- Clark Kent and Lois Lane travel to Silsby, site of the deepest well ever drilled. But when they arrive, the well is being shut down and the oil company manager present isn't saying why. Meanwhile, two short beings with large heads and furry hands come up from the well to explore. Luke Benson leads a mob of townspeople wanting to kill the "unknown people." Despite Superman's efforts to calm things down, the mob has tracked the two creatures to the top of a dam, trying to kill them. What the mob doesn't know is the creatures cause things they touch to glow in the dark -- and may be radioactive.—Bill Koenig
- Synopsis - The Unknown People Part 1 Open with picture of Silsby, landscape and town sign, oil rig, job site where tools and parts tossed in a hole. John Craig brings reporters Kent and Lane to drill site, tosses oranges to Pop, while Pop tells reporters the well is shutting down, although, it was not dry by any means. Craig is the public relations man for the oil company, but is in the dark as far as what goes on at the site. Manager Corrigan tells Clark how far the well goes down, 32,740 feet, but company business shut it down. Lois and Clark are in the hotel, Clark thinking a story is in this, but miffed, Lois thinks came this far for nothing. Clark has Craig's car to use, so Lois cannot sit there while Clark snoops around at the site, so off they both go back to the job site. Pop is reading a magazine, eating an orange in his shack while the well cap opens from below ground, and along come two, short, bald men wearing black outfits resembling pajamas wander over to the shack window. Craig's car is coming with the two reporters, as they pull up, Clark sees Pop on the shack floor, Lois and Clark look at Pop's body, Clark confirms he is dead with the oranges scattered about the floor. Clark leaves the shack, Lois calls Craig at the hotel, the two strange looking men look through the shack window while Lois is on the phone, she screams, they scamper away, Clark comes running to a spooked silent Lois as he tells Craig to summon Corrigan and the Sheriff to the well. All parties converge in the shack, Doc says an inquest will be Wednesday, Doc leaves, Clark promises the reporters will be at the inquest, Lois and Craig head back to the hotel, Clark stays, finds out what Corrigan found and why he closed the well. Clark witnesses the samples Corrigan pulled from drilling, concludes whatever is living below likely came up to the surface, frightened Pop to death, spooked Lois, and wandering around exposing all to their phosphorescence, toxic or otherwise. The visitors from below ground stop by a house window, where a girl is in her room, they climb in, begin to roll a ball among them when the mothers appears, screams at the sight of the strangers, inducing the child to scream while the two strangers leave. Luke Benson and townsfolk run in direction of the mother screaming while Clark changes, Superman stands on porch of mother and daughter, explaining the child is okay, the screams of her mother frightened her. Superman tries to reason with the people, Luke has other ideas as it appears to be Luke's daughter and wife that saw the two visitors. Luke ducks inside the home as Superman talks with Lois, Craig and Corrigan. Luke walks outside the house, pistol in hand, dogs heard in background, mob chasing the two visitors. Superman informs Lois and Craig on contamination possibilities of visitors explaining the child was only frightened by her mother screaming. Corrigan hears the dogs saying they have cornered the visitors, Superman leaps to the rescue, Eddie shines the searchlight at the two on top of the dam, as Luke and mob are ready to stop them. The narrator summarizes Part 1 events and promises previews of Part 2.
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