Metal Mickey is a fictional five-foot-tall robot, as well as the name of a spin-off television show starring the same character.

Seeing the children chatting in the marketplace with the friendly robot led to the creation of the Metal Mickey television show.

[1] Micky Dolenz, formerly of The Monkees pop group, was brought in to produce and direct the series along with Nic Phillips and David Crossman.

The show was made by London Weekend Television and shown on the ITV network, with the entire run of 41 episodes being written by comedy writer Colin Bostock-Smith.

At the height of the series' popularity, fizzbomb sweets were marketed in the UK under the name Metal Mickey's Atomic Thunderbusters.