The Hundred Days of the Dragon

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Hundred Days of the Dragon
Series = The Outer Limits


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 2
Airdate = September 23, 1963
Production = 7
Writer = Allan Balter
Robert Mintz
Director = Byron Haskin
Photographer = Conrad Hall
Guests = Sidney Blackmer
Phillip Pine
Mark Roberts
Episode list = List of "The Outer Limits" episodes
Prev = The Galaxy Being
Next = The Architects of Fear

"The Hundred Days of the Dragon" is an episode of the original "The Outer Limits" television show. It first aired on 23 September, 1963, during the first season.

Introduction

An Asian government develops a reliable means of changing a person's physical appearance, and uses it to replace a U.S. presidential candidate with a spy.

Opening narration

Plot

An Asian government plans to takeover America by infiltrating and substituting all the Officials at the White House. During the campaign trail, William Lyons Selby (the candidate predicted to win the next Presidential Election) is murdered and replaced by a look-a-like spy. The spy, as Selby, is finally elected. Though he fools the nation at large, the president's daughter soon begins to suspect that the man is not her father. She voices her concerns to the Vice-President. The Asians then attempt to murder and replace him as well.

Closing narration

Cast

* Sidney Blackmer – as William Lyons Selby
* Phillip Pine – as Theodore Pearson
* Mark Roberts – as Robert Carter
* Nancy Rennick – as Carol Conner
* Joan Camden – as Ann Pearson
* Aki Aleong – as Su Lin
* James Yagi – as Li Kwan
* Clarence Lung – as Ho Chi Wong
* Henry Scott – as Special Agent Marshall
* James Hong – as Wen Lee
* Bert Remsen [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719037] – as Frank Sommers
* Richard Loo – as Li Chin-Sung
* Leslie Stevens – as the Election Announcer (uncredited)

Trivia

* This episode dealt with the assassination of a presidential candidate and coincidentally two months later President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
* The episode was featured in "Mrs. Doubtfire", a 1993 movie.

External links

* [http://membres.lycos.fr/tmcr/daystar/tol_s1/tol_eps02.shtml Detailed episode guide] by 'Monsieur Vincent'
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