The Outer Limits (1963)

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The Architects of Fear

Episode Number: 3 Season Num: 1 First Aired: September 30, 1963 Prod Code: n/a

A group of intellectuals decides that the best way to avoid World War III is to give us all a common enemy. To that end, they transform a man into an alien creature.

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Writer:	Meyer Dolinsky

Director:	Byron Haskin

Star:	Vic Perrin (The Control Voice)

Guest Star:	Robert Culp (Allen Leighton), Leonard Stone (Dr. Phillip Gainer), Geraldine Brooks (Yvette Leighton), Martin Wolfson (Dr. Herschel), Douglas Henderson (Dr. Paul Fredericks), Janos Prohaska (Allen-as-Thetan), Lee Zimmer (Carl Ford), Clay Tanner (Fred), Hal Bokar (Bert Bolsey), William Bush (Tom)

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Control Voice: (closing narration) 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 frighten men made, then their mistaken will not have been merely grotesque It would at least have been at least a lesson. A lesson, at last, to be learned. (edit)

Control Voice: (opening narration) Is this the day? Is this the beginning of the end? There is no time to wonder. No time to ask why is it happening, why is it finally happening. There is time only for fear, for the piercing pain of panic. Do we pray? Or do we merely run now and pray later? Will there be a later? Or is this the day? (edit)

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HogggWild999 Report Abuse	7.5 Good The Architects of Fear "Average" A strange episode that starts with unexplained events and ends with unexplained events, but we got a monster. Continue » Posted Jun 26, 2007 8:11 am PST

maritimer00 Report Abuse 2 users agree with this review 2 users disagree with this review	8.0 Great The Architects of Fear "Well written" The best laid intentions often go astray... Continue » Posted Jun 27, 2005 3:20 pm PST

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