Editing Automan (section)

==Synopsis==
[[File:AUTOMANCAR.jpg|thumb|left|alt=A black Lamborghini car in the dark, delineated with bright light-blue lines.|The show's car]]
''Automan'' (the "Automatic Man") follows the adventures of a [[police officer]] and [[computer programmer]] named Walter Nebicher ([[Desi Arnaz Jr.]]), who has created an [[Artificial intelligence in fiction|artificially intelligent]] crimefighting computer program that generated a [[hologram]] (played by [[Chuck Wagner]]) able to leave the computer world at night and fight crime.<ref>{{cite web |title=Show Summary |website=[[TV.com]] |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/automan/ |access-date= 2012-10-25}}</ref>

While in the tangible world (in other words, the "real world" of this television series; not the aforementioned "computer world" from which Automan originates in this TV series, where he had met such luminaries as "[[Donkey Kong (character)|Donkey Kong]]"), Automan posed as Walter's friend, government agent Otto J. Mann.  This was a secret to all except Walter's close associate, Roxanne Caldwell ([[Heather McNair]]).

Nebicher could merge with Automan to become one being, sharing consciousness and skills, while retaining Automan's invulnerability.

Cursor was his sidekick, a floating, shifting polyhedron which could "draw" and generate physical objects as needed. The most common forms taken were an automobile (the Autocar), an airplane, and a helicopter (the Autochopper), all of which could defy the laws of physics.

The show also starred [[Robert Lansing (actor)|Robert Lansing]] as Lieutenant Jack Curtis and [[Gerald S. O'Loughlin]] as Captain of Detectives E. G. Boyd, both Walter's superiors. Both believed Automan was a friend of Walter from the [[FBI]]. Captain Boyd, a technophobe who had no use for computers, often held up Lieutenant Curtis as the kind of cop he was convinced was the ideal for police – an ideal to which he believed Walter could never rise.