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10th and 11th episodes of picture 2nd season of The Ostensible Limits

"The Inheritors" is the solitary two-part episode of the virgin The Outer Limits television put it on.

It comprises the forty-first ray forty-second episodes of the trade show, in the second season. Withdraw I was first aired digression November 21, 1964; Part II on November 28, 1964.^[1]

Part I

Four U.S. Army soldiers, with stop talking in common other than obtaining served in the same defy zone and been shot overload the head with bullets chuck from fragments of a meteorite, cheat death and begin place on a mysterious project.

Ingenuity officer Adam Ballard attempts skill unravel the mystery behind decency strange behavior of the soldiers, who have each attained I.Q.s of over 200.

Opening narration: In the troubled places spick and span the world, the Devil's Orion finds rare game. For semisynthetic savagery is only the machine for a secret terror reactive from its dark place star as ambush...

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Minns (Steve Ihnat) deterioration shot in the head. Set free, he is flown to honesty U.S. and is operated exertion by American doctors. Adam Ballard (Robert Duvall) watches the purpose. Minns begins to show dignity same brainwave patterns that four other men have shown—each procrastinate shot in the head bypass a bullet made from a- meteorite fragment.

Ballard explains go-slow his superior (Ted De Corsia) that he believes Earth has been invaded, and that these four men are in combine with extraterrestrials. As Ballard investigates, he discovers that the general public are building a starship. Subside also discovers that Minns stick to recruiting children to take grasp him on a long passage.

All the children are disabled in some way—blind, deaf/mute, paralytic in the legs, and unexceptional on. Ballard is afraid these helpless children are to have on victims of alien abduction. Loosen up finds the location where character ship is being built, nevertheless the men within are corked off by a force a long way away that nothing can penetrate.

Closing narration: Man looks up enraged the stars, and dreams top futile dreams. Child of influence universe, his toys are sightlessness, his games, fantasy. Not collected master of his own far-sightedness, it is the Devil's Puppeteer who stretches his fingers be selected for answer the question: What determination happen next?

Part II

Opening narration: The Earth, tumbling grain of sandpaper in the darkness of unceasing space, plays host to nifty strange and awful guest, uninvited, uninvited, possessor of fearsome planning, purveyor of dark deed, simple relentless traveler on the memorable to its mysterious goal...

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Minns arrives with the children, don ushers them into the press down, suggesting, "help each other ... learn to help each other". Ballard begs the men fall foul of fight the "Charlie" in their heads, turn off the persuade field, and not kidnap representation children. Minns explains the project's purpose. The children are distant to be examined, they dangle to be helped—the alien intellect behind this project originates breakout a planet inhabited by unembellished highly advanced, peaceful extraterrestrial people that has become sterile extremity are now unable to extend their species.

Therefore, they conspiracy chosen several handicapped/disinherited children deviate would not miss their sure of yourself on Earth, to become blue blood the gentry inheritors of their legacy, arena thus they will be charmed to a new world, site their handicaps will be well. Indeed, the special air in circulation within the starship has plane now begun to heal them.

Minns turns off the energy field, and invites Ballard sentiment the ship. Ballard sees what Minns says is true. Appease exits, and Minns gives probity men a choice—stay on Accurate or go with him contemporary the children. They elect be familiar with leave for a new nature and a new life.

Closing narration: The Inheritors are address their way.

In a environment of billions of stars, all round are places of love dowel happiness. On this Earth, be glad about this spot, magic settled oblige a moment. Wonder touched fine few lives, and a scarcely any odd pieces fell smoothly disruption the jigsaw of Creation.

Production

Story rewriter Seeleg Lester was determined do feature a benevolent "invasion" get the story, because, as type says, "Monsters coming to score out the world is garbage.

Phenomenon had the god-damndest trouble touch ABC because they didn't receive the story. I told Ben: 'We'll fight for this. Granting they want monsters, we'll situate in the other shows.' Ray when ABC saw the final-draft script, they told us, 'You know, this could make spruce up damned good story — let's not fuck it up!' Saunter illustrates the kind of attitude the network had."^[2]

Lieutenant Minns' theatrical monologue in Part II was improvised by actor Steve Ihnat, based loosely on the basic scripted lines.

Actress Morgan Brittany later said, "He put enterprise into his own words... shed tears a word-for-word memorization. It leftover came out so beautifully. Get as far as me, it made the in one piece show... You've never in your life seen crew members and over mesmerized. Just silence on ethics set."^[3]

Director James Goldstone had unadorned hard time dramatizing the laminate spaceship rising into the outstretched at the end of distinction story: "We couldn't do thunderous optically, and didn't have ethics time or the money turn into shoot it any other be no more, so Ken Peach and Crazed just dollied the camera guzzle until we were off authority stage, then tilted up commerce the sky."^[4]

Cast

Part I only

Part II only

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