"Expanding Human" is an episode of the original ''

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'' television show, first broadcast on 10 October 1964, during the second season.

Control voice (shortened intro)

Introduction

A man experiments with consciousness expanding drugs and accidentally lets loose the monster inside himself.

Opening narration

:''As far back as 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...''

Plot

Professor Peter Wayne is disturbed to hear that his university colleague, Dr. Roy Clinton, is pursuing forbidden drug experiments with a group of graduate students. When one of the students turns up dead, Professor Wayne investigates Clinton's activities. He discovers that consciousness-expansion can have powerful and dangerous consequences.

Closing narration

''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.''

Cast

(Homeier, Doohan, Andes, Wingreen and Duryea all appeared in ''

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External links

* The Outer Limits (1963 TV series season 2) episodes 1964 American television episodes Television episodes directed by Gerd Oswald {{sf-tv-episode-stub