The Forms of Things Unknown

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The Outer Limits episode
“The Forms of Things Unknown”

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 32
Guest star(s)	Vera Miles Sir Cedric Hardwicke Scott Marlowe David McCallum Barbara Rush
Writer(s)	Joseph Stefano
Director	Gerd Oswald
Cinematographer	Conrad Hall
Production no.	24
Original airdate	May 4, 1964
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"The Forms of Things Unknown" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 4 May 1964, and was the final episode of the first season.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Cast
4 External links and references

[edit] Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The plot involves two women who kill a blackmailer. Driving through the countryside with the body in the trunk, looking for a good place to bury him, they take refuge from a storm in a house containing a blind man and a strange young inventor who is experimenting with time. Unlike the traditional "time travel" devices, this one is intended to "tilt the cycles of time" and bring the dead back to life...which is what happens to the murdered blackmailer.

[edit] Trivia

Originally planned as a pilot for a new television series to be called The Unknown, it was filmed with two different endings and was allotted double the normal production time.
The episode is considered an unusual one, even for The Outer Limits. More than almost any other, it is filled with weird camera angles, atmospheric photography, gothic sets, creepy music (much of which surfaced later in the TV series The Invaders), and offbeat writing and performances, giving the episode something of an "art house movie" feel.