The Hundred Days of the Dragon

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“The Hundred Days of the Dragon”
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 2
Written by Allan Balter
Robert Mintz
Directed by Byron Haskin
Guest stars Sidney Blackmer
Phillip Pine
Mark Roberts
Photographed by Conrad Hall
Production no. 7
Original airdate September 23, 1963
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"The Hundred Days of the Dragon" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 23 September 1963, during the first season.

Contents

[edit] Introduction

An Asian government develops a reliable means of changing a person's physical appearance, and uses it to replace a U.S. presidential candidate with a spy.

[edit] Opening narration

Somewhere south of the Mongolian border and north of the Tropic of Cancer, in that part of the world we call the Orient, a slumbering giant has shaken itself to wakefulness. Passed over in most histories as a nation forgotten by time, its close-packed millions in the short span of twenty years have been stirred to a fury by one man Lee Ching Sung, a benevolent despot in his homeland. Sung stands as an irresponsible threat to peace in the eyes of the rest of the world. William Lyons Selby, candidate for the presidency of the United States, predicted by every poll, survey, and primary to be a certain winner in the forthcoming election.

[edit] Plot

An Asian government plans to takeover America by infiltrating and substituting all the Officials at the White House. During the campaign trail, William Lyons Selby (the candidate predicted to win the next Presidential Election) is murdered and replaced by a look-a-like spy. The spy, as Selby, is finally elected. Though he fools the nation at large, the president's daughter soon begins to suspect that the man is not her father. She voices her concerns to the Vice-President. The Asians then attempt to murder and replace him as well.

[edit] Closing narration

To Theodore Pearson not even so monstrous a crime as the assassination of William Lyons Selby justifies an act of war, because there is no war as we knew it, only annihilation. A great American has been killed in the service of his country. Now it is the job of those who continue to serve to carry on guarding our freedom with dignity and unrelenting vigilance.

[edit] Cast

  • Sidney Blackmer – as William Lyons Selby
  • Phillip Pine – as Theodore Pearson
  • Mark Roberts – as Robert Carter
  • Nancy Rennick – as Carol Conner
  • Joan Camden – as Ann Pearson
  • Aki Aleong – as Su Lin
  • James Yagi – as Li Kwan
  • Clarence Lung – as Ho Chi Wong
  • Henry Scott – as Special Agent Marshall
  • James Hong – as Wen Lee
  • Bert Remsen[1] – as Frank Sommers
  • Richard Loo – as Li Chin-Sung
  • Leslie Stevens – as the Election Announcer (uncredited)

[edit] Trivia

  • This episode dealt with the assassination of a presidential candidate and coincidentally two months later President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
  • The episode was featured in "Mrs. Doutfire", a 1993 movie.

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