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The second episode of ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1962'', airdate 7 July 1962, is adapted from Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/LittleLostRobot". Creator/LeoLehman is credited with the teleplay, with Creator/DouglasJames directing.
Creator/BorisKarloff introduces the episode by talking about the oxygenated rose he's holding, which has been sent to him from Hyperbase 7. Dr Susan Calvin (Creator/MaxineAudley) and Director Peter Bogert (Creator/MurrayHayne) meet with Major-General Kallner (Creator/CliffordEvans), who sent Boris one of his roses. General Kallner has a problem; a Nester robot (played by Creator/RogerSnowden), modified for "strategic reasons", has gotten himself lost in a crowd of twenty unmodified robots.
Mr Black (Creator/GeraldFlood) is the chief engineer of the secret project, and [[MrExposition explains the situation]] to Walensky (Creator/HaydenJones), an engineer who [[TheWatson is mostly kept in the dark]] about the project, yet is the guinea pig put in danger when trying to find out which of the Nesters is the "missing" one.
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!!''Out of this World'''s "Little Lost Robot" provides examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: This play adds a number of [[NarrativeFiligree tiny character details]], as well as [[AscendedExtra expanding two roles]], and adding in a brief ChaseScene, all of which are absent from the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]] due to Creator/IsaacAsimov's BeigeProse style.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]], Dr Calvin interviews the robots individually before the second experiment, and they're left unobserved while waiting. In this adaptation, the conditions of the experiment are announced to the whole group at once and the group doesn't leave human sight until after the experiment. Yet the missing robot managed to talk the others around into not trying to save the human without any of the other characters noticing it.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** The NS-2 series robots are never called by their model number, and their InSeriesNickname is spelled "Nester" instead of "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Nestor]]".
** United States Robots & Mechanical Men are instead called the Universal Robots Corporation.
* AIIsACrapshoot: When Mr Black sees which Nester was the one he had ordered to "get lost!", he tries to beat it as punishment, but it ends up killing him instead. The other characters quickly use gamma rays to stop it before it can kill again.
* AscendedExtra: This play is adapted from "Literature/LittleLostRobot".
** In the original, General Kallner is present merely as commander of Hyperbase 7. In this adaptation, his fondness for growing "oxygenated roses" ties him to ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1962'''s HorrorHost and gives him an excuse to [[PromotedToLoveInterest flirt]] with Dr Calvin.
** In the original, Mr Black is a supporting character whose role is a low-ranking technician on the secret project that causes the problem by accident. In this adaptation, he is the chief engineer on the project, a [[{{Jerkass}} pompous ass]], and [[JustAMachine bigoted against robots]].
** In the original, Walensky appears [[SpearCarrier once]] in the entire story. In this adaptation, he takes on the roles of every [[NominalImportance nameless character]] to make the MinimalistCast function better.
* BeepingComputers: The gallery, from where the characters conduct the [[BluffTheImpostor experiment]], has [[ComputerEqualsTapedrive tape reels]], [[BillionsOfButtons buttons and levers]], as well as whirring and flashing lights, which shows how complicated the machinery is in Hyperbase 7.
* BillionsOfButtons: The gallery, from where the characters conduct the [[BluffTheImpostor experiment]], has [[ComputerEqualsTapedrive tape reels]], buttons and levers, as well as [[BeepingComputers whirring and flashing lights]], which shows how complicated the machinery is in Hyperbase 7.
* ComputerEqualsTapedrive: The gallery, from where the characters conduct the [[BluffTheImpostor experiment]], has tape reels, [[BillionsOfButtons buttons and levers]], as well as [[BeepingComputers whirring and flashing lights]], which shows how complicated the machinery is in Hyperbase 7.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Dr Calvin admits that the only reason she's accepting the job of finding which robot got himself lost is because she likes robots more than human beings.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After hearing about the impossible task they're asking of her, Dr Calvin decides that the liqueur that General Kallner had offered her is exactly what she needs.
* JustAMachine: Mr Black, whose role is [[AscendedExtra expanded]], is much more bigoted in this play than in the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]]. He hates the robots so much that when Dr Calvin finds which of the Nester units had been "lost", he goes down to beat it up instead of safely destroying it from up in the control room the way his source material counterpart did.
* MinimalistCast: The nameless extras are all removed, and Walensky's role [[AscendedExtra expands]] to fill the gap. Only five humans are shown, and Creator/RogerSnowden portrays all of the robots.
* MrExposition: Mr Black and [[TheWatson Walensky]] are [[AscendedExtra more prominent in this adaptation]], and the story uses this expansion to have Mr Black rant about more things, such as [[JustAMachine how terrible robots are]], and how Dr Calvin thinks she's got a new [[BluffTheImpostor test for the robots]].
* NarrativeFiligree: This play [[AdaptationExpansion adds]] a number of tiny character details missing from the original story, details that had been missing due to Dr Asimov's BeigeProse. The most prominent is the addition of "oxygenated roses", which prompts Dr Calvin to [[PromotedToLoveInterest flirt]] with General Kallner, because they both grow roses.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Part of the NarrativeFiligree added to this story is General Kallner falling in love with Dr Calvin ("remarkable woman"). The two flirt over their shared love of "oxygenated roses". It fits smoothly into the plot, making General Kallner slightly more interesting compared to his [[BeigeProse source material]] counterpart.
* SmurfettePrinciple: In the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]], Dr Calvin only interacted with a few characters, all of them male. With the MinimalistCast of this adaptation, the roles of the nameless extras were all [[AscendedExtra taken]] by Walensky. Aside from Dr Calvin (played by Creator/MaxineAudley), the entire rest of the cast (Walensky, Mr Black, Peter Bogert, Major-General Kallner, and Creator/RogerSnowden playing the robots) are all male.
* SpaceColdWar: Some of the Nester robots are modified for "strategic reasons", and will be destroyed as soon as "the interstellar situation returns to normal". Dr Calvin points out that it sounds like an excuse from [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the 20th century]] and just as unbelievable.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For this adaptation, the robot models are called "Nest'''e'''r" instead of their [[AdaptationNameChange source material nickname]] of "Nest'''o'''r".
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The second episode of ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1962'', airdate 7 July 1962, is adapted from Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/LittleLostRobot". Creator/LeoLehman is credited with the teleplay, with Creator/DouglasJames directing.
Creator/BorisKarloff introduces the episode by talking about the oxygenated rose he's holding, which has been sent to him from Hyperbase 7. Dr Susan Calvin (Creator/MaxineAudley) and Director Peter Bogert (Creator/MurrayHayne) meet with Major-General Kallner (Creator/CliffordEvans), who sent Boris one of his roses. General Kallner has a problem; a Nester robot (played by Creator/RogerSnowden), modified for "strategic reasons", has gotten himself lost in a crowd of twenty unmodified robots.
Mr Black (Creator/GeraldFlood) is the chief engineer of the secret project, and [[MrExposition explains the situation]] to Walensky (Creator/HaydenJones), an engineer who [[TheWatson is mostly kept in the dark]] about the project, yet is the guinea pig put in danger when trying to find out which of the Nesters is the "missing" one.
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!!''Out of this World'''s "Little Lost Robot" provides examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: This play adds a number of [[NarrativeFiligree tiny character details]], as well as [[AscendedExtra expanding two roles]], and adding in a brief ChaseScene, all of which are absent from the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]] due to Creator/IsaacAsimov's BeigeProse style.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]], Dr Calvin interviews the robots individually before the second experiment, and they're left unobserved while waiting. In this adaptation, the conditions of the experiment are announced to the whole group at once and the group doesn't leave human sight until after the experiment. Yet the missing robot managed to talk the others around into not trying to save the human without any of the other characters noticing it.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** The NS-2 series robots are never called by their model number, and their InSeriesNickname is spelled "Nester" instead of "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Nestor]]".
** United States Robots & Mechanical Men are instead called the Universal Robots Corporation.
* AIIsACrapshoot: When Mr Black sees which Nester was the one he had ordered to "get lost!", he tries to beat it as punishment, but it ends up killing him instead. The other characters quickly use gamma rays to stop it before it can kill again.
* AscendedExtra: This play is adapted from "Literature/LittleLostRobot".
** In the original, General Kallner is present merely as commander of Hyperbase 7. In this adaptation, his fondness for growing "oxygenated roses" ties him to ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1962'''s HorrorHost and gives him an excuse to [[PromotedToLoveInterest flirt]] with Dr Calvin.
** In the original, Mr Black is a supporting character whose role is a low-ranking technician on the secret project that causes the problem by accident. In this adaptation, he is the chief engineer on the project, a [[{{Jerkass}} pompous ass]], and [[JustAMachine bigoted against robots]].
** In the original, Walensky appears [[SpearCarrier once]] in the entire story. In this adaptation, he takes on the roles of every [[NominalImportance nameless character]] to make the MinimalistCast function better.
* BeepingComputers: The gallery, from where the characters conduct the [[BluffTheImpostor experiment]], has [[ComputerEqualsTapedrive tape reels]], [[BillionsOfButtons buttons and levers]], as well as whirring and flashing lights, which shows how complicated the machinery is in Hyperbase 7.
* BillionsOfButtons: The gallery, from where the characters conduct the [[BluffTheImpostor experiment]], has [[ComputerEqualsTapedrive tape reels]], buttons and levers, as well as [[BeepingComputers whirring and flashing lights]], which shows how complicated the machinery is in Hyperbase 7.
* ComputerEqualsTapedrive: The gallery, from where the characters conduct the [[BluffTheImpostor experiment]], has tape reels, [[BillionsOfButtons buttons and levers]], as well as [[BeepingComputers whirring and flashing lights]], which shows how complicated the machinery is in Hyperbase 7.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Dr Calvin admits that the only reason she's accepting the job of finding which robot got himself lost is because she likes robots more than human beings.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After hearing about the impossible task they're asking of her, Dr Calvin decides that the liqueur that General Kallner had offered her is exactly what she needs.
* JustAMachine: Mr Black, whose role is [[AscendedExtra expanded]], is much more bigoted in this play than in the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]]. He hates the robots so much that when Dr Calvin finds which of the Nester units had been "lost", he goes down to beat it up instead of safely destroying it from up in the control room the way his source material counterpart did.
* MinimalistCast: The nameless extras are all removed, and Walensky's role [[AscendedExtra expands]] to fill the gap. Only five humans are shown, and Creator/RogerSnowden portrays all of the robots.
* MrExposition: Mr Black and [[TheWatson Walensky]] are [[AscendedExtra more prominent in this adaptation]], and the story uses this expansion to have Mr Black rant about more things, such as [[JustAMachine how terrible robots are]], and how Dr Calvin thinks she's got a new [[BluffTheImpostor test for the robots]].
* NarrativeFiligree: This play [[AdaptationExpansion adds]] a number of tiny character details missing from the original story, details that had been missing due to Dr Asimov's BeigeProse. The most prominent is the addition of "oxygenated roses", which prompts Dr Calvin to [[PromotedToLoveInterest flirt]] with General Kallner, because they both grow roses.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Part of the NarrativeFiligree added to this story is General Kallner falling in love with Dr Calvin ("remarkable woman"). The two flirt over their shared love of "oxygenated roses". It fits smoothly into the plot, making General Kallner slightly more interesting compared to his [[BeigeProse source material]] counterpart.
* SmurfettePrinciple: In the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]], Dr Calvin only interacted with a few characters, all of them male. With the MinimalistCast of this adaptation, the roles of the nameless extras were all [[AscendedExtra taken]] by Walensky. Aside from Dr Calvin (played by Creator/MaxineAudley), the entire rest of the cast (Walensky, Mr Black, Peter Bogert, Major-General Kallner, and Creator/RogerSnowden playing the robots) are all male.
* SpaceColdWar: Some of the Nester robots are modified for "strategic reasons", and will be destroyed as soon as "the interstellar situation returns to normal". Dr Calvin points out that it sounds like an excuse from [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the 20th century]] and just as unbelievable.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For this adaptation, the robot models are called "Nest'''e'''r" instead of their [[AdaptationNameChange source material nickname]] of "Nest'''o'''r".
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