Archive for the ‘The Outer Limits’ Category
The Outer Limits: The Man with the Power
From Season 1, Episode 4
Original Airdate: October 7, 1963
A college professor implants a device in his brain that lets him fire an electromagnetic beam.
I remember this episode purely because of Donald Pleasence. He often played either someone who was really evil or a weak, milktoast character. This role combined a little bit of both. You’ll probably remember him as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, or as Colin Blythe, the POW who was going blind, in The Great Escape. I also remember him for his role in THX 1138, which I first saw as a 13 or 14 year old on late night television (I was covertly watching it while my parents slept). For a younger generation he played Dr. Loomis in the Halloween film series.
The Outer Limits: The Sixth Finger
From Season 1, Episode 5
Original Airdate: October 14, 1963
A Welsh miner volunteers to be the first subject for an experiment to speed human evolution.
I remember this episode in reruns because I was a big fan of Man from U.N.C.L.E and David McCallum. It’s good to see him in another acronym show, NCIS. Jill Haworth, who plays Kathy, was in a number of Otto Preminger films and originated the role of Sally Bowles on Broadway, but was replace by Liza Minelli in the film version. Edward Mulhare ended up starring in another 60′s classic as the ghost in “The Ghost and Mrs Muir” and in the 80′s as Devon Miles in “Knight Rider.”
