Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:13 pm Post subject: The Outer Limits (1963) ~ S1.E29 ∙ A Feasibility Study |
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All Sci-Fi member Pow has made some remarkable contributions to this board, often sharing information from his own library of reference books devoted to science fiction movies and TV series.
Here's yet another review from Pow which I copied from the five-page thread on this forum and pasted here to start a new thread for this specific episode.
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From The Outer Limits: The Official Companion, "A Feasibility Study" April 13, 1964
Written by Joseph Stefano.
Synopsis: Residents of a six-block section of Midgard Drive in Beverly Hills have been transported to the planet Luminos.
The alien known as the Authority explains to the humans that they are going to test the Earthlings' hardiness as potential slave labor, since a "hot organism in the genes" has rendered the Luminoids "doomed and immobile."
The Authority reasons that the "vain flesh-men" of Earth would prefer slavery to being infected by the touch of the Luminoids. and becoming ugly, motionless rocks, like the aliens have.
If this test case can work, the Luminoids will then kidnap the remainder of Earth's population.
This is a thinly-veiled antislavery diatribe and the most humanitarian script of the series.
Sidebar: I always found this episode to be deeply poignant and powerful and one of TOL finest hours.
It is so good that when TOL was rebooted for television in 1995 they selected 4 episodes from the original series to redo and this was one of them.
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