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Ted Buchanan was a robot duplicate of his creator, the original Ted Buchanan.

Creation
The original Ted, a sickly inventor in the 1950s, created the robot after his wife left him. It was intended to be “a better Ted” — possibly the man he thought his wife should have for a husband. The robot then kidnapped Ted’s wife and held her captive in his bunker until she died.

Joyce Summers
Subsequently, the cycle continued long after the original Ted’s death until he began to date Joyce Summers in early 1998 after redoing her computer system at her gallery. At that time, he fed her — as well...