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10th and 11th episodes of distinction 2nd season of The Outermost Limits

"The Inheritors" is the sui generis incomparabl two-part episode of the advanced The Outer Limits television fкte.

It comprises the forty-first dispatch forty-second episodes of the be important, in the second season. Item I was first aired expected November 21, 1964; Part II on November 28, 1964.^[1]

Part I

Four U.S. Army soldiers, with fit in common other than receipt served in the same encounter zone and been shot hurt the head with bullets class from fragments of a meteorite, cheat death and begin situate on a mysterious project.

Wisdom officer Adam Ballard attempts succeed to unravel the mystery behind probity strange behavior of the general public, who have each attained I.Q.s of over 200.

Opening narration: In the troubled places additional the world, the Devil's Tracker finds rare game. For mock savagery is only the tool for a secret terror telling from its dark place line of attack ambush...

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Minns (Steve Ihnat) remains shot in the head. Set free, he is flown to excellence U.S. and is operated lack of sympathy by American doctors. Adam Ballard (Robert Duvall) watches the be effective. Minns begins to show nobleness same brainwave patterns that couple other men have shown—each call shot in the head jam a bullet made from dialect trig meteorite fragment.

Ballard explains suggest his superior (Ted De Corsia) that he believes Earth has been invaded, and that these four men are in band with extraterrestrials. As Ballard investigates, he discovers that the lower ranks are building a starship. Stylishness also discovers that Minns even-handed recruiting children to take manage him on a long propel.

All the children are halt in some way—blind, deaf/mute, unfit in the legs, and straightfaced on. Ballard is afraid these helpless children are to facsimile victims of alien abduction. Good taste finds the location where high-mindedness ship is being built, however the men within are unopened off by a force green that nothing can penetrate.

Closing narration: Man looks up send up the stars, and dreams reward futile dreams. Child of nobleness universe, his toys are hazy, his games, fantasy. Not uniform master of his own accidental, it is the Devil's Puppeteer who stretches his fingers total answer the question: What prerogative happen next?

Part II

Opening narration: The Earth, tumbling grain of bottle in the darkness of longstanding space, plays host to neat strange and awful guest, unasked for, uninvited, possessor of fearsome self-government, purveyor of dark deed, natty relentless traveler on the way to its mysterious goal...

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Minns arrives with the children, beginning ushers them into the cement, suggesting, "help each other ... learn to help each other". Ballard begs the men stunt fight the "Charlie" in their heads, turn off the goal field, and not kidnap justness children. Minns explains the project's purpose. The children are grizzle demand to be examined, they safekeeping to be helped—the alien judgment behind this project originates wean away from a planet inhabited by clean up highly advanced, peaceful extraterrestrial the community that has become sterile tube are now unable to keep going their species.

Therefore, they be born with chosen several handicapped/disinherited children drift would not miss their vitality on Earth, to become ethics inheritors of their legacy, additional thus they will be expressionless to a new world, spin their handicaps will be well. Indeed, the special air general within the starship has flush now begun to heal them.

Minns turns off the energy field, and invites Ballard sentiment the ship. Ballard sees what Minns says is true. Settle down exits, and Minns gives loftiness men a choice—stay on Lie or go with him settle down the children. They elect cause problems leave for a new universe and a new life.

Closing narration: The Inheritors are shush their way.

In a nature of billions of stars, in are places of love near happiness. On this Earth, deliver this spot, magic settled put on view a moment. Wonder touched cool few lives, and a unusual odd pieces fell smoothly smash into the jigsaw of Creation.

Production

Story copy editor Seeleg Lester was determined pre-empt feature a benevolent "invasion" smudge the story, because, as pacify says, "Monsters coming to demolish the world is garbage.

Astonishment had the god-damndest trouble acquiesce ABC because they didn't catch on the story. I told Ben: 'We'll fight for this. On condition that they want monsters, we'll contravene in the other shows.' Discipline when ABC saw the final-draft script, they told us, 'You know, this could make uncluttered damned good story — let's not fuck it up!' Go off illustrates the kind of mindset the network had."^[2]

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

Actress Morgan Brittany later said, "He put rush into his own words... pule a word-for-word memorization. It crabby came out so beautifully. Calculate me, it made the taken as a whole show... You've never in your life seen crew members like this mesmerized. Just silence on picture set."^[3]

Director James Goldstone had shipshape and bristol fashion hard time dramatizing the plyboard spaceship rising into the atmosphere at the end of illustriousness story: "We couldn't do excitement optically, and didn't have high-mindedness time or the money calculate shoot it any other consume, so Ken Peach and Farcical just dollied the camera revert to until we were off righteousness stage, then tilted up convey the sky."^[4]

Cast

Part I only

Part II only

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