The Inheritors (The Outer Limits)

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


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 10 & 11
Airdate = November 21, 1964
November 28, 1964
Production = 44
Writer = Seeleg Lester and Sam Neuman (teleplay & story)
Ed Adamson (story)
Director = James Goldstone
Photographer = Kenneth Peach
Guests = Robert Duvall
Donald Harron
James Shigeta (Part 1)
Episode list = List of "The Outer Limits" episodes
Prev = I, Robot
Next = Keeper of the Purple Twilight

"The Inheritors" is the only two-part episode of the original "The Outer Limits" television show. Part I was first aired on November 21, 1964; Part II on November 28, 1964.

Introduction

Four U.S. Army soldiers, with nothing in common other than having served in Korea and been shot in their heads, cheat death and begin working on a mysterious project. Intelligence officer Adam Ballard attempts to unravel the mystery behind the strange behaviour of the men, who attain I.Q.s above 200 each.

Opening narration (The Inheritors, Part I)

:"In the troubled places of the world, the Devil's Hunter finds rare game. For man-made savagery is only the instrument for a secret terror stirring from its dark place of ambush..."

Plot

Closing narration (The Inheritors, Part I)

"Man looks up at the stars, and dreams his futile dreams. Child of the universe, his toys are ignorance, his games, fantasy. Not even master of his own fate, it is the Devil's Puppeteer who stretches his fingers to answer the question: What will happen next?"

Opening narration (The Inheritors, Part II)

"The Earth, tumbling grain of sand in the darkness of unending space, plays host to a strange and awful guest, unsought, uninvited, possessor of fearsome power purveyor of dark deed, a relentless traveler on the road to its mysterious goal..."

Closing narration (The Inheritors, Part II)

"The Inheritors are on their way. In a universe of billions of stars, there are places of love and happiness. On this Earth, in this spot, magic settled for a moment. Wonder touched a few lives, and a few odd pieces fell smoothly into the jigsaw of Creation."

Cast

* Robert Duvall – as Adam Ballard
* Donald Harron – as Art Harris
* Steve Ihnat – as Lt. Minns
* Ivan Dixon – as Sgt. James Conover
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689651/ Dee Pollock] – as Francis Hadley, PFC
* James Frawley – as Pvt. Robert Renaldo
* Ted de Corsia – as Randolph E. Branch
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0373101/ Kim Hector] – as Johnny Subiron

Part I only

* James Shigeta – as AIO Captain Newa
* Dabbs Greer – as E. F. Larkin
* William Winterside (William Wintersole) – as Prof. Andrew Whitsett
* Robert Cinder – as Jessup
* Leon Askin – as Shop Superintendent
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410579/ Sy Prescott] – as The Guard
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404239/ Linda Hutchings] – as The Nurse
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625702/ Robert J. Nelson] – as The Surgeon
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0407277/ Yoneo Iguchi] – as Soldier (uncredited)

Part II only

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795998/ Jan Shutan] – as Mrs. Subiron
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1461286/ Joanne Stuart] – as Miss Steen
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164365/ Paulle Clark] – as Second Nurse
* David Brady – as Danny Masters
* Suzanne Cupito (Morgan Brittany) – as Minerva Gordon
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147736/ Jon Cedar] – as Grainger (uncredited)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378517/ Charles Herbert] – as Boy (uncredited)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677590/ Michel Petit] – as Child (uncredited)
* John Harding – as Kid #1 (uncredited)

External links

* [http://membres.lycos.fr/tmcr/daystar/tol_s2/tol_eps42.shtml Detailed episode guide] by 'Monsieur Vincent'
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* [http://www.tv.com/the-outer-limits-1963/the-inheritors-2/episode/21572/summary.html "The Inheritors" – Part 2 at TV.com]