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Original release / air date: 23 January 1974
Runtime: 92 minutes
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: NBC
Production company / studio: Jeffrey Hayes Productions; Universal Television
Distributor / platform: NBC
Artificial character(s): Questor, Emil Vaslovik
Performer(s): Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android

Overview

Scientists complete a superhuman android designed by the missing Dr. Emil Vaslovik, but much of the original programming has been accidentally erased. When the surviving portion of Vaslovik's program activates the machine, the android names himself Questor and begins searching for his creator and the hidden purpose embedded in his code.

ASFR Content

Questor begins as a completed artificial body with a featureless exterior. After activating alone in the laboratory, he adds cosmetic details to his synthetic surface until he looks like a human man. His incomplete programming drives the search for Vaslovik, while a built-in nuclear generator is programmed to overload if the mission is not completed. After being shot, Questor returns to the laboratory for partial repair. The ending reveals that Vaslovik is also an android.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

Questor activates after the laboratory is empty

After the scientists conclude that the surviving programming tape has failed, the completed android quietly comes to life on its own.

Character(s): Questor
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Questor constructs his human appearance

The newly activated android adds cosmetic details to a previously featureless synthetic exterior, turning the artificial body into the appearance of a human man before leaving the laboratory.

Character(s): Questor
Scene 3
Major

Questor's programmed overload is revealed

Questor explains that the nuclear generator in his abdomen will overload and explode unless he fulfills the hidden mission embedded in Vaslovik's surviving program.

Character(s): Questor
Scene 4
Key ASFR scene

Questor is shot and partially repaired

A British soldier machine-guns Questor in a park. The damaged android returns to the project laboratory, where Robinson carries out a partial repair before the search continues.

Character(s): Questor
Features:
Scene 5
Key ASFR scene

Vaslovik reveals that he is also an android

At Mount Ararat, Questor finally reaches Vaslovik and learns that the scientist is himself the previous android in a succession created to quietly guide and protect humanity.

Character(s): Emil Vaslovik, Questor

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