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Clips from The Outer Limits - The Zanti Misfits (S01E01)

Short Films 1963 Season 1, Episode 14 30 min 647 clips

Credits

Our privacy must be maintained.
Total destruction
to anyone who invades it.
Don't worry.
If anyone goes anywhere near
that ship when it lands, it'll be over
somebody's dead body.
Do not attempt to adjust the picture.
We are controlling transmission.
We will control the horizontal.
We will control the vertical.
We can change the focus to a soft blur
or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
For the next hour, sit quietly,
which reaches from the inner mind to...
Throughout history,
compassionate minds have pondered
this dark and disturbing question...
What is society to do with those members
who are a threat to society?
undermines and destroys
the foundations of civilization.
Misfits have been burned, branded,
and banished.
Today, on this planet earth,
or he is executed.
Other planets use other methods.
This is the story
attempted to solve the problem
of the Zanti misfits.
No, thanks, I'l uh, I'll keep it.
History has been recorded in some
pretty morbid places, Major,
but when a historian named Grave
find himself in a ghost town
called Morgue...
You see it?
I thought I did.
Probably just a silver desert bird.
You don't think they'll land
in broad daylight, do you?
Why not? They have no reason
to be afraid of us.
I wish we could feel the same about them.
Ordinarily, I don't ask you space people
such questions, Major,
but I wonder why
we're allowing this to happen.
We weren't given any choice, Professor.
we were instructed to keep out of its way.
No interference or else.
Or else what? Did they say?
as they put it,
I wonder what they're like.
From our viewpoint, Professor,
they're either superhuman or subhuman.
Or nonhuman.
I'm having your car parked
in the stable behind the building, sir.
The General is waiting for you,
Professor Graves.
Anything on the screen over there?
No, nothing yet.
I'll be at my desk if you want anything.
I'll put this on yours.
Steven!
Well, you're 24 hours late.
I know. I would've been here 2 days ago.
I was all briefed and ready
to leave Washington when, uh...
Some 5-star personality decided
maybe this invasion ought to be covered
by a commissioned officer.
Ahh.
musty young Professors record it.
You're a new kind of war correspondent,
aren't you, Steve?
Uh, space age style.
Thanks.
Ah, I don't want this.
Come on, I'll show you your desk.
Ok.
It's all automated.
Not quite as messy as the old style,
but, of course, computers don't bleed.
This is the radar section here.
Have you had contact with the Zantis yet?
Not yet, but we know
they're in our atmosphere.
Gentlemen?
May I have your attention, please?
I want you to take a look
at Professor Steven Grave,
this country's official historian
of interplanetary events.
Did I get that title right?
Uh, which means that he'll be observing
everything and everyone,
and thinks.
The space agency picked him,
S.A.C. ok'd him,
Congress ratified him,