Out of the Unknown - Season 3

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Episodes

Immortality, Inc.

Season 3Episode 150 min

Immortality, Inc.

The very rich can buy eternal life: all that's needed is someone desperate enough to donate, for a high price, a young body into which their personality can be transferred.

Season 3Episode 250 min

Liar!

The positronic brain of robot RB-34(Herbie) has an unforeseen 'extra': he can read human thoughts. So his take on the First Law of Robotics ("A robot may not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm") is unorthodox: he tells human beings only what he believes will not hurt their feelings. Can renowned robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin 'fix' RB-34? Or are there areas of her own psyche where she would rather not hear the truth?

The Last Lonely Man

Season 3Episode 350 min

The Last Lonely Man

If, by an accident of science, it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someone still alive, then the big new problem would be into whom. To foist the wits of a rogue onto an unwilling recipient would be unjust indeed. Any government who could thus cheat death might indeed win a popular vote, but only so long as all was voluntary - mutually contracted. James Hale is a man of such a society. He has insured against death of his personality by arranging mutual "Contact" contracts with his relatives. He is already host to his late father with whose memories and prejudices he has now learned to live. He himself is a responsible parent of twins whose Contact he will arrange when they are of age.

Season 3Episode 450 min

Beach Head

Giant multi-generation starship with a virtual city of people on board. The ship has been travelling for so long that the occupants have long forgotten the mission and the purpose. They have invented a cult like religion worshipping the tree the wind and the grass even although none of them have ever experienced any of those things. Eventually alarms sound one day. The ship has navigated itself to the destination and the ""leader"" is informed of the mission purpose. The occupants are reluctant to leave the ship, something that the mission inventors had predicted, so the ship was flooded with gas to force the occupants out onto their new planetary home.

Something in the Cellar

Season 3Episode 550 min

Something in the Cellar

Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his basement, much to the concern of his friend, Dr Pugh.

Season 3Episode 650 min

Random Quest

Following an explosion in a laboratory accident, physicist Colin Trafford is sent to a parallel universe where he enters into the body of his counterpart, a popular writer married to an attractive woman who hates him.

févr. 11, 1969

Season 3Episode 750 min

The Naked Sun

Earth police detective Lije Baley and his robot associate, R. Daneel Olivaw, investigate an impossible murder on a planet where physical proximity is taboo but nudity is not.

févr. 18, 1969

The Little Black Bag

Season 3Episode 850 min

The Little Black Bag

When a down-at-heel, alcoholic physician discovers a medical kit, based on future technology, accidentally left in the wake of a time-travel expedition, he becomes a dispenser of miracle cures. But is his discovery enough to salvage his self-esteem and redeem his life?

févr. 25, 1969

Season 3Episode 950 min

1 + 1 = 1.5

The population of the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century is static, thanks to computerized population control, but the wife of the Population Officer becomes pregnant for the second time.

Season 3Episode 1050 min

The Fosters

Mr Foster and his sister live quietly in the suburbs but are not what they seem, possessing scientific knowledge far in advance of humanity.

Target Generation

Season 3Episode 1150 min

Target Generation

The Ship contains a generation, and only one inheritor knows what must be done when the tremor is felt throughout the metal cylinder.

The Yellow Pill

Season 3Episode 1250 min

The Yellow Pill

A murderer is examined by psychiatrist John Frame who is surprised to find the criminal knows many details of his private life.

Get Off My Cloud

Season 3Episode 1350 min

Get Off My Cloud

A bed-bound SF author finds himself within one of his own fantasies after a mental breakdown.

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