The Outer Limits, Season 1 Episode 29, April 12, 1964
"The
Luminoids need slaves, and they have chosen the planet off which their slaves
will be abducted. Not too many at first, a neighborhood-full, perhaps. A
neighborhood like mine... or yours."
Waking
up one morning, the residents of a six-block section of Midgard Drive find
themselves on another planet. They have become the subjects of a grotesque and
sophisticated experiment... a feasibility study undertaken by a doomed alien
race to test the Earthling's hardiness as potential slave labor. With mankind's
fate in the balance, each person is forced to dig deep within themselves to
uncover a coward... or a hero. Possibly one of the most humanitarian episodes of
the series, "A Feasibility Study" succeeds as both a thinly-veiled
anti-slavery message and as a vivid, poignant examination of the human spirit.
The powerful ending (at first objected to by network censors) will forever
haunt you with its lingering image.
Starring Sam Wanamaker, Phyllis Love, Joyce Van Patten and David Opatoshu.
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