Specimen: Unknown

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The Outer Limits episode
“Specimen: Unknown”

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 22
Guest star(s)	Stephen McNally Richard Jaeckel
Writer(s)	Stephen Lord
Director	Gerd Oswald
Cinematographer	Conrad Hall
Production no.	10
Original airdate	February 24, 1964
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"Specimen: Unknown" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 24 February 1964, during the first season.

1 Introduction
2 Opening narration
3 Plot synopsis
4 Closing narration
5 Cast
6 External links and references

[edit] Introduction

The crew of the Adonis research space station discover an unusual object attached to the station wall, and bring it inside to study it.

[edit] Opening narration

"For centuries, Man has looked to the skies and sought to uncover the mysteries of the universe. The telescope brought into focus the craters on the Moon and the canals on Mars, but it was limited, and Man's insistent hunger for knowledge and experience would not be satisfied until he broke the massive chains of gravity and set foot himself on a planet other than his own. Project Mercury was his first venture into space—a testament to his technical ingenuity and courage, a green light to a hundred other projects which would take him still further. This is Project Adonis, a laboratory orbiting a thousand miles above the Earth, a tiny, far-flung world connected only by radio and memory, and inhabited by a handful of men dedicated to removing the unknown for future space travelers. At ten minutes after six on January 8th, Lieutenant Rupert Howard stumbled upon something clinging to the wall of the space-lock that appeared alive. He called them "space barnacles" for temporary identification. They were not."