The Guests (The Outer Limits)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Guests
Series = The Outer Limits


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 26
Airdate = March 23, 1964
Production = 29
Writer = Donald S. Sanford
Director = Paul Stanley
Photographer = Kenneth Peach
Guests = Geoffrey Horne
Nellie Burt
Vaughn Taylor
Luana Anders
Gloria Grahame
Episode list = List of "The Outer Limits" episodes
Prev = The Mutant
Next = Fun and Games

"The Guests" is an episode of the original "The Outer Limits" television show. It first aired on 23 March, 1964, during the first season.

Introduction

A leather-jacketed young man is forced, against his will, to walk up the stairs in an old house to a room where he in interrogated by an alien.

Plot

A young drifter finds an old man dying by the side of a remote country road; seeking help he enters an old house. The inhabitants are surprisingly unhelpful; with the exception of a soulful young woman, all are mean-spirited and avoid facing reality. Suddenly the wanderer is forced upstairs by a mysterious compulsion, and discovers that the house is the lair of an alien being who is keeping the group of desperate humans suspended in time until it can comprehend one last characteristic of humanity.

Notes

This episode has no opening or closing narration.

Cast

* Geoffrey Horne – as Wade Norton
* Luana Anders – as Theresa Ames
* Nellie Burt – as Ethel Latimer
* Vaughn Taylor – as Mr. Latimer
* Gloria Grahame – as Florida Patton
* Burt Mustin – as Old Man (uncredited)
* Robert Johnson – as voice of Alien (uncredited)

External links

* [http://membres.lycos.fr/tmcr/daystar/tol_s1/tol_eps26.shtml Detailed episode guide] by 'Monsieur Vincent'
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