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| "Expanding Human" | |
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| The Outer Limits episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Gerd Oswald |
| Written by | Francis Cockrell |
| Cinematography by | Kenneth Peach |
| Production code | 40 |
| Original air date | October 10, 1964 |
| Guest appearances | |
"Expanding Human" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show, first broadcast on 10 October 1964, during the second season.
There is nothing wrong with your Television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to The Outer Limits.
A man experiments with consciousness expanding drugs and accidentally lets loose the monster inside himself.
Professor Peter Wayne is disturbed to hear that his university colleague, Dr. Roy Clinton, is pursuing forbidden drug experiments with a group of graduate students. When one of the students turns up dead, Professor Wayne investigates Clinton's activities. He discovers that consciousness-expansion can have powerful and dangerous consequences.
Some success, some failure, but either way the gnawing hunger to know is never sated, and the road to the unknown continues to be dark and strange.
(Homeier, Doohan, Andes, Wingreen and Duryea all appeared in Star Trek: The Original Series )
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