A Feasibility Study

Two couples go about their daily business as usual, until they realise that something is very wrong, they soon learn that they are taking part in an experiment by the beings of the planet Luminous, a race that are looking for a labour force.

I would imagine this episode is both well remembered and well liked by fans of the show. The opening sequences were terrific, and really do manage to grip the viewer, I can imagine they gave several people a sleepless night or two.

In so many ways this episode was way ahead of its time, that has been the real beauty of The Outer Limits.

Lots of interesting ideas and themes here, there's a real streak of cleverness in the writing, from the idea of the disease, to the very idea of what a 1960's housewife's life should look like, this does actually challenge the norm.

Very well acted, the standouts were Sam Wanamaker and David Opatoshu.

9/10.

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.

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.

An extraterrestrial civilization performs an experiment with amazing characteristics. They abduct an entire neighborhood from Earth and transport it to their planet, they need to know if humans have antibodies to a virus that affects them. The inhabitants of the neighborhood begin to notice strange phenomena, lack of energy and disconnection of services among other things, but the worst will happen when they cross the limits of their streets and find horrified that they are on a dark and nebulous planet. A story of great creativity that over time has become an emblematic episode of this series and that was one of the few chosen to make a remake in the series of the 90s.

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.