I wonder what sort of series "The Outer Limits" would have been like had it had a decent budget. I've heard interviews with several of the guest stars (such as Robert Kulp) who said that the show had a shoestring budget and the props department had to make aliens out of the likes of paper cups and the like. As a result, sometimes the aliens looked darned stupid--especially when seen today. So, while "The Zanti Misfits" is a pretty good story, the alien creatures are amazingly dumb and really take you out of the story.
The episode finds that Earth and the Zanti home world have contacted each other. And, it seems that the Earth has agreed to take some of the Zanti prisoners (their 'misfits') onto a small base in the desert. However, these misfits turn out to be homicidal little cootie toy-like beings and they seem bent on killing. So what are the poor humans to do?! I'd say more but it might spoil the show.
Overall, incredibly original and clever. BUT, also incredibly silly. Sometimes the Zanti look decent enough (when they are moving via stop-motion) but most of the time they are just big bugs being pulled by strings--and it's very, very lame. Worth seeing but unintentionally funny.
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