A Feasibility Study

The Beverly Hills neighborhood existing on a six-block section in Midgard Drive finds itself carved out and taken by an alien ship to the planet Luminos, where the inhabitants are to be used as a forced slave labor. The Luminoids are suffering from a leprosy-like disease that has blighted their planet, and unaffected humans will be used as test subjects that requires a choice, since human vanity and selfishness are being counted on to keep the abducted under control, in order to insure that the rest of the Earth will be viable for abduction. Can the people(some of whom are already infected) make the right choice? Outstanding episode is among the best, with an intelligent, ambitious script being matched by haunting visuals, atmospheric direction all leading to a noble, deeply moving climax that may move viewer to tears.

This is one of the better episodes of "The Outer Limits" and it seems to have it all--excellent writing, lots of originality and some exceptional guest actors. In particular, Sam Wanamaker, David Opatashu and Joyce Van Patten help to make this one better since they all are very good actors.

The show begins with an alien species kidnapping a group of humans by literally chopping part of a town out of the Earth and bringing it to their planet. At first, the humans don't realize what has happened but they soon come to realize many BAD things--that they are not on Earth, the aliens are infected with a horrible virus and this is all part of a study to see if ALL the people of Earth can be enslaved to serve these brilliant but evil aliens. How the humans handle all this makes this one great--and very, very poignant. The ending, in particular, is one that might just make you shed a tear or two! Really. This is just exceptional throughout and I won't say more, as I don't want to spoil it.

Seemingly a dying planet Luminos, that inhabitants getting a decease that getting older all them, it should be a good premise, not for me, otherwise it seems an awkward offering due it appears on those fog and mug on the ground, the dying aliens choose a small town in the middle of America countryside, they teleports the whole city leaving in the usual place a deep crater, somehow the whole thing falls apart due a small city wasn't enough to supplied a enough food for all alien planet.

Even worst the aliens got a decease of hugely contagious even for earthlings, thus the vast prospect to decrease the labors there is highly odds-on, what the catch for such solidary reviewers is the human agreement to all them preclude the Aliens on feasibility study that episode borrowed the name, if the hard decision to get in touch the decease will spreading faster and then became impossible such kind of slavery.

This episode has a great premise, although stumble in sharp look, displaying some blatant unsoundness that pops up in the screenplay here and there, also emphasizing the Christian faith to get strongest against the evil Aliens, wrong approaching, great casting as David Opatoshu, Sam Wanamaker, Phyllis Love, Joyce Van Patten and the priest Frank Puglia.

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First watch: 2023 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 7.5.

A typical American street of the 1960s is taken over by aliens.

This one has moments that will stay forever locked in the memory: the sick guy in the empty house, the car in the fog, the aliens first appearing, the look of the street, the look of the fog, etc.

I can think of several Outer Limits shows I like more than this one but there is no question that the general look of the episode is a knockout! Perhaps this hour could have used a bit more spark in it but it must of scared the hell out of people way back in 1964.

A 1964 version of TV's Under The Dome you might say. But done in one hour instead of several hours.

This is one of those episodes that was repeated in the second incarnation of "The Outer Limits." An alien race (of course) takes a six block chunk of turf, including all the structures and inhabitants, an teleports them to Luminos, a dying planet. This is a feasibility study which is designed to test whether the earth people will accept slavery. Once absorbed into the society, they will be put in labor camps to spend the rest of their lives waiting on these insipid creatures who look like marshmallow men. The problem is if the humans are touched by the aliens, they begin to be infected with a horrible disease. We are give a look at the ugly life that is posed. If the study is "successful," the rest of Earth will follow suit; if not, they will move on. It is up to the people living on this slab of land to decide what to do. This is both a depressing and uplifiting episode.