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This is probably it, the silliest ever episode of Outer Limits,
and probably one of the most silly pieces of 1960's television as it is
... but read on to see what I mean ...
Scientist Ian Fraser (Peter Mark Richman) has found a way to open a
door into the fourth dimension, but when he stuck his left hand in,
it changed ... into a second right hand !!!
Later Fraser visits a seance where rich industrialist Hartley (Barry
Jones) wants to get into contact with his dead son. Fraser exposes the
spiritualist Mrs Palmer (Gladys Cooper) as a fake, to then immediately ask
Hartley to fund his project for further investigation into the fourth
dimension (in fact, he needs a whole powerplant, and Hartley just happens
to have one). Hartley, for no reason whatsoever, believes that his
son is now in the fourth dimension, and rather surprisingly, Fraser, a
learned mind, does not contradict in the least (with silly phrases like
"... as a scientist I have learned to never exclude anything
...").
At the experiment, Fraser actually manages to enter the fourth
dimension, but then things go wrong when Mrs Palmer the spiritualist wants
to have her revenge on him and smashes a control. Still, the contact
between the dimensions is not totally broken, and Fraser stretches out his
left arm into our world (with his hand, that was a right hand, remember,
turning back into a left hand), and his wife (Nina Foch) manages to pull
him back into our world.
Then though, Hartley jumps into the fourth dimension before the door
closes in hopes to find his dead son. And as if all that wasn't silly
enough, in the epilogue, the narrator babbles something about the power
of love ... oh boy !
I think my synopsis proves the point that this episode is tremendously
silly - and not in a good, fun way at that ... it's just annoyingly
silly (and I don't use that term very often).
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