"The Outer Limits" The Inheritors: Part 1 (1964)

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Director:

James Goldstone

Writers:

Seeleg Lester (teleplay) and
Sam Neuman (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"The Outer Limits" (1963)

Original Air Date:

21 November 1964 (Season 2, Episode 10)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Anthology | Cult Favorite | Psychotronic | Alien | Supernatural

Cast

Robert Duvall	...	Adam Ballard
Donald Harron	...	Art Harris
James Shigeta	...	AIO Captain Newa
Steve Ihnat	...	Lieutenant Minns
Ivan Dixon	...	Sgt. James Conover
Dee Pollock	...	Francis Hadley, P.F.C
James Frawley	...	Robert Renaldo
Ted de Corsia	...	Randolph E. Branch
Dabbs Greer	...	E.F. Larkin
Robert Nelson	...	The Surgeon (as Robert J. Nelson)
Kim Hector	...	Johnny Subiron
Robert Cinder	...	Jessup
William Wintersole	...	Professor Andrew Whitsett (as William Winterside)
Simon Prescott	...	The Guard (as Sy Prescott)
Linda Hutchings	...	The Nurse

Runtime:

51 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Daystar Productions

Quotes:

[first lines]
Control Voice: In the troubled places of the world, the Devil's hunter finds rare game. For manmade savagery is only the instrument for a secret terror stirring from its dark place of ambush.

One of the most touching episodes

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

A government agent investigates 5 mysterious men who have the brain wave patterns of an alien embedded in their heads by a bullet shot at them in a war in Asia by snipers.

He chases them around the world investigating what they are doing: inventions. What is their purpose? What is the alien brain in their heads planning?

Only part 2 can answer that. And it is wonderful.

This is a heartfelt wonderful 2 parter that wants to be suspicious of the men but they are pure of heart as all those who encounter them say. They devise things that are definitely harmless.

I've watched this series since I was very little and it is very intelligent. So many wonderful concepts and this one has the highest of all: helping children (the spoiler).

The series and this episode is not cynical but educational. Sometimes the stranger is not out to do harm but to do good. There is good in mankind, we just have to search for it. It is so important in this day and age in the new century to not forget these and more facts of life as shown so well in the series.

We must strive to better ourselves and to help others. We have the capacity to do good and to better our world in many ways. And this episode is perhaps the best illustrative of that of the whole series.

Please enjoy.