A pretty good "what if" episode that flew pretty well when I first saw it in college. The problem is the premise that a small group of men who are merely concerned about the nuclear arms race could somehow change the course of history. The decision is made to create an alien whose appearance would cause the nations of the Earth to join forces against a common enemy, thereby calling off their aggressive stances against each other. But how do you do this? Instead of creating the false threat, you decide to turn one of your own into an alien. The guys draw lots and poor Robert Culp becomes (with his permission) the odd man out. He is methodically changed physically and physiologically into a monster. Why this one mess of a being would have the desired effect, I don't know. All those guys say a sort of unified oops. I know one shouldn't take these things too seriously, but the ultimate malfunction in the plan leads on to think that maybe a better strategy could have been employed.
Review of The Architects of Fear
