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The college professor Harold J. Finley is a shy and little man married to the nagging Vera. After a surgery where a device he has developed is implanted in his brain, Harold achieves the power of moving heavy objects using his mind. The space agency decides to use his invent in an astronaut for the next spaceflight. However there is also an unexpected side effect and Harold unconsciously revenges humiliations and bad treatment vaporizing his offenders. He concludes that Earth may be destroyed and tries to stop the surgery the astronaut will be submitted. Will he succeed?

"The Man with the Power" is an intriguing episode of "The Outer Limits". Harold J. Finley learns how dangerous the human mind can be while feelings such as hatred, death wish or revenge are not capable to be controlled. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "O Homem com o Poder" ("The Man with the Power")

Having had a technically advanced device installed in his head, Harold J. Finley has the ability to cause electric storms to appear and eviscerate those that get in his way.

It's another very high quality, impressive episode, this one is pure science fiction, the story of an everyday man being pushed into extreme action by those around him.

This comes at a really interesting point in the career of the late, great Donald Pleasance, definitely a big star by this point, with an already illustrious list of performances, and he was terrific here, adding real sincerity to the part.

Ok, so when you see Harold Finley use his powers to lift the rock, you can see the strings lifting it up, but we are watching things on a much higher resolution, I'm sure many wouldn't have picked up on it at the time.

Once again they were ambitious with the special effects, they attempted to do something pretty bold, it was a fair effort.

Good story, elevated by the lead performance.

8/10.