Out of This World was a short-lived British anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff. Of the fourteen episodes, apparently only this one survives -- an adaptation of one of Isaac Asimov's "Robot" stories. ("Little Lost Robot," Astounding Science Fiction, March 1947; reprinted in I, Robot, 1950; in a separate chapbook, 1977; in The Complete Robot, 1982; in Robot Dreams, 1986; in The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov, 1989; in Robot Visions, 1990; and anthologized numerous times) Other episodes, presumably lost included adaptations of John Wyndham's "Dumb Martian," Rog Phillips' "The Yellow Pill,", Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations," Philip K. Dick's "The Imposter," Robert Moore Williams's "Medicine Show," Katherine Maclean's "Pictures don't Lie," Raymond F. Jones's "Divided We Fall," and Clifford D. Simak's "Immigrant" and "Target Generation."
From YouTube: "At the Hyper Base, a military research station on an asteroid, scientists are working to develop the hyperspace drive [...] One of the researchers, Gerald Black, loses his temper, and swears at a NS-2 (Nestor 10) robot and tells the robot to get lost. Obeying the order literally, it hides itself. It is then up to U.S. Robots Chief Robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin, and Mathematical Director Peter Bogert, to find it. They know exactly where it is: in a room with 62 other physically identical robots."
Featuring Maxine Audley as Susan Calvin (although she does not look anything like what I imagined Asimov pictured her), Murray Hayne as Peter Bogert, and Clifford Evans as Major General Kaliner. Also featuring Gerald Flood and Hayden Jones. Roger Snowden donned the world's cheesiest robot costume to play NS-2.
Directed by Guy Verney. Script by Leo Lehman.
Be warned: The settings and costumes are at a level (or perhaps below) those of early Dr. Who episodes, but that should not detract significantly your enjoyment of this episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WKVDG-_rVE
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