Out of the Unknown Liar! Surviving Clips

This story was originally in colour but only survives in B/W. Liar! is an adaption of Isaac Asimov's story from Season 3 of the missing episode of the British Broadcastin Corporations Out of the Unknown. TX. 14th January 1969

The above compilation uses the existing clips edited together from the following in the correct script order!

Clips:
Towards Tomorrow, in an edition entitled 2001:An Earth Prophecy (TX. BBC 1, 25th March 1969).
Future Fantastic BBC documentary series, in an edition entitled I Robot (1997)
Inventions that Changed the World. 23/1/04 edition of the BBC series

Some segments that are duplicated have been replaced with whichever copy gives the best sound and picture (even though these are slightly cropped at the top and bottom.

Longer, and for the most part complete, versions of all three clips, probably their first extended outing since their 1969 re-use, were recently presented in the BBC-2 documentary Sunday Past Times (TX.11/9/05) if you have a copy of this, please get in touch and compare it to the above sequence.

Plot:
At the factory plant of United Robots, a new series of humanoid robots is fresh off the production line. To counter a series of scathing press articles on the perceived robot menace however, Director Alfred Lanning (Hamilton Dyce) has invited skeptical journalist Milton Brooke (Robert James) to visit the plant to reassure him that his accusations are unfounded. To this end, he wishes to demonstrate the most recent robot off the production line RB-34, otherwise known as Herbie. With Brooke arriving for the demonstration, Lanning sends production manager Milton Ashe (Paul Chapman) down to the factory floor to collect Herbie. Once activated however, Ashe discovers to his horror that RB-34 has the remarkable but unnerving capacity to read the minds of its human creators...

More detailed information can be found here: http://www.zetaminor.com/cult/out_unknown/ootu_clips_guide_s3.htm

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• OOTU
• Liar
• edited

[Smael64]

0:12

That's from Malcom in the Middle

[CaptGage]

Wow, I've never heard of this show in my life, but I stumbled on it right after watching a clip of Journey to the Unknown!

[neonwind]

I remember seeing this as a kid & I felt so sad when the robot committed suicide! He couldn't handle all our subconscious thoughts. Thank you for this upload I've been looking for this for such a long time.

[MrIsaacE]

the next breakthrough, an IMPOLITE ROBOT

[FelixDembinski]

could this be recolourised using chroma dots?

[ewaf88]

Much closer in spirit to Azimov than that rubbishy Wil Smith nonsense

[TheRealRFW]

Love Out of the unknown, thanks for uploading.