Or at least, the screenplay may have been a heavily-rewritten version of the story you cite.
It's been a *very* long time since I saw "Murder and the Android" on live TV, but here's how I remember it:
In a near-future society, androids that are essentially indistinguishable from human beings are maintained as a sort of slave class. It's illegal for androids to pose as humans or to act independently of their owners. One owner -- a scientist of some sort, I think -- has created an android that is a physical clone of himself.
The scientist is brutal and sadistic, and torments his wife mercilessly. At this point, my memories are less clear, but I think he may have committed a murder and planned on pinning it on his android clone.
There's a car chase as the scientist, his wife and his android would-be fall guy run from the police, with the scientist at the wheel. The android, outraged that the man would not only try to get away with murder but possibly harm his wife in the process, commits the forbidden act of attacking his owner. The car swerves off the road and rolls over.
In the last scene, the cops are getting a statement while medics haul the dead driver from the wreck. The man and his wife stand together, and when the cop asks him if the android in the car was killed, the two of them look at each other. Then the man says "Yes. The android is dead." We understand that it was actually the scientist who was killed in the crash, and the android will now take his place, with the wife's grateful participation.
Assuming that I'm remembering the details correctly (I don't think this show is available on DVD anywhere), it was one of the heavy-handed, preachy "socially-conscious statements" on the evils of racism that were so popular at the time. Even as an eleven-year-old kid I was unimpressed.
It's been a *very* long time since I saw "Murder and the Android" on live TV, but here's how I remember it:
In a near-future society, androids that are essentially indistinguishable from human beings are maintained as a sort of slave class. It's illegal for androids to pose as humans or to act independently of their owners. One owner -- a scientist of some sort, I think -- has created an android that is a physical clone of himself.
The scientist is brutal and sadistic, and torments his wife mercilessly. At this point, my memories are less clear, but I think he may have committed a murder and planned on pinning it on his android clone.
There's a car chase as the scientist, his wife and his android would-be fall guy run from the police, with the scientist at the wheel. The android, outraged that the man would not only try to get away with murder but possibly harm his wife in the process, commits the forbidden act of attacking his owner. The car swerves off the road and rolls over.
In the last scene, the cops are getting a statement while medics haul the dead driver from the wreck. The man and his wife stand together, and when the cop asks him if the android in the car was killed, the two of them look at each other. Then the man says "Yes. The android is dead." We understand that it was actually the scientist who was killed in the crash, and the android will now take his place, with the wife's grateful participation.
Assuming that I'm remembering the details correctly (I don't think this show is available on DVD anywhere), it was one of the heavy-handed, preachy "socially-conscious statements" on the evils of racism that were so popular at the time. Even as an eleven-year-old kid I was unimpressed.