The Outer Limits (1963)

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A Feasibility Study

Episode Number: 29 Season Num: 1 First Aired: April 13, 1964 Prod Code: n/a

Inhabitants of a suburb find one morning that their 6 block neighborhood has been snatched off to an alien planet. The aliens have been rendered immobile by an infection and they need slaves. They feel that the Earth people would rather become slaves than becoming infected and thus immobile. The humans surprise them by sacrificing themselves in order to save the rest of humanity from slavery.

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Writer:	Joseph Stefano

Director:	Byron Haskin

Star:	Vic Perrin (The Control Voice)

Guest Star:	Phyllis Love (Andrea Holm), Sam Wanamaker (Simon Holm), David Opatoshu (Ralph Cashman), Joyce Van Patten (Rhea Cashman), Ben Wright (voice of Authority), Frank Puglia (Father Fontana), Glenn Cannon (Teenager), Robert H. Justman (Being)

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Control Voice: (closing narration) "Do not enter upon or cross this area. Do not touch or remove possibly radioactive dirt or rocks. If you have any knowledge concerning this disappearance, please contact your nearest police department." It could have happened to any neighborhood. Had those who lived in this one been less human, less brave, it would have happened to all the neighborhoods of the Earth. Feasibility study ended. Abduction of human race: infeasible. (edit)

Control Voice: (opening narration) The planet Luminos a minor planet sultry and simmering, incapacitated. Earth scientists have concluded that there could be no life on Luminos that it is too close to its own sun, that its inhabitants would be victimized by their own blinding atmosphere. But there is life on Luminos, life that should resemble ours, but doesn't, desperate life suffering of great and terrible need. The Luminoids have begun to search the universe in an effort to gratify that need. They seek a planet on which life is healthy, vibrant, strong, and mobile. They need such people: to do their work, to labor and slave for them, to manufacture their splendored dreams. The Luminoids need slaves and they have chosen the planet off which their slaves will be abducted. Not to many at first... a neighborhood perhaps... a neighborhood like mine, or yours. Those who will be abducted sleep in dreamy ignorance unaware that they are about to become the subjects of a grotesque and sophisticated experiment a Feasibility Study. (edit)

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This episode was remade for an episode of the 1990's version of The Outer Limits. (edit)

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