Episode Guide |
The Galaxy Being
A radio station technician invents a 3-D TV system that contacts
an energy being in Andromeda. Unfortunately, a power fluctuation
caused by an idiot employee sucks the being to Earth, where havoc
ensues. The pilot episode.
The One Hundred Days of the Dragon
Red Chinese agents use a special drug that allow the
"molding" of skin like clay to impersonate high U.S.
officials, including the President.
The Architects of Fear
A scientific organization creates a fake alien being from one of
their own members in an attempt to scare the world into peace.
The Man with the Power
A mild-mannered professor invents a brain "link-gate"
that gives his subconscious the power to destroy those who
oppress and persecute him, all without his conscious knowledge.
The Sixth Finger
A man acts as an subject in an experiment in accelerated
evolution. An antisocial personality to begin with, he finds
himself with enormous mental powers that are vented in several
violent episodes, until he is returned to normal by a girl who
loved him.
The Man Who was Never Born
A horribly mutated man from the future returns to the
"present" to try kill the man who created the
biological disaster that led to the desolate future Earth.
O.B.I.T.
A government agency has a secret computer-based device that
allows "snooping" on any individual via his brain wave
emissions. A complex series of events leads to the information
that the machine is actually part of an alien plot to undermine
and eventually overthrow the Earth. The goverment agency is the
DoD by the way.
The Human Factor
A paranoid army officer with delusions of persecution accidently
switches minds with the doctor who was trying to help him. He
then attempts to misuse some nuclear device in an attempt to rid
himself of these feelings (i.e. by blowing himself and the rest
of the Arctic expedition to bits! )
Corpus Earthling
A man who, by virtue of a metal plate in his skull, overhears two
alien "rocks" plotting the overthrow of the Earth by
invading peoples' minds. Eventually, his own wife is invaded, and
the whole episode is a beautiful creeping terror.
Nightmare
During an interplanetary war with the planet Ebon, some Earth
POW's are subjected to a series of tortures. The whole thing
turns out to be instigated by EARTH officials to test the men's
stamina! Very well done, but not too complimentary toward certain
political elements.
It Crawled out of the Woodwork
A creature of pure energy is created in a vacuum cleaner by an
ususpecting cleaning lady. It absorbs all energy (and most
matter) in its path. The rather insane head of a large research
organization (aren't they all?) finds a way to capture it, and
prevents his key employees from spilling the beans by letting it
"kill" them and then keeping them alive with remote
controlled heart pacemakers.
The Borderland
A research team is probing the fourth dimension by creating an
energy field which uses large amounts of electricity (they set up
inside a power plant). Various interpersonal forces come to play
to complicate the already complex and delicate experiments in the
unknown.
Tourist Attraction
A lizard-like creature is captured and frozen by an expedition in
South America. It defrosts and does predictably horrid things.
The Zanti Misfits
The aliens of the planet Zanti have forced the Earth to accept
their criminals and misfits, since they doen't want to imprison
them themselves. Earth has set up a special desert reservation
for this purpose, which is unknowingly invaded by a pair of
criminals escaping from a bank robbery.
The Mice
A convict agrees to participate in an exchange program with an
alien world -- via matter transmitter/receivers. The horrible
alien shows up first, and it turns out his/her/its motives are
less than honorable.
Controlled Experiment
A pair of Martians are investigating the quaint Earth custom of
murder. They take a typical murder scene, and twist it forward,
backward, and inside out by means of a portable local time
machine.
Don't Open Till Doomsday
This is a gothic fantasy in modern terms. Very complex, involving
an alien being who keeps humans imprisoned with him in a little
box while he attempts to find his fellow travelers so they can
destroy our universe and return to their dimensional system. He
captures a bridegroom on his wedding night, and holds him since
he will not cooperate. His aging bride, over time, attempts to
coax others into the trap, in an attempt to free her (non-aging)
husband from the box.
ZZZZZ
A hive of bees, who have been intellectually advanced due to
experiments with an entomologist, mutate one of their own into a
human female. Their goal is to have her mate with the
entomologist and thusly create a strain that can wipe out
humanity.
The Invisibles
This is one of the few episodes for which my memory does not
serve me too well. It involves crablike alien parasites that
invade the Earth and take over human hosts in an attempt to take
over society.
The Bellero Shield
A scientist accidently attracts an alien creature to Earth via
his laser experiments. His scheming wife, who wants him to get
recognition at any cost, kills the alien and steals its
impenetrable shielding device. When she demonstrates it, she
finds she cannot turn it off, that she is completely trapped.
Children of Spider Country
An alien comes to Earth to recover his son and four other young
men who were sired by Earth women. They were left on Earth so
they would develop the "spirit" necessary to help their
own planet recover from something that has ruined their spirit.
Specimen: Unknown
Small, biscuit like thingies are found floating in space by one
of our space stations. Turns out they bloom like flowers and emit
gas that immediately kills. Unfortunately, some are already
enroute down to Earth. The ship crashes and they spread all over
the place around the crash site -- millions of them.
Second Chance
An alien converts an amusement park space ride into a REAL
spaceship, and abducts some individuals who have been specially
selected via mental probing. The idea is to give them a
"second chance" at life by working to avoid a massive
catastrophe that will affect the alien's planet and, eventually,
Earth.
Moonstone
A military base on the moon finds an odd white globe a little
bigger than a bowling ball. It turns out to contain several alien
intelligences that have incredible knowledge, and are trying to
escape from an oppressive alien tyrants.
The Mutant
A man, accidently caught outside in an isotope rainfall on a
newly discovered planet, turns into a mutant who can kill simply
with his touch. He hold the whole outpost in isolation via this
ability to destroy, and eventually has to deal with an inspector
sent out to find out why things have been kind of strange with
the outpost.
The Guests
A man stumbles upon a strange house where times stands still -
and whose occupants are captive guests of a weird and unearthly
creature.
Fun and Games
Two humans, a convict and a liberal minded woman are transported
to another planet and have to fight aliens in a jungle. This is
all part of an another aliens 'arena' type amusement using the
beings as gladiators.
The Special One
An alien attempts to recruit Earth children as an advance guard
toward the eventual overthrow of Earth.
A Feasibility Study
Six square blocks from a U.S. city residential neighborhood are
teleported to another planet by a horribly mutated race that
wants to see if Earth people will make good slaves. The race
itself is no longer capable of complex physical movements due to
this mutation, and needs such beasts of burden. However, Earth
people can catch their "disease", and they eventually
infect themselves, thusly becoming the same as the aliens, to
make the feasibility study a failure.
Production and Decay of Strange Particles
At an atomic installation, a scientist creates a new isotope that
turns out to be alive. All sorts of horrible things happen, none
of which are very impressive.
The Chameleon
A human is altered to appear the same as some aliens who have
landed on Earth, and whose intentions are unknown. The alteration
is genetic, based on some fingernail scraping of one of the
aliens. The human ends up liking the aliens a lot more than
humans, and leaves with them.
The Forms of Things Unknown
Two women murder an evil Rasputin type man while out on an
picnic. Taking refuge in a gothic mansion in a storm, they meet a
man who is using a "time-tilting" device to bring him
back to life.
Soldier
A man, born and bred to be nothing but a soldier, is accidently
transported from the future to the present during a battle.
Nolan, a police psychologist, attempts to introduce the man to
our society, and learns much of the horrors of the future. In the
meantime, the enemy is close behind -- he too has been
transported to the present.
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
William Shatner, Geraldine Brooks, Lloyd Gough, Malachi Throne
An astronaut, recently returned from an orbital flight of Venus,
finds his body temperature dropping uncontrollably.
Behold Eck
A two dimensional alien, visiting this space-time, discovers he
can't find his way back without ripping the continuum to shreds,
and if he doesn't go back the continuum the will get ripped open
anyway. He eyesight is the problem, so he seeks the aid of an
optometrist who has invented some special glasses made of quartz
from a meteorite!
Expanding Human
A research scientist invents a drug that gives him superhuman
powers and intellect, but also warps his judgement in antisocial
ways.
Demon With a Glass Hand
A man from the future, with fragmented memories and a glass
computer for one of his hands finds himself in the present, being
hunted by aliens from the future in an old building. The hand
keeps telling him that he holds the key to life or death for
billions of future humans, but it cannot give him the details
until he gets the three missing fingers of the hand back from the
aliens.
Cry of Silence
A simple but intriguing story of an alien intelligence that
animates various objects on a deserted country farm in a
fruitless attempt to communicate with humans.
The Invisible Enemy
The story of several expeditions to Mars and the mysterious
entity that killed them. A great monster concept.
Wolf 359
A piece of an alien planet is brought back and, in miniature, and
accelerated time, studied by a scientist. It turns out, however,
that the case also contains an evil entity from the planet, that
gradually gains in power and threatens the project, the
scientist, and his wife.
I, Robot
The famous story of a robot on trial for the murder of its
creator.
The Inheritors
The story of several Vietnam vets, who all recovered from being
shot with bullets made from some odd substance, who gradually
develop a group mind, start to build some incredible machine, and
have a rather odd interest in some emotionally and physically
handicapped children. This is all viewed from the standpoint of
government agents who are trying to figure out what the hell is
going on.
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
An alien exchanges intellect for human emotion as an experiment,
with predictable results for both parties.
The Duplicate Man
A man who has brought a highly illegal alien creature to Earth,
which then escapes, has a duplicate made of himself to track it
down and kill it.
Counterweight
A group of people participate in an experiment to test their
reactions to simulated deep space flight. Unknown to them, an
alien creature is also on the "trip", who has a vested
interest in their reactions.
The Brain of Colonel Barham
A rehash of Donovan's Brain.
The Premonition
A test pilot and his wife are simultaneously spared from sudden
death by a freakish suspension of time -- they find themselves
several seconds "advanced" in time, with the
"real" time gradually catching up with them.
The Probe
The survivors of a plane crash in the Pacific find their raft
drawn aboard an enormous craft that turns out to be a giant probe
from some (alien) planet. An interesting study of the problems of
extraterrestrial communicati, intelligence, and humanity.