I’ve heard a lot of rumors about how many episodes of this series still exist. Two? Six? I’ve also heard that most of the prints were supposedly destroyed or, on the other hand, that they are all well and accounted for. The only thing I can confirm is that both UCLA’s Film & Television Archive and the Museum of Broadcasting have several episodes in their collections.
A unique problem facing My Living Doll is that many episodes seem to have two different titles. I don’t know if that’s because the actual production titles were at one time unknown so others were created or whether early scripts for the show had titles that were later change. In any case, I’ve compiled the following status guide using television listings from TV Guide and The New York Times along with the episode guide that seems to be most common on the Internet (IMDb, EPGuides.com).
A total of nine episodes are held by UCLA, which has six, and the Museum of Broadcasting (MoB), which has three. The whereabouts of the other 17 episodes remains a mystery. UCLA also has a print of the 1964-1965 CBS Fall Preview, which as far as I know only includes scenes from the first episode of My Living Doll.
| Season One: 1964-1965 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ep. # | Episode Title | Airdate | Status |
| 1 | “Boy Meets Girl” | 09/27/1964 | UCLA |
| 2 | “Rhoda’s First Date” | 10/04/1964 | UCLA |
| 3 | “Uninvited Guest” | 10/11/1964 | MoB |
| 4 | “Lesson in Love” | 10/18/1964 | |
| 5 | “Rhoda’s Debut” (aka “Rhoda and the VIP”) | 10/26/1964 | |
| 6 | “Something Borrowed, Something Blew” (aka “Marriage For Charity Donation”) | 11/01/1964 | MoB |
| 7 | “Love Machine” | 11/08/1964 | |
| 8 | “Beauty Contest” | 11/15/1964 | UCLA |
| 9 | “Leave ‘Em Laughing” (aka “Not So Comic, Comic”) | 11/22/1964 | |
| 10 | “My Robot, the Warden” (aka “You’re Not My Warden”) | 11/29/1964 | MoB |
| 11 | “Just Lucky, I Guess” (aka “The Rhoda Gamble”) | 12/06/1964 | |
| 12 | “Language Barrier” (aka “Foreign Relations”) | 12/13/1964 | |
| 13 | “Little White Lies” (aka “Doctor Is In”) | 12/16/1964 | |
| 14 | “Day in Court” (aka “I’ll Leave It To You”) | 12/23/1964 | UCLA |
| 15 | “Mechanical Perfection” (aka “The Perfect Woman”) | 12/30/1964 | |
| 16 | “Pool Shark” | 01/06/1965 | |
| 17 | “Rhoda’s Forgery” | 01/13/1965 | |
| 18 | “The Kleptomaniac” | 01/20/1965 | UCLA |
| 19 | “The Lie” | 01/27/1965 | |
| 20 | “Robotic Astronaut” | 02/03/1965 | |
| 21 | “The Witness” (aka “A Day in Court”) | 02/10/1965 | UCLA |
| 22 | “Boy Gets Robot” (aka “Rhoda Meets Dr. Robinson”) | 02/17/1965 | |
| 23 | “Dancing Doll” (aka “Rhoda the Escort”) | 02/24/1965 | |
| 24 | “The Mannequin” (aka “A Paris Original”) | 03/03/1965 | |
| 25 | “Murder He Says” (aka “Rhoda’s Suntan”) | 03/10/1965 | |
| 26 | “Brother Harry” (aka “Comic Interference”) | 03/17/1965 | |
There was some fairly regular discussion about this on the online site Sitcomsonline.com. Someone who claimed to be affiliated with the show said that all of the episodes have been found, if I remember correctly. There were plans to bring this out on DVD. There have been no updates in at least a year, despite the fact that several people have asked for an update from this individual. Hope it comes out sometime. I hope that more shows like this come out on DVD. Likely they would not be big sellers, but I would not think that the cost to make them available to DVD studios that would issue these shows would not be real expensive, since they are older and not very well known.
I remember that thread and actually conversed with the person who started it. If I had to guess, I would say that either he wasn’t as successful at gathering all the necessary elements for a DVD release as he had hoped or, after a hard look at the numbers, it was determined that releasing the show on DVD simply wasn’t economically feasible.
I certainly hope prints of all the episodes were found (or were never lost), even if they haven’t been released yet.
I am in desperate need of the episode on DVD titled ‘Rhoda & the VIP”/aka Rhoda’s debut. It guest starred my top fave, Ms. Lisa Gaye. I have tried all selling sites for this episode, which has eluded thus far. Perhaps, I will have luck in future. Is there anyone out there who can help? = Ian Edwards =
Over half the show remains unaccounted for, in spite of what has been posted. I’m sure there are prints that are buried somewhere in some warehouse. Just a matter of whether or not anyone will ever find them.
And what about the chapters in Mexico dubbed in Spanish, which he sold to the television, you can find there all season of 26 episodes. I m from Venezuela ..