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Alternate title(s): In His Image
Original release / air date: 3 January 1963
Runtime: 51 minutes
Season: 4
Episode: 1
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: CBS
Production company / studio: Cayuga Productions; CBS Television Network
Artificial character(s): Alan Talbot
Performer(s): George Grizzard
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot Double

Overview

Alan Talbot experiences violent compulsions and impossible memories before discovering that he is an android duplicate built in the image of scientist Walter Ryder.

ASFR Content

Alan looks completely human until an accident tears his wrist and exposes wires, lights and springs. Walter reveals that Alan was built as an improved artificial version of himself and given fabricated memories. Earlier prototype bodies are visible in Walter's laboratory.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

Alan's damaged wrist exposes machinery

After being struck by a car, Alan opens a wound in his wrist and discovers wires, blinking components and springs instead of human tissue.

Character(s): Alan Talbot
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Walter reveals Alan is his android duplicate

Walter explains that he built Alan in his own image as a more confident artificial man and filled him with memories based on Walter's past.

Character(s): Alan Talbot
Scene 3
Major

Alan's malfunction turns violent again

A trigger associated with his implanted memories causes Alan's homicidal behaviour to recur during the confrontation with Walter.

Character(s): Alan Talbot

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