Smith, fascinated by this new (and technically illegal) technology, considers buying a duplicate to deal with his own wife, Nettie, who in the last month has been overly affectionate.
The short story was adapted for the radio programs Dimension X on August 30, 1951, and X Minus One on December 21, 1955, and for television as a fourth-season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (titled "Design for Loving") and a first-season episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater (under the original title).
[citation needed] In the 1966 Televisión Española's anthology Historias para no dormir, Chicho Ibáñez Serrador adapted the short story in the Season 1 episode El doble (The double).
This version makes clear that the robot duplicates dispose of their human "originals" in order to replace them.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen worked on a modern version for Amazon Prime Video and Televisión Española for the 2021 reboot of the series.