The BBC televised a 38-minute adaptation in 1938 – probably the first ever example of science fiction television. —My Science Fiction Life: The Story of Science Fiction in Britain (BBC)
The excerpt is from the entry on one of my favorite plays, Rossum’s Universal Robots.
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