Your husband buys a handsome robot servant. What could possibly go wrong? Everything.
A human-looking robot housekeeper is the latest gadget to acquire in the ceaseless battle to keep up with the Joneses. But housewife Claire Belmont starts to question the wisdom of her husband's purchase when TN3 (Tony) arrives. Can a man-like robot do everything a man can do, but willingly, obediently, tirelessly? Is a robot less than a man, or more?
Production
Gloriously cheap 1960s robot costume and set design
Acting
Wendy Craig's perfectly pitched suburban desperation
Writing
Nigel Kneale's sharp satire of consumerist conformity
Director
John Gorrie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Written by Nigel Kneale, creator of Quatermass—explaining the creeping dread beneath the domestic comedy.
This aired as part of BBC's 'Out of the Unknown,' a forgotten anthology that adapted sci-fi with almost no budget and maximum anxiety.
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