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  • The Lateness of the Hour
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  • From the CBS Video Library cover: "Brilliant scientist William Loren has retreated from the outside world into a house of his own design, where his family's safety and comfort is assured by human-looking robot servants. Daughter Jana (Inger Stevens)—whose memories go no further than the house's four walls—feels the sanctuary is actually a prison and that her parents' reliance on the robots is turning them into vegetables. She gives her father an ultimatum: dismantle the robots or she leaves home. Reluctantly, Loren complies. Jana is overjoyed—with the robots gone, she can throw wide the doors and begin a normal life. But, unbeknownst to her, Loren hasn't had the heart to dismantle one very special robot...and when Jana is introduced to it, she will find herself permanently plunged into the
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Guest Stars
  • Inger Stevens
Story
  • Rod Serling
Series
Teleplay
  • Rod Serling
Music
  • Uncredited stock
First Aired
  • 1960-12-02
Episode
  • Season 2, Episode 44
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  • Lateness of the Hour.jpg
Director
  • Jack Smight
Lead Character
  • Jana
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  • From the CBS Video Library cover: "Brilliant scientist William Loren has retreated from the outside world into a house of his own design, where his family's safety and comfort is assured by human-looking robot servants. Daughter Jana (Inger Stevens)—whose memories go no further than the house's four walls—feels the sanctuary is actually a prison and that her parents' reliance on the robots is turning them into vegetables. She gives her father an ultimatum: dismantle the robots or she leaves home. Reluctantly, Loren complies. Jana is overjoyed—with the robots gone, she can throw wide the doors and begin a normal life. But, unbeknownst to her, Loren hasn't had the heart to dismantle one very special robot...and when Jana is introduced to it, she will find herself permanently plunged into the Twilight Zone."
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