S1.E26

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The Guests

Episode aired Mar 23, 1964
51m

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7.3/10

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Fantasy Horror Sci-Fi

A drifter enters a lonely house, unaware that it is actually an alien creature in disguise. Soon he realizes that he is a prisoner, along with several other half-mad inhabitants, but he is d... Read allA drifter enters a lonely house, unaware that it is actually an alien creature in disguise. Soon he realizes that he is a prisoner, along with several other half-mad inhabitants, but he is determined to escape.A drifter enters a lonely house, unaware that it is actually an alien creature in disguise. Soon he realizes that he is a prisoner, along with several other half-mad inhabitants, but he is determined to escape.

Director
- Paul Stanley
Writers
- Donald S. Sanford
- Leslie Stevens
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Geoffrey Horne in The Outer Limits (1963)

Gloria Grahame in The Outer Limits (1963)

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Geoffrey Horne

Wade Norton

Nellie Burt

Ethel Latimer

Vaughn Taylor

Randall Latimer

Luana Anders

Theresa 'Tess' Ames

Gloria Grahame

Florinda Patten

Bob Johnson

The Host
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(uncredited)

Burt Mustin

Dr. Ames
(uncredited)

Vic Perrin

Control Voice
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(uncredited)

Director
- Paul Stanley
Writers
- Donald S. Sanford
- Leslie Stevens(uncredited)
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Trivia
This episode re-uses the creature costume from an earlier episode, The Mice (1964).

Goofs
At 18:59 on the third measure of music, actress Gloria Grahame (as Florinda) stops faking playing the piano while the music goes on.

Quotes
The Host: Would you agree that the race thought, the mental drives of your species, could be analyzed, separated into its components, and described as a seriess of mathematical symbols?
[Wade nobs]
The Host: Then you will agree that such a mathematical expression is equal to the ultimate destiny of your species. Watch closely the walls of my thought. You will see the answer computed from its component factors. First, the positive factors: the instinct to survive - procreation, work, faith, art. Art COULD be Man's destiny if there were no negative factors in the equation, but there are: destruction, fear, hopelessness, hate. There is the answer to the equation - total destruction of this planet Earth.
Wade Norton: You left something out, if that's the answer to the equation.
The Host: Yes, there IS a missing quantity. The equation does not balance. That missing quantity may be in YOUR experience. I will search your mind for it.
Wade Norton: No.
The Host: You intend to resist.
Wade Norton: I don't know why. At least I have to try to resist it.
The Host: What is this emotion that youre transmitting? I have not encountered it until now.
Wade Norton: Everyone I've ever known has called it defiance.

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9/10

That's just awful.....awful, awful, awful!

I saw this back in the 1960's when it first came out and the following lines from the old lady really creeped me out as a 10yo kid! "That's just awful.....awful, awful, awful!" It still creeps me out and I'm closing in on 70!

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