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Original release / air date: 30 November 1969
Runtime: 50 minutes
Season: 4
Episode: 9
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: CBS
Production company / studio: Paramount Television
Artificial character(s): Mechanical Zagov
Performer(s): Leonard Nimoy
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot Double

Overview

The IMF constructs a mechanical double of the dead Premier Zagov to manipulate a deputy premier who is already using a human actor to impersonate the ruler.

ASFR Content

Barney's robot can pass visually as Zagov, speak and perform scripted behaviour under computer control. The team openly demonstrates the mechanical man to Kamirov and adjusts its programming. During the final televised confrontation Kamirov denounces the apparent premier as a machine, thereby exposing his own knowledge that the real Zagov is dead.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

Barney constructs a lifelike mechanical Zagov

The IMF brings a robot designed to pass as the deceased premier and demonstrates its speech and behaviour to Kamirov.

Character(s): Mechanical Zagov
Scene 2
Major

The robot's computer programming is adjusted

The IMF team makes changes to the mechanical man's computer so it can perform the next phase of the deception.

Character(s): Mechanical Zagov
Features:
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

The mechanical double is exposed on television

Kamirov publicly declares the apparent Zagov to be a mechanical counterfeit, unwittingly revealing that he already knew Zagov was dead.

Character(s): Mechanical Zagov
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