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An interesting idea for an episode , which is usually what '' The Outer Limits '' came up with on this groundbreaker of the 60s .Joanna Frank is tasty for sure as Regina the queen bee turned human seductress and she certainly is striking enough and does have a kind of bee look (in a good way ) to her face .Phil Abbott is a fine actor with many films to his credit and Marsha Hunt is also good as his unfortunate wife . Also in the cast as the doctor is Booth Coleman who played the bad guy Morries in the sci-fi thriller ''World Without End ''. All in all fairly well done and while not the best of the great sci-fi series it makes for an entertaining watch .

Sometimes you want to shout at actors: stop pretending, be yourself! Not this time.

The somewhat far-fetched tale of an entomologist translating bee-talk is dominated by the dazzling, tongue in cheek - or should I say wing in mouth - performance of Joanna Frank. It's said she was left to her own devices to interpret the role, she does so with sensuality, effortless intrigue - and the occasional waspish aside to Marsha Hunt, the Professors' wife, sadly apparently childless, having lost her female offspring, who would now have been Regina's age. Phil Abbott plays it straight as the Prof, fending off the Queen Bee's advances, rather better and more decisively than many other men would, or could.

It's a Darwin-esk episode about mating and survival, but the dialogue also includes metaphorical allusions to other issues - such as the role of emotion and feelings, in science.

Ultimately, the slightly suspect special effects made no difference to the excellent calibre of this intense, meaningful drama, within which, a strange scientific phenomenon arose, whereby Ms Frank was able to sizzle as well as buzz.

One of my favorite OL episodes. I remember watching this when it originally aired and it certainly helped expand my eight year old imagination. Especially when I was around my grandfather's beehives.

Having recently watched it again for the first time in 45 years it was just as good as I remembered it but for slightly different reasons.

I can now better appreciate the beauty of Regina. And I am also very impressed with the ability of the bee colony to not only engineer a queen who could transform into human form (and what a form) but also a human form complete with a designer dress and underwear. However I still don't know where the bees had hidden their laboratory.

The Bees always attracts the human being for many reasons, its prominence is lifeline to mankind survives, in this weird episode the Bees have been surveyed by an expert entomologist Dr. Benedict O. Fields (Philip Abbott) that developed an upscale electronic device that somewhat translate what the Bees are talking each other through a disguised bug, when he requires through a newspaper an assistant to aid him at laboratory, even before the adds be printed a young girl Regina (Joanna Frank) presents herself for the job, actually Regina is a Queen Bee that had a kind of shape-shifting into human body.

Her assignment is lures the brilliant scientist to mate him and get pregnancy in order to enhance the genetic code of the Bees, nonetheless his insecure and jealous wife Francesca Fields (Marsha Hunt) tries figure out how this young girl appears before the adds went to the public, also Francesca distrust of some odd behavior of the girl sniffing flowers at late night on the garden, all rolled up lift suspicions of the mid age woman, ZZZZ obviously ain't a rather episode until now in this fabulous series, however as wrote by some reviewers has their upholders!!

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First watch: 2021 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

Along with "The Zanti Misfits," this is the episode that I most recall from my childhood. An entomologist is perfecting communication with bees. He has a machine that actually translate their sounds into English. He is a bit of a distant character, as are some of these scientific types, but lives with his loving wife in a kind of idyllic setting. As the story opens, we see a bee in a garden, morphing into a beautiful young woman. The professor has been seeking a lab assistant and she is suddenly there, with a real knowledge of these creatures. She is also sultry and defiant, seeing the wife as an adversary. We come to realize that she is the queen from the colony, designated to mate with the professor, give the bees longevity, and take over the world. There are so many holes in the story, but the sexual byplay taking place with the professor is really quite erotic. This is a really embracing episode at times and we watch the professor to see if he is going to allow his maleness get in the way of his good judgment.