Review of I, Robot

The Outer Limits: I, Robot (1964)
Season 2, Episode 9
One Of The Six Stinkers In The Series
18 July 2014
A robot is suspected of murder.

I wish I could like this hour like others obviously like it. The Outer Limits is mostly good but this 49 episode series had six stinkers and this is indeed one of them...to me.

The moment we see the Wizard Of Oz-type "Tin Man" I knew we were in trouble. Perhaps they should have rented out MGM's Robby The Robot as he did the rounds in retro sci-fi TV (Twilight Zone, Lost In Space, Ark 11, etc).

Act one then moves to Leonard Nimoy just before doing Star Trek. Sorry, but I have spent my whole lifetime watching Star Trek episodes/movies so it is just too much of a struggle to see Nimoy as anyone other than Mr Spock. Maybe if he spoke in a different accent and had a beard I could let my imagination go with him.

The hour is not helped by the courtroom scenes and the story as a whole. Sorry, I hate it, but most others like it.
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