Mission: 2110

The series is a children's game show set 100 years in the future in the year 2110. The world has been taken over by the evil Roboidz who were built to aid humans. They have destroyed everything and Caleb is the only person left. He is part human and part machine and does not remember anything about before the robots took over, due to memory loss. Earth's last hope is to destroy and rid the world of the Roboidz. Children are brought into Future Gate where they undertake challenges in groups of four until only one is left under the watchful eye of Caleb. When four of the best recruits are assembled they tackle Future Gate in the final of the show. Each episode's opening titles are headed with a safety warning:

"Mission: 2110 is set in the future and the adventures you are about to see are controlled by trained professionals. Please do not try any of the missions performed in the show at home."

At the end of every episode, apart from the last episode of each series, Neuros is heard over the credits saying that Caleb won't succeed.

In 2030, scientists Laura Gant and Simon Lansing created the Roboidz as machines for the benefit of mankind, both on earth and beyond. However, the Roboidz ultimately ended up turning evil and rebelled against their creators, returning to earth with the intent of destroying mankind. In the resulting war of 2067, mankind was all but wiped out after an army of a million soldiers all fell in battle. In the year 2110, Caleb (as far as he knows) is the only survivor of the war and the last human alive. He is part human, and part machine and has no memory of his past life. He is the only hope for humanity so he enlists the help of young recruits from 100 years in the past (2010), training them to battle the Roboidz and become the ultimate recruit to help rid the world of the Roboidz.

Along the way, Caleb attempts find out about his past, the origins of the Roboidz and also desperately tries to make contact with any potential fellow survivors of the war. He often consults his only other ally Cybele, an AI that knows about some of Caleb's past and the Roboidz, for answers, with Cybele often having to tell Caleb to focus on his mission. It's eventually revealed that Cybele is the conscious of Laura Gant, Caleb's mother, and it's heavily hinted that Neuros is the brain of Laura Gant, thus being Caleb's true mother.

At the end of series 1, Caleb seemingly succeeds in stopping the Roboidz by defeating the Roboidz leader Arkon, but it's shown post-credits that he survived and re-powered up the Roboidz. The series 2 finale had Caleb come face to face with Neuros for the first time, and in anger over her suggestions that she is his true mother, Caleb smashes her on the ground, seemingly killing her, though the post-credit sequence suggested that she may be still alive.

• Caleb Lansing-Gant (Stuart Goldsmith) - Part human, part machine. He can remember nothing of his past before the Roboidz took over. He wants to know about his past, and that of the Roboidz. It's later revealed that he is the son of Laura Gant and Simon Lansing, the creators of the Roboidz. He caught an unknown disease at the age of 17 and fell very ill. After his parents gave up on any hope of finding a cure, they cryogenically froze him. After waking up, Caleb has no recollection of his previous life.
• Cybele (Lindsay Duncan) - An AI that knows Caleb and about his past, and is Caleb's only ally apart from recruits. It's later revealed in series 2 that Cybele is the AI of Laura Gant, Caleb's mother that died many years ago.
• Neuros (Lindsay Duncan) - The main computer system controlling all the Roboidz (really a brain in a bio-rod-like container, hence her name). In the series 2 finale, it's heavily hinted that she is the brain of Laura Gant, and Caleb's true mother, but this was never fully confirmed.
• Roboidz (voiced by Gareth Jones, Rich Garraghty & Noel Byrne) - The Roboidz are robots that were (as revealed in series 2, episode 4) originally created by Laura Gant (Cybele) to aid humanity. Now, due to a revolt on Gamma FI4, they have destroyed the planet and got rid of any remaining humans. They were powered down in every place at the end of series 1, but reactivated by their leader, Arkon. They come in different classes, each a different colour and wielding different weaponry:
  • Worker - Drone Class - They are yellow with black stripes and do all the menial jobs around Future Gate, armed with the strength of ten men and pincer claws which can destroy anything, particularly Caleb's recruits. Luckily for the recruits, they are the least intelligent of the Roboidz.
  • Wardroid - Battle Class - They are red in colour and are the police force of Future Gate, armed with military training, a vector-beam rifle and boxing glove-like rip claws. Despite being the most dangerous of the Roboidz as Caleb describes them, they are pretty stupid.
  • Guard - Commander Class - They are silver in colour and although they have no visual ability, they instead have the latest radar tech. They are also the most intelligent of the Roboidz and armed with multi-digit claws which are more powerful than steel and can be fatal to a recruit
• Arkon (Peter Dickson) - Led all the Roboidz to earth after the Gamma FI4 revolt and seemingly died at the end of series 1, but was shown to be alive as he powered up all the Roboidz again (including himself and Neuros). Unlike the other Roboidz, he had blue eye lights, a blue colour scheme and the ability of speech.
• Shades (voiced by Gareth Jones, Rich Garraghty & Noel Byrne) - They used to be people before the Roboidz converted them into foul-smelling inhuman shades. They too were powered down everywhere.
• Recruits - Children who are brought onto Future Gate to battle the Roboidz. After each episode they are either transported home or vaporised somewhere - Caleb and the remaining recruits don't know where.

The episodes all have the same format. The same group of recruits are present for three episodes, during which they are gradually reduced to one. The same challenges are undertaken by all 16 recruits.

• Day 1 - The four recruits are introduced. They all take on four challenges, two played individually and two played as pairs to try and gain as many bio-rods as they can.
• Day 2 - The four recruits undertake harder challenges as they try to progress. The final challenge of the day based in V-Lab, called The Vaporiser, and whoever gained the most bio-rods is except from the challenge. The remaining three take part where the losing recruit is vaporised and therefore removed. The remaining three recruits continue to the next day.
• Day 3 - The remaining three recruits now undertake even tougher challenges. Only one recruit can continue to the final mission. Numbers of bio rods are also re-set from the previous days totals to give everyone an equal chance of progressing to the next stage of the contest. The three of them face The Vaporiser again, and the recruit that reaches the centre first moves onto the final mission.

When the four elite recruits have been found they undertake four more harder and different challenges in one day. After the second and third challenges, two recruits are transported home. The remaining two recruits then face the final challenge in N-Lab, The Neuros Web. Whoever wins the challenge is the crowned the ultimate recruit while the loser is vaporised. The ultimate recruit is then transported home.

In August 2010, the "Mission 2110" camera crew (series 1&2) Pete Kelly, Allen McLaughlin, Hugh Creaney, plus Adrian Croome (Jib) and Adam Rogers (mini-cams), were nominated for a Royal Television Society award for multi-camera work. The winners were announced at a ceremony in London on 24 November 2010, but they had lost.

• Mission: 2110 at BBC Programmes
• Mission: 2110 on IMDb
• Roboidz foldee available from the CBBC website