X Minus One - The Lifeboat Mutiny (#67)

09/11/56, episode 67
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Two geologists buy a used lifeboat spaceship and travel to Trident to do some research for a developer. The lifeboat spaceship has a computer that is still programmed for its previous owners, "slow-minded" lizard-like drones that live at -20 degrees, water is poisonous, and are at war against inhabitants of another planet. The computer, like HAL in 2001, tries to protect its passengers to their dismay. This is an excellent funny story by Robert Sheckley. (from "The Critical X Minus One" by Jim Fanisher)

Credits (Goldin): Robert Sheckley (author), Leon Janney, William Redfield, John McGovern, Mandel Kramer, Bert Parks (NBC promotional announcement), Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Daniel Sutter (director), Fred Collins (announcer), William Welch (producer)