Series: Cowboys and, er, androids

Micheal Crichton's debut film, Westworld, was a massive, though unlikely, hit 43 years ago. The story of a futuristic amusement park where an "android malfunction" results in the slaughter of the day-trippers who visit the place to act out their fantasies with characters from an idealised past, it was little more than a crude mash-up of science fiction and Western tropes.