Little Lost Robot

Little Lost Robot

1962 · 51 min · ★ 7.0 · Science Fiction

When a robot is supposed to obey every command, what does it do when a technician tells it to "get lost"? The only surviving play from the anthology series, Out of This World, presented by Boris Karloff.

Directed by Guy Verney

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