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Season Two
Vic Perrin ... Control Voice
  • Ep: 33
  • Soldier
  • Opening Control Voice: Night comes too soon on the battlefield. For some men it comes permanently, their eyes never open to the light of day. But for this man, fighting this war, there is never total darkness. The spidery beams of light in the sky are the descendants of the modern laser beam -- heat rays that sear through tungsten steel and flesh as though they were cheesecloth. And this soldier must go against those weapons. His name is Qarlo, and he is a footsoldier, the ultimate infantryman. Trained from birth by the State, he has never known love, or closeness, or warmth. He is geared for only one purpose -- to kill the Enemy. And the Enemy waits for him...

  • Starring: Lloyd Nolan (Tom Kagan), Michael Ansara (Qarlo Clobregnny), Tim O'Connor (Paul Tanner)
  • Cast:
  • Ralph Hart (Loren Kagan), Jill Hill (Toni Kagan), Allen Jaffe (Enemy), Marlowe Jensen (Sergeant Berry)
  • And: Catherine McLeod (Abby Kagan)
  • Written By: Harlan Ellison
  • Directed By: Gerd Oswald

  • Closing Control Voice: From the darkest of all pits, the soul of Man, come the darkest questions: Did the soldier finally come to care for those he protected? Or was it just his instinct to kill? Questions from the dark pit, but no answers. For answers lie in the future. Is it a future in which men are machines, born to kill, or is there time for us? Time. All the time in the world... but is that enough?
  • Ep: 34
  • Cold Hands, Warm Heart
  • Opening Control Voice: The most brilliant planet in our solar system is Venus, named for the Goddess of Love. It is closer to Earth than any other planet, twenty-eight million miles away. Until sometime in the last half of the twentieth century it is still a planet shrouded in mystery, enveloped in a heavy blanket of clouds and steam. Because its surface temperature was believed to be several times that of Earth's, it was not thought possible for Man to reach Venus and come back, until one day... somebody did it.

  • Starring: William Shatner (Brigadier General Jefferson Barton), Geraldine Brooks (Ann Barton), Lloyd Gough (Matt Claiborne), Malachi Throne (Mike), Dean Harens (Medical Technician)
  • Cast: James Sikking (Botany), Lawrence Montaigne (Construction), Henry Scott (Electronics), Julian Burton (Reporter), Peter Madsen (Reporter)
  • Written By: Dan Ullman
  • Directed By: Charles Haas

  • Closing Control Voice: The eternal, never-ceasing search for knowledge often leads to dark and dangerous places. Sometimes it demands risks not only of those who are searching, but of others who love them. These, in their own special way, know that knowledge is never wasted, nor is love.
  • Ep: 35
  • Behold, Eck!
  • Opening Control Voice: Since the first living thing gazed upward through the darkness, Man has seldom been content merely to be born, to endure, and to die. With a curious fervor he has struggled to unlock the mysteries of creation and of the world in which he lives. Sometimes he has won. Sometimes he has lost. And sometimes, in the tumbling torrents of space and time, he has brief glimpses of a world he never even dreams...

  • Starring: Peter Lind Hayes (Dr. James Stone), Joan Freeman (Elizabeth Dunn)
  • Cast: Parley Baer (Dr. Bernard Stone), Douglas Henderson (Detective Lieutenant Runyon), Sammy Reese (George Wilkerson), Marcel Hebert (Miss Willet), Paul Sorensen (Grayson), Richard Gittings (TV Newscaster), Jack Wilson (Sergeant Jackson)
  • Teleplay By: John Mantley
  • Story By: William R. Cox
  • Directed By: Byron Haskin

  • Closing Control Voice: Paradoxically, Man's endless search for knowledge has too often plundered his courage and warped his vision, so that he has faced the unknown with terror rather than awe, and probed the darkness with a scream rather than a light. Yet there have always been men who have touched the texture of tomorrow with understanding and with courage. Through these men, we may yet touch the stars.
  • Ep: 36
  • Expanding Human
  • Opening Control Voice: As far back as educated men have recorded their history, veils have been lowered to disclose a vast new reality -- rents in the fabric of Man's awareness. And somewhere, in the endless search of the curious mind, lies the next vision, the next key to his infinite capacity.

  • Starring: Skip Homeier (Dr. Roy Clinton)
  • With: Keith Andes (Dr. Peter Wayne), James Doohan (Police Lieutenant Branch)
  • Cast: Vaughn Taylor (Dean Flint), Aki Aleong (Akada), Mary Gregory (Apartment Manager), Barbara Wilkin (Susan Wayne), Robert Doyle (Marc Lake), Shirley O'Hara (Receptionist), Peter Duryea (Morrow), Jason Wingreen (Coroner Leland), Michael Falcon (Elevator Operator), Owen McGivney (Night Watchman), Troy Melton (Detective Sergeant Alger)
  • Written By: Francis Cockrell
  • Directed By: Gerd Oswald

  • Closing Control Voice: Some success, some failure, but either way the gnawing hunger to know is never sated, and the road to the unknown continues to be dark and strange.
  • Ep: 37
  • Demon With a Glass Hand
  • Opening Control Voice: Through all the legends of ancient peoples -- Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Semitic -- runs the saga of the Eternal Man, the one who never dies, called by various names in various times, but historically known as Gilgamesh, the man who has never tasted death -- the hero who strides through the centuries.

  • Starring: Robert Culp (Trent)
  • Co-Starring: Arline Martel (Consuelo), Abraham Sofaer (Arch)
  • Featuring: Rex Holman (Battle), Steve Harris (Breech), Robert Fortier (Budge)
  • Written By: Harlan Ellison
  • Directed By: Byron Haskin

  • Closing Control Voice: Like the Eternal Man of Babylonian legend, like Gilgamesh, one thousand plus two hundred years stretches before Trent. Without love, without friendship. Alone; neither man nor machine, Waiting. Waiting for the day he will be called to free the humans who gave him mobility. Movement, but not life.
  • Ep: 38
  • Cry of Silence
  • Opening Control Voice: In the not-distant future, the sound of Man will invade those unknown depths of space which as yet we cannot even imagine. In his own world there are no places left beyond the reach of his voice. His neighbor is no longer just next door, but anywhere at the end of a wire. And it all began when prehistoric man discovered the art of communication.

  • Starring: Eddie Albert (Andy Thorne), June Havoc (Karen Thorne)
  • Co-Starring: Arthur Hunnicutt (Lamont)
  • Teleplay By: Robert C. Dennis
  • Story By: Louis Charbonneau
  • Directed By: Charles Haas

  • Closing Control Voice: And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. The sound of Man probes the dimensionless range of space, seeking an answer. But if it comes, will he hear? Will he listen? Will he comprehend?
  • Ep: 39
  • The Invisible Enemy
  • Opening Control Voice: In the vast immensities of cosmic space, bold adventurers streak their way to join battle with strange enemies on strange worlds the alien, the unknown, perhaps even the invisible, armed only with Man's earthbound knowledge.

  • Starring: Adam West (Major Merritt), Rudy Solari (Captain Buckley)
  • Co-Starring: Joe Maross (General Winston), Ted Knight (Mr. Jerome), Chris Alcaide (Colonel Danvers)
  • With: Anthony Costello (Lieutenant Bowman), Bob DoQui (Lieutenant Johnson), Peter Marko (Captain Lazzari), Mike Mikler (Captain Thomas)
  • Written By: Jerry Sohl
  • Directed By: Byron Haskin

  • Closing Control Voice: Battle joined. Casualties? Yes. Resolution: Victory, of a sort. A painful step from the crib of destiny. On another day, a friend, perhaps, instead of a deadly peril -- part of the saga of the space pioneers.
  • Ep: 40
  • Wolf 359
  • Opening Control Voice: 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.

  • Starring: Patrick O'Neal (Jonathan Meridith)
  • Co-Starring: Sara Shane (Ethel Meridith)
  • Cast: Peter Haskell (Peter Jellicoe), Ben Wright (Philip Exeter Dundee), Dabney Coleman (James Custer)
  • Teleplay By: Seeleg Lester
  • Story By: Seeleg Lester & Richard Landau
  • Directed By: Laslo Benedek

  • Closing Control Voice: 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?
  • Ep: 41
  • I, Robot
  • Opening Control Voice: God looked upon his world and called it good, but Man was not content. He looked for ways to make it better and built machines to do the work. But in vain we build the world, unless the builder also grows.

  • Starring: Howard da Silva (Thurman Cutler)
  • Co-Starring: Ford Rainey (D.A. Thomas Coyle), Marianna Hill (Nina), Leonard Nimoy (Judson Ellis)
  • And: John Hoyt (Professor Hebbel)
  • Featuring: Robert Sorrells (Fred), Hugh Sanders (Sheriff Barclay), Mary Jackson (Mrs. McCrae), Peter Brocco (Professor "Doc" Link), Ken Drake (The Judge), Christine Matchett (Evie)
  • Teleplay By: Robert C. Dennis
  • Story By: Eando Binder
  • Directed By: Leon Benson

  • Closing Control Voice: Out of every disaster, a little progress is made. Man will build more robots, and learn how to make them better. And, given enough time, he may learn how to do the same for himself.
  • Ep: 42
  • The Inheritors, Part I
  • Opening Control Voice: In the troubled places of the world, the Devil's Hunter finds rare game. For man-made savagery is only the instrument for a secret terror stirring from its dark place of ambush.

  • Starring: Robert Duvall (Adam Ballard), Donald Harron (Art Harris), James Shigeta (AIO Captain Newa)
  • Co-Starring: Steve Ihnat (Lieutenant Minns), Ivan Dixon (Sergeant James Conover), Dee Pollock (Francis Hadley, P.F.C.), James Frawley (Robert Renaldo)
  • Featuring: Ted de Corsia (Randolph E. Branch), Dabbs Greer (E.F. Larkin), Robert J. Nelson (The Surgeon), Kim Hector (Johnny Subiron), Robert Cinder (Jessup), William Winterside (Professor Andrew Whitsett), Sy Prescott (The Guard), Linda Hutchings (The Nurse)
  • And: Leon Askin (Shop Superintendent)
  • Teleplay By: Seeleg Lester & Sam Neuman
  • Story By: Sam Neuman & Seeleg Lester & Ed Adamson
  • Directed By: James Goldstone

  • Closing Control Voice: Man looks up at the stars, and dreams his futile dreams. Child of the universe, his toys are ignorance, his games, fantasy. Not even master of his own fate, it is the Devil's Puppeteer who stretches his fingers to answer the question: What will happen next?
  • Ep: 43
  • The Inheritors, Part II
  • Opening Control Voice: The Earth, tumbling grain of sand in the darkness of unending space, plays host to a strange and awful guest, unsought, uninvited, possessor of fearsome power, purveyor of dark deed, a relentless traveler on the road to its mysterious goal...

  • Starring: Robert Duvall (Adam Ballard), Donald Harron (Art Harris)
  • Co-Starring: Steve Ihnat (Lieutenant Minns), Ivan Dixon (Sergeant James Conover), Dee Pollock (Francis Hadley, P.F.C.), James Frawley (Robert Renaldo)
  • Featuring: Ted de Corsia (Randolph E. Branch), Jan Shutan (Mrs. Subiron), Joanne Stewart (Miss Steen), Paulle Clark (Second Nurse), David Brady (Danny Masters), Kim Hector (Johnny Subiron), Suzanne Cupito (Minerva)
  • Teleplay By: Sam Neuman & Seeleg Lester
  • Story By: Seeleg Lester & Sam Neuman & Ed Adamson
  • Directed By: James Goldstone

  • Closing Control Voice: The Inheritors are on their way. In a universe of billions of stars, there are places of love and happiness. On this Earth, in this spot, magic settled for a moment. Wonder touched a few lives, and a few odd pieces fell smoothly into the jigsaw of Creation.
  • Ep: 44
  • Keeper of the Purple Twilight
  • Opening Control Voice: There is no limit to the extension of the curious mind. It reaches to the end of the imagination, then beyond into the mysteries of dreams, hoping always to convert even the dreams into reality, for the greater well-being of all mankind.

  • Starring: Robert Webber (Ikar)
  • Co-Starring: Warren Stevens (Eric Plummer), Gail Kobe (Janet), Curt Conway (Franklin Karlin), Edward C. Platt (David Hunt)
  • Teleplay By: Milton Krims
  • Story By: Stephen Lord
  • Directed By: Charles Haas

  • Closing Control Voice: The curious mind cannot be chained. It is a free mind, endlessly searching for the greater freedom that must eventually make every living being joyfully complete within himself; therefore at peace with himself and his neighbors.
  • Ep: 45
  • The Duplicate Man
  • Opening Control Voice: Since the first day that Man stared up at the stars and saw other worlds, there has been no more haunting question than this: What will we find there? Will there be other creatures, and will they be like us? Or when that ancient dream comes true, will it turn into a nightmare? Will we find, on some distant, frozen planet, an alien life of unimaginable horror?

  • Starring: Ron Randell (Henderson James)
  • Co-Starring: Constance Towers (Laura James)
  • Cast: Mike Lane (The Megasoid), Steven Geray (Jerichau), Konstantin Shayne (The Gardener), Alan Gifford (The Guide), Jeffrey Stone (The Cop), Jonathan Hole (The Pedestrian), Ivy Bethune (Miss Thorsen)
  • And: Sean McClory (Karl Emmet)
  • Teleplay By: Robert C. Dennis
  • Story By: Clifford Simak
  • Directed By: Gerd Oswald

  • Closing Control Voice: In all the universe, can there be creatures more strange than the species called Man? He creates and destroys; he fumbles and makes mistakes. But the thing which distinguishes him is his ability to learn from his mistakes.
  • Ep: 46
  • Counterweight
  • Opening Control Voice: The great unknown: Limitless heavens crowded with sparking mysteries, challenging Man's curiosity. But the heavens are not oceans. Man cannot push a boat into its currents and set sail for the next horizon. The heavens are a mystery only science can solve, as it penetrates the unknown.

  • Starring: Michael Constantine (Joe Dix), Jacqueline Scott (Alicia Hendrix)
  • Cast: Charles Radilac (Michael Lint), Larry Ward (Keith Ellis), Stephen Joyce (Captain Harvey Branson), Crahan Denton (Dr. Matthew James), Shary Marshall ("Maggie" O'Hara), Sandy Kenyon (Henry Craif)
  • Teleplay By: Milton Krims
  • Story By: Jerry Sohl
  • Directed By: Paul Stanley

  • Closing Control Voice: Panic button pressed. Passengers returned. One side always in the sunlight, the other always in darkness; the known and the unknown. Frightening to each other only when they are both unknown and... misunderstood.
  • Ep: 47
  • The Brain of Colonel Barham
  • Opening Control Voice: With the world growing more crowded, the great powers strive to conquer other planets. The race is on. The interplanetary sea has already been charted; the first caravel of space is being constructed. Who will get there first? Who will be the new Columbus?

  • Starring: Grant Williams (Major Douglas McKinnon), Elizabeth Perry (Jennifer Barham), Anthony Eisley (Colonel Alec Barham)
  • Featuring: Douglas Kennedy (General Daniel Pettit), Paul Lukather (Nichols), Martin Kosleck (Dr. Leo Hausner), Wesley Addy (Dr. Rahm), Peter Hansen (Major Locke), Robert Chadwick (Guard)
  • Teleplay By: Robert C. Dennis
  • Story By: Sidney Ellis
  • Directed By: Charles Haas

  • Closing Control Voice: Progress goes on. One experiment fails, but even out of failure valuable lessons are learned. A way will be found, someday, somehow. It always is.
  • Ep: 48
  • The Premonition
  • Opening Control Voice: On the fabulous spawning grounds of Man's ever-increasing knowledge of science and technology, ancient, half-forgotten legends seemingly have no place. Except one: The legend of the Gordian Knot, a knot so intricate and convoluted that no man could untie it. For there are problems so perplexing that they are seemingly impossible to solve, when Man ventures to the outer limits of his experience.

  • Starring: Dewey Martin (Jim Darcy), Mary Murphy (Linda Darcy)
  • Cast: Emma Tyson (Jane Darcy), William Bramley ("Baldy" Baldwin), Dorothy Green (Matron), Coby Denton (Sentry), Kay Kuter (Limbo Being)
  • Teleplay By: Sam Roeca & Ib Melchior
  • Story By: Ib Melchior
  • Directed By: Gerd Oswald

  • Closing Control Voice: Man is forever solving the most perplexing problems as he ventures ever further into the unknown. But where are the outer limits of his ingenuity? Will he ever encounter a problem, a Gordian Knot, which he cannot ultimately cut?
  • Ep: 49
  • The Probe
  • Opening Control Voice: The persistence of Man's curiosity led him into new worlds. Without conquering his own, he invaded the sub-world of the microscope, and the outer-world of space. It is said turnabout is fair play -- but is it?

  • Starring: Mark Richman (Jefferson Rome), Peggy Ann Garner (Amanda Frank), Ron Hayes (Pilot Coberly)
  • Cast: William Stevens (Navigator Dexter), Richard Tretter (Radio Engineer), William Boyett (Co-Pilot Beeman), Janos Prohaska (The Mikie)
  • Teleplay By: Seeleg Lester
  • Story By: Sam Neuman
  • Directed By: Felix Feist

  • Closing Control Voice: A few days, a week, a month... will the Earth be visited by a stranger from the universe? A warm, compassionate stranger, to tell us of wonders beyond imagination, of life beyond comprehension, of secrets from the treasure house of stars?

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