Not quite Robocop

I doubt if I will ever be able to explain how my brain works, but here is a pretty strange example. On various occasions throughout the years I have been able to recall a television show that I remember seeing as a kid. I could never actually determine what the show was or what ever happened on any particular episode. The only thing that I could recall was that it was a police detective show where one of the officers was a robot. And the only scene that I could remember was when the detective/robot read an entire book by just quickly flipping the pages. For some time now I have been trying to put together the pieces of this memory. Recently, I had a breakthrough - I could picture the actor’s face and for some reason, I knew he was in MASH, the movie. This was enough for me to hit the internet and I associated the face to a name, John Schuck. He played the character Painless Pole, who wanted to kill himself because he couldn’t get it up. From that point I was able to determine that he was in a short lived TV show called ‘Holmes and Yoyo’ that aired for three months in 1976. In the show he played a robot detective name Gregory Yoyonovich.

I’m not sure what is most disturbing about this story. I was only six years old when this show aired and I very much doubt that it was ever played in syndication. How can I remember something so obscure from such a young age? But what is even more peculiar to me, is that this is really something that I have been trying to figure out in my mind for quite a few years. Why? I don’t really know. Perhaps it’s just a matter of acquiring more useless knowledge. Perhaps it’s just another dandelion.