyo is an American comedy television series that aired on ABC for 13 episodes during the 1976-1977 season. The series follows Detective Holmes and his new android partner Yoyo, on their adventures and misadventures, as Holmes teaches Yoyo what it is like to be human, while trying to keep his quirky partner's true nature a secret from criminals and fellow cops.

The executive producer was Leonard Stern, a former staff writer for and executive producer of Get Smart, which featured an android character named Hymie who was, in most respects, a prototype for Yoyo. Several episodes of Holmes & Yoyo were directed by John Astin. Joint series lead John Schuck also acted out the role of SFPD Detective SGT Charles Enright in the McMillan And Wife made-for-television films that starred Rock Hudson alongside Susan Saint James, of which Stern was also creator and executive producer.

Richard B. Shull starred as Detective Alexander Holmes; John Schuck starred as his partner Gregory "Yoyo" Yoyonovich. Their co-stars included Andrea Howard and Bruce Kirby. Jay Leno appeared in the pilot as a gas station attendant.

Detective Alexander Holmes is a clumsy down-on-his-luck cop who constantly injures his partners. The department gives him a new partner, Gregory Yoyonovich. Yoyo, as he likes to be called, is good-natured, if a bit clumsy, and also surprisingly strong. During one of their first calls, Yoyo is shot, and Holmes discovers that his new partner is an android, a sophisticated new crime-fighting machine designed by the police department as their secret weapon on crime. "You're not a person!" is Holmes' stunned response.

Besides super-strength, Yoyo's other abilities include speed reading, and the ability to analyze clues at the scene. Yoyo had a built-in Polaroid camera: each time his nose was pressed, a Polaroid photograph of his view would be taken and ejected from his shirt pocket. Yoyo's control panel was built into his chest, which could be opened by pulling his tie. The level of Yoyo's batteries was critical, because if they ran down his memory and, effectively, his being would be erased. In one episode his batteries came very close to running down completely, and he was charged by being pushed against an electric fence with his arms extended. Yoyo weighed 427 pounds, and his heavy build could absorb the shock of a bomb.

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