The Guests

"The Guests" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on March 23, 1964, during the first season. A leather-jacketed young man is forced, against his will, to walk up the stairs in an old house to a room where he is interrogated by an alien. A young, nameless drifter, finds an old man dying by the side of a remote country road. He picks up the old man's pocket watch, which contains a large photo of a young wo... more

"The Guests" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on March 23, 1964, during the first season. A leather-jacketed young man is forced, against his will, to walk up the stairs in an old house to a room where he is interrogated by an alien. A young, nameless drifter, finds an old man dying by the side of a remote country road. He picks up the old man's pocket watch, which contains a large photo of a young woman. Seeking help he enters an old house, whose inhabitants are surprisingly unhelpful. With the exception of a soulful young woman whose image is in the watch, all are mean-spirited and avoid facing reality. When he tries to leave the front door, he is forced backward upstairs by a mysterious compulsion, and discovers that the house is the lair of an alien being who is keeping the group of desperate humans suspended in time until it can comprehend one last characteristic of humanity. This characteristic is love, as eventually developed by the... less