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The Outer Limits - Second Chance
episode 1.23
USA 1964
produced by Joseph Stefano, Leslie Stevens (executive) for Villa Di Stefano, Daystar Productions
directed by Paul Stanley
starring Don Gordon, Janet De Gore, Simon Oakland, Mimsy Farmer, Yale Summers, Angela Clarke, John McLiam, Arnold Merritt
story by Lin Dane, screenplay by Lin Dane, Lou Morheim
TV-series Outer Limits, Outer Limits (original series)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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An alien (Simon Oakland) has secretly turned an UFO-shaped fun ride at
an amu7sement park into a real UFO and one bright day, the alien decides
to invite certain people to that funride and take them to outer space. Why
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Because earth is going to be destroyed by an asteroid in 82 years and
our alien friend has decided to give a handful of humans - 7 to be
precise, of whom one (Arnold Merritt) is accidently sucked into outer
space - a second chance on an earthlike planet. Howerver, for some reason
our benign but horribly looking alien has chosen a bunch of losers - like
a cheating highschool footballer (Yale Summers), a spoilt and superficial
blonde (Mimsy Farmer) and a disillusioned and malicious older man (John
McLiam) - as humankind's only survivors, and once they realize they won't
be along for the last days of earth anyhow (remember, it's still 82 years
away), they rebel and start a fight with the only two humans who want to
leave earth - a scientist (Don Gordon) who preferred working at the
amusement park to developing weapons for the defense department and the
woman (Janet De Gore) who has long secretly loved him.
Ultimately, the alien decides to take the unwilling humans back and
look for volunteers ...
Some of the ideas of this episode are so ridiculously childish (a
funfair ride that's actually an UFO) and it features a totally
unconvincing alien mask that it's hard to not at least like it a bit,
but by and large the whole thing suffers from a talky and boring
script full of the characters' improbable reactions to the already
unrealistic plot elements and a underwhelming plot so it fails to
convinjce as a good piece of trash - just as much as it fails to convince
as serious science fiction.
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