| Taste of Evil | |
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| Series Out of the Unknown Season 2, Episode 13 | |
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| Air date | January 1st, 1967 |
| Writers | Isaac Asimov Robert Muller |
| Director | Naomi Capon |
| Producers | George Spenton-Foster Irene Shubik |
| Starring | Beatrix Lehmann Tenniel Evans David Healy Brian Davies |
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The Prophet is the thirteenth episode and season finale of series two of Out of the Unknown. It first aired on BBC2 on Sunday, January 1st, 1967. It is the 25th episode out of a total of 49. The episode adapts the short story "Reason" by Isaac Asimov which was first published in the April, 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). It is part of Asimov's Robot Series, and was the second of Asimov's positronic robot stories to see publication.
Synopsis[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Beatrix Lehmann | Doctor Susan Calvin |
| Tenniel Evans | QT-1 |
| Brian Davies | Mike Donovan |
| David Healy | Greg Powell |
| Julie Allan | Martha Powell |
| Tony Barnes | Robot |
| Chris Blackwell | Robot |
| Derek Davis | Robot |
| Ron Eagleton | Robot |
| David Graham | Robot |
| Graham Lawson | Robot |
| George Rutland | Robot |
| Robin Sherringham | Robot |
| Roy Skelton | Robot |
| Jim Wyatt | Robot |
| James Cossins | Interviewer |
| Judy Keirn | Abigail Donovan |
| Michael Wolf | Van Muller |
Notes & Trivia[]
- As was the practice of the time, this episode was wiped by the BBC and no copy of it is known to exist.
- This is the only episode of Out of the Unknown to air in 1967.