Demon with a Glass Hand
- Episode aired Oct 17, 1964
- TV-14
- 51m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
1.1K
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Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with an incomplete glass computer hand and no memory of his past.Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with an incomplete glass computer hand and no memory of his past.Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with an incomplete glass computer hand and no memory of his past.
Arlene Martel
- Consuelo Biros
- (as Arline Martel)
Vic Perrin
- Control Voice
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Harlan Ellison
- Leslie Stevens(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA portion of this episode was filmed in the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles, the same building used as J.F. Sebastian's home in Blade Runner (1982).
- GoofsThe glass hand tells Trent that the future Earth has been contaminated with a radioactive substance that has a 99-year half-life, and that the radiation will dissipate within 200 years. This is a complete misunderstanding of the nature of radioactive decay. Half of a radioactive substance will decay in the time period called a half-life. When another half-life passes, half of the remaining substance will decay, and so on. It would take many millennia for a substance with a 99-year half-life to decay to the point of being virtually radiation-free.
- Quotes
The Glass Hand: Stay alive. Above all, stay alive. Destiny is in your whole hand.
- ConnectionsEdited into Historias para no dormir: La Mano (1966)
Featured review
A "prequel" to the Terminator movies
One of the advantages of watching the science fiction videos before the power of inserted special effects took over is that the plot and dialog make the story, not eye-popping action. That is true of every story in "The Outer Limits Series," including this one.
Robert Culp plays Trent, a man sent back through time in an attempt to save humanity from the Kyben, a species from another planet that is determined to wipe out all of humanity. Several of the Kyben have also come back through a time portal in an attempt to kill him. Trent's only advantage is a powerful computer that resides in his glass left hand.
However, the computer is incomplete, as not all the fingers are present, which limits its processing power. While there are many Kyben, they are vulnerable to the bullets in Trent's gun and they can be forcibly and violently sent back to the future against their will.
Written by science fiction giant Harlan Ellison, this story is largely an installment of the legend of the hero that never dies, a protector of humanity that will take on all threats, domestic and extremely foreign in origin.
In this tense story, lighting, shadows, facial expressions and the quality of the set are used to develop the story rather than CGI. While this form does have weaknesses, the viewer runs no risk of overload of their visual apparatus. One can consider this story as a predecessor of the "Terminator" series.
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Details
- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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