We've got a thread about the CBS RMT playwrights elsewhere...it's interesting to note that this episode's author Murray Burnett apparently wrote (and was handsomely compensated) the play which became the basis for "Casablanca."


I listened to the show again this week to try and find the "stimuli" he put in the script which Marian Seldes' character responded to. It was interesting that she took the lead on a conversation pretty much only when the subject was about "Nita Raven" and Harry Wilkerson's breaking off the engagement to her. Otherwise, she seemed to be programmed to respond in 10 word sentences or less.

Her favorite phrase seemed to be "very nice". (I think Dr. Moore said it once, too.) As I said, this was a fascinating one to relisten to.

(BTW, 

- I think she was supposed to be lifelike...that's what fooled Jerrall. Now, I got the feeling that she spent some time (right after he gave her "Nita's" engagement ring) with the wolfish Dr. Wilkerson at his "friend's apartment", and whatever they did...well, apparently (as I said earlier) either she set some premarital limits or she was quite a replica of an actual woman.

BTW, I don't think the rules of marriage as they're being debated today would apply to this episode. This wasn't a question of whether a man could marry a robot he fell in love with (as the fellow on the TWZ episode was pretty much ready to do) but of a man marrying a woman that he didn't know was a robot. Dr. Moore was quite aware of the eventual consequences...he told Jerrall that the latter "wouldn't want to marry her."