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Automaton

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About This Broadcast

A scientist creates a remarkably human mechanical being, but the experiment turns dangerous when the automaton develops desires and a will beyond its maker's control.

This Hall of Fantasy broadcast aired on February 8, 1954.

The surviving recording runs about 27 minutes.

Other versions or closely related recordings in the archive include Automaton (July 27, 1953), a rebroadcast.

A supernatural anthology of eerie fantasy and horror stories, especially associated with writer-producer Richard Thorne.

Listeners can expect horror, fantasy, and mystery, anthology in format, and eerie, atmospheric, and dark in tone.

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