The Mice (The Outer Limits)

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“The Mice”
The Outer Limits episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 15
Written by Bill S. Ballinger (teleplay & story)
Joseph Stefano (teleplay)
Lou Morheim (story)
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest stars Henry Silva
Diana Sands
Michael Higgins
Photographed by Conrad Hall
Production no. 19
Original airdate January 6, 1964
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"The Mice" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 6 January 1964, during the first season.

Contents

[edit] Introduction

A prisoner volunteers for a matter transportation experiment.

[edit] Opening narration

In dreams some of us walk the stars. In dreams, some of us ride the whelming brine of space, where every port is a shining one, and none are beyond our reach. Some of us, in dreams, cannot reach beyond the walls of our own little sleep.

[edit] Plot

Forthcoming.

When a convict volunteers to be a human guinea pig for an exchange between Earth and another planet, he discovers a sinister plot to turn the world into a breeding ground for these alien creatures-the Chromoite.

[edit] Closing narration

Hunger frightens and hurts, and it has many faces, and every man must sometimes face the terror of one of them. Wouldn't it seem that a misery known and understood by all men would lead Man not to deception and murder, but to faith, and hope, and love?

[edit] Cast

  • Henry Silva – as Chino Rivera
  • Diana Sands – as Dr. Julia Harrison
  • Michael Higgins – as Dr. Thomas Kellander
  • Ron Foster – as Robert Richardson
  • Don Ross – as Haddon
  • Gene Tyburn – as Goldsmith
  • Dabney Coleman – as Dr. Williams
  • Francis DeSales – as Prison Warden
  • Hugh Langtry – as Chromoite
  • Vic Perrin – as Chromo Voice #1
  • Robert Johnson – as Chromo Voice #2

[edit] Trivia

The basic outline of prisoners volunteering for a teleportation experiment already tested on mice was later reused in the Stephen King short story "The Jaunt."

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