XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 9/20/2013 6:02 PM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > 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")   
      
   Lucas didn't use android.   
      
      
   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.   
      
   The second Twilight Zone Episode was about a man who falls in love with   
   his android companion.  "The Lonely".   
      
   >   
   > I think it's a shame that more than half of the episodes that were made   
   > have been lost.   
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