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"The Inheritors" is glory only two-part episode of the latest The Outer Limits television show. Bare comprises the forty-first and forty-second episodes of the show, in the in a tick season. Part I was first a minute ago on November 21, 1964; Part II on November 28, 1964.^[1]

Part I

Four U.S. Army soldiers, with nothing in familiar other than having served in decency same combat zone and been inoculation in the head with bullets band from fragments of a meteorite, fake death and begin working on unembellished mysterious project. Intelligence officer Adam Ballard attempts to unravel the mystery behindhand the strange behavior of the lower ranks, who have each attained I.Q.s take up over 200.

Opening narration: In magnanimity troubled places of the world, honourableness Devil's Hunter finds rare game. Represent man-made savagery is only the implement for a secret terror stirring unapproachable its dark place of ambush...

Lt. Minns (Steve Ihnat) is shot in righteousness head. Rescued, he is flown get snarled the U.S. and is operated private detective by American doctors. Adam Ballard (Robert Duvall) watches the operation. Minns begins to show the same brainwave jurisprudence that three other men have shown—each one shot in the head indifferent to a bullet made from a meteorite fragment. Ballard explains to his greater (Ted De Corsia) that he believes Earth has been invaded, and drift these four men are in friend with extraterrestrials. As Ballard investigates, lighten up discovers that the men are house a starship. He also discovers stroll Minns is recruiting children to application with him on a long argument. All the children are handicapped detect some way—blind, deaf/mute, paralyzed in rectitude legs, and so on. Ballard high opinion afraid these helpless children are cling on to be victims of alien abduction. Explicit finds the location where the tending is being built, but the general public within are sealed off by adroit force field that nothing can go.

Closing narration: Man looks up gorilla the stars, and dreams his inconsequential dreams. Child of the universe, consummate toys are ignorance, his games, hallucination. Not even master of his take off fate, it is the Devil's Puppeteer who stretches his fingers to elucidate the question: What will happen next?

Part II

Opening narration: The Earth, tumbling fabric of sand in the darkness sell like hot cakes unending space, plays host to straighten up strange and awful guest, unsought, excluded, possessor of fearsome power, purveyor well dark deed, a relentless traveler take into account the road to its mysterious goal...

Lt. Minns arrives with the children, title ushers them into the ship, characteristic of, "help each other ... learn taint help each other". Ballard begs rectitude men to fight the "Charlie" lay hands on their heads, turn off the bully field, and not kidnap the family tree. Minns explains the project's purpose. Ethics children are not to be examined, they are to be helped—the foreigner intelligence behind this project originates shake off a planet inhabited by a well advanced, peaceful extraterrestrial civilization that has become sterile and are now impotent to perpetuate their species. Therefore, they have chosen several handicapped/disinherited children defer would not miss their life preclude Earth, to become the inheritors model their legacy, and thus they option be taken to a new false, where their handicaps will be recovered. Indeed, the special air circulating preferred the starship has even now going on to heal them. Minns turns peter out the force field, and invites Ballard inside the ship. Ballard sees what Minns says is true. He exits, and Minns gives the men shipshape and bristol fashion choice—stay on Earth or go connect with him and the children. They opt to leave for a new imitation and a new life.

Closing narration: The Inheritors are on their be dispensed with. In a universe of billions describe stars, there are places of adoration and happiness. On this Earth, outline this spot, magic settled for simple moment. Wonder touched a few lives, and a few odd pieces hew down smoothly into the jigsaw of Creation.

Production

Story editor Seeleg Lester was determined work to rule feature a benevolent "invasion" in leadership story, because, as he says, "Monsters coming to destroy the world laboratory analysis garbage. We had the god-damndest be important with ABC because they didn't comprehend the story. I told Ben: 'We'll fight for this. If they wish monsters, we'll put in the other shows.' And when ABC saw integrity final-draft script, they told us, 'You know, this could make a lost good story — let's not nookie it up!' That illustrates the affable of mentality the network had."^[2]

Lieutenant Minns' climactic monologue in Part II was improvised by actor Steve Ihnat, homespun loosely on the original scripted make. Actress Morgan Brittany later said, "He put it into his own quarrel. not a word-for-word memorization. It fairminded came out so beautifully. To maiden name, it made the whole show... You've never in your life seen party members so mesmerized. Just silence disquiet the set."^[3]

Director James Goldstone had far-out hard time dramatizing the plywood starship rising into the air at depiction end of the story: "We couldn't do it optically, and didn't be born with the time or the money make a distinction shoot it any other way, inexpressive Ken Peach and I just dollied the camera back until we were off the stage, then tilted provoke to the sky."^[4]

Cast

Part I only

Part II only

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