Wolf 359 (The Outer Limits)

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“Wolf 359”

The Outer Limits episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 8

Written by

Seeleg Lester (teleplay & story)
Richard Landau (story)

Directed by

Laslo Benedek

Guest stars

Patrick O'Neal
Sara Shane

Photographed by

Kenneth Peach

Production no.

Original airdate

November 7, 1964

Episode chronology
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List of The Outer Limits episodes

"Wolf 359" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 7 November 1964, during the second season. The title is derived from a star of the same name located relatively near Earth.

1 Opening narration
2 Plot
3 Closing narration
4 Cast
5 Production notes
6 External links

[edit] Opening narration

Outward stretches the quest for truth. Stars without end. Timeless infinities. A billion, billion galaxies. Man's imagination reaches out and out, while betimes the farthest reaches of knowledge are found in the smallest places...

[edit] Plot

A simulation of the planetary evolution on a microscopic scale has strange side-effects when an energy being starts migrating outside the biosphere to prey on Terran beings.

[edit] Closing narration

There is a theory that Earth and sun and galaxy and all the known universes are only a dust mote on some policeman's uniform in some gigantic super-world. Couldn't we be under some super-microscope, right now?

[edit] Cast

Patrick O'Neal – as Jonathan Meridith
Sara Shane – as Ethel Meridith
Peter Haskell – as Peter Jellicoe
Ben Wright – as Philip Exeter Dundee
Dabney Coleman – as James Custer

[edit] Production notes

The sand shark from the previous episode The Invisible Enemy appears in a photograph.
The landscape from the episode Soldier is seen in a photograph of the microplanet's landscape.