"Soldier" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It opened the second season of shows on 19 September 1964.
For the second season, Ben Brady took over as producer from Joseph Stefano. This is the first of two episodes written by Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction author Harlan Ellison, and is adapted from his 1957 short story "Soldier From Tomorrow."
A soldier from Earth's future is sent back in time where he i...
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"Soldier" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It opened the second season of shows on 19 September 1964.
For the second season, Ben Brady took over as producer from Joseph Stefano. This is the first of two episodes written by Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction author Harlan Ellison, and is adapted from his 1957 short story "Soldier From Tomorrow."
A soldier from Earth's future is sent back in time where he is captured by the government.
Eighteen hundred years in the future, two foot soldiers clash on a battlefield. A random energy weapon strikes both and they are hurled into a time vortex. While one soldier is trapped in the matrix of time, the other, Qarlo Clobregnny, materializes on a city street in the year 1964.
Qarlo is soon captured and interrogated by Tom Kagan, a philologist, and his origin is discovered. As progress is made in "taming" Qarlo, the time eddy holding the enemy soldier slowly weakens.
Eventually Qarlo comes to live with the...
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