Yet another garish alien gadget inexplicably appears on the Robinson's adopted planet, this time a 'mail-order' machine from the 'Celestial Department Store'. Needless to say, Smith fiddles with the buttons and accidently purchases an android (actually a gynoid) servant. The story incorporates the classic sci-fi trope of an artificial person slowly learning how to be human as the younger Robinsons teach Verda, the silver simulacrum (Dee Hartfield), how to laugh (a scene undermined by the young actors' extremely artificial sounding laughter), cry (green tears), appreciate beauty, etc. By this point, 'Lost in Space' had become a kid's show, with colourful props, incoherent, inconsistent plots, silly characters (Mr. Zumdishh, the complaints manager of the Celestial Department Store was played by Fritz Feld, whose trademark mouth-pop sthick was written intro the script), and an emphasis on the Robot (who can now have hurt feelings) and the shenanigans of Dr. Smith. Evaluating episodes as 'adult' science fiction is pointless (they are generally awful) but as a grown-up's campy space-comedy or a child-friendly space-adventure, this episode is on par with most the series' second season. The monster-of-the-week is pathetic in execution and pitiable in demise (its behaviour didn't seem to warrant disintegration). Both Verda and Mr. Zumdishh return in later episodes.