#OUTER LIMITS ZANTI MISFITS EPISODE TV#

The soldiers and airmen anxiously await the expected reprisal, but, instead, they receive a message of thanks from the Zanti leaders who explain that they were incapable of executing members of their own species so they sent them into the hands of a race who possessed no qualms about killing - the human race, referring to us as 'practiced executioners'. When the Zanti prisoners attack Earth's nervous soldiers, a brutal firefight ensues, and all of the aliens are massacred. Believing that their privacy was violated, the remaining Zanti prisoners commandeer the penal ship and land it atop the roof of the military command post. The Zanti regent pursues Ben's now-terrified accomplice. The Zanti are revealed to be grotesque oversized ant-like beings with malicious human-like faces. A Zanti regent emerges from an open hatch of the ship and kills Garth. After seeing the ship land, Ben climbs a small mesa to investigate the landing site. During the negotiations, Ben Garth, a bank robber on the run, along with his reluctant, morally deficient accomplice/girlfriend, Lisa, cross the cordon, and run down an armed sentry during the approach of the Zanti ship.

They threaten total destruction if their penal ship is attacked, or if their privacy is not maintained. The perfectionist rulers of that planet, after making radio contact with our government, have decided that the Earth is the 'perfect place' to exile their undesirables and criminals in exchange for sharing technological advances with Earth. Military forces have cordoned off a ghost town, aptly named Morgue, located in a remote section in the deserts of California while awaiting the arrival of a spacecraft from the planet Zanti. This is the story of how the perfectionist rulers of the planet Zanti attempted to solve the problem of the Zanti misfits. Today, on this planet Earth, the criminal is incarcerated in humane institutions.or he is executed. Misfits have been burned, branded and banished. Throughout history, compassionate minds have pondered this dark and disturbing question: what is society to do with those members who are a threat to society, those malcontents and misfits whose behavior undermines and destroys the foundations of civilization? Different ages have found different answers. The criminals are grotesque, rat-sized, ant-like insectoids with almost human faces. ContentsĪn alien world demands that Earth provide a penal colony for its criminals.

#OUTER LIMITS ZANTI MISFITS EPISODE TV#

In 1997, the TV Guide ranked this episode number 98 on its ' 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time' list of all US television. It was first broadcast on December 30, 1963, during the first season. ' The Zanti Misfits' is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show.

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