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Original release / air date: 8 February 1974
Runtime: 48 minutes
Season: 1
Episode: 4
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: ABC
Production company / studio: Silverton Productions; Universal Television
Artificial character(s): Mister X / Sloan Robot
Performer(s): John Saxon
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot Double

Overview

Major Fred Sloan is kidnapped and replaced by a robotic duplicate programmed to steal a classified anti-missile system.

ASFR Content

Dr. Chester Dolenz constructs Mister X as a lifelike duplicate of Sloan, loading it with the real man's voice patterns and memories. Small behavioural glitches and impossible strength make Steve suspicious. During their final fight the duplicate's life mask is torn away, exposing the mechanical face beneath, and Steve ultimately destroys it.

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ASFR Scenes

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Key ASFR scene

A robot duplicate replaces Major Sloan

Dolenz's team kidnaps the real Sloan and substitutes Mister X, a human-looking robot carrying Sloan's appearance, speech patterns and copied memories.

Scene 2
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The duplicate's behaviour begins to glitch

Odd responses and superhuman strength make Steve increasingly suspicious that the man travelling with him is not the real Sloan.

Scene 4
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Steve destroys the robot

Steve drives the exposed android onto a girder during the climactic fight, destroying Mister X.

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