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Corpus Earthling

Episode aired Nov 18, 1963
51m

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Enabled by the metal plate in his head, Dr. Paul Cameron can overhear the immediate invasion plans of two parasitic rock aliens. Now they must kill him.Enabled by the metal plate in his head, Dr. Paul Cameron can overhear the immediate invasion plans of two parasitic rock aliens. Now they must kill him.Enabled by the metal plate in his head, Dr. Paul Cameron can overhear the immediate invasion plans of two parasitic rock aliens. Now they must kill him.

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Robert Culp

Dr. Paul Cameron

Salome Jens

Laurie Cameron

Barry Atwater

Dr. Jonas Temple
(as G.B. Atwater)

Ken Renard

Caretaker

David Garner

Ralph

Bob Johnson

Voice of the Rocks
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(uncredited)

Vic Perrin

Control Voice
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(uncredited)

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- Gerd Oswald
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Trivia
This is the only first season episode based on a literary work (in this case, Louis Charbonneau's novel of the same title).

Goofs
After Paul stabs Dr. Temple, Dr. Temple pulls the knife from his chest. When Dr. Temple dies a minute or so later, the knife is still protruding from his chest.

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Control Voice: [intro] Rocks. Silent, inanimate objects torn from the Earth's ancient crust, yielding up to Man over the long centuries all that is known of the planet on which we live, withholding from Man forever their veiled secrets of the nature of matter and cosmic catastrophe, the secrets of other worlds in the vastness of the universe, of other forms of life, of strange organisms beyond the imagination of Man.

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Corpus Earthling

Paul Cameron (Robert Culp) finds himself between a rock and a hard place. With the presence of a metal plate in his head due to a war injury.

Cameron a surgeon goes to see his wife Laurie who works for a geologist named Dr Temple. He has been studying two new rocks in his laboratory.

Cameron somehow manages to hear these two alien rocks talking about taking over the world. Realising that he has heard them, the alien rocks compel Cameron to try and kill himself but his wife Laura comes to the rescue.

Eventually the alien beings inside the rock enter human bodies. The plan is to kill Cameron as he is on vacation in Mexico. Thinking he is suffering from hallucinations and needed a break.

The plot is a variation of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The kind of face hugger alien blobs might have been an influence on Ridley Scott.

The story is something that has already become a staple of The Outer Limits. The body horror effects does make it unsettling.