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Robots On TV - Plot Summaries: 'U'

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The Unforeseen (1960)

A 24-episode British fantasy/science fiction anthology series, in which each episode had a surprise ending. (The series was considered by some to be a prototype of the later hit series Tales of the Unexpected.)

Checkmate (1960)

The owner of a chess-playing robot invites anyone to play against the machine... but only for exceptionally high stakes.

Unknown Origin/The Alien Within (1995) Click for IMDb info.

A made-for-TV science fiction film. The crew of an American underwater mining base receive a distress call from a nearby Russian mining base. When the Americans investigate, they find most of the Russian crew dead, and a mysterious 'box' which they had dug out of the sea bed, but which is millions of years old. They then realise that....

I can't be bothered to write any more! Suffice to say, the film is a cross between The Thing and Alien, with virtually every plot line stolen from those two films.

Oh, and Brill - the American assistant medical officer - is an android.