1964 • Television • The Outer Limits (1963)
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Original release / air date: 14 November 1964
Runtime: 51 minutes
Season: 2
Episode: 9
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: ABC
Production company / studio: Villa Di Stefano; Daystar Productions; United Artists Television
Artificial character(s): Adam Link
Performer(s): Jake McKinnon, John Novak
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot
Features:
ActivationDamageDestructionDismantlingProgramming

Overview

A sentient robot named Adam Link is accused of murdering his creator and becomes the subject of an unprecedented legal hearing.

ASFR Content

Testimony establishes that Adam learned through trial and error after activation and that some apparently violent incidents resulted from a machine learning how much strength to use. Although Dr. Link's death was accidental, Adam is found guilty and faces dismantling. Outside the courthouse he saves a child from an oncoming vehicle and is smashed into scrap metal.

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Adam's learning process is reconstructed in court

Witnesses describe Adam's activation and his childlike trial-and-error development as he learned how to interact safely with humans.

Character(s): Adam Link
Features:
ActivationProgramming
Scene 2
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The court orders Adam's destruction

Despite evidence that his creator's death was accidental, Adam is found guilty and is to be taken away for dismantling.

Character(s): Adam Link
Features:
Dismantling
Scene 3
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Adam is smashed to scrap while saving a child

Adam breaks free to push a child out of the path of an oncoming vehicle and is destroyed by the impact.

Character(s): Adam Link
Features:
DamageDestruction

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