Posted on 08/19/2014 12:25:51 PM PDT by EveningStar
"The New Breed" is an episode from the first season of The Outer Limits revival series. It was originally telecast on June 23, 1995. It stars Richard Thomas.
It is a cautionary tale about an experiment that goes too far. From the Wikipedia article: Dr. Stephen Ledbetter makes a technological and medical breakthrough when he creates a type of tiny machine, known as nanobots, capable of curing any disease or imperfections in the human body.
The running time of the episode itself is 44:28 but there are commercials which add to that time.
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My favorite was the pilot episode with Cliff Robertson "The Galaxy Being"
This episode caused me to take an interest in nan0-tech...
I prefer the original series over the revival series. The revival series is very dark and some of the episodes have a definite leftist slant.
>>My favorite was the pilot episode with Cliff Robertson “The Galaxy Being”<<
That was another one that gave me nightmares!
Good times, good times LOL...
>>I prefer the original series over the revival series. The revival series is very dark and some of the episodes have a definite leftist slant.<<
To be fair, the new ones were OK for a Saturday afternoon when you really aren’t paying close attention.
The Jeff Bridges “The Sandkings” was probably the best of the new ones.
But the original was way beyond that and so exploratory — just like the original Twilight Zone.
One of Crichton's best, IMHO.
I liked “The Sandkings” too.
Why didn't they cure that bizarre growth on the side of John-Boy's face?
Cliff Robertson, the all-time demerit king at Oklahoma Military Academy.
They were a good second-tier military school, and produced a lot of officers.
And the original Hitchcock series, although that was suspense and mystery rather than sf.
Same here. That one was especially scary. I was about 4. I bought the original series DVDs a few years ago, and watched an episode (The Duplicate Man) just last week. They were an art form, and have haunted my memories for decades.
>>And the original Hitchcock series, although that was suspense and mystery rather than sf.<<
For a while one of te 200+ channels on Uverse was doing both versions of the Hitchcock show.
He did one with Billy Mumy where he found his uncle/older brother’s gun and thought it was a toy. Almost the entire episode was POV from the gunsight as he would point at “play targets” in town — the grocer, the local cop, that kind of thing.
It was riveting — talk about suspense!
What genius!
Yep, Galaxy Being...scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Man, that was a “No Miss” TV show back in the day.
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