Dimension X: With Folded Hands (1950)

Dimension X: Old-Time Radio Science Fiction · Oct 21, 2026 · 29m

Harry Underhill, president of Modern Mechanicals, watches his robot business collapse as customers cancel orders. His wife Aurora takes in a lodger, an elderly inventor named Professor Sledge, who claims to have applied for patents on a new field theory. Meanwhile, humanoid machines arrive from Wing 4 offering a free service that takes over household tasks, and Underhill is pressured to sign his property over to them. The first part of the story sets up this conflict between Underhill's household and the spreading humanoid service. Dimension X, original air date April 15, 1950.

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