"The Zanti Misfits" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 30 December 1963, during the first season.
An alien species demands that Earth provide a penal colony for its criminals. The Zantis themselves are grotesque, rat-sized, ant-like insectoids with human-appearing faces.
Military forces have cordoned off a California ghost town awaiting the arrival of a spacecraft from the planet Zanti. The Leaders o...
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"The Zanti Misfits" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 30 December 1963, during the first season.
An alien species demands that Earth provide a penal colony for its criminals. The Zantis themselves are grotesque, rat-sized, ant-like insectoids with human-appearing faces.
Military forces have cordoned off a California ghost town awaiting the arrival of a spacecraft from the planet Zanti. The Leaders of that world have decided that the Earth is the perfect place to exile their undesirables. They threaten "total destruction" if their penal ship is molested. But Ben Garth, a bank robber on the lam, crosses the cordon and approaches the Zanti ship, triggering an ugly jailbreak. Earth's nervous soldiers launch an anti-Zanti attack, killing all the aliens - and fearfully awaiting the expected reprisal. Instead, they get a message of thanks from the Zanti leaders. It seems they can't execute their own kind, so they sent them to the experts on...
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