The Architects of Fear
- Episode aired Sep 30, 1963
- 51m
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7.6/10
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One scientist from a group of ten is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.One scientist from a group of ten is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.One scientist from a group of ten is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.
Billy Green Bush
- Hunter
- (as William Bush)
Douglas Henderson
- Dr. Paul Fredericks
- (uncredited)
Vic Perrin
- Control Voice
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Janos Prohaska
- Allen as Thetan
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Meyer Dolinsky
- Leslie Stevens(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen this episode first aired, the alien was deemed too frightening to show by several ABC affiliates. They instead showed a black screen whenever the alien appeared and showed footage of the alien later during the evening news.
- GoofsWhen Leighton is wheeled from the operating room to the elevator, the floor is visible. There is no break in the solid floor as one would normally see upon entering a real elevator. Obviously no elevator was actually used and the elevator doors were probably moved by hand.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Control Voice: Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together. There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque; it will have been at least a lesson - a lesson, at last, to be learned.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Outer Limits: Specimen: Unknown (1964)
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This Was Probably Better In The 1960s...But Okay Now
Robert Culp has a strange operation that turns him into a muppet-like creature!
I first saw this in the 1980s when Hollywood could do better creature costumes than this! However, Limits is about scripts, acting, direction, music, etc, and the hour is okay on those levels.
Guest star Geraldine Brooks would go on to appear in one of the very best episodes of QM's The Fugitive titled - The Ivy Maze (1967) - and guest star Leonard Stone would go on to appear in two of the very silly Lost In Space episodes where he would play a colourful (or gay?) space circus owner.
I first saw this in the 1980s when Hollywood could do better creature costumes than this! However, Limits is about scripts, acting, direction, music, etc, and the hour is okay on those levels.
Guest star Geraldine Brooks would go on to appear in one of the very best episodes of QM's The Fugitive titled - The Ivy Maze (1967) - and guest star Leonard Stone would go on to appear in two of the very silly Lost In Space episodes where he would play a colourful (or gay?) space circus owner.
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- StuOz
- Jun 24, 2014
Details
- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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