Genesis (7 Feb. 1967)

David Vincent discovers the aliens have taken over a sea lab for sinister purposes.

Director:

Richard Benedict

Writers:

John W. Bloch, Larry Cohen (creator)

Stars:

Roy Thinnes, John Larch, Carol Eve Rossen

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Roy Thinnes	...	David Vincent
John Larch	...	Lt. Greg Lucather
Carol Eve Rossen	...	Selene Lowell (as Carol Rossen)
Frank Overton	...	Dr. Grayson
Louise Latham	...	Joan Corman
Tim McIntire	...	Steve Gibbs
William Sargent	...	Dr. Ken Harrison
Jonathan Goldsmith	...	Kevin Ryan (as Jonathan Lippe)
James Devine	...	Jimmy
Dallas Mitchell	...	Andy
Bill Erwin	...	Manager
Danni Sue Nolan	...	Nurse (as Dani Nolan)
Phillip Pine	...	Police Sgt. Hal Corman (as Phillip E. Pine)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bill Hickman

Storyline

Sgt. Corman, a motorcycle cop, stops a couple of young men in a station wagon with a headlight out. When he hears a strange noise, he asks to look inside their car; what he sees drives him mad. Later, David Vincent asks to speak with him at the hospital. Corman's physician, Dr. Grayson, wants David to stay away from his patient. Corman's boss, Lt. Greg Lucather, who blames himself for what happened, agrees with the doctor when he learns of David's reputation as a kook. Corman's wife, however, agrees to let David see her husband. What David eventually learns leads him to a sea lab, which he discovers has been taken over by the aliens.

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Plot Keywords:

alien | sea lab | doctor | hospital | motorcycle cop | 

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Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 February 1967 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Samuel Goldwyn Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Quinn Martin Productions (QM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Narrator: [Epilog Narration] One cup of coffee, a few stolen minutes: a last, small gesture of defiance from a crusader who fought and won the crusade and knows he can never claim a victory.

User Reviews

One of the worst episodes

The characters' motivations are unreal and Carol Rossen is particularly misused as a female scientist who lets every other character buffet her around the plot like a pinball with no will of her own. The idea of the police officer downwardly mobile in his career getting scared into a catatonic state at the sight of an unregenerated alien might have been a good one, but it is poorly acted and directed and probably originally poorly written.

This episode gives us another glimpse of the aliens in their true form (See also "The Spores" in the second year), but it is not much, just a trunk with short appendages. So when these aliens take human form, they must increase in size as well(?).