The Zeta Project

30min

Action & Adventure

Animation

Kids

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Follow the futuristic adventures of Zeta, a renegade government-designed robot, and Ro, his 15-year-old streetwise companion.

Episodes

Cast

The Accomplice

1. The Accomplice

22min

27th Jan 2001

On the run from the NSA former robot assassin Zeta saves the life of a teenage runaway Ro Rowan. In return, Ro helps him escape the NSA. She persuades Zeta to search for his creators, since they would be able confirm his innocence.

His Maker's Name

2. His Maker's Name

22min

3rd Feb 2001

While looking for one of his creators, Zeta walks into a trap set by Agent Bennett.

Remote Control

3. Remote Control

22min

10th Feb 2001

While looking for Dr. Selig at at science competition, Ro and Zeta encounter Bucky, a kid genius who invented a universal remote control. Bucky's supervisor Dr. Tannor steals his invention and tries to pass it off as his own.

Change of Heart

4. Change of Heart

22min

17th Feb 2001

Zeta and Ro track Dr. Selig to a museum in Grandview, but get waylaid when a little girl becomes trapped in a fusion power chamber.

The Next Gen

5. The Next Gen

22min

24th Feb 2001

Zeta and Ro head down south to intercept a drug lord, unaware that the government has sent a new, improved model of the Zeta robot project on their trail.

West Bound

6. West Bound

22min

10th Mar 2001

Zeta and Roe flee on a train to avoid pursuit, and only Agent West manages to get on the train with them. Their efforts to avoid him are complicated by the fact that as the monorail train passes through certain electrical barriers, Zeta's hologram projectors go out of control, forcing the robot to change into different people at random. Despite this, the pair manage to escape and save the train after West's shots endanger it.

Hicksburg

7. Hicksburg

22min

31st Mar 2001

Ro returns to visit her first foster family in hopes of finding information on her biological family. Determined to impress, she creates a rich girl persona via Zee's unlimited charge-card.

Shadows

8. Shadows

22min

7th Apr 2001

After a brutal attack of Infiltration Unit Seven in a Gotham City shopping mall, Zeta has to take Ro to a hospital. Believing Zeta is solely responsible for the mall destruction, Batman vows to take him down before he can hurt anybody. Meanwhile, Zee contemplates abandoning Ro so she will not be put at risk anymore.

Crime Waves

9. Crime Waves

22min

14th Apr 2001

Zeta and Roe intervene when a local biker gang harasses a child, who is the son of a wealthy robotics manufacturer. When the child is kidnapped after he invited them to his home, Ro and Zee are implicated in the crime.

Taffy Time

10. Taffy Time

22min

5th May 2001

Fleeing from Agents West and Lee, Zeta and Ro are lured to an abandoned candy factory by bounty hunter Rodin Krick, who plans to collect the reward by any means.

Ro's Reunion

11. Ro's Reunion

22min

12th May 2001

Ro takes a chance and appears on a Jenny Jones/Oprah like show because they claim to be able to reunite her with her brother.

Kid Genius

12. Kid Genius

22min

11th Aug 2001

Bucky needs Zeta and Ro's help to get his parent back from Dr. Tanner. Tanner has them working on a technological Fountain of Youth that's not quite perfected.

First air date

27th Jan 2001

Last air date

17th Aug 2002

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks