The Outer Limits (1963)

Episode Info

Final: 2x17 -- The Probe (Jan/16/1965)

En route to Tokyo during a violent storm, a cargo plane crash lands in the ocean and four passengers miraculously escape from death. They drift on a safety raft and enter a spaceship that is used to analyze and study alien civilizations. The four people avoid a mutated and growing microbe, except one, and finally try to communicate with the distant alien race owing to a computer. After being disinfected and studied, they're released. By chance, a plane rescue them. On board, they see the spaceship which goes back to its home place and self-destroys in the atmosphere.

Cast

Vic Perrin voiced The Control Voice

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Crew

Creator: Joseph Stefano, Leslie Stevens
Executive Producer: Leslie Stevens
Producer: Joseph Stefano, Ben Brady
Associate Producer: John Erman, Seeleg Lester, Lou Morheim, Leon Chooluck, Sam White
Casting: Meryl O'Loughlin

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