- The Borderland
Infobox Television episode
Title = The Borderland
Series = The Outer Limits
Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 12
Airdate =December 16 ,1963
Production = 2
Writer =Leslie Stevens
Director =Leslie Stevens
Photographer =John M. Nickolaus
Guests =Philip Abbott Gladys Cooper Nina Foch
Barry JonesGene Raymond
Mark RichmanAlfred Ryder
Episode list = List of "The Outer Limits" episodes
Prev =It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
Next = Tourist Attraction"The Borderland" is an episode of the original "
The Outer Limits " television show. It was the second episode to be produced, and first aired on16 December ,1963 , during the first season.Introduction
A team of scientists use an incredibly strong magnetic field to open a door to another dimension. Their success, however, leads to a bizarre tragedy.
Opening narration
Plot
A British millionaire has engaged a female psychic to establish contact with his dead son, but she is exposed as a fraud by scientist Ian Fraser. Fraser insists that he has developed a method that can pierce the borderland between this world and what might just be the afterlife, but he needs all the energy of a metropolitan power grid to do so. The rich and influential man agrees to arrange the situation if Fraser will attempt to contact the dead son. Fraser agrees and the experiment begins, but at the crucial moment the psychic and her associate reappear, planning to expose the scientists as frauds.
Closing narration
Cast
* Mark Richman – as Ian Fraser
*Nina Foch – as Eva Fraser
* Barry Jones – as Dwight Hartley
*Philip Abbott – as Lincoln Russell
*Gene Raymond – as Benson Sawyer
*Gladys Cooper – as Mrs. Palmer
*Alfred Ryder – as Edgar Price
*Noel de Sousa – as Dr. Sung (uncredited)
*Vic Perrin – as Scientist (uncredited)External links
* [http://membres.lycos.fr/tmcr/daystar/tol_s1/tol_eps12.shtml Detailed episode guide] by 'Monsieur Vincent'
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