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Movie Summary  Short: A Date With Your Family:  A Date with Your Family is typical hard-core training for the families of the Fifties. Narrator Hugh Beaumont drives home the point that pleasant unemotional conversation helps digestion during dinner. More generally, he believes that children owe absolute, unquestioning fealty to their parents. Swallow your self, kid, along with that meat loaf.  Movie: Invasion U.S.A.:  Invasion, U.S.A. portrays a surprise Soviet nuclear attack on the USA. The Soviet victory is complete, owing to the complacency of American citizens. While in the past there may have been some reason to fear such a scenario, most assuredly, there now exists complete and benevolent friendships between our two peoples. We stride forward together to a peaceful future, so you can easily see the good sense to disarm completely. Please, lose your weapons, owing to our friendship. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Mike builds a new Robot, but it's mean. "Destroy... destroy...destroy...." Crow and Servo flee.  Segment 1:  As an experiment, Forrestor has Crow choose between a plush (though gruesome) Dr. F doll, and a wire mother, much like the mother in the famous baby monkey experiment. Frank, as the control group, is dressed as a pincushion. Crow chooses the wire mom, even suckling her one nipple. Dr. F is enraged. Mike: "Crow, that's not your mother!" Crow: "Oh. Are you my mother?"  Segment 2:  Mike and the 'Bots enjoy a pleasant meal together. "The other day I had occasion to witness a cultural event..."  Segment 3:  Owing to the fact that both Phyllis Coates and Noel Neill are in the movie, Crow gives a lecture, "The Two Lois Lanes." He's way too into the topic.  Segment 4:  The SOL gets a visit from "The Bomb." He's sad; seems like his salad days are over. The gang cheers him up.  Segment 5:  Since the attack in the movie is actually a hypnotist's suggestion, Tom's convinced that reality is a dream, and insists Mike hit him with a hammer. Frank holds Dr. F at gunpoint, sentry-like. "Who won the World Series?" "I did, Frank." "Okay..."  Stinger:  A paperboy's quick, highly clichéd entrance and exit. Reflections This movie asserts that captains of industry should be ready whenever asked to turn their businesses over to the Department of Defense, even in peacetime. In fact, several military men once visited Best Brains and demanded we drop MST and produce tanks for them. In the spirit of compromise we agreed to make one tank. (We need to get going on that.) The director, Alfred E. Green, had a worthy career. He was known mostly for his work in the silent era, including some Mary Pickford films; he also directed Bette Davis in Dangerous (1935), for which she won an Oscar. He directed The Jolson Story in 1946, and The Jackie Robinson Story in 1950. Invasion, U.S.A. was one of his last films. Poor dope. — Paul Chaplin