{
  "title": "ALMOST HUMAN",
  "category": "[SHORT-STORY]",
  "article": "Originally published in 1943 in Fantastic Adventures under the byline of “Tarleton Fiske” (one of\na dozen or so Robert Bloch pseudonyms), “Almost Human” represented Bloch’s successful\nmelding of science-fiction and horror with a Frankenstein-motif. In 1949 he contributed an essay\n“Why I Selected ‘Almost Human,’ to the anthology My Best Science Fiction Story. “It is primarily\na story of personality, human and non-human.”\nA scientist builds a robot-- \"Junior\"-- capable of intelligence and consciousness, but the\nmachine is stolen by a criminal who has other ideas for its uses. Junior, however, has plans of his\nown.\n“With a strange cinema noir feel, a robot is controlled by a gangster who teaches the mighty\nmachine evil. As is always expected, the gangster is himself a victim of the robot, after it learns a\nlittle about love and wants the gangster’s woman for itself. With direct reference to the\nFrankenstein Complex but with a neat and unique gangster overlay, this simple story may support\nless confident students studying the sub-genre of artificial intelligence.”",
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  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "DIMENSION X (WNBC, NEW YORK)\n[Saturday—8:05-8:30 PM]\nMay 13, 1950\n“Almost Human”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\nPERSONNEL: George Lefferts (scriptwriter).\nCAST: Jack Grimes, Rita Lynn, Santos Ortega, et al.\nX MINUS ONE (WRCA, NEW YORK)\n[Thursday—9:05-9:30 PM]\nAugust 11, 1955\n“Almost Human”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\n[“…a robot created by a scientist but taken over by a gangster…”]\nPERSONNEL: George Lefferts (scriptwriter).\nCAST: Joan Allison, Lin Cook, Jack Grimes, Joseph Julian, Santos Ortega, Nat Pollen, Guy\nRepp.",
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}