"The Sixth Finger" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 14 October 1963, during the first season.
A scientist develops the means to advance the evolution of man by hundreds of thousands of years.
Set in a remote mining town, the story is about a rogue scientist who discovers how to affect the speed of evolutionary mutation. A disgruntled miner who volunteers for the experiment enables the professor to ...
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"The Sixth Finger" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 14 October 1963, during the first season.
A scientist develops the means to advance the evolution of man by hundreds of thousands of years.
Set in a remote mining town, the story is about a rogue scientist who discovers how to affect the speed of evolutionary mutation. A disgruntled miner who volunteers for the experiment enables the professor to create a being with enhanced mental capabilities, who, incidentally, begins growing an overdeveloped cortex and a "sixth finger" on each hand. But when the mutation process begins to operate independently of the professor's influence, the miner takes control of the experiment. Now equipped with superior intelligence and powers of thought that are capable of great destruction, such as telekinesis, the miner seeks vengeance on the mining town he loathes. Later, however, the miner ends up evolving beyond concepts such as "love" and "hate," and...
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