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Air Date/Released Friday, May 9, 1986
Station/Studio Tri-Star Pictures / PSO

A high-tech research facility's experiments in robotics goes awry when an electrical accident affects its latest prototype, Number 5. Actually, the robot exceeds its programming, and develops sentient consciousness.... Number 5 is alive! The robot escapes before it can be repaired/reprogrammed, and is taken in by a young woman who helps 5 to learn. Meanwhile, 5's inventor and his partner are on the trail of the robot, staying ahead of the research facility's paramilitary security force whose mission is to destroy the new lifeform. The Three Stooges are featured when 5 uses television to learn culture, and becomes a Stooges fan. Scenes with 5 watching the trio in WOMAN HATERS (1934) are shown, and the robot adopts Curly's N'yuk laugh.


Cast: Ally Sheedy (Stephanie Speck), Steve Guttenberg (Newton Crosby), Fisher Stevens (Ben Jabituva), Austin Pendleton (Howard Marner), G. W. Bailey (Skroeder), Brian McNamara (Frank), Tim Blaney (Voice of Number 5), Marvin J. McIntyre (Duke), John Garber (Otis), Penny Santon (Mrs. Cepeda), Vernon Weddle (Gen. Washburne), Barbara Tarbuck (Senator Mills), Tom Lawrence (Marner's assistant), Fred Slyler (Norman), Billy Ray Sharkey (Zack), Robert Krantz, Jan Speck (Reporters), Marguerite Happy (Barmaid), Howard Krick (Farmer), Marjorie Card Hughes (Farmer's wife), Herb Smith (Gate guard), Jack Thompson, William Striglos, Mary Reckley, Lisa McLean, Eleanor Heutschy (Party guests)

Crew: John Badham (Director), Mark Damon (Exec. Producer), Gregg Champion, David Foster, Lawrence Turman (Producers), Dennis E. Jones (Co-Producer), Gary Foster, Dana Satler Hankins, John w. Hyde (Assoc. Producers), S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock (Screenwriters), Nick McLean (Dir. of Photography), Frank Morriss (Film Editor)
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