15 SF Acroyms

1 BIGRAT (Joe 90)
Brain Impulse Galvanascope Record And Transfer

2 BOSS (Doctor Who)
Bimorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor

3 CLITORIS (Red Dwarf)
Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society

4 DARYL (DARYL)
Data Analysing Robotic Youth Lifeform

5 HERBIE (Fantastic Four Animated Series)
Humanoid Experimental Robot B-Type, Integrated Electronics

6 KITT (Knight Rider)
Knight Industries Two Thousand

7 MASK (MASK)
Mobile Armoured Strike Kommand

8 MODOK (Iron Man comics)
Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing

9 SHADO (UFO)
Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defence Organisation

10 SHIELD (Nick Fury comics)
Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law Enforcement Division*

11 SPECTRE (James Bond)
Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion

12 TARDIS (Doctor Who)
Time And Relative Dimension** In Space

13 UNCLE (The Man from UNCLE)
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement

14 VIKI (I, Robot, the film)
Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence

15 VINCENT (The Black Hole)
Vital Information Necessary CENTralised

* Later Strategic Hazard Intervention, Espionage and Logistics Directorate
** Or Dimensions, depending on which Doctor you believe

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