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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   I found out today that Hulu has the 10 surviving episodes of the early   
   '60s sitcom "My Living Doll".  I remember watching it when it first   
   aired on CBS, so I couldn't resist checking it out to see how bad it   
   really was.  I watched the first two and found it to be as much fun as I   
   remembered, and Julie Newmar even more stunning (any way you cut it, she   
   is one _fine_ looking woman).  I find Bob Cummings as the psychiatrist   
   trying to deal with a machine in the form of a beautiful woman to be   
   hilarious.  The culture is different--worrying about what people are   
   going to think if you have a woman staying in your apartment, the whole   
   vision of a perfect woman as one who is obedient and keeps her mouth   
   shut (which the show pokes fun at while it's expressing it--Rhoda _is_   
   obedient and Hilarity Ensues) and so on.   
      
   This was I believe the first TV series that had a proper android (noting   
   that I use "android" in the original sense of a robot in human form, not   
   the Lucasian version where it's just a synonym for "robot") as a major   
   character--I don't recall if there was one in a movie before this or   
   not.  It didn't do anything particularly wonderful with the concept, but   
   it was fun while it lasted.   
      
   I think it's a shame that more than half of the episodes that were made   
   have been lost.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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