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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.

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 .

Dr. Philip Abbott is an entomologist and is working on a machine that will enable him to communicate with bees. But the bees are evolving as well and their queen has morphed into human form.

Joanna Frank's mission is to somehow seduce Abbott into mating with her and creating a new hybrid intelligent species that can take over.

The bee scientists must have done some considerable research into what attracts the male of the human species. Joanna Frank is the total package including some eye popping breasts. Still Abbott stays loyal to his wife Marsha Hunt.

Another Outer Limits story that will stay with you for decades after you saw it.

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

Professor Ben Fields is visited by a strange young woman, who's there for the post of his assistant, Regina, holds a very strange secret, and is there for one purpose alone.

First off, I love the title, ZZZZZ, plain and simple, from that you know exactly what the topic is going to be, and it doesn't disappoint. It takes a bit of time to develop, but when it does, it's another classic, unforgettable episode.

It instantly put me in mind of a great, memorable episode of Tales of the unexpected, called Royal Jelly, if you've not seen it, check it out, I can't help wondering if ZZZZZ had some degree of inspiration for it.

Joanna Frank is captivating as Regina, she exudes quality, she is beautiful, but sinister and odd in equal measure, you could imagine Ben would eventually fall for her charms. Those eyes of hers are quite something.

Philip Abbott and Marsha Hunt are very good as the devoted couple, but it's the intruder that held my attention.

Best scene has to be the final confrontation between Ben and Regina, it's quite a moment.

8/10.