The Twilight Zone: The Lateness of the Hour (1960)
Season 2, Episode 8
8/10
It's What's Inside
13 November 2008
This appears to have been filmed live on a sound stage. It's about a man who has been able to create robots, house servants, who cater to his family's every wish. The daughter, played by Inger Stevens, comes to realize they are dying a slow, dull death of boredom and pointlessness. She begs her father to put these robots down, that they are destroying the family humanity. She is quite emotional and wants to leave the house and begin a life of her own. She is stopped at every turn and can't figure out why they are so adamant about what they have. There is one really eerie scene where the robots surround their master when it is announced that he is being controlled by them.

This is remindful of Ray Bradbury's "Marionettes, Inc." for those of you that have read the story. Check it out if you haven't.
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