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Sandkings

Episode aired May 8, 1995
12
1h 33m

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Beau Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, and Dylan Bridges in The Outer Limits (1995)

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In his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.In his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.In his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.

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Trivia
This episode is based on the 1979 novelette "Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin.

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At about 01:09:00 into the movie Dr. Simon Kress is in the bathroom throwing up in the toilet and it cuts to him sitting on the floor of the bathroom next to the toilet, and then the toilet slightly moves. Furthermore you can see that it is not anchored to the floor and doesn't have a water supply line and shut off valve coming out of the wall.

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The Control Voice: Some of man's greatest achievements have been motivated by a driving need for love and acceptance. What happens when that need for recognition becomes a desire to be revered and then worshipped like a god?

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Featured in The Outer Limits: The Voice of Reason (1995)

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The Outer Limits/Sandkings - 26/3/1995

When his research project is closed down, Simon Kress rescues a few of its living subjects and transplants them to a recreation of their native Martian environment in his barn. They grow and learn, but then Kress makes an error with disastrous implications.

BBC2 debuted this episode of the new The Outer Limits I think on Sunday the 1st of May 1995. I was familiar with original series from the 1960's, but the new version of this particular episode really impressed me with a hidden or subversive message with the warning to scientists trying to play or replace the power of god through scientific advancement.