I remember watching every episode of this series in 1964/65 when I was 11 years old. I was extremely disappointed when the series went off the air after only one year.
I rewatched this episode 59 years later on Tubi and I was just as delighted by it as I was when I first saw it.
In this episode, regular zany character, Peter Robinson (Jack Mullaney) has gotten into debt ($500) with a pool shark and doesn't have the money to pay him back. He begs his friend Dr. Robert McDonald to help him out. McDonald teaches his robot, Rhoda (Julie Newmar) to play pool, and being a robot she quickly becomes the greatest pool player in the world. This leads to a bigger problem when she wins $50,000 from another pool shark gangster. McDonald has to create a flaw in her pool playing to keep the second pool shark from resorting to drastic measure Today we have real robots and we humans are facing real problems with them outmatching us humans in almost everything. Hopefully, these problems will be as comically simple to solve as this one.
The show works as both science fiction and comedy.
I rewatched this episode 59 years later on Tubi and I was just as delighted by it as I was when I first saw it.
In this episode, regular zany character, Peter Robinson (Jack Mullaney) has gotten into debt ($500) with a pool shark and doesn't have the money to pay him back. He begs his friend Dr. Robert McDonald to help him out. McDonald teaches his robot, Rhoda (Julie Newmar) to play pool, and being a robot she quickly becomes the greatest pool player in the world. This leads to a bigger problem when she wins $50,000 from another pool shark gangster. McDonald has to create a flaw in her pool playing to keep the second pool shark from resorting to drastic measure Today we have real robots and we humans are facing real problems with them outmatching us humans in almost everything. Hopefully, these problems will be as comically simple to solve as this one.
The show works as both science fiction and comedy.